Kingsgrove Sports Winner
We have a fantastic relationship with Kingsgrove Sports at North Parramatta who are one of our major Sponsors through their support. This season they are giving away 3 gift vouchers to the value of a purchase made by a West Penno shopper. The winner is drawn randomly from WPHC shoppers.
Congratulations to Liam Hodge (U9 Blue) who has won a gift voucher for – the full value of his purchase.

There is one further draw on the 24th December for any West Penno player who purchases anything from Kingsgrove Sports (just tell them at the time):
So if you need anything sporting – think no one other than Kingsgrove Sports – by far the best Sporting goods retailer in the area and great supporters of our Club.

WPH Sports Club Elections
The WPH Sports Club is holding its elections are coming up.

Voting details are;
When: between 5th and 17th November
Time: up until 6.30pm each day.

Many of our Cricket Club Members are also members of the Sports Club and are entitled to vote –we encourage you to take up this offer. The candidates are:

Denis Montgomery is the current Chairman and has been in this role for about 10 years. He is a supporter of our Club and is standing for re-election.

Ken Meadows – has been a Board member for a number of years and is also standing for the Chairman’s role. Ken is also a supporter of the Club and his son David played for us some years ago.

Keith Robinson is standing for the Board again and we encourage you to vote for Keith who is a Life Member of the Cricket Club and has supported us for many years.

We do not take a partisan view of the Chairman’s role we would just encourage as many people to vote as possible. With regard to Keith please consider giving him your vote.

Girls
Competition starts on Saturday 13th October running through to the 15th December. Games then re-commence on the 2nd February until 1st March with Semi Finals / Finals played over 8th and 15th March 2008. This gives us 14 weeks of competition plus finals.

Junior boys
The standings after Round 4 are:
• U16s – White (= 1st ), Blue (= 3rd )
• U15s – Blue (3rd ), Red (7th)
• U14s – White (=1st), Blue (3rd ), Red (= 4th )
• U13s – Gold (1st ) Blue (9th ), White (10th ), Green (14th )
• U12s – Red (=1st), Blue (= 4th ), Green (9th), White (10th)
• U11s – Gold (=1st), White (= 2nd ), Green (= 4th ), Blue (12th ), Red (13th )

Seniors

A1 Vs Kenthurst . Game washed out. A one-dayer will be played next Saturday

A2 Vs Galston-Glenorie – also washed out. No play.

Colts Vs CHRSL. Washed out. 1-dayer next weekend.

B1 Blue Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee – no play. 1-dayer next week.

B1 Red 9/239 Vs Glenhaven. One of the few games to get underway. Batting first we have a solid total with scope to score more with the ‘Big Unit’, Gav Hassett still there on 36*. Good to see Millsy back to run scoring form with 65. Glenhaven are a reasonable batting side so looks like we may bat on to consolidate our position.

C1 White 9/262 Vs Thornleigh. Yet another good performance with the bat despite having a number of players out. The run rate was also good with these being scored in 49 overs. Michael McDowell did the job again with 60 and was well supported by Nathan Fathers 40, Andrew Watt 30, Kishore 27 and Andrew Fiedler 20. This left 19 for Thornleigh to bat and they finished at 1/63 so looks like a god game looming.

C1 Red Vs Ku-ring-gai Chase – washout - 1-dayer next year.

C2 Vs Kenthurst 6/261. One of the few games to go the distance on Saturday. This is a 300 run ground so still a lot of cricket left in this game. Issac Malamel, Jacques Visser and Steve Baker each took 2 wickets but could have had more except for a few catches being put down.

D2 Vs Kenthurst – another washout. A 1-dayer is played next weekend.

A Grade DCA individual sheets
Everyone by now should be looking at the DCA website to get regular updates on points tables and results www.cricketnsw.com.au/hkhdca. If you get a chance then have a look at the WPHC A1 site – there are some genuinely ugly players in A1.

A friendly team
Got to be something about the mighty C2’s. Everyone now knows that Richie Cuskelly and Dave Gane have a shared interest in synchronized stretching and no doubt other warm-ups but the boys just keeping putting in. With both players arriving late to the game Dave showed discretion and just mentioned work – sounds reasonable. Enter Richie, who confirmed more a more detailed shared reason that goes beyond the synchronised stretching – enough said.

Photo’s
It is always an idea to have a browse through the ‘Photo’ section of the website. The latest photo is of Simon Smyth and Adam Walter (A!) on their major milestone achievements last weekend. If you have any good photo’s they are always welcome.

Points table
Just a reminder that you can get this info from www.cricketnsw.com.au/hkhdca - the table as at the end of Round 4 is:

• A1 – 14 points (= 3rd)
• Colts – 13 points (5th )
• A2 – 19 points (= 1st )
• B1 Red – 14 points (5th)
• B1 Blue – 19 points (= 1st )
• C1 Red – 24 points (1st )
• C1 White – 23 points (2nd)
• C2 – 28 points (1st )
• D2 – 3 points (7th)

Personal achievements

Watch the following big ones coming up:
• Matt Dawson – 5 wickets off his 200 wickets
• Roger Friend 4 off his 100 wickets
• Kishore Rampersad – 1 to 250 wickets

Name Grade Achievement
Sean Doohan A2 100 wickets Vs Kenthurst Semi Final 17/3/2007

Nathan Fathers C1 1,000 runs Vs Hornsby @ Montview West 27/1/2007

Jacques Visser C2 50 wickets Vs Hornsby

Ross Anderson C1 7,000 runs Vs ARL

Ryan Cherrie B1 150 wickets Vs Mt Colah

Andrew Mills B1 2,000 runs Vs Normanhurst-Warrawee

Simon Smyth A1 200 wickets – Vs Berowra

Adam Walter A1 100 wickets Vs Berowra

James Makin
A2 • 3,000 runs Vs Kenthurst
• 339 wickets – 11 wickets to 350
Steve Baker C2 909 runs – 81 to 1,000

Matt Dawson A1 • 2,897 runs – 103 off 3,000

• 195 wickets – 5 off to 200
Roger Friend D2 96 wickets – 4 to 100

Lachlan Gill B1 Blue 963 runs – 37 to 1,000

Chandana Jayasekera B1 Red 956 runs – 44 to 1,000

David Meizis
C1 946 runs – 54 to 1,000

Bruce Poehlsen B1 Blue 874 runs – 136 to 1,000

Kishore Rampersad
C1 • 3,828 runs – 172 to 4,000 runs

• 249 wickets – 1 from 250 wickets
Alistair Rayment
B1 Blue • 172 wickets – 28 off 200

Iain Ryan B1 139 wickets – 11 off 150 career wickets

Peter Whitehead A1 47 wickets – 3 to 50 career wickets

Craig Willmott C1 1,919 – 81 to 2,000 career runs

DCA website – points table
Now that the season is well underway anyone can track how their teams are going in the Competition in Both Seniors, Juniors and Girls by accessing the following website: www.cricketnsw.com.au/hkhdca and then just go to WPHCCC and then your team.

Alternatively, just go to Links on our website and it is the first entry.

Probably worth locking this into your favourites and checking after each game for the standings.

Website developers and graphic artists
We are privileged to have Peter Lees do all the website work for our Club. However, it is run by volunteers and we always need to involve others to share the fun.

If you have abilities in Perl scripting, graphic design or other web-related skills, and would like to contribute to your Club, please contact Peter (AT) wphccc.org

Posted by Ross Anderson on November 4, 2007 05:30 AM