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 long standing Chairman. 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 and Ray Peterkin are both standing for the Board again and we encourage you to vote for both Keith (who is a Life Member of the Cricket Club) and Ray (also a long term player) and suopporter.

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 and Ray please consider giving them your 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
Another week of rain and showers has caused havoc with games getting on. The results after Day 2 are:

A1 drew Kenthurst . Game washed out. The game has finished as a draw.

A2 drew Galston-Glenorie – also washed out. No play either day.

Colts drew CHRSL. Washed out – both days.

B1 Blue drew Normanhurst-Warrawee – another washout.

B1 Red 9/239 drew Glenhaven. A missed opportunity with all Baulkham Hills grounds closed due to rain. This game has finished as a draw.

C1 White 9/262 and 0/15 defeated outright Thornleigh 131 and 155. After fighting back from a difficult position last week we smashed the team in 4th place. Ben McNamara was simply outstanding taking 6/42 (18 overs) in the first innings with controlled outswing that was almost unplayable. Added to this, Andrew Watt 2/48 and John Steel 1/26. Following-on we stepped up again with this time Andrew watt 2/32, John Mitchell 2/51, John Steel 1/9 and Geoff Richards 1/3 doing the damage. With other games being washed out this moves us comfortably to 1st place.

C1 Red drew Ku-ring-gai Chase – no play either day – washed out.

C2 drew Kenthurst 6/261. Day 2 washed out – another draw

D2 drew Kenthurst – Game washed out both days.

Separated at birth
Mention has been made a few times about one of our former greats - big Dale ‘Merv’ Armstrong (3,709 career runs). Merv and Greg Fiedler went to the West Indies for the World Cup. It was mentioned recently that Desmond Haynes went across to Merv to catch-up on old times. We now have photographic evidence to prove that story that ‘Merv’ is a double to Merv. Have a look at the Photo gallery and see this remarkable resemblance.

Weekend at Bernie’s
One of our rising stars, Dave Meizis (C1) was ‘missing in action’ last week and no one knew where we was. It all came out this week. Dave had a big night/morning on Friday night and ended up on a park bench at Double Bay, not knowing where he was, missing his mobile and wallet and basically written off. We might start calling Dave Bernie given that he had no idea where he was or what happened.

The double groin strain – the truth
Just like those now famous blistered hands of Peter Westerberg (caused by rowing, ofcourse) the health of one of our long term ‘Want to be Legends’ – (your friendly Club Secretary Ross A) is gaining increasing publicity around the Association. The injury was actually caused on the field during a big score and had nothing to do with the injury that Peter Westerberg incurred. What we can’t go into is the treatment in the interests of protecting the innocent.

Try the other one
Got to hand it to Michael McDowell (A2 and C1 ) who is in a golden patch of batting form. After losing 3 wickets in an over he came out to bat on the hat-trick ball. Problem is that Michael was half way out to bat with only one pad on. He eventually got there, avoided the hat-trick and scored 74.

Top 10
After 5 rounds our top 10 batsman are;
Batting
• Nick Bennett (Colts) 224 @ 112
• Ross Anderson (C1) 181 @ 45.25
• James Makin (A2) 179 @ 89.50
• Peter Taylor (B1) 178 @ 59.33
• Tim Starr (C1) 172 @ 28.67
• Peter Heidegger (C2) 170 @ 56.67
• Michael McDowell (C1) 169 @ 56.33
• Taylor Paton (Colts) 151 @ 37.75
• Dan Moye (B1) 149 @ 49.67
• Matt Scoular (Colts) 149 @ 29.80

Bowling
• Ben McNamara (C1) 16 @ 13.00
• Bran Ramachandran (D2) 11 @ 19.91
• James McBrien (C1) 10 @ 14.40
• Adam Walter (A1) 10 @ 17.30
• Tim Connell (B1) 9 @ 15.67
• Kishore Rampersad (C1) 9 @ 19.11
• Peter Stott (A1) 8 @ 12.63
• Chris Williamson (C2) 8 @ 13.13
• Tim Starr (C1) 8 @ 13.38
• Andrew Joyce (B1) 8 @ 14.25
• Kedar Balluckar (D2) 8 @ 14.88

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 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 11, 2007 05:31 AM