With the Season now over this update is a summary of how the Club ‘landed’ and what is coming up.

Presidents Award
Deepak Narsai – for outstanding service to our Club during his term as Juniors Director.

This is our most prestigious Award as it acknowledges the Volunteer who has contributed most to our Club over the season. Without Volunteers we don’t have a Club ofcourse.

Seniors
Congratulations to our Premiers:
A2 258 defeated St Ives 247
C2 236 and 4/141 defeated St Ives 147

and to our Runner-up

D2 141 lost to Berowra 171

Youngest Captain
Congratulations to Matt Jobson (A2 2008-09) who Captained our A2 side to win our 4th, A2 Premiership (Vs St Ives @ Storey Park 21-22 March 2009). Matt was just was 20 and 1 month old on the day. This makes him our youngest ever Captain of a non Colts Premiership winning side. Nick Bennett Captained our Colts side to a Premiership last season. so is the youngest Captain overall.

Coming up
Seniors Presentation Night
One for the diary. Our Presentation Night is on as follows:
• When: Friday 8th May
• Where: Castle Hill RSL
• Time: 7.30 pm

More details will follow shortly. Our special guests on the night will be Dominic Thornely and Dean Gilchrist.

Annual General Meeting
The big meeting of the year will be on Monday 6th July at the Sports Club – details to follow.

Club Registration Day
Is not all that far away – Sunday 26th July at Oakhill Drive Public School. Think about it but this is only 4 months away.

First Seniors Practice
Saturday 8th August 2009 at 103 Newline Road nets.

First game
The Season kicks off foe Seniors and Juniors on Saturday 12th September 2009.

Top performers
Congratulations to Brendan (top run scorer) and Scott (top wicket-taker).

Top 10 run scorers
1. Brendan Harkin (D1) – 564 @ 56.4 (94* top score)
2. Geoff Starr (C2) – 560 @ 30.6 (57)
3. Geoff Richards (C2) – 554 runs @ 39.6 (66*)
4. Peter Heidegger (C3) – 551 @ 29.5 (87)
5. Vishnu Ratnam (D2) – 418 @ 32.1 (79)
6. Faisal Shamis (D1) – 388 @ 29.8 (92)
7. Matt Thorndyke (B1) – 378 @ 37.80 (125)
8. Nathan Fathers (B2) – 352 @ 32.0 (69)
9. Caudio van Blerk (D2) – 324 @ 24.5 (68*)
10. Russell Smith(D2) – 314 @ 20.9 (103*)

Top 10 bowlers
1. Scott Henderson (A2) – 37 @ 11.6 (best 6/19)
2. Roger Friend (D1) – 33 @ 14.8 (5/40)
3. Jacques Viser (C3) – 32 @ 17.5 (6/25)
4. Ian Nichol (D2) – 31 @ 12.9 (5/52)
5. Geoff Richards (C2) – 27 @ 11.0 (5/42)
6. Dylan Brogan (Colts) – 28 @ 7.9 (5/14)
7. Sekhar Vardhan (D1 & D2) – 28 @ 11.3 (7/12)
8. Matt Dawson (A1) – 26 @ 13.9 (8/38)
9. Isaac Malamel (Colts) – 26 @ 12.2 (6/21)
10. Andrew Joyce (B1) – 24 @ 11.6 (6/21)
11. Chris Williamson (C3) – 24 @ 14.7 (6/27)

Juniors
Presentation Day
The Juniors Boys and Girls have also had their Presentation Day with over 750 people attending at Campbell Park.

Major Award Winners
Major Individual Award Winners
Junior Player of the Year – Alex Rashleigh
Charles Booth Memorial Award (U13) – Hayden McWilliam

Premiers
Congratulations to our Age Division champions
• U12 Green
• U13 Red
• U14 Gold
• U15 White

Runners Up
And to our Runner’s-up:
• U12 Gold
• U13 Blue
• U16 Blue

Girls
Senior Player of the Year Award – Felicity Trinh

What goes into a Presentation Day
Just think about this one. Our Junior Presentation Day was a fantastic success but what goes on behind the scenes is amazing. Here goes:
• Approx 200 trophies were ready 1 week after the Finals and only 2 weeks after the Final Round
• Over 30 volunteers pulled the day together with tents, jumping castles, food ‘halls’ and bowling speed guns
• In the food stakes:
• 15 kilo’s of chicken
• 10 kilo’s of onions
• 300 sausages
• 150 steaks
• 520 cans of soft drink
• 30 loaves of bread
• 2 large containers of McDonalds cordial holders
• 6 BBQ’s with ‘chefs’
• 8 servers

All up, it is pretty much like a loaves and fishes job.

Posted by Ross Anderson on March 29, 2009 05:45 AM