Around the sporting fields | Tuesday 19.12

MINOR SINGLES K Broderick,  MAJOR SINGLES S McDonell, MAJOR PAIRS R Corby J Howard, TRIPLES L Murray B Lang M Gardner,  FOURS B Lang M Gardner S Reedy J Stephenson.

President Janet Croker thanked all for their help throughout the year and wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Bowls will resume Tuesday Januray 16, 2018

Despite the light rain it was a pleasant night to play tennis last Thursday. The results; C&C defeated MSMs 176 to 129,Fluffy Tens defeated Bushflies 180 to 140, Springers defeated Cheers 174 to 141, Kialla defeated Woolies 186 to 67 and Hawk Eyes defeated Mulligrubs 186 to 88. The points table reads Hawk Eyes 930, followed by Kialla 904, Volleys 886, Fluffy Tens 874, Springers 800, Bushflies 779, Mulligrubs 759, C & C 742, Cheers 680, MSMs 643, and Woolies 522. There should be some close matches this week. There will be a break over Christmas and twilight tennis will return on the 18th January 2018

Round 10 December 21; Hawk Eyes V Volleys C1, Woolies V Cheers C2, MSM’s V Bushflies C3, Mulligrubs V Springers C4, Kialla V Fluffy Tens C5, C&C Bye.

Draw December 20 ROUND 8 Juniors No Juniors games this week, they will return to play January 31, 2018

Seniors 6:15pm; One Touch Wonders V Black Magic (TK), Bigga V Gurrundah Thunder (CTE), Runts V More Chilli (Bryton Boys)

7:00pm; Blue Thunder V Looking To Score (Black Magic), Bryton Boys V CTE (Runts), Bulls V Benchwarmers (Gurrundah Thunder) DUTY: Blue Thunder

The ladies tennis will have a break for Christmas and the New Year holidays and will return on January 18, 2018. 

Wednesday Mixed Winners; Bobcats, JT, Tait Street, UFO, Friday Mens Winners O,Bies 1, Pop Guns, Can Roll Em, Nuggets, Nearly There, Tigers, Laggan Rams, TBA, Vinnies, and a draw between Dilligaf and Zolvix.

Championships Congratulations to Mathew & Peter Hammond who won the Major Pairs Final 18 - 16 on the last end over Ashley Smith and Craig Hills. The Minor Triples Final was another close game with M Coady - G Clements - W Reeves defeating J Johnson - M Nagle - P Seaman 28 - 21. Major Triples M Webster - P Writer - B Dunn def R Larkham - W Gawthorne - K George 24 - 23. Mixed Pairs J Cramp - A Gay def A Mcintosh - J Howard 21 - 11.

Socials M Coady - P Flint - A Smith def M Kennedy - B Kennedy - W Reeves 30 - 10. We finally have an idea of our starting date for pennants and it will be early in March. We will have to very soon nominate how many teams we will have in 2018.

If you intend to play or be a reserve could you please place your name on one of the sheets at either club houses ASAP. Next Saturday and Sunday 23 and 24 mixed social bowls will be played. The Major and Minor Singles draws and Minor fours draw has now been posted.

Bowls Office W Reeves. No Raffles next Sunday night. Next raffles 7 - 1 - 2018. Championships and Twilights will start early January keep an eye out in the Gazette.

After a run of bad weather and byes Crookwell Golf Club did battle with old foes Workers Stags at The Grange on Saturday December 9.  Playing conditions were perfect and the recent rainfall had the ground looking spectacular.

Corey Knight was in control for the match and of course batted upon winning the toss.  He likes batting.  And bat he did, despite losing Brendan Fenton early Golf Club got off to their best start for some time. Corey showed the way as captain cracking 51 in no time at all.  Luke Cummins was most impressive, very composed, making 16.

The much anticipated return of Hamish “The Hammer” Hammond did not disappoint either, capturing the crowds’ hearts with a display combining finesse and aggression that had to be seen to be believed generating 39 runs. Benny Evans was also back and took up where he left off last year chiming in with 22.

It was great to see the young lads forming partnerships, and none better than the last wicket.  Rhys Secombe was prised from the golf course and along with Jacob McGregor almost saw out the 45 overs adding 34 between taking the total to a quite respectable 182.

The boys were quietly confident as they took the field but that nasty Josh Ryrie boy was soon to deflate them.  He found the middle of the bat straight up, smashing 19 off the first over and bringing up his 50 off just 17 balls.  It was a great relief when Jacob McGregor took out his poles with the score on 67.  Jacob was the stand out bowler for Crookwell under very difficult conditions.

Sparra Parsons knocked them down again shortly after, but that really only gave the team false hope.  It was a pretty clinical batting display by Stags captain Daniel Cooper (61no) and Jack Murdoch (42) who was the only other wicket to fall courtesy of Fox Fenton.

So, Golf Club’s losing streak remains untarnished but there were still plenty of positives.  A full team, over half the side made double figures, we dropped less catches than the opposition, we were leading for most of the day and above all everyone enjoyed the match.