St George Leagues Club

The Club has 5 Teams entered in the 2011 Autumn Pennant competitions. Our teams are entered in Divisions 6, 8, 10, 12 and 13. At the present time Dave Armstrong’s Division 6 team is coming 5th.

Paul Wright’s Division 8 team is also coming 5th. George Keir’s Division 10 team is 3rd, just 33 points behind leaders Bulldogs-6 and 14 points behind Roselands-5 who are second. Steve Keramea’s Division 12 team is 3rd, 49 points behind leaders President -11 and only 6 points behind second placed President-12. Jason Reberger’s Division 13 team is at present coming 5th.

We have had two handicapped Round Robin competitions so far this year. The March results were: Peter Lupevski 1st defeating Chewy Lim 21-12, Doug McFarlane 2nd defeating Mursil Rabbani 21-19 and Andrew Clarke 3rd defeating Richard Chen 21-20.
April was won by Rohit Autar defeating Emmanuel Calligeris 21-13. Second was Peter Lupevski defeating John Richardson 21-15 and third was Doug McFarlane defeating Sana Viengkhou 21-19. So far the Round Robin points table is as follows: Peter Lupevski leads on 9 points from Doug McFarlane 7 points, Rohit Autar third on 5 points and Andrew Clarke fourth on 3 points.

On a sad note, we were all very sorry to hear of Barbara Farmer’s passing after a long illness. For those who are not aware, Barbara was the wife of Jim Farmer a long time supporter of our club. Jim is a Life Member of the St. George Leagues Club and a foundation member of our squash club from the early 1960’s. He is largely responsible in helping our club remain active by supporting us via an annual Leagues Club grant. At the present time Jim is on the St George Leagues Sports Council as well as being a member of the St. George Leagues Club Board of Directors. Thanks Jim for all your great support over the years. Our thoughts and sympathies are with you and your family at this very sad time in your life.

In conclusion, those interested in playing comp squash for the club or requiring information, can contact me on 0415 641581. So until next time, good squashing everybody!

Brian Pisani, Publicity Officer

St George Leagues Club under 14 Junior Boys & Junior Girls win their Grand Finals.

Congratulations to both our under 14 junior boys & under 14 junior girls for winning their respective Grand Finals in season 2010/11. Both of these sides were undefeated during the season.

Details as follows:

The Sydney Rivers Girls Cricket Association 1st Division 20/20 Grand Final played at Tonbridge Park Ramsgate on 5th March 2011 St George Leagues Club team for the final:

Tiarne Hamam (capt.) Felicia Fernando, Anagha Bidkar, Caitlin Bornstein, Alana McGrath, Grace Puckett, Amy Drury, Sabeena Solomons, Jasmin Fernando.

St George Leagues Club Red vs St Patricks / Sutherland

St George Leagues Club (Red ) 5-115 after 20 overs

Batting: Tiarne Hamam 31no, Felicia Fernando 17, Caitlin Bornstein 13 rtno. Anagha Bidkar 8, Grace Puckett 7no

Defeated

St Patricks/ Sutherland White 4-75 after 20 overs

Bowling: Felicia Fernando 1-6, Caitlin Bornstein 1-7, Anagha Bidkar 1-7, Grace Puckett 1-15

Association Trophies were presented to the following players:

Batting: Tiarne Hamam (313 runs – average 78.25) St GeorgeLeagues Club Red

Bowling: Caitlin Bornstein (18 wickets- average 5.88) St George Leagues Club Red

Fielding/ Catches: Amy Drury/ Grace Puckett (10 catches each) St George Leagues Club Red

Association 1st year player of the season: Megan King (St George Leagues Club White)

The Georges River/ St George District Cricket Association under 14 boys Grand Final played on Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th March 2011 at Gannons Park Peakhurst.

St George Leagues Club team for the game:

Vaby Chandani, Faraan Mirza, Asif- Uz-Zaman, Amit Paul- Chowdhury, Farhan Gena, James Elbanna, Ash- Hab Chowdhury, Damon Wade, Johnathan Hatton, Kirit Kounsal, Hossian Pathwary, Roohan Ghanchi, Rohail Muhammad.

Details as follows:

St George Leagues vs Beverly Hills Eagles

Day 1- reduced to 20 overs due to wet weather

Beverly Hills Eagles 1st innings 8-41

Bowling: Asif Uz- Zaman 4-6, Faraan Mirza 2-6, Farhan Gena 2-6

No play 2nd day due to wet weather- Match Drawn

St George Leagues Club declared Grand Final Winners

Denis King

Secretary

Dear All,

I have just been advised by the McGrath Foundation that we where successful in the draw and attending our day on the 19th February from 2.00pm at Scarborough Park wickets No. 9 & 10 will be Australian Test player & also a NSW player The players attending our day are:

1.  Simon Katich  Australian Test Opening Batsman

2.  Josh Hazelwood  NSW Opening Bowler

PS: We are the only club that has 2 players attending on the day.

Regards
Denis

Denis King
Secretary, St George Leagues Club Cricket Club SRGCA Competition
Co-ordinator/Secretary Cricket NSW
Phone: 9750.9231
Mobile: 0412.996035
Fax: 9596.0412
E-Mail: srgca@optusnet.com.au

Websites:

www.stgeorgeleagues.nsw.cricket.com.au
www.srgca.nsw.cricket.com.au

Girls, to find your local cricket team or In2Cricket BFZ centre visit www.playcricket.com or www.in2cricket.com.au

1st, 2nd and 3rd of the Club Championships were held in June, July and Aug 10. The results were best of the two rounds out of three rounds are as follows;

Winners of Stroke Events are:

• A grade: John Hunter                with total 157
• B grade: Wayne Nelson             with total 173
• C grade: Dutch Dehaas              with total 202

Winners of the Handicap Events are:
A grade; Doug Marriner           with total 144
B grade: Alan Batcheldor        with total 143
C grade: Mark Colin                   with total 145

Vice President’ Trophy held on 19th Sept and the results were:

• 1st Matthew Nelson                  with nett 69 on C/B
• 2nd Craig Parson                       with nett 69
• 3rd Mark Colin                           with nett 72

Away Game held at Antill Park Golf Club on Sun, 31st Oct and the results

Of the Single Stableford Events results were:

• 1st Les O’Sullivan                       with 39 pts
• 2nd Craig Parsons                      with 33 pts
• 3rd Mark Collin                           with 32 pts on C/B from Lee Cosgrove.

Coming events: 21st Nov, President’s Trophy and annual presentation.

19th Dec, Ambrose Event.

For any other information you may need, please contact our secretary,

Mahesh Kapadia on mobile: 0409 152 756.

The St. George Leagues Table Tennis Club Report. 21 September 2010.

The A team of the St. George Leagues Club was un able to win the St. George and Sutherland’s Shire Winter competition due to one of our best player Gary Braker, traveled to China.

But our B team took over and won the Competition,

As usual we congratulate and thanked the players on behave of the sport council committee and the president, Mr. Jim Farmer.

The main players were, Kevin Law, Henry Ng, And John Nawar.

With the Summer competitions, just started we have three teams A,B, and C. We confident they will do their best to represent the spirit of the St George.

We also congratulate Michael Antoun as he selected to represent NSW in the 050 Men’s team at the Australian veterans Open Table Tennis Championship being held at Melbourne Victoria.

The Players of the A grade teams practice every Monday night and compete on Tuesday at the Hurstville Aquatic Centre.
The Secretary I. Bazzi.

SQUASH CLUB
We have 6 teams in the 2010 Spring Pennant comp. At present Dave Armstrong’s Div 6 team is coming 2nd. Paul Wright’s Div 9 team is coming 1st. George Keir’s Div 10 teams is also 1st. Steve Keremea’s Div 11 team is 5th. Andrew Wheeler’s Div 12 team is 4th and Jason Reberger’s Div 13 team is 3rd.

The previous Autumn competition was very memorable in more ways than one. Firstly the squash club started the comp with many of the players injured.  As a consequence other players had to fill in for injured players in higher divisions. Some playing 2 or 3 comp matches per week to help the other teams. Because of this club spirit, three of the six teams made it to the finals. Paul Wright’s Div 8 team came 3rd but lost in the preliminary final to President. Frank Duong’s Div 10 team also came 3rd but also lost in the preliminary final to the Bulldogs.

The highlight of the comp. was the performance of Dave Armstrong’s Div 6 team made up of Joe Dundovic, Ian Jacobs, Daryl Curtis, Mark Ireland, Paul Coggiola and various substitutes along the way.  At Round 5 and with many injuries, they were coming last. By Round 10 they were up to 4th and by Round 15 had scraped into 3rd place and in the finals by just 2 competition points. The hot favorites to win this comp. were PCYC. They had gone through the comp very easily finishing streets ahead of second placed Bulldogs and us. So it was to be going a big ask to beat PCYC in the Grand Final after we beat the Bulldogs in the preliminary final.

Our Grand Final lineup was Ian Jacobs, Joe Dundovic, Daryl Curtis and Dave Armstrong. PCYC won the toss and called number two’s, Lindsay Hetherington v our Joe Dundovic. Joe fought hard but on the night Lindsay was just too good winning 3-0 and scoring 45points to Joe’s 30. Next match was our call and Dave called number three’s, Daryl Curtis v PCYC’s Greg Chamberlain. Daryl was really in top form this night and Greg just had no answer to Daryl’s clinical and consistent play. Daryl won his match 3-0 scoring 45 points to Greg’s 31. The next match was Ian Jacobs v PCYC’s Chris Stephens (number 1 ranked player in this division). Ian started really well and with his great touch was able to take the first two sets. In the third set Ian had match point. However, Chris was able to keep the rallies going and slowly wore Ian down eventually winning the next 3 sets and the match 3-2. Ian however managed to score 65 points to Chris’ 64 points.

This result meant that Dave Armstrong’s match with PCYC’s Bill Linton would decide the night. Dave had to win 3-0 or 3-1 for us to win the night comfortably. If Dave won 3-2 it would come down to which team scored the most points on the night. Dave started well and won the first set, but Bill came back to win the next two. Dave fought hard in the fourth set and won it to even up the set count 2 all. Amazingly at this stage the points were very even with PCYC having a slender 1 point lead. Dave needed to win the 5th set by 2 points or more for Saints to win the night. The fifth set was incredibly hard fought. Bill was looking good at 14-13 and had match point. But Dave would not be denied and won the next rally to get back to 14 all. Bill called long game. From here Dave powered ahead to win the set 17-15 which gave our team the title by one point! Well done boys, a great effort against all odds!

The August handicapped Round Robin was won by Kevin Fung from Viv Beri and Daryl Curtis. The points standing at the present for the annual title is Viv Beri and Daryl Curtis leading on 9 points each from Dave Armstrong and Kevin Fung on 8 points and Doug McFarlane and Sana Viengkhou both on 7 points.

Anyone interested in playing comp squash for the club can contact me on 0415 641581. So until next time, good squashing everybody!

Brian Pisani, Publicity Officer