BCC Newsletter #13 Cocktail Party, Raffle and Past Players & Friends Lunch

Hi all our BCC Family!

Cocktail Party

Well, we are gearing up for a big week or two at Brighton.  Saturday Night we are having the club’s big fundraising night of the year at the Half Moon Hotel Function Room.  Attendance is highly important as there has been a massive effort put in to put together some fantastic auction and silent auction items as per below.  Please let Ryan Sweeney (bcc1842@gmail.com) or James Perkins-Stafford (james.perkins-stafford@lakesideconsultants.com.au) know whether you are attending.

If you are unable to attend, the Club asks for a donation for which can be paid direct into the club bank account (Brighton Cricket Club, BSB 633000 A/c # 134086651).

Big tick to the U12′s, T20Blast and the seniors on organising most of the silent auction items listed below.  The U16′s, U14′s and In-2-Cricket programs, well we need a great attendance from you guys on the night and bid high on the auction items!  And if you would like an item and can’t attend, we will take email bids between the hours of 8pm and 9.30pm.  To email your enquiry email silentauctionbcc@gmail.com.  We will have somebody monitoring this email across the night.

Club Raffle

Tickets will be going out this week for the club raffle.  Everybody at the Club will be getting tickets and the raffle will be drawn on 20 April 2012 at the Club Senior Presentation Night.  We welcome Jo Geary from Excell Travel & Cruise (138 Church Street, Brighton, VIC 3186) as a new sponsor of the Club.  Excell Travel & Cruise has sponsored the main raffle prize in the form of a $3500 Travel Voucher.  So for all your travel needs, head to Excell Travel and ask for Jo!

The prizes are as follows:

1st Prize – $3,500 Travel Voucher from Excell Travel & Cruise (Valid until 31 December 2012)

2nd Prize – Peroni limited edition single speed road bike courtesy of Glenn from Cellarmasters in Hampton (Value approx $2,000)

3rd Prize – Sony 40″ 3D TV and Sony Home Theatre System (Approx value $1700)

4th Prize – Apple iPad 3G 32GB (Approx value $839)

5th Prize – Kookaburra pads and gloves (adult) (Approx Value $190)

Past Players & Friends Lunch – 25 February 2012

A reminder for all our past players to get on board next week’s Past Players and Friends Lunch on Saturday 25 February 2012.  Start time is 12.30pm.

Milo In-2-Cricket and T20 Blast this week

IMPORTANT – Please note that there is NO Milo In-2-Cricket this week.  T20 Blast is at Carnegie South CC (Munro Avenue, Carnegie South)  at 9.45am.

Review of results

The 1sts had a fantastic win on the Saturday against Box Hill.  Richard Pearson wrapped up Man of the Match after his 65 the week before, with 5 for 64.  The balance of wickets were shared around amongst Andrew Harrod, Ryan Sweeney and David Salter.

The 2nds and 3rds both had comfortable wins on the Saturday also.  Skipper James P-S took 5 wickets and Hamish Graham took 3 in a good performance at home.  The 3rds had a good win against Kingston Saints with runs and wickets being shared around all day!

The one day games on Sunday were not great results with the firsts and seconds losing to Mt Waverley, the 3rds being washed out after being a good position at 5/136 (Wilson 56 / Some other bloke 51*), but the 4ths defied the trend and had a good win against Kingston Saints (Matt Raven 50).  The firsts probably had the youngest team fielded by our 1st XI for some time after numerous injuries throughout the prior day and week and fought hard to the end, but some slow batting probably cost the Tonners victory.  Attempting to defend 112, Mt Waverley put on 30 odd for the 9th wicket to just scrape home.

Fixtures this week

This week a return to normality with all senior XI’s playing Moorabbin.  The 1sts ofcourse are at home  on the Sat, 2nds away at Moorabbin, 3rds at home on Sunday and the 4ths at EE Gunn Reserve on Saturday.  For all other fixtures please see the calendar on the front page of the website.

Thanks look forward to seeing a lot of you on Saturday Night!

Tas Tudor

Acting President

BCC Newsletter Edition 12 – Cocktail Night

Hi to all our fantastic Brighton Cricket Club Family

The committee have been all working hard on the cocktail party on Saturday 18 February at the Half Moon Hotel.  You have been had notices out about getting silent auction items or auction items for the evening.  IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT EVENING FOR THE CLUB, SO IF YOU KNOW OF ANYBODY / ANYTHING THAT MAY BE ABLE TO HELP, THEN PLEASE ASK!  IF YOU DON’T ASK YOU DON’T GET!  It will be a great night and we expect a sell out, order your tickets from Ryan and James as per the link to the flyer.

There is a misconception in our community that our club is financially secure and wealthy, but without going over old ground and our Cricket Victoria Dividend being cut next year, we need to dig deep as a club and give the club the buffer in its cash reserves going forward so that we can invest in our facilities and programs, so such events are vitally important to the club.

Also next week we will be launching the Club Annual Raffle.  Every player and family at the club will get a book of raffle tickets to sell.  There will be some great prizes and the raffle will be drawn on the Senior, U16 and Hatch Presentation Night on 20 April 2012 (Venue TBC).

Milo and T20 this week

Milo as usual will be at Beach Road at 9am.  And T20 Blast this week will be at Carnegie South Cricket Club at Munro Avenue Carnegie South 10am.

Fixtures this week

Please see the calendar on the main page of the website for the game times and venues.  Let me reiterate to team managers and captains, it would be great if you could post some match summaries.  I cannot stress how easy it is!

Note for the seniors this Sunday:

Sunday – 1sts v Mt Waverley at Home

2nds v Mt Waverley away

3rds v Mt Waverley at Shipston Reserve

4ths v Kingston Saints at St Bedes College.

Some great Performances on the weekend

Steven Goodman continues to re-discover his form and belief with the bat, making a superb debut ton at Beach Rd v Box Hill in the 2nds.  It is great to see Steven proove to everybody that he is not just a very good keeper and can score the big ones.  There was great support from Andy Martin (53) and Nick Wanless (34).  The final score was 291.

Also making his top score for the club was the “old pro” Richard Pearson who helped rescue the 1sts after being in dire straights scoring 65.  David Salter continued his comeback in the 1sts with 42, Tesch, reliable as always with 43 and good to see our esteemed Secretary Ryan Sweeney scoring 30.  The final total of 203 is hopefully defendable against a good club in Box Hill.

Presentation Nights

Next week we will highlight all the Presentation Nights and Days for all the age groups (You will note above that the Hatch and U16′s will be on Friday 20 April 2012).

Past Players Function

A reminder to all past players and friends that the past players lunch is on Saturday 25 February 2012 at 12.30pm.

Jack and Stephen at the MCG for Bushrangers training

Today, Jack Nichols and Stephen Athaide from our U16 and our successful Hatch team are having a great experience going to Bushrangers training and getting a close up tour of the MCG courtsey of VSDCA sponsors Coca Cola.  Next week we hope for a report from them about their experience!

Nets

Due to some unauthorised use by some local schools, we are going to protect our investment (nearly $100K) in our nets and will be locking two of the nets going forward.  And we will be leaving two nets open for use.  Please speak to your junior co-ordinators on how to access the nets for training.

Happy cricketing!

Tas Tudor

Acting President

BCC Newsletter 2011/12 Version 11 – HATCH WIN!

Hi All

The biggest news of last week was the fantastic victory of the RM Hatch side.  It was the second year in a row the Tonners have managed to win the competition.  To put it into perspective it has been rare over the years for the team to even make the finals!  The side has been well coached by Nathan Steele and James Harrod over the last two years.  This year they had some great assistance from David Harrod and Peter Collins.  It was a thrilling match against Elesternwick with our boys chasing down Elsternwick’s score of 112, 8 wickets down.  Please see the report from James Harrod at http://bcc1842.com.au/news/brighton-win-2012-r-m-hatch.

There are plenty of matches coming up in the next couple of weeks.   The firsts will need to win most if not all of their games.  The 2nds and 3rds just need to keep on winning, but should make the finals.  The 4ths are in for a battle for the 6, sitting in 3rd, but only 4 points clear of 7ths spot.

And remember there is a make up one day game on 12 February, with the firsts playing at home versus Mt Waverley.

T20 Blast and Milo In2Cricket this week

These programs all get back up and running this week!  The T20 Blast guys are at Ormond this week (EE Gunn Reserve, Ormond) and In-2-Cricket is at Beach Road Oval.

There is a great report on the website of the T20 Blast at the MCG!  They had the rare honour of being invited to the “G” to be the pre-game entertainment for the Stars v Adelaide game.  The report is at http://bcc1842.com.au/news/t20-blast-at-the-mcg.

Cocktail Party and Silent Auction Items

This is the big fundraiser for the year, and an important one for the club.  You should have all received an email from your co-ordinators that each team is to come up with at least 3 silent auction items.  This is a small request, but can add up to a lot.  A strong club is only as strong as those that can contribute!  Everybody knows somebody who can donate something.  It can be a service or item or voucher!

It is also really important that we get a great showing at this event.  Round up a few friends and come along to a great night.

Games this week

As you will note we have all teams playing schedules in the calendar on the front page of our website.  Can team managers / captains please put in some small match reports in by clicking on the game and putting a post in.  It will be great for all the players to see their names in reports!

Past Players and Friends Lunch

To all our past players, please remember the past players lunch on Sat 25 February 2012 at 12.30pm at the club rooms. Cost is $30.  Please let Dodge 0403 800 5160 or Gilla 0430 405 573  know your attendance!

Happy cricketing!!!

Tas Tudor

Acting President

T20 Blast at The MCG

On Thursday 19 January our enthusiastic T20 Blasters had a brilliant evening at the MCG, being the warm up entertainment for the KFC BBL game between Melbourne Stars game v Adelaide.

Our ”Blasters” provided the On Field Entertainment but the common consensus was that the ones that had the most entertainment were the kids themselves.  The boys found the event to be awesome and were overwhelmed by the size and scale of the stadium.

Time went by too quickly and it would have been great to have had a bit more time on the field.

Nonetheless the kids got within 50 yards of Shane Warne who was practicing nearby. (But I suspect that most fathers were looking around for Liz Hurley.)

The bonus was for some of the kids to have had the back of their shirts  autographed by Dean Jones who played 52 Test matches for Australia in Between 1984 and 1992, scoring 3,631 runs including 11 centuries. (or so I am told!!).

All in all a great event.

Many thanks

Norman Levin

Brighton win 2012 R.M Hatch

Brighton today defeated Elsternwick to win back-to-back RM Hatch championships. Considering 28 teams started the tournament, this is an amazing effort.

Elsternwick 10/112 vs Brighton 8/113.

Credit to Elsternwick for playing a great game of cricket, and to Preston for providing an amazing facility for the game to be played at.

More details to follow..

BREAKING NEWS – HATCH WIN V ELSTERNWICK @ PRESTON

For the second year in a row, our Hatch Team has won the Final in a cliff hanger game. This year versus fellow Bayside Club Elsternwick. Chasing 112, our boys passed the Wicks 8 wickets down. Full report to follow.

Brighton win Hatch Semi-Final

Brighton today defeated Coburg to win their way through to the Hatch Grand Final to be played at Preston on Sunday. To be in the top two teams out of 28 starters is an amazing effort which the boys should be very proud of.

After winning the toss and batting first, Brighton were quickly in trouble losing 3/34. The highest partnership for the innings (and for the game)  between Harper Leonard and Sam Harrison placed the Tonners in a solid position, however a combination of run outs, poor shot selection and a deck which occasionally kept low saw the BCC boys rolled for 111 int he 38th over.

Brighton bowled 7 overs at Coburg before Tea, and through a Tom Collins wicket had Coburg 1/17. The afternoon session was the best bowling and fielding the boys have shown all tournament. Every bowler who came on did their job, and the wickets were shared between, Harrison (2/12), Earney (2/14), Collins (2/12), Gillies (2/22), Shimmin (1/6 off 5) and Athaide (1/13). James Grant also bowled an aggressive and impressive opening spell which could’ve easily reaped 2 or 3 wickets. Hugh Hamilton’s catching and captaincy should be commended and Harper Leonard on a tough wicket let through only 2 byes.

Brighton dismissed Coburg for 90 in the 40th over.

Today’s win was the most satisfying of the tournament. The wicket kept low and the par score quickly shifted from 170-180, to anything over 100. The boys should learn a lot from batting in more difficult conditions.

Thanks to all the Brighton players who came down to lend their support.

Go Tonners. JH

Brighton Cricket Club Cocktail Night- Saturday 18th February

Hatch Semi-Final this Thursday vs Coburg.

Come and support the Brighton 2012 Hatch Team this Thursday at Brighton Beach Oval. Play starts at 10 am.

Brighton Hatch team defeat Noble Park in Quarter-Final

Brighton 7/200 c.c defeated Noble Park 10/99.

After losing the toss and being surprisingly sent in, the Brighton boys recovered from an early wicket to post 7/200 at the completion of the allotted 45 overs. The innings built on a fantastic 70 run partnership between Mackenzie Simpson (32) and Louis Gillies who batted superbly to make 64. Sam Harrison (24), Harper Leonard (12) and Oliver Gunning (34*) built on this start and lifted the scoring rate during the second half of the innings. 200 runs batting first in a final put the Tonners firmly on top.

Coach Nathan Steele challenged the team at the break to execute at least one run out in the Noble Park innings: the Brighton Hatch team responded with 3 in the first 13 overs. After Steve Athaide had the Noble Park ‘gun’ caught behind, consistent wickets lead to Noble Park being dismissed under 100 in the 35th over. Ben Earney and Sam Harrison each picked up 2 wickets, and Gillies, Shimmin and Hamilton took 1 each.

The Semi-Final will be played next Thursday, against Coburg at Brighton Beach Oval.

JH