The Monbulk Cricket Club held its Christmas party on Saturday 17 December, with those from all areas of the club, including blasters, juniors, seniors and families.
Junior coaches spoke about the improvement, fun and success all the teams are having and handed out some awards, with Santa also paying a visit much to the delight of the many kids and parents.
There were 10 Christmas raffle winners, with the main prizes of: Bike from Cog Bikes(Aaron Bermingham), SR Extreme Cricket Bat (Andy Firth) & MCC Cricket Bag (Clayton Spooner).
The 3’s, 4’s & 5’s were able to secure a win on Saturday 17 December, with the 1’s and 2’s both going down by 1 run in absolute thrillers against top sides
The club wishes luck to its four juniors playing in the FTGDCA rep teams in the VMCU Christmas carnival – Lucas McIntosh, Sam Blenkiron, Grace Hourigan, Will Blenkiron.
In other exciting news, some of Monbulk’s Junior Blasters will be attending the Boxing Day Test on day four to participate in activities on the ground during the lunch break.
On 12 January at a Melbourne Stars match at the MCG, last season’s U14 premiers will be doing a lap of honour, and all junior players are invited to attend this match using their Stars membership.
The Monbulk Cricket Club wishes a Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all its awesome players, families and friends.
Scores:
-1st XI – Monbulk 9/178 (J.Wilkinson 49, S.Cosstick 37) def by Upwey-Tecoma 7/179 (A.Powell 2/17, S.Cosstick 2/21)
-2nd XI – Monbulk 7/197 (B.Trinnick 54, L.Rowe 46, L.McIntosh 34, J.Fenby 33) def by Upwey-Tecoma 10/198 (D.Cleary 3/19, K.Storey 3/27)
-3rd XI – Monbulk 3/109 (C.Spooner 38*, T.Noonan 24*) def Knox City 9/105 (E.Blenkiron 3/14, C.Spooner 3/18)
-4th XI – Monbulk 7/162 (T.Mackay 45, D.Blenkiron 37*) def Olinda 8/135 (S.Blenkiron 2/19, L.Tilley 2/27)
-5th XI – Monbulk 4/203 (B.Emmett 96*) def Sth Belgrave 8/190 (J.Woodcock 2/31, K.Beecroft 2/34, F.Cocks 2/46)
-U16’s – Monbulk 8/91 (S.Blenkiron 19, L.McIntosh 19) def by Footballers 6/107 (T.Storer 1/0, W.Meyer 1/11, J.Fraser 1/14)
-U14 Monbulk 7/89 (E.Dawson 26*, R.Tudor 14*, L.Ploeg 13*) def FTG Footballers 10/83 (L.Pritchard 2/12, W.Blenkiron 1/9, O.Watson 1/4)
-U12 Monbulk 2/71 (Q.Kelly 16*, D DeRenzy 11*, A.Spiteri 9*) def by Knoxfield/UFTG 5/186 (H. Arnott 1/13, T.Phyland 1/38)
-Fast 9’s Monbulk 5/47 (J.Jennings-Sykes 15*, N.Taylor 7*) def By The Basin 3/111 (A.Selby 1/19, J.Jennings-Sykes 1/11)
-Super 7’s Monbulk 10/104 (H.Watson 17*, H.Grigg 16*, Q.Doyle 10*) def by Belgrave White 4/106 (H.Watson 1/2
