South African import Antonio Mullins has taken out the Beau Redmond Medal at the St.Bernards OCCC presentation night. Mullins had a fantastic seccond half to the year, in a season where he scored 443 runs @ 36 and took 36 wickets at 13. John Raffle, Jordan Mills and Jake Dunell were other major award winners.
Friday, August 1, 2008
A SEMI FINAL HAT-TRICK
Luke Davis has joined the hat-trick club, and what a time to do it. Taking his hat-trick in the semi-final of the Senior A division - a match where the winner gets promoted to Senior Divison. With Brighton at 6-139 'Rowdy' dismissed batsmen 8,9 and 10 with conseccutive deliveries. The first was caught by Antonio Mullins, The 2nd a fantastic catch by Chris Spinella behind the stumps, and the third an LBW - to take Brighton from 6-139 to 9-139 and alsmost certain defeat chasing the 239 the dogs made in the first innings.
SNOWDOGS INTO SENIOR DIVISION
The St.Bernards Old Collegians Cricket Club have completed the double promotion, going from Nth A to Senior Division in 2 seasons after they defeated Brighton District at St.Bernards in the semi-final. The 2nd XI are also into the grand final - beating Altona North, while the 3rd XI were left heart broken going down by 3 runs. While the 4th XI werent strong enough advance past the top of the ladder Airport West.
SNOWDOGS CREATE HISTORY
40 years of snowdogs cricket has never seen 4 senior teams in the finals - until now. The first XI have been fantastic all year, winning the first 10 games and finishing 2nd on the ladder in their first season in Senior A. The 2nd XI were undefeated up until Christmas, and also finished 2nd. The Third XI had to wait until the last day of the regular season to seal their finals fate. While the 4th XI were assured of a finals spot going into the final round. Not only did the 4 seniors sides make the finals, but the 5 Juniors sides did too - you'd have to get the record books out to see if any other club has ever had 9 teams playing finals
SNOWDOGS INTO SENIOR A FOR 2008-09
St Bernard's Old Collegians Cricket Club has voted to accept an invitation from the VTCA to be promoted to Senior A Division for the 2008 / 2009 cricket season.
The VTCA have confirmed that our acceptance means that our First XI will play in Senior A this coming season.
At the Committee meeting held last week, there were lengthy and in-depth discussions on the proposal, and what it may mean for our club. After much consideration of the pros & cons of being promoted to Senior A, the Committee voted to accept the VTCA's invitation.
This is an exciting development for the club and will see us tackle a higher grade of cricket within the VTCA structure. Having been strong at North A level for a number of years, the club is well placed to tackle the challenge.
However, there is plenty of hard work to be done as the season approaches to ensure the club is well equipped for the task. The Committee is enthusiastic about the challenge, and will be striving in a number of areas to have the club ready for the assault on Senior A
The VTCA have confirmed that our acceptance means that our First XI will play in Senior A this coming season.
At the Committee meeting held last week, there were lengthy and in-depth discussions on the proposal, and what it may mean for our club. After much consideration of the pros & cons of being promoted to Senior A, the Committee voted to accept the VTCA's invitation.
This is an exciting development for the club and will see us tackle a higher grade of cricket within the VTCA structure. Having been strong at North A level for a number of years, the club is well placed to tackle the challenge.
However, there is plenty of hard work to be done as the season approaches to ensure the club is well equipped for the task. The Committee is enthusiastic about the challenge, and will be striving in a number of areas to have the club ready for the assault on Senior A
Sunday, July 1, 2007
KEV'S BIG DAY OUT - DOUBLE HAT-TRICK
Kevin O'Connell created Snowdogs history in the 2nd XI on Saturday taking a Double Hat-Trick, 4 Wickets in a row, against Westmeadows. In a fantastic spell of spin bowling, taking 6 for 18 off 4.2 overs, Kev had the batsmen in a complete spin as he cleaned up the last 4 wickets of the innings for 0 runs, to have Westmeadows all out for only 77 in a massive 1 day win for the Snowdogs 2s.
Kev's 4 wickets in the Double Hat-Trick occured as follows:
Over 3.5 - Caught by Mick Di Natale at backward square leg from a top edged pull shot that was skied.
Over 3.6 - Bowled with a perfect spinning ball that came back through the gate between bat and pad to take the top of middle stump. End of the over gave everyone a chance to catch their breath while Dina bowled a maiden at the other end, with Kev then able to have a crack at the hat-trick.
Over 4.1 - Caught by Greg Garth at short cover from a full blooded drive that only went a few centermetres above the turf. An extremely sharp catch low down at his ankles by Garthy sparked huge celebrations for Kev's hat-trick.
Over 4.2 - Stumped by keeper Ben Jordan as the Westmeadows No.11 foolishly took the suggestion from the Snowdogs close fielders to advance down the wicket and have a go. Kev spun one past the bat and BJ did the rest, taking the bails off to leave him stranded and more celebrations resulted, the rare double hat-trick a special moment for Kev and all Snowdogs!
Over 3.5 - Caught by Mick Di Natale at backward square leg from a top edged pull shot that was skied.
Over 3.6 - Bowled with a perfect spinning ball that came back through the gate between bat and pad to take the top of middle stump. End of the over gave everyone a chance to catch their breath while Dina bowled a maiden at the other end, with Kev then able to have a crack at the hat-trick.
Over 4.1 - Caught by Greg Garth at short cover from a full blooded drive that only went a few centermetres above the turf. An extremely sharp catch low down at his ankles by Garthy sparked huge celebrations for Kev's hat-trick.
Over 4.2 - Stumped by keeper Ben Jordan as the Westmeadows No.11 foolishly took the suggestion from the Snowdogs close fielders to advance down the wicket and have a go. Kev spun one past the bat and BJ did the rest, taking the bails off to leave him stranded and more celebrations resulted, the rare double hat-trick a special moment for Kev and all Snowdogs!
It is the first time a double hat-trick has been taken by a Snowdogs player in 40 years of senior cricket. It was Kev's first wickets at 2nds level, and what a way to do it! Surely there will be many more to come at the higher levels for this promising young left arm wrist spinner! Well done Kev!
BEN JORDAN SMASHES RECORD HIGHEST SCORE
A fantastic innings of 188 by Ben Jordan on Saturday in the 3rd XI saw BJ break the club record for the highest individual score by any Snowdog player in our proud history. In one of the best innings ever played at the Home of Cricket, BJ despatched the ball to all parts of the ground, and single handedly destroyed the Strathmore attack.
His innings was chanceless and included 28 4s an d 2 6s. He came in at No.4 when the score was 2/57 and at the end of the epic innings was last man out, in the second last over of the day for 188 as he chased the rarely made feat in local cricket of a double ton. The 3rd XI racked up a mammoth score of 339 on the back of BJ's work as a number of useful partnerships contributed to a huge win.
The previous record of 165 was held by current veteran Andre Noonan who made his then club record score in the 2nd XI way back in 1990/91.
It is BJ's first ton in a long career for the Snowdogs, and what a big one it was! Let's hope there are more to come. Great work BJ!
His innings was chanceless and included 28 4s an d 2 6s. He came in at No.4 when the score was 2/57 and at the end of the epic innings was last man out, in the second last over of the day for 188 as he chased the rarely made feat in local cricket of a double ton. The 3rd XI racked up a mammoth score of 339 on the back of BJ's work as a number of useful partnerships contributed to a huge win.
The previous record of 165 was held by current veteran Andre Noonan who made his then club record score in the 2nd XI way back in 1990/91.
It is BJ's first ton in a long career for the Snowdogs, and what a big one it was! Let's hope there are more to come. Great work BJ!
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