with Chris Karas
Tiger
Tim new Life Member
FORMER
Balmain international fullback Tim Brasher received his life membership
medal at the annual luncheon for life members of the Tigers’ District
Football Club, Leagues Club and Balmain Junior League recently at Balmain
Leagues Club.
He is pictured with Tigers’ legends Benny Elias, Steve Roach, Paul
Sironen, Hilton Kidd, John Owens, Darren Senter, Mark O’Neill and
TWT Sports Editor Chris Karas who presented a slide show and talk on his
book “From Fraser to Farah - History of Balmain Junior League 1908-2008”
during the afternoon event. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO.
Krejza
spins his way into record books
FORMER
Balmain spinner Jason Krejza (pictured) etched his name in the record
books last Friday after a stunning eight wicket haul on debut in the fourth
Test against India in Nagpur.
Krejza
snared the remarkable figures of 8-215 off 44 overs to become the third
Australian bowler to bag eight wickets on debut behind Albert Trott (8-43
v England 1895) and swingman Bob Massie (8-84 v England 1972).
It
was also the eighth time a player from any nation had grabbed eight wickets
on debut in a Test with Krejza joining the likes of Indian leg spinner
Narendra Hirwani (8-61 & 8-75 v West Indies 1988); South African all
rounder Lance Klusener (8-64 v India 1996) and slow left arm West Indian
bowler Alf Valentine (8-104 v England 1950) on a distinguished honor roll.
Overlooked for the opening three Tests, the 25 year old Krejza made the
most of his opportunity to re-ignite Australia’s hopes in the series-deciding
test.
Krejza
grabbed three wickets on the opening day - then took all five to fall
last Friday to help dismiss the Indians for 441.
He claimed the scalps of Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag, VVS Laxman, Sourav
Ganguly, MS Dohni, Zaheer Khan, Amit Mishra and Ishant Sharma for a slice
of cricket history.
Krejza
later took 4-143 to finish with match figures of 12-358.
It
has been a turbulent rise to the top for Krejza, a gifted young cricketer,
who left the Balmain club and NSW Cricket two summers ago to link with
Tasmania.
Having achieved Sydney first grade premiership success with the Fairfield-Liverpool club during his teens, the talented off spinner linked with Balmain and forced his way into the NSW Speedblitz Blues squad.
Sheridan’s
$300 Sports Award
AUSTRALIAN Sports Acrobatics representative Sheridan Tyrrell received her $300 TWT Club Six/Ryde Sports Foundation Sports Star of the Month award last Friday night at North Ryde RSL Community Club. She is pictured accepting her cheque from North Ryde RSL Community Club president Barry Herbert. Also pictured are Ryde City Mayor Vic Tagg, Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club director Jack King, Gladesville RSL Community Club president Chris Coady, North Ryde Golf Club director Merv Stewart, Gladesville Sporties director Barry Carroll, Ryde Sports Foundation chairman Jim Hull, deputy chairman Edna Wilde OAM, RSF secretary Neita Matthews, RSF committee members Rob Wilkinson, Beryl Ackroyd, Frank Hodgekiss and TWT Sports Editor Chris Karas. Not in photo: Ryde Ex Services Club director Andrew McLellan. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO.
Moss
spearheads win
SYDNEY
returned to the first grade cricket winners list with a comprehensive
victory over Penrith last Saturday at Howell Oval.
All rounder Jon Moss and paceman Adam Maher proved the architects - bagging
eight wickets between them to help the Tigers rout Penrith for 111 and
secure a much-needed win and six valuable competition points.
Resuming at 5-50 and chasing the Tigers’ total of 201, the Penrith
team struggled against the pace of Moss and Maher and were bundled out
in the over.
Moss
turned in a fine exhibition of seam bowling to snare 5-31 off 18 overs
while the rampaging Maher, who recently gained NSW Second X1 honors, lent
solid support with 3-31 off 15.
Sydney
keeper James Crosthwaite capped a big game with six catches and a whirlwind
knock of 64 as the Tigers’ posted 4-205 in their second innings.
Crosthwaite
smashed two sixes and 12 boundaries and faced only 53 balls.
Tim
Sparke regained some batting confidence with an unbeaten 74 off 104 balls
- cracking ten boundaries.
Young
openers Justin Moore (20) and Anthony Brooks (21) looked the goods before
they were dismissed with 47 runs on the board.
All
rounder Darren Ettridge compiled 17 not out for the Tigers.
SECONDS:
Penrith 7 dec 294 (T McKay 74, D Turner 53, James Manning-Bancroft 2-71)
d Sydney 175 (Darren Smith 76, Andrew Hoppitt 33, J Lee 4-39, T McKay
3-46) & 2-106 (Jarrod Gordon 54no, Sam Perry 32no, T McKay 2-21).
THIRDS:
Penrith 158 (M Cummins 39, T Cummins 36, M Fraser 25, A Plummer 6-57,
V Doddala 2-42) & 4-137 (M Fraser 51, S Finemore 22, Phil Caruso 2-51)
d Sydney 142 (D Jacob 69, A Mosca 37, D Dent 4-12, J Jones 3-55) &
152 (Anthony Lown 66, N Bull 23, D Dent 5-57, M Cummins 5-63) outright.
FOURTHS:
Penrith 180 (M Kimble 81, D Betros 30, J Pryde 3-48, T Smith 2-17) d Sydney
123 (M Newman 28, M Graham 2-10, P Cummins 2-19).
FIFTHS:
Sydney 6-160 (N Abdal 72, B Matthews 53, I Russell 2-38) d Penrith 155
(N Bhandari 62, M Gibson 41, N Abdal 3-9, A Shore 2-27, A Rollins 2-30).
MEANWHILE
Sydney advanced to the quarter finals of the inaugural Twenty20 competition
after impressive wins over Gordon and Sydney University last Sunday.
They
will meet North Sydney on Sunday December 14 at a venue to be decided.
MATTHEW
TRODDEN reports that fine batting from James Crosthwaite (53) and Darren
Ettridge (52) and brilliant bowling from Andrew Hoppitt (5-26) steered
the Tigers to a comfortable win over Gordon.
The
second game was a thriller with Sydney edging out the Students by one
run after top contributions from Darren Smith (30), Nidhu Gotadke (30)
and Luke Donovan (2-17).
Despite a loss to Wests in the final match, the Tigers - led by Crosthwaite (87 not out) and Tim Sparke (33) - scraped through to the finals.
Neville
snares 12-38 to pummel Pirates
A SUPERB
bowling performance by Balmain Old Boys all rounder Adam Neville set tongues
wagging in the Gladesville Cricket Association A Grade competition last
weekend.
Neville
bagged 12 wickets including hauls of 7-14 and 5-24 to spearhead an outright
win over Ryde-Hunters Hill Pirates at Timbrell Park No 2.
He
scored an unbeaten 32 - then combined with pace partner Aaron Cottrell
(7 wickets for 47) to rout the Pirates for 42 and 54.
Local sporting identities Sepp Disch and Chris Burt notched up stylish
centuries for their respective clubs along with Gypsies batsman Singh
(103 not out).
Disch
peeled off an unbeaten 112 to lead Holy Cross to a decisive win over Breakfast
Point-Indefatigables in A Grade while Concord RSL skipper Chris Burt scored
103 - his second ton of the season - against former club Ryde-Hunters
Hill at Five Dock Park.
In
the same game, paceman and local junior Steve Wigmore (5-35) became the
first Concord senior player to grab a five wicket haul.
Burt
came in with the score at 2-9 and was last man out. He becomes the fourth
different century maker for the club in 2008.
Chris also coaches the Concord RSL U10 Reds; is co-cordinator of their
Milo In2 Cricket program - along with his wife Anne and president of Concord
RSL Junior Cricket Club.
A GRADE:
(Round 4) Holy Cross Crusaders 3-208 (Sepp Disch 112no, Luke McColl 40no,
Mick Story 28, Don McIntosh 1-26, Tim Bain 1-38) d Breakfast Point-Indefatigables
205 (Prashant Kumar 48, Mike Naranayan 37, Ranju Ratnam 23no, R Lucas
3-15, Tim Story 3-53, Luke McColl 2-30, Ben Slade 2-54); Balmain Old Boys
5 dec 164 (R Officer 42, D Vonsont 39, Adam Neville 32no, A Kipper 32)
d Ryde-Hunters Hill (3) 42 (A Neville 7-14, Aaron Cottrell 3-21) &
54 (A Neville 5-24, A Cottrell 4-26) outright; NSW Tamils Brown 259 (M
Somasundaram 53no, A Flora 48, A Senthilkumaran 41, P Siva 39, S Patel
30, K Thayananthan 22, Mick Snowden 4-22, Chris Sewell 2-33, Tim Hogg
1-23, Brian Koks 1-31, Chris Dreverman 1-32, Emmett O’Reilly 1-34)
d Gladesville RSL Gold 199 (George Apostolides 50, Mike Calavrias 42,
Mark Chochula 32, E O’Reilly 20, Chris Dreverman 13, Leon McNiven
13, K Thayananthan 5-41, S Patel 2-19, M Somasundaram 2-49, C Hamieh 1-44);
Gladesville RSL Green (bye).
B GRADE:
(Round 4) Concord RSL 214 (Chris Burt 103, Pat Cullen 32, Roland Stanmore
20, Claus Mossin 17, Rob Gilder 11, Mick Harrison 4-48) d Ryde-Hunters
Hill (2) 166 (Steve Wigmore 5-35, Adam Golder 2-11, Sam Inguui 1-8, R
Gilder 1-19); Balmain B 3 dec 187 (Richard Wonders 54 ret, Geordie Hawkins
42no, Sam Baker 35no) d Callan Park 91 (G Hawkins 3-29) & 82 (S Baker
3-14) outright; Drummoyne Rats 125 (J Colley 50, Daniel Jovanovich 3-45,
Rob Burke 2-16, Justin McHugh 2-29, Geoff Unsworth 1-15) & 8-64 (Matt
Falzon 4-31, G Unsworth 2-2, R Burke 1-26) d Gladesville Indoor 55 (J
McHugh 19, R Thomas 4-11, B Stevenson 4-21) & 144 (D Jovanovich 38,
R Burke 24, G Unsworth 19, Ran Krishnan 14, Ian Economos 14, Jordan Blackwell
12, B Stevenson 3-20); Leichhardt Bowling 8-235 (D Johnson 77, A Beetson
34, L O’Neill 30no) d Shanachies 110 & 1-106.
C GRADE: (Round 4) Gypsies 8 dec 286 (V Singh 103no, W Fenton-Smith 63, Alex Martin 2-42) d Ryde-Hunters Hill 147 (Ross Hayden 52, Andrew Welsh 29, T Masters 4-45, J Shanahan 3-48); Goats v Bayview Tavern; Balmain A v NSW Tamils Green (no result); Silent Warriors (bye).
CUBS
roar on Fiji tour
WESTS
Tigers paraded their emerging young rugby league talent on a successful
two match CUBS tour of Fiji last month.
Under the guidance of head coach Andrew Willis and assistants David Brooks
and Adam Booth, the CUBS recorded wins over Western Fiji Schools (28-0)
and the Fiji U/19s (30-8) in Suva.
Joel
Wiseby, Jason Green, Daniel Ahsin and Limoni Kamuta turned in strong performances
in the opening game that was played in balmy conditions against an enthusiastic
Fiji Schools side.
Kamuta scored two tries for the Tigers, who led 14-0 at the break, with
Tim Simona, Matthew Groat and Brodie Monroe also posting four pointers.
Jay
Bonnell booted two goals with John Nicholas and Simona potting a goal
each.
Following the match, the CUBS players handed out Wests Tigers’ merchandise
to the crowd.
The Tigers backed up two days later to defeat the Fijian U/19 side in
a bruising encounter.
Trailing
4-0 after five minutes, Wests Tigers rallied to lead 20-8 at half-time
before asserting their authority after the break.
Jason Green, Faleula Finau, Junior Rogica, Nicholas, Simona and Kamuta
scored tries for the Tigers with Bonnell, Simona and Nicholas booting
goals.
“Fiji
were very tough and some of their players really do have a bright future
in the game,’’ said CUBS tour manager Tim White.
“The Fijians were very big, strong and fast. They were very well
coached. It was a big step up in class from our first game.”
Props Jason Green and Sebastian Vourlos, winger Faleula Finau, back-rower
Tim Sloman and centre Junior Rogica were the best players in the win.
The
2008 Wests Tigers CUBS were all U/17 players, apart from the late inclusion
of Jake Mullaney (U/18) who replaced the injured Luke Turner.
The
20 man Wests Tigers CUBS touring squad was: Daniel Ahsin (Wests); Jay
Bonnell (Wests); Faleula Finau (Balmain); Sean Finnerty (Wests); Jason
Green (Wests); Matthew Groat (Wests); Limoni Kamuta (Wests); Joel Luani
(Balmain); Brodie Monroe (Balmain); Jake Mullaney (Wests); John Nicholas
(Balmain); Patrick Politoni (Balmain); Junior Rogica (Balmain); Tim Simona
(Balmain); Tim Sloman (Wests); Sevao Stowers (Wests); Jesse Sue (Wests);
Taniela Vaivaka (Balmain); Sebastian Vourlos (Balmain) and Joel Wiseby
(Wests).
Moses
Pangai (Balmain), Lance Siataga (Wests), Shaun Spence (Wests), Luke Turner
(Wests) and Aaron Woods (Balmain) could not make the trip due to injury.
Touring
staff also included Tony Wignell (Head Trainer, Balmain) and Tim White
(Tour Manager, Balmain).
Former CUBS to play NRL for Wests Tigers include Bryce Gibbs, Liam Fulton, Robbie Farah, Bronson Harrison, Isaac De Gois, Dean Collis, Shannon McDonnell, Rocky Trimarchi, Shannon Gallant, Stuart Flanagan, Chris Lawrence and Peni Tagive.
Historic
bowls title for Brush Park duo
IT
was a proud and historic moment for lawn bowlers Gwen Laurence and son
Neil Laurence recently when they captured the 2008 Brush Park Bowling
Club Mixed Pairs championship.
Gwen,78,
and Neil (pictured left) created some type of bowls record when they became
the first mother-son pairing to win a mixed title in the Zone 10 district
after posting a 25-18 victory over the capable mother-son duo of Pierina,69,
and Paul Dick (right). Also pictured with the record-breaking foursome
is Brush Park Bowling Club president Keith Fisher.
In
a thrilling finale, the lead exchanged seven times before Neil and Gwen
produced some classic bowling to edge out their opponents. The celebrations
continued for Gwen of West Ryde days later when she clinched the womens
minor singles title after toppling Patrice Nealon 31-15 in the final.
Neil, 52, previously won the mens’ 2006 minor singles title - the same year that Paul, 41, was crowned major singles champion. TWT on-the-spot PHOTO.
New
Hunters Hill bowls uniform
HUNTERS Hill Women’s Bowling Club president Ellen Wilton (right) with Nola Barkl, model the club’s new bowling uniform. The top was launched at the club’s recent Jacaranda Shield Day (won by Lane Cove) and received many favourable comments from visiting clubs. The colour is mauve with the club’s insignia of the Jacaranda tree featured on the front and back, a fitting symbol for the area and for the present season. The top was designed by Henselite and is proudly Australian made.
Local
athletes to compete at Pacific Schools Games
RYDE
Athletics Club underlined its depth of talent with eight of its top prospects
earning selection in the 2008 NSW Pacific Schools Games team.
Pictured
standing l to r are promising Ryde athletes Patrick Kelland (steeplechase),
Len Pearce (100m and triple jump), John Pearce (100m) and Michael Todd
(800m and 1500m); front Jessie O’Brien (steeplechase and 3000m),
Madeline Campbell (steeplechase), Tara Vance (400m, 800m and steeplechase)
and Lottie Ferrier (steeplechase).
The Pacific School Games are held every four years and brings together competitors from 35 different countries. This year the competition will be held in Canberra from November 30 until the closing ceremony on December 6. The Games began as a test event for the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. School Sport Australia took responsibility for the PSG and it has become the flagship of the Australian school sport program.
Local
athletes to compete
at
Pacific Schools Games
RYDE Athletics Club underlined its depth of talent with eight of its top
prospects earning selection in the 2008 NSW Pacific Schools Games team.
Pictured standing l to r are promising Ryde athletes Patrick Kelland (steeplechase),
Len Pearce (100m and triple jump), John Pearce (100m) and Michael Todd
(800m and 1500m); front Jessie O’Brien (steeplechase and 3000m),
Madeline Campbell (steeplechase), Tara Vance (400m, 800m and steeplechase)
and Lottie Ferrier (steeplechase).
The Pacific School Games are held every four years and brings together
competitors from 35 different countries. This year the competition will
be held in Canberra from November 30 until the closing ceremony on December
6. The Games began as a test event for the 1982 Commonwealth Games in
Brisbane. School Sport Australia took responsibility for the PSG and it
has become the flagship of the Australian school sport program.
Ryde
Eastwood Touch Football
SUPER
LEAGUE: Vikings 4 Ken Morrow 2; The Blues 6 Midas Touch 4; Ryan Wilks
8 Putney Titans 4; Raven Electrical 4 Epping Rams 1; Troy 5 Attractive
Blinds 4; Holy Cross Old Boys 5 Gladesville Sporties 3; Ross Patten (bye);
Holy Cross Old Boys 5 Vikings 3; Raven Electrical 2 Ross Patten 2; The
Blues 6 Ryan Wilks 4; Midas Touch 7 Attractive Blinds 0; TROY 6 Epping
Rams 2; Gladesville Sporties 3 Putney Titans 1; Ken Morrow (bye); Vikings
9 Putney Titans 1; Holy Cross Old Boys 8 Ken Morrow 3; Ryan Wilks 7 Attractive
Blinds 0; Epping Rams 4 Midas Touch 4; TROY 4 Ross Patten 3; The Blues
4 Gladesville Sporties 3; Raven Electrical (bye).
PREMIER
LEAGUE: Go Fitness 5 Wooden Spoons 0; The Tahs 3 Hawks 2; Page 96 9 Putney
Pirates 1; Boronia Park Framing 2 Ray White 2; Col’s Body Shop 5
Vintage Nads 1; Fosters 7 Balmain Tigers 3; Putney Has Beens 5 Palmer’s
Glass 4; Ryan Wilks 3 Moonies 1; Damo’s Dodgers, Tee Cees (byes);
Go Fitness 6 Tee Cees 4; Page 96 8 Vintage Nads 3; Hawks 8 Boronia Park
Framing 2; Palmer’s Glass 3 Col’s Body Shop 0; Fosters 6 Ray
White 2; Putney Hasbeens 10 Wooden Spoons 1; Balmain Tigers 3 Moonies
3; Putney Pirates 8 Damo’s Dodgers 1; Ryan Wilks & The Tahs (byes);
Go Fitness 1 The Tahs 1; Putney Hasbeens 6 Tee Cees 2; Col’s Body
Shop 8 Wooden Spoons 2; Hawks 4 Fosters 2; Palmer’s Glass 4 Page
96 1; Ray White 4 Moonies 3; Damo’s Dodgers 6 Vintage Nads 2; Balmain
Tigers 4 Ryan Wilks 1; Putney Pirates & Boronia Park Framing (byes).
MIXED: All Sorts 6 Drugstore Cowboys 3; Genuine Limitations 3 Ross Patten
3; VP 3 Custom Building 1; Ryan Wilks 6 Try Nations 1; The Other Mob 2
Page 96 2; Constant Fluff 2 Glen Smith Plumbing 2; Ross Patten 4 VP 2;
Southern Cross Switchboards 5 Cowboys 2; Page 96 3 All Sorts 2; Constant
Fluff 5 Try Nations 0; The Other Mob 9 Glenn Smith Plumbing 1; Genuine
Limitations 7 Custom Building 0; The Bubbathletes (bye); Ross Patten 4
Genuine Limitations 2; Cowboys 4 Constant Fluff 2; Page 96 3 Southern
Cross Switchboards 1; The Other Mob 11 Try Nations 0; All Sorts 6 Custom
Building 3; VP 9 The Bubbathletes 1; Glenn Smith Plumbing (bye).
WOMEN:
Palmer’s Glass 6 Wanted 0; Touchdowns 9 Demon Dusters 1; Hot Stuff
4 Attractive Shutters 2; Ken Morrow 1 Attractive Blinds 0; Touchdowns
6 Palmer’s Glass 1; Attractive Shutters 10 Wanted 0; Ken Morrow 14
Demon Dusters 2; Hot Stuff 7 Attractive Blinds 1; Palmer’s Glass
9 Demon Dusters 0; Attractive Shutters 4 Ken Morrow 1; Hot Stuff 9 Wanted
0; Attractive Blinds 4 Touchdowns 1.
JUNIORS:
U/10A:
Emerald 4 Gold 2; Orange 4 Royal 1; Lime 2 Yellow 1; Purple 9 Maroon 1;
Royal 10 Maroon ; Lime 3 Gold 0; Emerald 8 Purple 1; Orange 8 Yellow 3;
Gold 3 Purple 2; Orange 4 Emerald 1; Yellow 9 Maroon 0; Royal 2 Lime 0;
B: Turquoise 9 Pink 0; Bottle Green 5 Aqua 4; Azure 4 Red 1; Hot Pink
(bye); Turquoise 7 Hot Pink 4; Azure 8 Bottle Green 0; Red 6 Pink 1; Aqua
(bye); Bottle Green 5 Pink 2; Azure 3 Aqua 2; Hot Pink 2 Red 2; Turquoise
(bye).
U/12: Azure 4 Royal 1; Maroon 5 Gold 2; Aqua 5 Orange 1; Red 7 Purple
1; Yellow (bye); Orange 5 Purple 2; Aqua 5 Gold 1; Azure 6 Maroon 3; Yellow
4 Royal 2; Red (bye); Aqua 4 Azure 0; Purple 3 Gold 2; Red 8 Orange 1;
Yellow 4 Maroon 1; Royal (bye).
U/14:
Aqua 3 Gold 2; Red 1 Azure 0; Sky 2 Yellow 0; Surf 5 Maroon 2; Red 5 Sky
2; Azure 7 Gold 0; Surf 4 Aqua 3; Yellow 6 Maroon 4; Sky 7 Gold 2; Maroon
2 Aqua 0; Red 7 Yellow 0; Surf 4 Azure 2.
U/16: Aqua 6 Emerald 1; Orange 5 Lime 2; Red 5 Maroon 2; Hot Pink 6 Royal
2; Gold (bye); Royal 2 Maroon 0; Gold 5 Red 2; Emerald 7 Lime 0; Hot Pink
4 Aqua 1; Orange (bye); Gold 6 Royal 0; Aqua 6 Maroon 1; Hot Pink 3 Lime
0; Orange 8 Emerald 0; Red (bye).
GIRLS:
12-14 yrs: Turquoise 4 Emerald 1; Lime 97 3 Orange 3;
Hot Pink 5 Purple 97 1; Pink 3 Lime 3; Hot Pink 97 7 Emerald 97 0; Turquoise
5 Orange 0; Pink 2 Emerald 0; Lime 2 Hot Pink 0; Hot Pink 97 3 Purple
97 1; Lime 97 6 Emerald 97 1; Pink 2 Orange 0; Turquoise 5 Lime 97 0;
Emerald 2 Hot Pink 1; Purple 97 2 Emerald 97 0; Lime 4 Hot Pink 97 0.
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