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Monbulk Cricket Club

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25.01.2022 Way Back Wednesday 90’s 1st XI premiership celebrations. -The MCC won two 1st XI flags in the 90’s 1993/94 and 1998/99. -Below are 5 photos celebrating each win -93/94 was celebrated at Ken Utting’s house... -98/99 photos are from the ‘Wild Western’ presentation night at the Logcabin See more

25.01.2022 At the going down of the sun And in the morning We will remember them

25.01.2022 Rd 3 Senior Scores A few close loses yesterday but good wins to the 3rds and 5ths. Special mention to Andrew Firth who took 3/11 (all bowled) in a great little spell at Baynes Park (pics below) to help roll the opposition before Clayton Spooner made 100* to seal the win for the Hawks 1s: Eildon Park 10/151 (A.Powell 3/33, C.Martin 2/31, D.Maher 2/31, C.Broefhof 2/33) beat Monbulk 10/145 (A.Bermingham 43, J.Fraser 37)... 2s: Eildon Park 3/153 (Skipworth 1/17, D Cleary 1/23) beat Monbulk 10/137 (A.Gillard 25, B.Hooker 52). 3rds: FTG Footballers 10/120 (J.Cornwell 2/20, R Noonan 2/6, C.Heppell 3/12) lost to Monbulk 5/129 (J.Simmonds 24, M.Winzenried 34, T.Noonan 36*) 4s: Monbulk 6/127 (J.Bolton 47, N.Taylor 31, E.Blenkiron 10*) lost to FTG Footballers 10/128 (N.Taylor 3/9, E.Blenkiron 2/20) 5ths: Olinda 10/127 (A.Firth 3/11, J.Pilcher 2/23) lost to Monbulk 0/154 (C.Spooner 100*, L.Mackin 38*)

24.01.2022 On behalf of the MCC Committee I would like to wish everyone including your extended families a very Merry Christmas and a happy and safe New Year..2020 has been a year like no other and this time is even more important than usual..A great 1st half of the season and looking forward to an even more positive one on and off the field when we return Stay Safe everyone Love from the Pres xx... Go Hawks

24.01.2022 Premiership Review U17’s 2002/03 As lots of you know, we did many of our Premiership reviews in the past 6 months as well as currently doing our Life Member reviews. In doing so we have uncovered lots of other parts of our History including photos, stories and records. All of this is fantastic and will add to our 125 year history book. Please send any other photos or info you might have through to the club. So, we found an old junior premiership photo this week which is not... on our premiership wall or on our website the U17’s from 2002/03. This team included two future 1st XI premiership players - Michael Langworthy and Billie Hicken who stared in this GF. Greg Meyers was the coach that season and this week gave us a recap of a ripping grand final win (see below). Go Hawks From Greg Throughout the season we only had the 11 players to choose from. It was a credit to the boys how they stuck together and moulded as a team. Their commitment was fantastic. We fielded the full 11 players for every game of the season. Rowville/Mt Gate went into the GF undefeated and were very confident of success. They were the only team to beat us in the regular season. The GF was a high quality game with both teams scoring over 220 runs. Monbulk batted first and scored 4/239. After a 54 opening partnership by Sam Coen and Ryan Jones we lost 3 quick wickets. Billie Hicken and Alistair Pitts came together for a match winning partnership of 145 runs, Alistair was out next for 60 and Billie continued on to score 98 not out. A great effort by both, scoring their highest scores for the year under pressure in the GF. Rowville/Mt Gate got off to a great start, with an opening partnership of 109 runs. Rowville/Mt Gate had a very strong top order who had made most of their runs that season. Our guys stuck to their task. They knew that once we cracked the coconut we were in the game. When we had both openers out at 118 and were right in it. Tight bowling and fielding in the middle overs by all our guys put Rowville/Mt Gate behind the required run rate, which proved too much for them finishing 9/224. It was a great team effort by Monbulk. We peaked at the right time of the season. It was very rewarding to see the joy on the faces of the boys knowing they had achieved something special. Cheers Greg

24.01.2022 G'day everyone, Just a quick note to our senior players.....we still have no definite start time yet due to Covid 19 but we are hoping for a mid to late November start for matches. We are just following government / Cricket Victoria guidelines. As soon as we know when training and matches start we will let you know. Please keep an eye on our facebook page for more info. Below is a letter from our President Jason Simmonds about our return to play procedures and there is a mo...re detailed version from Cricket Victoria on our website. Hopefully we can start training in some capacity soon (knowing that it will be with restrictions) but remember, currently you can be using the nets with up to 5 people from two households for some pre-season as well as getting fit / active / involved with our activity challenge. Also, our registration and membership fees will be reduced depending on how many games we miss, so keep that in mind please. Lastly, thanks to everyone that ordered merchandise. The first order / stock has arrived, we are just struggling to find an effective way to distribute with government restrictions but hopefully we will be able to soon, at least at our first training sessions. If you haven't paid for your orders please do so ASAP. Can't wait to see everyone at the MCC soon. Go Hawks

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23.01.2022 Way Back Wednesday Milo in2Cricket / Junior Blasters With the announcement last week that our Junior Blasters Program won’t start this season until Feb 6th next year (due to Covid restraints), we thought it would be timely to have a brief look back at our entry level program that so many kids in our community have participated in and gone on to play junior and senior cricket at Monbulk. Milo cricket was first introduced at Monbulk in 1992/93 and we were one of first clubs i...n the area to adopt the program. It has been a constant over the years and has played such an important role in our community in teaching kids the fundamentals of cricket in a fun enjoyable way, promoting teamwork & friendships and setting them up for a lifetime of loving sport and being active. The name has changed over the years including from Milo Have-a-go, Milo in2Cricket to recently Woolworths Junior Blasters. Friday nights at the MCC have become a real family event, with the BBQ running, our junior competitive teams playing out in the middle with Milo / Blasters around the ground and in the nets. Some highlights of the programs have been Grandparents night, the Xmas party, Trophy night and for the lucky ones a trip to the MCG to play at the lunch break of the Boxing Day test. We have been lucky to have had so many fantastic co-ordinators of this program over the years plus lots of willing coaches from parents to junior and senior players thanks to all of you that have made this program such a success over the years. Lets take a look at some photos of our Milo / Blasters groups over the past 10 years or so. A reminder that until our Woolworths Blasters Program starts on Feb 6th kids can have a go at the Woolworths Anywhere Cricket Blast at home. Link below to join. https://cricketblast.teachable.com/ Go Hawks

22.01.2022 2019/20 Senior Presentation Night -This Thursday 3rd Dec, 6pm arrival -All Welcome -Don’t forget to bring your Xmas Hamper donation for the Monbulk Open Door Church (table set up under Wall of Support) Go Hawks

22.01.2022 MCC Life Member Review- Byron Griffiths

21.01.2022 This week's Player Profile, Jason Simmonds is proudly supported by Monbulk & District Community Bank Branch

21.01.2022 Monbulk Cricket Club and Community Activity Challenge Week 2 Highlights -43 club members (3 more than last week) -194 activities (25 more than last week) -1,142 club kilometres (cracked the 1,000 and 160 more than last week)... -A couple of huge individual tallies this week with two young ladies making a century. Amazing efforts by Caitlin Utting (118kms) who obviously didn’t do much remote learning last week and to Jodie Fraser (102kms, running most of them) who made the most of the extra hour of activity last week. Well played girls !! -Into the top 5 and into 3rd Spot this week is our 1998/99 1st XI Premiership skipper Guy Calcagno, currently living and running around Bangkok 79km’s, super effort mate. -In 4th spot was Jason ‘Forrest Gump’ Fraser who had a big week trying to catch his wife with 78 Kms (20 more than last week) -Into the top 5 this week (5th) is our Junior Co-ordinator Steve Hooper who covered all the bush tracks in our area to complete 76kms. -Junior of the week went to Charlie Hooper with 42 kms - great effort mate. -Other impressive efforts this week were: Matty Winza (41kms) & Jordan Wilko (fastest pace), -Looking for more Km’s from Chris Defina next week (only 2 km’s last week, obviously not looking for much of a bowl this season) *Leaderboard resets every Sunday Night *Anyone welcome to join anytime Great effort everyone. Keep it going !! Go Hawks

21.01.2022 Tomorrow’s Life Member Review is Byron Griffiths - a determined player, premiership captain, committeeman, junior coach and a legendary groundsman at the MCC throughout the 80s and 90s.

20.01.2022 Junior Results Rd 3 Competitive grades U12’s - Monbulk 7/94 (Ouly Sufrin-Jamieson 16 rtno, Oscar Watson 10 rtno, Jasper Beer 10 no) lost to South Belgrave 2/119 (Quin Kelly 2/7) U13’s Monbulk 3/168 (Ethan Knight 32 rtno, Toby Storer 29 rtno, Georgia Knight 28, Kit Sutton 22 rtno) defeated Mountain Gate 6/34 (Fed Fraser 3/0, Finn White 1/3, Toby Storer 1/5)... U14’s Monbulk 5/139 (Charlie Hooper 34 rtno, Lucas McIntosh 25 rtno) defeated Eildon Park Panthers 6/111 (Julian Congues-Straub 3/7, Jayden Kruzicevic-King 1/8, Lucas McIntosh 1/8) U16’s Monbulk 7/84 (Ethan Blenkiron 30 rtno, Logan McDonald) lost to South Belgrave 4/96 (Jacob Defina 1/14, Logan McDonald 1/20) Rd 2 Super 7’s (earlier in the week) Monbulk Gold 89 (Jude Penketh 10, Harry Arnott 10) lost to Mazenod 94 (Tom Phyland 1/7, Ollie Barnard 1/9) Monbulk Maroon 5/56 (Eli Toohey 9) lost to Belgrave 4/80 (Seb Cjaja 3/15, Ned Taylor 1/8)

20.01.2022 Way back Wednesday Check out some of these old MCC training shirts compared to our new one. Who remembers some of these? With training and matches on the horizon soon make sure you have ordered your new merchandise at: https://forms.gle/EdkaVZUMgRMJUDVp6... Contact Funk or Dunc for more details. Thanks again JB Commercial and Monbulk & District Community Bank Branch for their amazing support of our new merchandise. Go Hawks

20.01.2022 Hi All, Please find below latest update from our President and the 1st XI fixture which has been released and now on MyCricket.

19.01.2022 MCC Life Member Review- George Russell Snr

19.01.2022 ***ONLY 2 DAYS TO GO *** There are only 2 days to go until our 2019/20 Junior Season Presentation is held online at 7.00pm on Sunday October 4th! With thanks t...o our sponsors at Kookaburra Australian test opening bat Marcus HARRIS joins us for the presentation and tells us about his pathway from junior cricket all the way to wearing the ‘baggy green’. We will announce champion players and the top 5 batters & bowlers across every grade before announcing our 13 player ‘Junior Team of the Season’. We also announce our junior club coordinator of the season and our ‘Glenn MAXWELL Award’ winner for the best junior boys player of the season. We are also very excited to announce our inaugural ‘Tess FLINTOFF Award’ winner for the best junior girls player of the season. Don’t miss this event! Jump on our Facebook Page at 7.00pm on Sunday 4th October 2020 to tune in!

19.01.2022 Tomorrow’s Life Member Review is Harold ‘Ocker’ Winberg who played his first senior match at 15 in 1933

19.01.2022 MCC Life Member Review- Mark Bailey

18.01.2022 Congrats to two of our young guns -Josh Spencer and Rab Noonan who both finished their Year 12 exams today....both ripping young men who will be great at what ever they choose to do. Looking forward to having you back on the track tomorrow night and playing for the Hawks this Saturday.

18.01.2022 Senior Teams for Round 3 - 28th Nov Thanks heaps as always to JJ, Dee and Lena for our amazing Thursday night meals. Go Hawks

17.01.2022 Hi Everyone - Save the date for the MCC Xmas Party. When - Sat 19th Dec Who - All Welcome (including Junior Blasters, Juniors, Seniors, Families & Friends) Where - Monbulk Rec Reserve ... Time - 6pm - 9pm Dinner - $10 Spit Roast and Salad *Santa to arrive at about 8pm * Mark Fenby to play some acoustic tracks *Come support our 1st XI v UFTG during the day See you all there Go Hawks

17.01.2022 After Junior Blasters and Friday night junior cricket this Friday........ Come and have some festive fun this Friday 11th December 5-9pm and support local this Christmas. Monbulk Twilight Christmas Market and Main Street Late Night Shopping event. Local shops will start displaying signs in their windows this week advertising their participation in this event.... Get all your Christmas shopping organised and support our beautiful hills town. Shop Local, Support Local this Christmas See more

17.01.2022 Monbulk CC are adding a 5th XI this season which will be captained by two former Monbulk juniors, senior premiership players and all round good guys- Liam Mackin and Clayton Spooner. They will play in the one day grade in our new one day top and their home ground will be the picturesque Baynes Park (see pics). A competitive and fun time will be had for sure. Mack and Spooner have already recruited the majority of a team including a fair few boys from the Monbulk Fnc Hawks who unfortunately didn’t get to play his season. Still room for anyone who would like to play in this team or our other four teams. Let us (or Mac/Spoon) know if you’re keen and keep an eye on our Facebook page for training / match starting dates Go Hawks

15.01.2022 FTGDCA Female Cricket Strategy Discussion with Paul 'Monty' Montgomery on Monday November 30, 8pm via Zoom Has your club spoken about starting a Junior Girls Cricket team? Do you have a daughter and wonder where the female game is headed in the FTGDCA area? If you have answered yes to either of these two questions we would love to have you involved in the above session. ... A number of neighboring Associations have developed flourishing Junior Girls competitions over recent years. Whilst the FTGDCA have entered female representative teams in VMCU competitions it is not yet supported by a vibrant club competition. Currently three FTGDCA clubs have Senior Women’s teams playing in the Women’s Community Cricket Competition and two others are playing in the FTGDCA Owls League. Only one of these teams are supported by a junior girls cricket pathway. During the winter months, there are 13 EFNL clubs in the FTGDCA area that have junior girls football teams. Cricket Australia and Cricket Victoria are providing support and resources for clubs and associations looking to expand their operations in this area. The opportunities are evident in the FTG area and we are in a real sweet spot to take advantage over the coming seasons. If you want to be part of setting the direction of junior female cricket over the next five years , or if your club is inquisitive about what opportunities are available in this area, we would love your input. To register, please follow the below link. Given current COVID restrictions the session will be taking place via Zoom. The zoom link will be sent upon registration. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QHDQQQF

15.01.2022 Congrats again to Jason Fraser who last night at the FTGDCA presentation was awarded his Lomax Medal from last season. This was his 5th Lomax Medal (winning his first in 97/98) to go with his two Feaver Medals. All at the MCC continually admire Frase the cricketer and person and know how lucky we have been to have had him around for so long. He also collected our Decoite cup from last season as well.

15.01.2022 Senior Results from Rd 6 (Thanks to JR Sports Media & Design for the awesome graphics) Pictures also of our top 15 batting and bowling lists (including juniors) and senior ladders at the Xmas break. Our 1s sit in fifth spot, the 2s and 3s have been competitive winning two games each and the 4s and 5s are both second on the ladder- great work everyone.... Reminder that our 1s and 2s return on the 9th Jan and 3s, 4s and 5s on the 16th Jan. Merry Xmas and happy holidays everyone Go Hawks

14.01.2022 Happy birthday to MCC Life Member and former president Dave Walkley. Our 3rd XI MVP is also named in his honour. Dave, now living in Warrnambool is dominating the table tennis circuit down there we here. The MCC hopes you have a great day mate.

13.01.2022 A wet Saturday afternoon, but a beautiful Friday night to get our Junior Blasters underway. Our U16s had a great win yesterday morning with Logan McDonald, Todd Mackay, Tim Rickard and Lucas McIntosh all in the runs. Jacob Defina got 2/2 from his 3 overs. (full junior scores to come). Sometimes things don’t go your way, and that was yesterday afternoon for our seniors. The 1s did a great job to restrict The Basin to 150 with Dunc continuing his great form with the ball and s...kipper Powelly also taking 4 wickets. Unfortunately the rain set in and we were unable to bat. The 2s, 3s and 4s all battled through a wet, windy day all losing close games, the 3s and 4s both on the last couple of balls. The 5s had a bye. Senior Scores: 1s: The Basin 9/150 (D.Maher 3/14, A.Powell 4/27) v Monbulk - Wash out 2s: Monbulk 9/170 (P.Utting 25, B.Martin 46, L.Skipworth 22, J.Wensley 20) lost to The Basin 173 (J.Spencer 3/45) 3s: 6/173 (B.Trinnick 46, D.Clark 54, L.Jurey 28) lost to The Basin 7/176 (J.Cornwell 3/29, S.Utting 2/25) 4s: Monbulk 5/162 (C.Defina 67, N.Taylor 46) lost to Upper Ferntree Gully 3/166 5s: Bye Lastly, a huge thanks to everyone who donated gifts to the Open Door Xmas Hamper. Jason Pilcher was amazed by everyone’s generosity. Go Hawks

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13.01.2022 Monbulk Cricket Club and Community Activity Challenge 6 weeks done Well that’s it, our six weeks is over. Thanks so much to the 44 members (& other family members) of this group that got involved and stayed active during the past 6 weeks of lock down. We are certainly lucky to live in such a beautiful place, to enjoy the outdoors and help us stay active. As a club, we clocked up about 5,500 kms, which is pretty much to Perth and back which is an amazing effort. With restric...tions / bubble now out to 25kms, you can all get out a bit more to explore and find some new tracks. Our MCC Strava group will continue, but the challenge is over, so thanks again. Now on to the virtual presentations. Club Champion Jodie Fraser (over 600kms was inspirational and finally a different J.Fraser getting an MCC trophy) Runner Up / Most determined Caitlin Utting (super effort to clock up a massive 590 kms, now back to school) Best international Runner Guy Calcagno (well done as always mate, thanks for getting involved and encouraging words) Runner Up International Runner Amber Peters Best MCC Junior Harry Arnott (great effort mate, keeping your folks on their toes) Best Family Activity tie between the Arnotts, the Frasers & the Hoopers Best with Pram Kyah Booth along with Dusty and Nash !! Most imaginative Runs Trent Collins (thanks for the entertaining picture runs) Forest Gump Award (just kept going) Jason Fraser & Paul Utting Duck Award Chris Defina (started well with 2kms early on, then finished with 3 ducks in a row) Most improved Norma Utting (increased her Kms each week to finish with 72 this week, now time for a rest !!) Solid efforts over the 6 weeks to Duncan Maher, Jason Simmonds, Jordan Wilkinson, Cameron Griffiths, Simone Beattie, Brendan Hooker, Matt Winzenried, Craig Broekhof, Tim Fogarty, Bonnie O’Connor & Jack Carroll Go Hawks

13.01.2022 Giving thanks to our Sponsor of the week, The Watering Hole Tavern Located at 25 Olinda-Monbulk Road, Monbulk The Watering Hole Tavern serves all your favourite classic pub food, complete with a range of delicious local tap beer and wine! #supportlocal #supportoursponsors #monbulkcricketclub

13.01.2022 The more our branch grows, the more good we can do. We are commited to returning profits to our local communities. We are here and open to support our customers and our town.

13.01.2022 MCC Life Member Review- Steve Walter

12.01.2022 Good luck to all Hawks this afternoon and well done to all junior Hawks last night and this morning. Scores to follow. Picture of U16s brains trust this morning at The MCG.

12.01.2022 Giving thanks to our Sponsor of the week, Helloworld Travel Monbulk At Helloworld Travel Monbulk they can handle every aspect of your travelfrom booking airline tickets, ground transfers, tours and activities, travel insurance and so much more. #supportlocal #supportoursponsors #monbulkcricketclub

12.01.2022 *** FINAL REMINDER FOR TOMORROW NIGHT *** Following on from the huge take up last season, My Cricket e-scoring will be mandatory in all FTGDCA junior grades thi...s coming season. We are holding an e-scoring tutorial session at 7.30pm on Monday October 26th 2020 via zoom. The zoom link has already been shared with the junior club admins. Contact your junior club admin for the link (if they haven't already shared it). Download the app from the app store before the session. See you there! See more

12.01.2022 Happy half century to one of the MCCs longest serving players - Michael Adams. He started playing juniors in the late 70s and has been skipper of our 3rd XI the past couple of years. He won an U16 flag in 85/86 a 2nd XI flag in 87/88 and a 1st XI flag in 98/99. Raise your bat to one of the best blokes going around. Have a great day mate, from everyone at the MCC.

11.01.2022 MCC Life Member Review- Harold ‘Ocker’ Winberg

11.01.2022 Tomorrow’s Life Member Review is Mark Bailey - a ten year committeeman and an absolute run machine including making the clubs highest ever individual score.

10.01.2022 Local Business provide the financial foundations that support the existence of local sporting clubs and we are thankful to Cellarbrations Monbulk for their ongoing support! Located at 51A Main Road, Monbulk, Cellarbrations Monbulk is a small family business offering quality service and a wide range of products. #supportlocal #supportoursponsors

10.01.2022 Hey Hawkers- Last chance to order your merchandise is today. Please place your order to avoid disappointment. https://forms.gle/EdkaVZUMgRMJUDVp6 Contact Funk - [email protected] or Dunc - [email protected] with any questions

10.01.2022 Hi All, Finally the good news we have all been waiting for - we can return to training. Seniors will start this Saturday morning at 10am. Please find below:... -Return to the nest update 5 (Oct 28) from our President (also emailed). Please take the time to read this important information and make sure you have watched the video - https://youtu.be/QRnu147_j_s -Also attached senior and junior return dates. Go Hawks

09.01.2022 Tomorrow’s Life Member Review is George Russell Snr- he holds our 1st XI all time best bowling figures of 9/12 and is one of our earliest post war Life Members

09.01.2022 This week's Player Profile, Aaron Bemmingham is proudly supported by Monbulk & District Community Bank Branch Do you want to feature in our weekly Player Profiles??? Follow the link https://docs.google.com//17Z98HAPbWRuwsLuMhU-E2QxW9L6/edit

09.01.2022 RIP to one of the greatest

09.01.2022 Round 1 Teams 14th November Huge night at the MCC tonight with massive training numbers, the handing out of our new merchandise, back in the pavilion (some in, some out, covid style) for pizza and a beer followed by the reading out of 5 teams which is why we are all here. It’s great to be back and to have 5 sides this year. Good luck to all teams / players this weekend. Remember to enjoy it especially after what we have all just been through. (BYO drinks and afternoon tea...s) Congratulations to all new players (see below) and well done to two 1st XI debutants Jordan Wilkinson and Tarran Van Egmond. Special mention to Bluey Fraser who makes his come back game after two years out with his cancer battle. So good to have you back mate in more ways than one. So far we have 29 new players from last season (how good is that !!) -10 x new registered players -13 x returning players (at least) -6 x U16’s coming up to play seniors New Players to the club Welcome to the MCC -Jordan Wilkinson -Tarran Van Egmond -Chris Brown -Jason Pilcher -Jamie Cornwell -Steve Hooper -Josh Lea -Jack Garthwaite -Liam Swain -Cameron Griffiths Returning Players Welcome back boys -Daniel Cleary -Lucas Jurey -Clayton Spooner -Liam Mackin -Pat Hurley -Justin Woodcock -Josh Rak -Hamish Emmett -Nick Keegan -Liam Kelly -Paul Utting -Christian Fraser -Sage Farmer U16’s coming up Welcome to the seniors -Jett Bolton -Nick Taylor -Jake Mackay -Will Copelin -Ollie Grujic -Brad Van Steyn Also got a fair few unavailable this week including: Josh Spencer, Tam Noonan, Tom Watson, Rab Noonan, Brayden Brockwell, Brad Trinnick, Todd Fleming & Michael Adams. Go Hawks S.Utts

08.01.2022 Happy 13th birthday Jed from all your friends at the MCC......our 3rd generation J.Fraser

08.01.2022 MCC Life Member Review- Frank & Jack Anderson

08.01.2022 This has to be some sort of record. Our 5th XI playing at Baynes Park v Olinda on Saturday were chasing 127. Our co-captains Clayton Spooner (Spin Diesel)and Liam Mackin opened the batting and passed Olinda’s score on the 1st ball of the seventh over. Amazingly Spooner retired on 100 after facing 24 balls. He hit 13 sixes, 6 fours and 4 singles. No doubt Baynes Park is a small ground, but this is still a ridiculously great innings and certainly one for the record books.... We finished on 0/154 after 7 overs with Mackin 38*. Andy Firth was the pick of our bowlers with 3/11 (all bowled) and also took a good catch. Pics below of Spooner taking a wicket while bowling also. Go Hawks

08.01.2022 Junior Hawks Scores Rd 4 Competitive grades U12’s - Monbulk 5/100 (Bailey Trinnick 19, Luca Ploeg 18 rtno, Ouly Sufrin-Jamieson 13 rtno) lost to Eildon Park Panthers 5/104 (Jasper Beer 2/10, Ry Tudor 1/7, Bailey Trinnick 1/7, Cody Wilkinson 1/10)... U13’s Monbulk 6/99 (Ethan Knight 14 rtno, Georgia Knight 13, Kit Sutton 13, Noah Woning 12 rtno) lost to St Johns Tecoma 6/99 Lucas Hickinbotham 2/12, Toby Storer 1/4, Grace Hourigan 1/6, Oscar Watson 1/9, Finn Whyte 1/11) U14’s Monbulk 6/121 (Lucas McIntosh 34 rtno, Georgia Knight 28 rtno, Rylan Kay 20, Ethan Knight 15 no) lost to Eildon Park Wildcats 2/138 (Django Ladds 1/17) U16’s Monbulk 3/131 (Lucas McIntosh 30 rtno, Tim Rickard 25 no, Todd Mackay 25, Logan McDonald 23) defeated Mountain Gate 7/55 (Jacob Defina 2/2, Lachie Smith 1/5, Seb Dimech 1/7, Todd Mackay 1/10, Alex McDonald 1/9) Rd 3 Super 7’s (earlier in the week) Monbulk Gold 6/131 (Harry Arnott 18, Ollie Barnard 14, Josh Jebbings-Sykes 14, Jude Penketh 13) defeated The Basin Cubs 9/101 (Jude Penketh 1/4 Harry Arnott 1/13, Joep Van-Kampen 1/14) Monbulk Maroon 4/68 (Eli Toohey lost to The Basin Grizzlies 4/97 (Eli Toohey 2/9, Zack Caccia 1/10, Zack Czaja 1/16) Go Hawks

08.01.2022 Tomorrow’s Life Member Review is Frank & Jack Anderson - two of our earliest post war life members. These brothers are from another famous Monbulk family which continues on in our community and cricket club today.

07.01.2022 This game between Monbulk Cricket Club & Upper Ferntree Gully Cricket Club went right down to the wire! Check out the highlights from Monbulk's batting innings all thanks to Red Onion Creative!

06.01.2022 Giving thanks to our Sponsor of the week, Respiratory Solutions Australia Pty Ltd Compressed air specialists; air filtration, air dryers, air compressors, compressed air pipework, spray painting supplies & personal protective equipment. #supportlocal #supportoursponsors #monbulkcricketclub

05.01.2022 Hi All, After yesterday’s annoucement, we are now waiting day by day for the State Government to allow us to commence training. When that happens be assured that the club is ready to go. Please watch the club video below and keep an eye out for announcements over the next week. https://youtu.be/QRnu147_j_s... Thanks to our Vice President Aaron Bermingham (best in the business) for putting the video together. Go Hawks

05.01.2022 Monbulk Cricket Club and Community Activity Challenge Week 3 Highlights -925 club kilometres in the past week. Obviously not quite 1,000 but great effort in a wet, cold week. Weather looks good this week, so let’s have another crack at the 1,000. -Caitlin Utting and Jodie Fraser backed up their week 2 tons with another century. Well played girls, in amazing form, 1st and 2nd again on the leaderboard. -Into 3rd spot (up from 5th) with another big week-the walking machine- St...eve Hooper. Awesome effort. -Into the top 5 for the first time (4th spot) well done to Simone Beattie for clocking up 72 kms and keeping Cam Griffiths moving and ready for the upcoming cricket season. -5th spot went to Guy Calcagno, who did one massive 33km run around Bangkok on Saturday (the machine is training for an ultra-marathon in November) -Half centuries to Trent Collins, Paul Utting and Jason Fraser who continued their good form well played boys ! -Into the top 10 and most improved went to Norma Utting with 50kms great effort young lady ! -Great to see Craig Broekhof have a real crack this week getting active most days with 27kms Well done everyone. Keep it going. Getting outside and active is so good for our physical and mental health. Go Hawks

05.01.2022 Monbulk Cricket Club and Community Activity Challenge Week 4 Highlights -Well done again to our 44 members for getting out and about and staying active. -880 club kilometres -Jodie and Caitlin hit their third century in a row.... -Tom Watson moved into third spot with a huge week of 81kms with a mixture of running and pushing Isaac around. -Norma Utting did a great job to walk 60 kms and more than both her boys. -Kyah Booth moved into the top 10 with 34kms (mostly with a double pram) -Well done also to Fast 9’s Harry Arnott who clocked up 25 kms and our Pres Jason Simmonds who got 20kms. -2 weeks to go for our challenge, keep working hard and stay active !!!! Go Hawks

04.01.2022 Round 1 Senior Results: Super day for the MCC. Thankful to be back out playing cricket and 5 out of 5 wins certainly made it an enjoyable day. Highlights included:... -83 run partnership to Frase and Creedy followed by 4 wickets to Warney helped our 1s win their first game back in Norm Reeves. -100 run partnership to father/son Hooker duo sealed the 2s win. -68 to the Pres Simmo and great debut bowling from Jamie and Browny saw the 3s win. -31 to first gamer Will Copelin, 31* and welcome back Bluey and 47* to Funky helped the 4s win. -The 5ths had fun and won with lots of great performers none more than Nick Keegan in his return top scoring with 93. Scores: 1st XI- Monbulk 9/166 (J.Fraser 61, J.Creed 51) beat Johnson Park 10/155 (C.Broekhof 4/42, D.Maher 3/31) 2nd XI- Monbulk 4/174 (B.Hooker 34, C.Haworth-Hooker 65*, A.Gillard 26) beat Johnson Park 6/173 (K.Storey 2/8, D.Cleary 2/48) 3rd XI- Monbulk 8/173 (J.Simmonds 68, J.Cornwell 23, S.Utting 20) beat Silvan 10/135 (C.Brown 3/21, J.Cornwell 2/15) 4th XI- Monbulk 2/124 (C.Defina 47*, C.Fraser 31*, W.Copelin 31) beat Boronia Churches 8/123 5th XI- Monbulk 8/211 (C.Spooner 45, N.Keegan 93, L.Mackin 20) beat Bayswater 9/77 CC (H Emmett 3/11, J.Woodcock 2/2) Go Hawks

04.01.2022 MCC Life Member Review- Jeff Jarvis

04.01.2022 Pavillion looking a treat tonight. Be great to be back up there at some stage. Go Hawks

03.01.2022 This week's Player Profile, Joshua Robson-Spencer is proudly supported by Monbulk & District Community Bank Branch

03.01.2022 Community Xmas Hampers @Jason Pilcher (father of Isaac Pilcher) who plays in our senior teams is organizing the below. Please support this especially in such a tough year. Great work Pilcher’s and all involved........... Open Door Community Church and Monbulk Care Network are committed to supporting our local community. Each year we have given away up to 70 Christmas hampers to families in need at Christmas. This has included gifts and food items to support families over the ...Christmas period. Together with the support of the local community this has been an amazing way to serve the local community. 2020 has thrown some challenges and we need some additional community support to bless families this Christmas. We need non-perishable goods, Christmas foods and drinks (no Alcohol), and presents for kids of all ages. We would like to be able to pick up or have goods delivered to the Op Shop by the 13th of December. We really appreciate the community support and look forward to continuing to work together into 2021 as well. If you have any questions please call Jason pilcher on 0417318374 See more

03.01.2022 Woolworths Junior Blasters - starts next week Aimed at 5-8 year olds our first session is on Friday 4th December. So spread the word and register at: https://www.playcricket.com.au/club-finder/club-details... More details below

03.01.2022 Hey Hawks, here’s your opportunity to have your say regarding Monbulk’s play space. Get on board! Good Afternoon Yarra Ranges Council is renewing the playspace at Monbulk Recreation Memorial Reserve, Monbulk and we’d like your feedback on the existing site issues to ensure they are captured during the initial design stage of the project. Please find attached to this email an aerial image, an image of the equipment, a letter that details information for the project and a poste...r that you can distribute. Hopefully, you will have a chance to fill in our survey. This email is a courtesy reminder and notification that the study will be closing on Monday 26 October at 11:59pm. We would also appreciate if you could please ‘share’ the link below with your networks/group members, passing on the details, and displaying the poster with COVID and councillors currently in caretaker period we need your help to take the lead in promoting this. The survey can be accessed via the following link: https://www.yarraranges.vic.gov.au//Help-shape-the-future- Please don’t hesitate to get in contact if you have any questions or would like to discuss further. Thanks in advance for your participation and we look forward to your input into the Monbulk Recreation Reserve Playspace. Kind regards, Laura.

02.01.2022 MONBULK CRICKET CLUB - RETURN TO THE NEST Update 1. 25th Sep 2020 I hope that this communication finds everyone safe and well. I’m sure that we are all very much looking forward to returning to the nest for training, playing and generally just getting together for the 2020/21 season as soon as possible. However, in these difficult times we need to do this in a safe and responsible way. ...Continue reading