There were many heroes on the day, but we should mention our opening batsman, Paul Smart who hit a great 55, Ted Tishler with a very correct 59no, and Aussie Joe Martinovic who held two (2) great catches.

We certainly had a rollercoaster ride – losing our first three matches, then stringing together six weeks or more of consistantly good cricket to position ourselves in the top four just before Christmas. Then it all went wrong- the less said about the 2010 part of our season the better.

There were many contributing factors to our demise post Christmas,many valid reasons or excuses in fact, however, the simple fact was our on field performances let us down. From where I stand I saw a big improvement within our club, In so far as player interaction and a more harmonious approach to training and also to game day. From my point of view this is so important and something we must build on next season if we are to succeed in growing our club into a more successful unit both on and off the field.

To Nathan,Gav,Shorty,Andrew,Tat’s,Watty,Shane,Jarryd,Trav,Brad,Dave,Jim,Tony,Cougar,Damien,Matty and J.L. thanks for your efforts during the season. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed your mateship both on and off the field. Any of you wishing to have a chat about your season and any ways of improving your performance I’d be only to happy to speak with you. And in reverse I may seem too old – but I love to hear from you on any improvements I could make to my on field performance, be it personally or any Captaincy issues that need to be addressed.

A special thank you to Nathan for his efforts in lodging each and every Saturday’s scores onto My Cricket- not an easy task considering some of the days we put in – then going home to that task.

To Gary and Michael many thanks for what you both do during the week to make each Saturday possible for us the players.

Don’t forget the presentation night on the Friday, 16/04/2010

Enjoy the off season, and stay safe..

Poppa Bear John

MBA/NRG (aka Winners) 224, 7/89 def LVC (aka The Fluggerds) 84

We bowled and they snaked towards 224, but seriously their true form came rising to the top in the seconds innings
M.Pimmalicious 6/59 (career best figures)

We batted and got 84.
Fluggered, no scores to talk about

In fact i’m not even giving this anymore air space, other than J Clarke 4/28.

The End.

LVC (aka Undie Streakers) 241 def SPB (aka LOSERS) 214

We batted and scored 241..
Wally got 88.

We bowled and they scored 214.
Aaron Johnson took 4/39.

Lets not talk about the catching.

The End.

LVC 109, LVC 1/109 def by HVL 6/277dec
Logan Village won the toss on what looked like to be a great day heading into round 2. Three hours later, Logan Village were left to rue what might of been. Batsman throwing there wickets away at regular intervals hurt the side, and its something the Village will have to look at if they want to have a crack in the finals.

At the top of the order, Growden struggled, then seemed to find some touch, only to be out shortly after. Ludwig looked to be in ominous form, till Applebee knocked his castle over. Newman top scored with 18, and was out when the score was only 73. Impressive efforts from Brad Inch, Jim and David Coppock got the score over 100. Warney impersonator Parsons took 4-33 to really give the home side a huge lift going into their innings.

Helensvale opened their innings with a bang, runs were coming at a decent rate. Travis Martin bowled a lot better than his figures might suggest. He bowled with plenty of fire and hurried a lot of the batsman.. This was promising to see. Fraser went early, and then came in Dan McMahon. McMahon came in using the unusual method of hitting everything towards the shortest boundary on the field, and really got his team into a great position. Conrad Dickson was also there at the close, and at 1/99, Logan Village knew at some point during the second week the game was going to be about survival.

Second week and the Village pick up McMahon early courtesy of a Brad Inch inswinger. This kid could do alot, so keep watching him. Sadly, he should not be allowed to drive to cricket ever ever again . Conrad Dickson really took over from this point and in the end contributed 140 runs out of the 277. Well done Conrad on a great knock. At this point Helensvale declared leaving the Village a nasty little session to avoid an outright defeat.

Applebee was again bowling with fire and when he had Ebrington caught in the gully, there would of been a few Logan Village players getting worried. Luckily, for us, that was the last wicket to fall. Jason Lawrence (62 not out) and Nathan Growden (34 not out) added 91 for the second wicket in good time to get us out of trouble. Play was called a couple of overs early when Lawrence lost a ball that in all liklihood was taken by Gator’s. Don Sexton went in to find the ball, and at last contact we couldnt find him either.

The game was played in great spirits between both teams.

Good luck Helensvale, and to the Village…..

CMON LETS LIFT AND SHAKE THIS COMPETITION UP!!!!!

Logan Village – 2nd Grade

LVC 9/250d, LVC 4/92 def CHI 131

Smithy won his first toss of the season, had no hesitation in batting first on what looked to be a green top road.. After a steady start, Smithy played his trade mark pull shot one to many times, and was caught at fine leg for 12.. Ray joined Dale at the wicket, and they batted with aplomb and much purpose, putting on a well compiled 92 runs.. Just before the tea break, Lawso played at a great leg cutter, and tickled one through to the keeper for 45. Skeeta joined Ray, and together they put on another 40 odd runs before he was bowled for 13 (unlucky for some). Shortly after, Ray copped a straight ball, rapping him on the pads, and he was out LBW for a cracking 73.. Today Ray, showed guts and controlled aggression to knock out 73 runs, and to help us put a defendable score on the board.

Once again as they did in round one, the Brothers Walton (David & Greg) put on another 1/2 century partnership to take the score to over 200.. James Eddie finished on 16no, and for the first time in 3 years, we had batted out the day and the 75 overs.. Finally, the top order batsmen played a selfish brand of cricket, protecting their wicket, and getting to the second drinks break with wickets in hand.. this allowed the lower order to have a poke and push the score to a well deserved 250. Unfortunately the umpire misunderstood when the close of play should be, and we missed out in putting Comera Hope Island back in for 20mins..

Week 2 will be remembered for the 16over (straight) spell from Jason Clark, who, almost single handedly ground CHI’s scoring to a halt.. At tea CHI were 5/51 off 39overs.. Jason had the figures of 16overs, 2/20.. A wonderful display of line and length bowling, and had it not been for the poor catching, could of had a few more wickets. We dropped 6 catches, something we will have to work on before the next game. Jason was ably support by James Eddie with 2/42 off 17, and Wally cleaning up the tail with 2/4 of 2.2 overs. In the end CHI could only manage 131, with the help of a hulking 14year who belted 35 including 3 massive sixes.

With 20 odd overs left in the day, Captain Smith reversed the batting order, and to great effect.. Aaron Johnson finished the day with 43no, and the team 4/92 off 19overs.

Apart the from dropped catches we put in a polished performance with bat and ball.. If we can maintain this sort of form, we will definitely be a showing in this years competition.

Logan Village Gold won the toss & elected to bat. After getting off to a quick start getting to 38 in the 4th over, we lost Paul Smart for 13 & Ted Tishler for 0 to be reeling at 2 for 42. Three overs later we lost Terry Ware for 10, and at that stage we were a very shakey 3 for 65. This brought together Shane Conradi & Phil Coulson who took the score to 4 for 141 before Phil was bowled & Shane was caught for 39 & 38 respectably. Now 6 for 141, and further hiccups saw us get to 9 for 163 before Des (Jacko) Gibbs & Jeff Beerman put on a very valuable 42 for the last wicket, which allowed to get 205 off 33 overs. Unfortunately, we gave away a bonus point by getting out before the end of the 50 overs.

Alberton Blue started well, but LVG soon had things under control with great bowling from John Beerman 3 for 26 off 7 & Daniel O’Loughlin 3 for 22 also off 7. At one stage Alberton looked like they were fighting back, before a great spell of bowling from Des (Jacko) Gibbs. He took 1/4 off 3 overs to get rid of the Alberton dangerman. In the end Alberton were dismissed for 119 in the 27th over, earning us a bonus point.

Great effort guys .

Captain Conradi

Logan Village 2nd Grade

Southport Labrador won the toss and elected to bat on what looked to be a greentop. On a hot spring day, we took to the field we a renews excited that a new season brings.. The first session (till drinks) was tough going, with SPL getting away to flyer, and no wickets falling.. After drinks Mr Jason Clarke help to reign back in the run rate, and was also on a hat trick with two ball tearer deliveries knocking back the off stump of successive SPL batsmen. At one stage we had them 6/123, and we were holding our catches..

After tea we went to sleep and dropped a few catches (was I, Dale was a culprit), and SPL got away to 274 before their final batsmen was count on the boundary by multiple catch taker Lawso. Lawso took two very good catches(Gully), along with Smithy (Wicketkeeper) & Greg (2nd Slip). Had we been able to hold the other catches i’m almost certain we would held last years Champions to 200..

Apart from that, we put in a solid fielding and bowling effort, with Jason Clarke taking 4/58 off 20, and Gavin Skeet taking 5/56 off 15.2. Shane Newman & Aaron Johnson also chipped in with a wicket each.. I think we have a long batting line up, and with a solid effort, we should be able to run down this total, but it won’t be easy.

Due to injury, work commitments and holidays we never really got our best possible team on the field. We relied on mates, mates of mates to enable us to get 11 on the field which as we know didn’t always happen, 9 players against Alberton in round 7.

To be fair we had our chances to win, we didn’t take them.

Against Runaway Bay r1 they were 6-80 chasing 158, Helensvale r2 – chasing 139 we were all out 85 umpire cost us with disgraceful decisions against batting top order & bowling, a report was sent to officials, Mudgeeraba r5 top 4 team all season won with one over to go in one dayer chasing 180 we were one man short in the field, Coomera r6 we only got 90 odd on a seaming wicket which both myself and opposition captain thought was a batting paradise, from 3-30 overnight we had them 9 down when they got the points, Queens r8 175 on the board damp outfield the next week cost us i elected to play in the spirit of the game, Surfers Paradise r9 we made 185 & at tea we were cruising 3-130 before collapse & washout 2nd week, Broadbeach r10 we scored 4-175 off 40ov should have been much more due to poor running between wickets, missed chances they won with 5 wickets down and finally r11 against minor premiers Southport we had them 7-107 missed chances enabled them to get 217 and unfortunately we crawled to 6-155 off 75 overs with team tactics thrown out the door. From 2-52 off 23ov to be 3-67 at tea off 44ov we were digging a hole for ourselves and unfortunately when robbo retired 51 due to ill health after batting 68ov with score at 5-130 a massive hole had been dug & therefore season over. Eight games maybe 48 points semi finals instead of minus 1 would have been nice. My old coach at souths Ian Seib used to say “good sides win the close ones” how true that is.

There were good performances throughout the season.. Steiny’s 31 wickets with three 5 wicket hauls inc a 6-36. He’s a fella that gives his heart and soul on the field everytime, Best Bowler on coast IMHO. His batting didn’t get going this year. JC’s lion hearted performances with one 5 for probably tried a little too hard but line & length really improved & should have had more wickets with a bit more luck. Johnny’s mediums need work time will tell, Skeety’s variety was deceptive, Jimmy & Gus shared the offies up & down. JL’s leggies should come to the fore next season. Our batting was up and down Robbo batted well as our new opener with a couple of 50’s, Jimmy had a shocker with some bad decisions much better player one of the best on coast, Skeety got some starts without making teams pay his time will come, Gus the same got some starts shows team what ticker is all about a huge asset in side, Bourkey got a couple of starts gotta back himself more, as for myself seven scores between 23 – 66 with one 50 an average season could have been much better, Johnny & LD (aldi) need more time in middle for confidence to come in pressure situations. Fielding has to improve catches win matches but gotta train though.

Thanks again for the teams support, to Pimmy not an easy job picking teams, nyesy’s work & advice at training was invaluable & as always Muschy’s pitch prepartion of the highest standard.

Bit of luck see ya next season Razor.

:: first grade ::

First grade battled well with no luck, and weren’t able to put together any valuable partnerships and after 46 overs were all out for 98. Highlight of the day was a well played 20, by 3rd grader Matt Tatum.. Well played Matt…

PBC went into bat, knowing it would help to have the runs scored by closed of play… An score the runs they did finishing with 1/99… The only wicket came from a sharp run out by Gavin Skittles Skeet…

:: second grade ::

With a player down, Captain Smith decided to bat, to do the best they could.. Unfortunately things didn’t start well, and after 10 overs they were 4/29.. Thanks to strong innings from Les Ham (30), Jason Roberts (36), and Matt Ludwig (23) the score was made to look a bit more respectable, finishing on 9/140..

By close of play PBC had passed 142, scoring at more than 5 an over, they finished the day 3/202..

:: first grade ::

No report lodged, but from the figures above, its probably best there is no report.

:: second grade ::

With a tinge of green on the deck, we knew we were in for a big chance of winning the local derby with Loganholme. LH resumed day 2 at 5/82 chasing 143 to win. Captain Smith opened the day with Jason JL Lawrence and Greg Duck Walton, and the Loganholme batsmen were keen to get on with things with the prospect of rain around.

Both JL and Duck were attacked from the start, so after a couple of overs Captain Smith turned to the ever reliable Dave Wally Walton to steady the ship. At the other end BigBoy Pimm was holding his own with some gentle medium pacers. Wally and BigBoy were able to stem the flow runs and to their credit put the pressure back onto the remaining Loganholme batsmen.

Wally was fantastic taking 6/21 off 17 overs and BigBoy was steady with 2/32 off 14 overs. In the end LVCC were able to roll the Loganholme boys for 132 and register their 2nd win for the season. It has been a great start to the year and the boys are on a high, and sitting in equal 4th position with 12 points and ready to take on the unbeaten Palm Beach side in round 4.