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Pink Stumps Day Report
On Saturday 11 March the Under 9s teams held our annual Pink Stumps Day at Oakhill Public School in order to raise money to support the McGrath Foundation.
We had a beautiful sunny day for our Pink Stumps Day (after a long run of weeks of extreme heat and rain which caused many cricket games to be cancelled). We had planned to have our 5 teams playing “Big Bash” style games, but with the school oval being closed after weeks of rain, we quickly changed our format to skills based games instead which included bowling in the nets, batting on the basketball court and “fielding soccer”. Each team was awarded points throughout the games and the team with the most points at the end of the day was announced as the winner. Congratulations to the Orange team who were awarded the “Pink Stumps Cup” trophy.
Thank you to all of the coaches, umpires, scorers and other parents who helped on the day and who contributed in so many different ways:
Green team: who organised the coffee van, ice-cream van and the snow cones.
Red team: who organised the speed bowling and fabulous fun activities as well as the jumping castle. Gold team: who organised the BBQ and served up the yummy sausage sandwiches and drinks.
Orange team: who organised the cake stall filled with lots of delicious and beautifully presented goodies.
Blue team: who did an outstanding job not just on the day, but in the months leading up to the day - organising all of the raffle prizes (17 of them!), 10 silent auction prizes, selling raffle tickets, general planning and organisation for the day including setting up and packing up, all of the flyers and signs, as well as all of the cricket tournament plans (and then the "plan B" skills games at the last minute when the school closed the oval).
The kids all looked fantastic in their cricket whites with pink caps and everyone had lots of fun and enjoyed being part of a really special day which was such a rewarding way for our Under 9 year group to finish the season.
We have raised over $4000 which is a fantastic effort and goes to such a worthy cause.
Pink Stumps
U9s wearing McGrath Foundation Caps
Dave Weeden and crew coaching on Pink Stumps Day
Goodies for sale to raise money for Mc Grath Foundation
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