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Photo: the Guard of Honour for Steve by the D1 Red & D1 Blue sides – Greenway Park 10 February 2024
The man and his bat
In Round, 14 Mat Marsden (C2 Blue) copped a bit of heat from the opposition about his antique bat. Well, we have a photo of the Blues plus Mat with his bat – a 1985 MN Scoop bat – all 39 years of history. This story was all good news: Mat scored his 3rd career ton (100 not out) in a Team total of 9/205; they rolled the Opposition for 94 runs to get 1st innings points plus the Team they beat would have made the top 4 had they have won and as a result of the loss they finished in 6th spot. This allowed our C2 Red side to make it into the Semi’s.
So, this is a great story about good guys finishing first
Photo: C2 Blues 2023-24. The players, from left to right: Mat Marsden with the bat he scored his latest ton with, Bronson Marsden, Sohan Gowda, Rizul Gulati, Vris Patel, James Lubrano, Martin Lubrano, Rob Hitchcock, Fin Hitchcock (kneeling). Howson Oval – 24th February 2024.
Welcome to the World
The best News coming out of the weekend was the birth of Bonnie Kathleen Maria Williamson to Alexa and Chris Williamson (B1 Blue). Welcome to Bonnie who is now our latest West Penno family member and a big congratulations to Alexa and Chris.
What makes this even more special is that Chris played Juniors for us and started playing Senior’s way back in 2004/05. During this time, he has scored 3,747 runs and taken 242 wickets to be up there with our best. How good is this photo of Bonnie with Chris’s prized West Penno cap and B2 Premiership top from last season.
As an aside, Chris was only 1 ball away from winning their Semi Final last weekend and playing in the GF this weekend. Typical of the selfless commitment from Alexa, she even worked her magic to give birth the day before the GF should our boys have qualified.
One of the great pleasures of playing cricket, especially for our Club, is to have the opportunity of parents playing with their children. More often than not it is a father & son combination. Maybe, this might be the beginning of a Williamson dynasty with Chris playing with Bonnie in a father / daughter combination.
Well done again Alexa and Chris we are all thrilled for you both.