Waimate Cricket Club

40 years after joining the South Canterbury competition after winding up the local sub association, Waimate have had their best season of results ever.

Waimate won trophies in every men’s grade they entered, and topping it off the seniors won the Tweedy Cup, the premier trophy in South Canterbury club cricket, after earlier winning the SCCA Trophy as top qualifier in the Round Robin and being runner-up in the Daily Freightways One Day competition.

Waimate & Star share Tweedy Cup 2010-11 Season

Waimate also won the Second Grade trophy again with Greg Paul hitting an unbeaten century in the final to beat favourites Celtic, the fourth grade won their trophy for the third year in a row and the JAB won their Two Day competition.

Alan Reid South Canterbury Cricket Bowler of the Year with the Tweedy Cup

Glen Drake celebrates his great season

The success of the Waimate Cricket Club was shown at the SCCA Prizegiving where as well as the team trophies Waimate also featured in the individual awards with Alan Reid winning the Williams Cup for Bowler of the Year with 56 wickets @ 15.45 (including 6-95 off 44 overs in Tweedy Cup Final) and the SCCUA Graeme Lowrie Spirit of Cricket Award for the senior cricketer who epitomises the way the game should be played which is chosen by umpires.

Glen Drake also showed his class by winning the L J Grant Trophy Young Player of the Year and also took out the nights supreme prize, the Graeme Blanchard Memorial Trophy for a youth cricketer who displays an excellent attitude on and off the field for fair play, a team player who inspires the spirit of cricket and has good work ethics.

Read what the Timaru Herald said about Alan and Glen here

Click here to read the story about the Tweedy Cup Final

Click here to read about the SCCA end of year prizegiving

More photos and details about the season will be added soon.

Scholarship Awarded

Glenn Drake’s cricket career is hitting new heights after the Waimate High School, student received the Peter Hooten Memorial Scholarship for cricket.

“I was pretty stoked” said the Year 10 student.

Glenn’s teacher Justin Thompson suggested he apply after receiving an email fron the NZ Sports Council outlining the availability of a scholarship for a deserving student at a decile four or below school.

My Thompson provided  the relevant information about Glenn, the school’s achievements in cricket, and the need for better training and equipment.

“Mr Thompson was pretty positive I was going to get it. It was quite a shock for it being the whole of New Zealand,” Glenn said.

Mr Thompson said Glenn’s successful application means the school gets $1500 for cricket training and to improve practice nets.

Glenn also gets $1500 which is to go to training and/or equipment.

“I’m looking at maybe (getting) coaching in Christchurch and a couple of bits of gear that I’m going to need as well.”

Glenn has played cricket for about seven years.

He has represented South Canterbury in the Year 5 and 6 development teams and Primary A, and also played in the Southern Districts representative team.

Glenn will captain the U15 team for the second time this year. He has also captained the High School A Grade and Fourth Grade teams and for the past two years has been in the 1st XI.

Waimate had a home final playing against Ashburton College to decide the winners of the 4th Grade this season, and finished strongly in the end to prove why they have been the competition front runners all season.

The best way to enjoy sport is when you are winning (not a PC statement), and hopefully we will be reading the names of the players in this team for many seasons to come.

Note: All this capped off a big weekend for Justin Thompson who coaches, organises and runs around after these boys as well as fronting up for his own successful Second Grade team, so give him a pat on the back when you see him (he won’t mind).

It is with great sadness that the Waimate Cricket Club extend their deepest regrets and condolences to the Tangiora family after the tragic loss of Wiremu last Friday.

Wiremu was a member of the Waimate Fourth Grade cricket team who are currently leading the competition, and I am sure he would be pleased to know that his team dedicated their win at the weekend to ‘Woody’.

Wiremu was also a participant in the twilight cricket competition, and had a relaxed approach to batting where he thought that all you had to do was lean back and ‘slap’ it.

Waimate Fourth Grade had plenty to celebrate after beating TBHS Black outright on Saturday afternoon. Batting first Waimate produced two century makers with Glen Drake scoring 112 and Brad King 106 as Waimate posted a massive 332-7 in 40 overs. Hayden Russell also scored 32.

In reply TBHS could only manage 46 in their first innings and then 32 in their second. However the highlight was again Brad King who achieved a hat-trick and managed a rare feat by achieving two of the higher honours in cricket all on one day (century and hat-trick).

Quick match figures below.
Waimate 332-7
G Drake 112, B King 106, H Russell 32
Josh 6 0 41 2, Brodie 8 0 52 2, Marcus 3 0 22 1

TBHS Black 46 and 32 B Ridden 10, C McFarlane 10, W Rooney 5 and Andrew 8, W Rooney 6, Brodie 3 T King 3 1 5 3, B King 6 2 9 3, B Messer 1 0 3 2 and T King 3 1 3 3, B Knig 2 0 5 3, F Keen 3 0 15 2