Southern River Hockey Club

HAWK EYE
Southern River Hockey Club Vol.4 Ed 14

CLUB AGM 730PM THURSDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER-CLUBROOMS

SEASON 2009 FINAL HOME AND AWAY GAMES

WELL HERE WE ARE …. AS WE ENTER THE FINAL ROUND OF HOME AND AWAY FIXTURES FOR 2009, WE CAN REFLECT ON OUR GREAT SEASON. WE HAVE AT LEAT TWO TEAMS CERTAIN TO QUALIFY FOR FINALS AND DEPENDING ON HOW GAMES GO THIS WEEKEND WE COULD GAVE AS MANY AS SEVEN.

MENS ONES

PLAYED 14 WON 7 DRAWN 2 LOST 5 LADDER POS 4TH

Two games and percentage clear in 4th spot. Play team in 3rd this week. All being well should qualify for 1st semi final with a repeat of this game scheduled for the first week of the finals.
This team has performed well on occasions and has been hiy hard by injury to key players including club captain Lee Hansord. Work commitments have restricted Paul Baillie’s appearances and the team has remained positive to qualify for another tilt at the premiership. Many new faces this year and quality has been exceptional. Well done guys and win or lose we expect to see you all back next year.

WOMENS ONES

PLAYED 15 WON 15 DRAWN 0 LOST 0 LADDER POS 1ST

Three and a half games clear on top and sailing a perfect race. This team has been playing excellent hockey all year and has returned some outstanding results. The team has been rebuilt from last year and some very handy acquisitions coupled with the returning stars, has seen them carry all before them. Rightfully, they are premiership favourites and barring any un foreseen form slumps or injury should reclaim the premiership they narrowly lost last year. The club is so very proud of your achievements and wish you all the very best for the upcoming final series.

MENS TWOS

PLAYED 14 WON 9 DRAWN 0 LOST 5 LADDER POS 3RD

Sitting in third spot and well ahead of the fifth placed team, whom they play this weekend, will qualify for finals action. This team is playing turf for the first time this year and has provided the club’s top team with some good depth as well as carrying all before them. A good blend of youth and experience has seen this team play some great hockey and are not without a chance in the finals if all goes well. Need to have all players fit and firing and a Grand Final appearance is well within reach. Great effort guys in a year where you have had to provide players in the top side to plug some holes. Go get ‘em Hawkers !!!!

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LADIES TWOS

PLAYED 15 WON 3 DRAWN 2 LOST 10 LADDER POS 8

Recently I highlighted this teams efforts this year, so I wont go over old ground. Just look at the column that shows games won…..3 No one in this team of hockey novices could have dreamt that they would win any games. The team has some great experienced players amongst their ranks but the majority of these ladies had not held a hockey stick before. The incredible patience and understanding of the girls who had played before must be acknowledged as they willingly took the new comers under their guidance each week and taught them the game. Well done to the whole team and we hope to see your smiling faces at the club in 2010 !!!

MENS THREES

PLAYED 15 WON 7 DRAWN 3 LST 5 LADDER POS 4TH

One name symbolises this team- Barry Romaro. I have been careful not to single out names in this season precis but I could not let this one go !! This team was thrust into the fray against some quality opposition and at the start of the year seemed headed for a long drawn out bleak season. Step up the good old Hawkers spirit and determination and you have our Mens 3’s. Not only have they performed with distinction and held their own against teams ranked higher than them, they hold their own destiny in their hands this weekend. A win should cement a spot in the finals series for the 4th successive year and we all know the grit and determination of these Warriors. With their famous never say die attitude, don’t be surprised to see this team playing deep into September. You don’t need to be wished good luck- you have the skill and tenacity to succeed.
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MENS FOURS

PLAYED 14 WON 3 DRAWN 0 LOST 11 LADDER POS 7

This team has had to survive against all odds as they had many players succumb to season ending injuries. The most notable of which was the thumb injury to Captain Phill Parkes. There were times this year when these guys played out of their skins and fought valiantly to win some tough battles. The Hawks are proud of your fantastic efforts and it should be noted that quite often these blokes would start a game with less than11 players and still give a great account of themselves. You all can hold your heads high and be safe in the knowledge that every season is a learning curve and if you all have taken something positive from the season then you are all winners !!! See you all back next year……

MENS FIVES

PLAYED17 WON 11 DRAWN 1 LOST 5 LADDER POS 2ND

This team played in the mid season Challenge Cup Final when no –one expected them to be there. They have quietly but systematically gone about their business with a minimum of fuss. Quite often they have been the unsung heroes, made up of some Vets players from last year combined with some of the youthful exuberance of the younger guys. Well lead by the super efficient Brad George backed up suitably by the goal scoring prowess of John Trent. These guys have surprised many pundits by their ability to win the close ones and as was demonstrated last weekend obliterate some teams that dare challenge their ladder position. A club record 14 goals was scored by them last Saturday….. bask in the glory fellas and never say never and you could well be hanging a pennant on the wall come late September…..
JUNIOR SPOTLIGHT

UNDER 17’S – PLAYED 11 WON 1 LOST 10 LADDER POS 9 Great effort first up by the inaugural u/17 side. Onwards and upwards in2010.
UNDER 15’S- PLAYED 11 WON 10 DRAWN 0 LAST1 LADDER POS 1ST (CHALLENGE CUP WINNERS 2009) Finals await.

UNDER 13’S- PLAYED 13 WON 7 DRAWN 0 LOST6 LADDER POS 3rd Finals await.

UNDER 11-BLUE PLAYED 12 WON 8 DRAWN 4 LOST 0 LADDER POS 1ST(CHALLENGE CUP WINNERS 2009) Finals await.

UNDER 11-GOLD PLAYED 12 WON 2 DRAWN 3 LOST 7 Great effort and your achievements are something to be so proud of.

UNDER 11-WHITE PLAYED 12 WON 1 DRAWN 2 LOST 9 Well done to all of you for having a go. Great to see that you tasted victory in one game.

To all our UNDER 11 players and all players new to the sport:

Welcome to hockey and the Southern River Hockey Club. The entire club is so proud of you. You are the future of this club and your early efforts will stand you in good stead as you progress through your junior years.

For those of you who wish to continue playing sport during the summer season, you may wish to play cricket. Our co-tennants at Sutherlands Park are the Gosnells Cricket Club and the Gosnells JUnior Cricket Club. For more information please visit their website at :
www.gjcc.org.au

THE GAMES

Metro 2 gold match report
By Barry Romaro 21/8/2009
Southern River threes V’s Pirates
“FOURS TO THE RESCUE”
This weeks game was a must win situation for us, if we could beat Curtin trinity we would take fourth spot on the ladder. We started with nine players and before we could catch our breath we were down one nil. We answered the goal with one of our own in less than a minute and we were brimming with confidence. Troy arrived and now we were only one short then Miranda who was on the sideline put her hand up to play and went to center forward. We had four players from our fourth side filling in for us today and they all played well. We dominated the game from that equalizing goal and they only managed to score another via a dubious tactic during a short corner in the second half. Pirates also had the chance to score a goal through a penalty flick in the second half but Dave pulled of an incredible save millimeters inside the left post to everyone’s amazement. The goals and the shots came thick and fast during our second half and john managed another hat trick for the year. It was a satisfying result and we must now set I sights on beating North Coast Raiders next week to make the finals as our destiny is in our own hands now.
Thankyou to all our supporters it’s great to have supporters stand in the freezing wind and give us such great encouragement. I hope all of us can attend training more often as we will most likely play finals and a bit of extra training will serve us well.
GO HAWKS!

Goal Scorers: John Gradisen 3, Arron Drane 1,
Quinton Fraser 1, Connor Cracknell 1
Best players: John Gradisen 3 votes
Barry Romaro 2 votes
Dave Vanderputt 1 vote

CLUB AGM 730PM THURSDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER-CLUBROOMS

HAWK EYE

Southern River Hockey Club Vol.4 Ed 13

HAWKS FINALS DAY 2009

The club has nominated and been granted a “finals day” on September 5^th 2009. We will have eight games at our grounds including some of our own teams. Following on from the outstanding success from last year, the day promises to be a successful showcase for our club as well as giving some of our teams a “home ground” advantage as they strive for success. The day will feature the famous “alfresco” set up complete with umbrellas, music and a vibrant atmosphere. All members are encouraged to attend and bring your guests to enjoy our magnificent facilities. If you are one of the unlucky ones not to be competing in the finals series, please try and make time to support the teams that are. After all we are one mighty club at Southern River and we all bask in the glory and disappointment that may await any of our teams. The day begins with the first series of 4 games at 2-00pm and then progresses to the 4 matches scheduled for 3-30pm. Thanks to the hard working bar and kitchen staff food and refreshments will be on offer all day. Please help us to make this day an “advertisement” for our club. We received tremendous feedback from last years efforts and was instrumental in attracting new members to the club this year as well as enhancing our strong reputation with HockeyWA as a go ahead club with an abundance of energy and initiative. “GO HAWKS”

THE SCHEDULE

SATURDAY 5^TH SEPTEMBER 2009-SUTHERLANDS PARK

GRD GRADE 2-00PM GRADE 3-30PM

At this stage with 2 games to complete the home and away season we are not sure of the numbers of teams that will compete in finals. We are confident that the Womens 1 side (Venue-YMCC) will be there as well as our top two mens sides (Venue-Turf). We are a chance in the Mens 3’s and Mens 5’s as well as junior B10 and B08.

THE GAMES

Ladies 1s 08/08/09

Coach: Gail Cracknell (stand-in)

Captain: Karyn

Southern River 13 vs Whitfords

THE GAMES

Ladies 1s 08/08/09

Coach: Gail Cracknell (stand-in)

Captain: Karyn

Southern River 13 vs Whitfords

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We were struggling to find a keeper or kicking back just so that we could run onto the field. Who came to our rescue? Candice Airey. Even though I am sure the keeping job was taken on with reluctance, Candice did a superb job and did not let a single attacker get within coowee of the goals. She was well supported by Tilly and Sass in the first half, and Tilly and Paula in the second half at fullback, whose touches (no we didn’t count them on one hand) kept the ball completely out of the Hawks defence and returned to the forward line where an awaiting Karyn was on FIRE. With what seemed like a million possessions and five killer goals and if that wasn’t bad enough for Whitfords the rest of the forward line was also hot to trot with nearly everyone getting a piece of the action. This was a great forward display of how to move the ball around and block in defender hit outs and at every opportunity slam the ball into the goals which is exactly how we obtained our biggest score YET!!

A big big thanks to Candice and Tilly for helping us out.

Goal Scorers: Karyn 5, Kate 2, Chris 2, Michelle 2, Tracey 1, Sass 1,

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Ladies 1s 15/08/09

Coach: Fred Keane

Captain: Karyn

Southern River 6 vs Bay Union

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Whoever said this was going to be an easy game was really misinformed or did we make it harder for ourselves than we needed too? Bay Union were definitely out of the blocks fast and were trying everything to capitalise on a lethargic, half asleep Hawks team and it was just as well Miranda, Chris, Jessica and Nat were awake early on in the Hawks defensive half. With Miranda, Jacinta and Sass working closely together on the left the Hawks game has now opened up utilising both sides of the field and more drive is coming into the Hawks forward line from the left with some precision passes being bulleted into the D from Sass and Jacinta was up and about scoring two goals to open our account. A big welcome back to Ang, who didn’t seem to have lost any touch putting in another goal against her tally (except for that one wild swing). Karyn was as usual strong over the ball and had an opportunity to take a flick when a certain goal was denied by a defenders leg’s on the goal line, which of course she converted superbly. Tracey was as usual strong over the ball but was unaware of the rule changes where players are permitted to grab your arm and drag you off the ball. Kate was as usual impressive with her speed and agility and I’m pretty sure the ball is now keeping up with her. Michelle was unfortunate not to get a free hit when a player muscled in front of her and then raised her stick splitting Michelle just above the eye, just as well first aider Gail was on the side lines to patch her up… That will be a nice look for work!! Well done to all players with everyone contributing and taking on the new positions they were given with enthusiasm. A Big thanks to Jessica Heath for helping us out and a big thanks and appreciation to Fred for taking timeout to coach and support us.

Goal Scorers: Jacinta 2, Paula 1, Karyn 1, Ang 1, Jessica 1

Surrounded by Wolves

By Deb Clearwater

Saturday 15^th August saw Southern River Gold girls travel to Swanbourne to take on Westside Wolves on their home ground. The weather storms that had been predicted for that afternoon came through early so although it was cold there was no rain or hail to contend with just a pack of hungry wolves.

Southern River Gold coming off a 4 – 0 win over Canning last weekend were confident of a strong showing this weekend. Although it was always going to be a hard task to beat the undefeated Wolves on their home ground they were confident of putting up a strong fight.

Lou had to make some changes to field positions as Amy was away sick so she had to move Chris up into Left Inner and moved Deb from Right wing to Left. In making these changes she hoped that it would spread our strength across the field and give us a few more options. Jo took up the Centre Half position which she played so well last week. We also were lucky to have Tash back in goals for us after some time away.

Lou won the toss and Tash choose to defend the West End of the ground. Wolves started strongly attacking our goal from the first hit out. Southern River Gold was quickly on the defence doing everything they could to keep the ball out of the goal. Annie, Lou and Tash did a fantastic job in the face of an organised Wolf pack. Southern River Gold defended well after numerous short corners were awarded to Westside Wolves.

It would be fair to say that on the few occasions Southern River Gold did get the ball for a run up the field, they were quickly chased down by a very fit and very skilled Wolves pack. Now I keep referring to the Wolves as a pack and it is not meant as an insult it is simply how it felt playing them. They were very organised and when you got past one of their players there were always 2 or 3 more there waiting to pounce on the ball.

Southern River Gold put up an excellent fight and kept Westside Wolves scoreless after the first 20 minutes but it was only a matter of time before they broke through as there was constant attack after attack on our goal. The first goal was a classic goal coming off a short corner and getting in behind the goalie, sheer numbers saw the ball over the line.

Jo and Deb then swapped positions to give Jo a breather after the constant defensive play. Deb wanting to try something different swapped with Robyn for the hit out and dummied a pass back to Robyn and took off up the field herself, this caught Westside off guard but they quickly regrouped. Deb hit the ball out towards the wing to get clear of the defenders but unfortunately hit it too far and turned the ball over for Westside to come back on the attack again.

Half time saw the score 3 – 0 to Westside Wolves. Southern River Gold came of frustrated and a little deflated. But a peep talk from Phil (Jo’s husband) got them revved up and keen to get back on the field.

Unfortunately, Westside Wolves came back even stronger in the second half scoring a number of unanswered goals. No matter what Southern River Gold tried there was always a Wolves player there to stop them. Phil tried making some positional changes to help the girls who were now getting tired and a little deflated but although these changes saw a couple of runs from Southern River Gold it was still not enough to get them on the scoreboard or stop the now stream of goals coming from the Westside Wolves.

Southern River Gold can be proud of their efforts against the top of the ladder team who have scored 90 goals this season. And to confirm this some Westside Wolves players were overheard talking to each other during the game saying “We’ve had to work really hard for these goals today”.

Although the loss was a come down from last week, I am sure the Southern River Gold girls will regroup taking advantage of the bye this weekend and come out fighting to secure one last win from their final game.

Go the Hawks!

Metro 2 gold match report

By Barry Romaro 16/8/2009

Southern River threes V’s Old Guildford

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THE FIGHT FOR FOURTH SPOT”

We are fast approaching the end of the year and the finals are looming for possibly five sides from Southern River and we want to be one of those sides.

We were playing the side in fourth spot today with us in fifth spot and we would like to beat them so we don’t have to rely on other results from other matches to make the finals.

This game was a real battle we are very evenly matched sides. I am not sure that it was a great game to watch but we battled from one end of the field to the other. Neither side scored a goal today but there were plenty of shots on goals especially from us. We just were not quite good enough with our finishing today as the game was ours for the taking on quite a few occasions but Old Guildford were rock solid on their last line of defense. Our short corners did not come off this week but I know we will be on target next week. Next week we face Curtin and with Troy unavailable and possibly Gibbo out with a quad strain its going to be a hard one. Thanks to the guys who gave me a hand post game as I had to leave very early this week I appreciate it.

Also thankyou to all our supporters once again it was great to have supporters who will stand in the freezing wind and rain and give us such great encouragement. I hope all of us can attend training more often as we still need to improve just that little bit more if we want to take part in the finals

GO HAWKS!

Best players: John Gradisen 3 votes

Clive Reader 2 votes

Barry Romaro/David Gibb 1 vote

OUR FIRST”INTERNATIONAL” REPRESENTATIVE- JESSICA HEATH

WELL DONE JESSICA WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU. MORE DETAILS ON THE TOURNAMENT FROM HER DAD “HEATHY” WHEN HE CAN FIND TIME TO TELL US ALL J :

2009 HAWKS CLUB WINDUP

FRIDAY 25^TH SEPTEMBER

CLUBROOMS- 7.30PM START

$30 PER HEAD.

FULL BAR FACILITIES AT HAWKS

PRICES……

DON’T FORGET TO SEE BRIAN-BARMAN TO BOOK YOUR SPOT AT THIS YEARS WINDUP AND TROPHY PRESENTATION. MONEY IS REQUIRED TO SECURE YOUR SEAT. BE QUICK….. NUMBERS ARE FILLING FAST.. DON’T MISS THE GALA EVENT OF THE YEAR.

Its coming… be ready…. Don’t miss the “SON OF A BEACH” weekend. Total cost including 2 nights and a printed tank top-$100.00

JANUARY 30/31 2010

INDIAN OCEAN RESORT-MYALUP BEACH

I WILL BE OPENING BOOKINGS IN THE NEXT WEEK. $50 SECURES YOUR BED AND I WILL NEED TANK TOP SIZES AND NICKNAMES. BALANCE MUST BE PAID BY XMAS 2009. UNFORTUNATELY DUE TO A FINANCIAL COMMITMENT BY THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE TO THE RESORT YOUR DEPOSIT IS NON REFUNDABLE… SO PLEASE BE SURE. NUMBERS ARE LIMITED SO GET IN QUICK !!!!!

If you haven’t made it down to the club on a Saturday morning.. then put it on your ” To Do” list very soon. The well oiled machine that is Southern River Hockey juniors is carrying all before them and setting precedents that HockeyWA are impressed with. The willing coaches and volunteers who assemble before 7am each Saturday are truly an inspiration. From the people who set up the goals to the kitchen experts, the team that represent the very ethics of the club are hard at work doing what they do best. I can’t name everyone because I’m sure to miss some one, but entire club is so very appreciative of your tireless efforts and it is you that keep our great club… GREAT !!!! Thank you…..

PLEASE NOTE TROY’S NEW DETAILS:

ITS TAX TIME-ITS TROY TIME !!!!!!

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Till next time….contact me at: 

vicjan1201@bigpond.com

MYALUP IS COMING…… START THINKING ABOUT IT. TAKING NUMBERS AND MONEY IN THE NEXT COUPLA WEEKS. STILL $100 BUCKS. LAST WEEKEND JAN 2010…… THINK OF YOUR NICKNAME AS WE HAVE SOMETHING A LITTLE DIFFERENT PLANNED FOR THE SHIRTS THIS YEAR. I HAVE BOOKED TWO MORE HUTS THIS YEAR SO WE CAN ACCOMMODATE UP TO 60….. DON’T MISS OUT. IF YOU ARE NEW TO THE CLUB MAKE SURE YOU TALK TO SOME ONE TO GET THE FEEL FOR WHATS ITS ABOUT.

    

TILL NEXT WEEK. JANSON  (vicjan1201@bigpond.com)