The WHC has had yet another successful year on and off the field throughout the 2010 period – Especially with the double header wins of our elite SL1 Men and Women teams, so let’s see season 2010 out with a bang.

Seats and reserved tables are filling up fast so gather your teammates and get involved.

Where: Manningham Hotel (Bullen)
When: 29th October, 7:00pm-12:00am
Dress: After 5 (cocktail)

Payments are due in no later than Friday 22 October 2010, so please get in early and confirm your attendance by purchasing your ticket(s). Please see the attached flyer for payment details. For any queries, or to confirm table arrangements, please phone Rachel Sheppard 0439 360 922.

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WHC 2010 Presentation Night Flyer Order Form

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Nick D'Onofrio takes on Doncaster

After a fairly even start Doncaster were able to find an opening in Waverley’s defence to score the opening goal. Despite several strong attempts from both teams, including one Doncaster shot hitting the post, the score remained this way until a final surge from the Waverley forwards resulted in a pently corner after the final whistle. In the last throw of the dice, the corner variation to the left side was put in the back of the net to draw the game level and force the game to extra time.

Once again Waverley found themselves in extra time in this finals series. Both teams had opportunities up forward, with Doncaster having one attempt disallowed. Once again Waverley responded in the final seconds, with Rudi able to slip a pass through Doncaster’s defense to Chris Castle who slotted the ball past the sliding keeper to win the match and secure the premiership.

Zane Holloway watches Chris Castle score the winning goal

Thanks to the big crowd that turned out to support both the Pennant E and Metro 3 teams.

Waverley celebrates the win

More celebrations

Premiers 2009

Big weekend of GRAND FINALS  coming up, so get out and support your club.

Start off on Friday 18th  at S2 to see the U13 Shield team take on TEM at 6.15 pm

or alternatively go down to Monash  watch two games, the U13 North play Doncaster at 7.00pm followed at 8.30 pm when the U15 East take on Knox.

On Saturday 19th  you can start the day by popping into

H2 at 8.30 am to see the U11 North take on Box Hill for the flag.

So that may be a bit early for some of you. If so then make your way to Monash where at

12 noon Men’s PE take on Doncaster

followed at

2.00 pm when the Mens Metro 3 East take on MCC.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL WHO ARE PLAYING

The team finished 2nd on the ladder overall at the end of the normal season and are taking on Maccabi in the preliminary final. They must win to head to the Grand Final so all support will be greatly appreciated.

Game starts at 12 noon

Playing on Friday night are
U15A v Camberwell @ S-2, Friday 11th at 6.15 pm
U15E v TEM @ Knox, Friday 11th at 7.00 pm
U13A v Greensborough @ Yarra Valley, Friday 11th at 7.00 pm
U13N Waverley v Waverley 2 @ Waverley, Friday 11th at 7.00 pm
Playing on Saturday morning are
U11N v Box Hill @ H-2, Saturday 12th at 8.30 am
U11N v Yarra Valley @ H-2, Saturday 12th at 10.00 am

For those juniors who are not playing this weekend please come down and support these teams. I’m sure all the teams would love to have plenty of boundary line support.

Greensborough handed the Panthers their departure ticket on Sunday with a 6 nil drumming at the State Hockey Centre in front of a large crowd, to end a great season in disappointing style.

After a promising season the Panthers were able to finish third and carried high hopes entering the finals. However, a well-versed Burra jumped the Panthers from the outset with an early goal leaving Waverley in a state of shell-shock.

Waverley courageously sought to fight back in the second half to reclaim the three goal deficit. However, the Panthers were unable to buy a goal on the day whilst Greensborough continued its march. Three goals in each half were more than enough to plummet the Panthers out of the finals race for 2009.

The season of 2009 has been exceedingly successful for a team who is looking to rebuild the invincible dynasty of old. The not so distant future looks bright with several young guns stepping up and becoming dominate within the team and Victorian hockey – whilst the older crew continues to provide invaluable experience and knowledge to an exciting lineup.

Finals would not have been possible without the efforts of Coach Brett Thompson whose experience has proved invaluable.Thanks must also go to Trav Brooks for ’specialist coaching’ throughout the year as well as Helen Joseph and Ken Moore for contributing their time and expertise to the team – the boys are forever thankful.

Great season boys.

Congratulations to the Pennant E boys who won their qualifying final 1-0 against Doncaster to catapult them straight into the Grand Final. This team has had considerable success over the previous years and will be looking to continue this in 2009. We will be down there supporting in 2 weeks!

Goals:

Team: Scott, Greaves, Glasscock, Brennan, Freeman, Thompson, Jarvis, Joseph, Preston, Wischusen, Mutimer, Young, Swindells, Dallimore, Fooks and Moore.

Please head down where possible

Saturday 12.15pm Mens Metro 2 East  V  Hawthorn at Hawthorn 1

Saturday 2.00pm   Mens PE  V Doncaster at Waverley

Saturday 3.45 pm Mens Metro 3 East V MCC at MHS

Saturday 5.30pm Mens PA V Doncaster at S1

Sunday 2.30pm Mens State League 1 V Greensborough at S1

Show your  support for the club at the games in our 50th year celebrations!

Saturday 12.15pm Mens Metro 2 East  V  Hawthorn at Hawthorn 1

Saturday 2.00pm   Mens PE  V Doncaster at Waverley

Saturday 3.45 pm Mens Metro 3 East V MCC at MHS

Saturday 5.30pm Mens PA V Doncaster at S1

Sunday 2.30pm Mens State League 1 V Greensborough at S1

FINAL
New South Wales 3 v Victoria 1 (1-1 half time)
Goals – NSW McGarity 11m PC/59m PC, VIC Lanning 20m PC, NSW Forsyth 54m FG

The Victorian U18 Women’s State Team fell gallantly to NSW in the final of the Australian Championship in Canberra.

New South Wales, winners in 2008 and 2009 were ready to make a hat trick, whilst Victoria were keen to reclaim the shield after their last win 2004.

With plenty of support for both teams, New South Wales were quickest out of the blocks with a penalty corner conversion at the 11 minute mark by captain Claire McGarity. Within the space of ten minutes Victoria’s consistent goal scorer Meg Lanning responded to level the scores 1-1.

With less than two minutes remaining to half time New South Wales had an opportunity to go 2-1 up, however were unable to convert, keeping the score level at half time.

In the opening minutes of the second half was intense as both teams tried to claim possession. New South Wales were able to score their second for the match and a short time later followed this up with their third goal, Claire McGarity’s second for the match and held off Victoria to secure victory and the championship.

Congratulations to the Victorian Girls and especially Lucy for such a great tournament and for making the Grand Final!

VICTORIAN GOALSCORERS

● Meg Lanning -8 Goals
● Tegan Purser – 4 Goals
● Hayley Padget – 3 Goals
● Tegan Boucher – 2 Goals
● Isabelle Peskett – 2 Goals
● Sarah Forsyth – 2 Goals
● Samantha Snow 1 Goal

TOURNAMENT RESULTS

Game 1
VICTORIA 3 TAS 1

Game 2
VICTORIA 2 WA 3

Game 3
VICTORIA 4 NT 1

Game 4
VICTORIA 3 QLD 3

Game 5
ACT 2 VICTORIA 3

Game 6
VICTORIA 5 SA 0

Game 7
VICTORIA 5 NSW 3

Semi Final
VICTORIA 2 WA 1


2009 Australian U18 Women’s Championship

The Waverley Dream Team continued its summer season dream run with a 6-0 trouncing of the Warriors on Monday to take the Monash Mixed summer hockey flag.

The first half saw plenty of run and swift passing which saw 4 goals slotted in no time – This left the warriors in shambles and on the back foot for the rest of the game.

Second half proved to be much more of a contest with the Warriors being able to have a few shots on goal – However, The Dream Team responded by slotting 2 more taking the tally to the final score of 6-0.

Hard work and wizardry by Tim Wish saw him end with a hat-trick to really complete the dream.

Thanks must go to all the team for a great season and Em Paton for organising!

2:00 PM

Sat 20 Sep

MHS

Waverley vs Old Xaverians

Edited by Seb – The SL1 boys will be there to support! Good luck!

Monash had the panthers measure all day with Waverley only getting half a dozen opportunites to score. Andrew Spence scored the opener about 20 minutes into the first half after some fantastic work by Anthony Field down the left hand side and assist from Andrew Fox. Unfortunately Monash replied to have the game locked up at 1-1 at half time. The panthers had a small opening through Skillern and Fox in the last seconds of the half which they could not convert.

In the second half the Monash side scored early and applied pressure throughout the whole ground. Spence and Whetton battled hard through the conjested midfield but the boys coulod not find their way to the goal. A contensious decision that awarded Monash their 3rd goal through a corner made things really difficult. A show of strength by Skillern to win a corner then score through a drag flick gave the side a glimmer of hope with 15 to go 3-2 only to have the goal ansered within 2 minutes.

Monash held on for a 4-2 win and the rights to play for a premiership against Baw Baw.

The game was a heated one with not only the players being warned by the umpires but the spectators.

On behalf of the Metro 2 South team we would like to thank you all for your support over the last two weeks. The team and its members will learn a lot from the finals experience and look to go two wins better in 2009.

Final Score: 2-4

Goals: Spence 1, Skillern 1.

Best: Spence, Whetton, Kriek, Skillern, Miles.

It was a warm day and the fitness of the players was testament to the gruelling season long fitness training undertaken by the players.

Before the game I asked for a good warm up so as to carry us into the game, well the warm up was good.

The first half was @&%*. Our passing was bad, our traps were bad, our tackling was bad, pretty much we were bad. At one point Old Xaverians had 2 players behind the net and we still couldn’t get anything to happen.

But on a positive note at half time we were only 1-0 down. The half time chat, after the yelling, quite positive with some enforcement of some tactics discussed before the game. And the thought we couldn’t get any worse. To top things of gun right half Mark McGLOUGHLIN was done for the finals campaign after doing a hammy after about 20 minutes.

The second half started a lot better with better ball work and stronger tackles and leads.

A few short corners were obtained and after a 2 person variation Chris CASTLE put away his 19th goal for the season to draw back level.

No long after a miss hit from Jamie STAMMERS of another short corner got us a second goal and the lead which we kept and looked the stronger team for the last 20 minutes of the second half.

But with 5 minutes to go against the run of play the Old boys were able to deflect the ball into the net from the top of the circle. The game ended 2-2 and extra time was called for which was pretty even with neither team scoring. We went through on points.

Goalie Rhys EDDY had a fantastic game making several crucial saves. Jamie STAMMERS, Toby FERGUS, Chris HOCKING and Darryl SEEDSMAN were there usual hard working selves.

Chris CASTLE, Warren MOORE, Simon LEUNG and Mal SMITH were good in attack and cover defence.

Andrew LOUEY, Jimmy SMITH, Matt BARCA and Aaron POWELL were good and rock solid in defence.

Mark McLOUGHLIN well he was good for the first 20 minutes.

So straight to the GF we go. Its on Sat the 20th at a place to be determined.

Hopefully we’ll get a good crowd to support us.

Nothing was working for the the panthers as they continiously made basic skill errors and mistakes letting Frankston in.

At half time some were told to chill out and calm down (Skills). Others told to keep working hard and we will get another chance. It wasn’t looking good however when Dunny was sent off after a poor tackle in the opening minute of the second half. The panthers faught hard in his absence and kept Frankston out until his emergence back onto the ground. His impact was immediate as the panthers came forward.

Andrew Spence made his way through some defenders giving Skills a half chance which he slapped into the corner leveling the game at 1-1 with 20 minutes to go. Waverley lifted after the goal and moved forward with speed and efficiency to win some corners. A solo performance from the top of the circle saw Skills hit his second and give the panthers the lead with 15 to play.

The team then fought out everything, haning on as the slowely wound down the clock for a hard faught win. Captain Scott Jolly inspirational as he stopped every Frankston attacking move down the right hand side in last 10 minutes.

Next week the panthers will take on Monash University who they beat in round 18 2-0. We all know finals are another game though and this week anything could happen. A win however is the right to take on Baw Baw in a grandfinal. It doesn’t get any better!

Final Score: 2-1

Best: Skillern, Spence, Miles, Kriek, Talty.

Goals: Skillern 2.

Friday 5th September

7pm H1 U13 PA Waverley V Footscray

Saturday 6th September

8.30am S2 U11A Waverley v Doncaster

12 noon Waverley Metro Men 2 South Waverley v Frankston

1.45 pm Waverly Metro 1 West Waverley v Old Xaverians

3.30 pm S1 Mens PA Waverley v Greensborough

Sunday September 7

4.15 pm S1 Mens SL1 Waverley v Camberwell

Monday September 8

8.30pm S2 Womens Veterans B Waverley V Mentone

Not to be outdone the Pennant A boys will plat this Saturday at 3.30pm at the Hockey Centre as well. Their match a battle with Greensborough for the right to play in the 2008 Grandfinal.

Many of the players in these two teams were full of confidence at about 7.30pm last Saturday night so lets hope all can take the winning form and confidence (off the field) into their matches this weekend.

The Waverley Hockey Club wishes you all well in week one of the finals.