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GEELONG WEST ST PETERS CHRISTMAS BREAK-UP
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Thursday 15 December
Geelong West St Peters clubrooms
Bar open from 6pm
BBQ from 6.30pm
All welcome
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A GRADE NETBALL FINISHES
For the second successive season, A Grade Netball has fallen to St Marys in the Preliminary Final.
In an intense battle raged in warm conditions at Corio Leisuretime Centre, St Marys pulled away from the Roosters in the third term and eventually rounded out a 14-goal win on their way to a Grand Final meeting with South Barwon this weekend.
On a disappointing day for her side which promised so much, Senior Coach Jill Leader said; "On the day they just played better han us. We knew we had to stop their attack end but we just found it too hard to do so. They showed patience and they applied pressure." Whilst taking time out to acknowledge the better St Marys' team, Leader can take heart that the completed season was the club's equal best in A Grade. The club as a whole has also been steadily moving up the Club Championship table and with nine sides making it through to finals, somoething is definitely building at West Oval.
Roosters' Netball Has Successful Assault on GFL Awards
By Carrie Rowe
GWSP Netballers came away from the League Awards function early this week with a truckload of awards headlined by Best & Fairest honours for Jess Callaghan (B) and Stacey Johnson (C). Bree Cail & Kaitlyn Amor were also named in the GFL Team of the Year whilst Jess Leader was nominated for Rookie of the Year, an award won by her sister Rachel last season.
Stacey Johnson won the C Grade League B & F
Stacey is a returning player this year and doesn't let too many goalers get the ball in 'her' goal circle. An elegant defender, you often cannot believe how she can possibly come through and take such clean intercepts. Having won the club best & fairest we knew she would fair well in the count but thought perhaps another brilliant returning player in Beth Callaghan might steal some of her votes. That she did, allowing her to finish fourth in the overall count. However, Stacey polled so well early with 15 votes in the first 5 rounds (3 votes each round) she was going to be hard to catch. Of course, she ended up winning the count convincingly with her nearest rival 9 votes away. She has offered so much defensive pressure to the C Grade side which in turn has contributed to their success as minor premiers. Congratulations Stacey...we are so very proud of you!
Jess Callaghan won the B Grade League B & F
When Jess said she wanted to come back to play we were all very excited, she is such a dynamic goaler to watch...especially those goals when she is slightly off-balanced and falling out of court. She has certainly added some experience to the B Grade side, as they continue their finals campaign, and her Rooster 'family' is very happy to have her home! The B Grade count was much closer than the C Grade one with half a dozen girls vying for the award and with one round to go Jess was tied for first spot with two others. However, after polling in the final round she managed to win by just one vote. Not only does Jess contribute so much on the court she has also spent endless hours running chocolate drives in the past and more recently designing the new A-line dress (to be unveiled this weekend). Jess, you may have been a Hot Shot in the past but winning B & F is a fabulous achievement...Congratulations! Another super Rooster to be proud of!!
Jess Leader was one of four nominees for the Rookie of the Year
Jess was nominated as a first year Rookie in A Grade and although she didn't win the Rookie of the Year she has had an exceptional year, even polling in the A Grade League Vote Count. It's not just her on court achievements that makes Jess special but what she does for her club as an umpire and ambassador for netball. Her demeanor and attitude is second to none and I know we will continue to hear about Jess' continued achievements in the future.
A Grade Team of the Year
Bree Cail and Kaitlyn Amor were named in the Team of the Year, with only 9 girls in total making the team. The Team of the Year is selected by the opposing A Grade coaches so it is such a huge honour for both girls, Bree being named as one of the goalers and Kaitlyn in the centre court. Although proud of their individual achievements, they, of course, are all business when it comes to the finals and are very eager to hit the court this weekend. Girls, I sound like a mother hen, not a Rooster, but we are all so unbelievably impressed and proud of your selection, but just make sure you kick some Dragon butt on Sunday.
Finally, after such a successful winning culture on and off the court we were hoping to do well in the Club Championship. We were so proud to have been announced as runner up behind South Barwon who have won it for the past nine years. We are certainly closing the gap and in 2012 we might just get there. To all the players, committee members, coaches, umpires, team managers, and supporters, thank you for making our club what it is... (as Jess Callaghan said in her acceptance speech) ...a family!!
2010 GWSP Reserves Premiership Team photo
The 2010 Reserves premiership team photo is now available for purchase.
Price for an individual A4 print is $20, however if there are more than 20 ordered, price will be $15.
Click on ‘gwsp reserves 2010’ and type in ‘grandfinal’ as the access code.
To order your photo, contact:
by Friday 23 September.
Photos will then be available for collection at Presentation Night (Fri 30 Sep).
Many thanks to Phil Nitchie from Nitch Photography for not only the Reserves premiership photo, but for all his quality photography work around the club over the past few seasons.
Roosters End Season on a Low.
A disappointing end to the Senior football season with the Roosters being held off by St Albans at West Oval on Saturday by 11 points.
Wayward kicking goal was a crucial factor in the end result with the Supersaints kicking 4.2 to 2.5 in the first term to set up the margin which pretty much stayed as is for the majority of the contest. Nathan Saunders was again in form for the home side with another six major, closing out a fantastic last month of the 2011 campaign for him personally. The St Albans side built on their break at the first change to lead by a comfortable 23-points at the main interval before the Roosters eventually made inroads but could not overcome the margin in the last. Brenton Ritchi also named amongst the best in a very solid past two months for the attacking defender and Kevin Bourke also at his best.
The loss was an unfortunate exclamation point on the final half of the year with GWSP losing eight of their last nine games. A season that started very promising with some wins and huge efforts against the competition's best sides gradually deteriorated through a mass of injuries. However, the uncovering of some fine Under 18 talent coming through with up to six players from the Colts making their debut as well as the recruitment of the classy Tasmanian duo of Nick Buller and Sam Page and Warrnambool lads in Lucas Boyd, Kevin Bourke and James Hussey were undoubted positives and good signs for an improved 2012.
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