2009 News
Friday 3 July - Shand's July Quiz Competition
Please see the bottom of this page for this month's new question just added by Shand.
Thursday 2 July - 6-a-side Competition
The 6-a-side competition will take place on Sunday 5th July starting at
about 11:30. Everyone is welcome to come up and watch and BBQs are provided - please bring your own food. If this Sunday has to be cancelled because of the weather then the competition will take place on either Sunday 12th or 19th July.
Chris Ward
Saturday 27 June - Langbaurgh League Results & Team Selections
Unfortunately the 1st XI's game at home against Skelton Castle was abandoned after eight overs but the 2nd XI fixture on the north east coast was surprisingly played without interruption though Harlsey suffered a seven wicket defeat - see Results page for further details.
Saturday 4th July
1st XI v Stafford Place (Home)
Langbaurgh League |
Saturday 4th July
2nd XI v Skelton Castle (Away)
Langbaurgh League II |
D Willey (capt)
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S Hodgson (capt)
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L Hill (wk)
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A Arrowsmith (wk)
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S Hill
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S Gaudie
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Andrew Ramsbottom
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C Holmes
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P Greaves
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P Stockill
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A Broadley
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R Mould
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S Lea
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T Breckon
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W Burns
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J Cleary
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Aaron Ramsbottom
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G Bliss
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A Walls
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S Porter
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M Wheldon
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C Ward
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Monday 4 May - Club Night
Every Friday night from now until the end of the season will be Club night down at the ground. Please turn up from 6 pm for practice sessions.
Gary Bliss
Wednesday 29 April -
New Net Completion
As the rain falls, it can only be a matter of time before the surroundings to the new net are green over with a flush of newly germinated grass, and at that point, we can truly say that the job is done.
So it is an opportune time to thank those responsible for turning, a fleeting idea, into a reality.
Gary & Dave were the motivators who set this whole thing in motion, Gary being the really clever one by making for the ski slopes while the work was actually being done! Dave was left to mind the project, cajoling myself, and Pete M, into filling in forms for grants and organizing an appeal for donations.
This appeal, after a slow start, had more support than we could possibly have hoped for. The following is a list of all those who made financial donations towards the new net. Thank you very, very much.
| Walter Burns |
Peter Mason |
Andy Broadley |
Dave Hill |
| Peter Archer |
M & J Linthwaite |
J & B Foster |
Mark Duggleby |
| John Forster |
N & L Ward |
John Holehouse |
M & S Holmes |
| E & I Bolland |
Bert Langthorne |
Rob Mould |
Dave Cleary |
| N Barnard |
Stuart Bean |
Chris Whincup |
R & G Strickland |
| T & D Briddock |
D & T Pattison |
Tilak Jayasuriya |
Joan Ward |
| Les Hill |
Kumar Kumarendran |
John Chown |
Dave Butler |
| Ross Breckon & Family |
Stephen Porter & Family |
Mrs C P Martin |
R & H Hutchinson |
| Elsie Kirby |
Gary Bliss |
Jack Ball |
A & D Arrowsmith
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| David Coleman |
M Wheldon & Mrs June Davey |
N & H Carr |
Stuart Hodgson |
| John Grainge |
Joe Hunter |
Dave Willey |
R & N Bellerby |
| P & R Greaves |
A Gaudie & Family |
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We received grants from, Hambleton District Sports Council, Grassroots Grants, the Office of the Third Sector, the Community Development Foundation, Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust and York & North Yorkshire Community Foundation. We are also hoping to be supported by the ECB Small Grants scheme.
It is all too easy to say we could not have completed the building of these nets without the above, as it is true, but that would be overlooking the biggest single contributing factor, which was all the 'hands on' work done by our own club members, digging, mixing, erecting, surveying, landscaping, mat laying, net hanging, the list goes on. To all these, our thanks as well.
Also for their help:-
Terry & Andrew Bell, who graced us with the mechanical necessities for the job, and for convincing us to take the correct decisions on the concreting front.
Nigel Keen for the lend of his generator.
Vic Wood for generous discounts on numerous materials.
Last, but not least, Sue Gaudie, who kept the worker's energy levels topped up with Stamfrey Farm cream teas.
The completed nets are in almost daily use and are a huge plus for the club. They have already transformed junior practice nights, keeping the adults at bay while they practice, being the only drawback.
On behalf of the club, again, a big thank you.
Stuart Hodgson
Saturday 11 April - New Outdoor Net
Despite a lack of numbers we made some great progress today with the new outdoor net - click here to see how we got on and to see the first ball being bowled!
Saturday 4 April - New Outdoor Net
We made some good progress the day after the Dinner despite several sore heads. Check out how the net is taking shape here.
Friday 3 April - Golf Day and Dinner
Both events were very well supported and proved successful. Click on the links below to see what happened.
Golf Day
Dinner
Wednesday 1 April - Concreting New Outdoor Net
The next working party will be on Saturday 4th April starting at 09:30. As much help as possible is needed to concrete the outer edges of the net. Please bring along a garden rake.
Friday 20 March - Concreting New Outdoor Net
It was a lovely day for laying and curing concrete so click here to see the latest progress made.
Sunday 15 March - Langbaurgh League Quiz Night
We are looking for three people to join Andy Brown in our quiz team on Monday 30 March at Hutton Rudby CC. Please email Shand ASAP if you are available as we need to let the League know if we will be sending a team.
Saturday 14 March - Outdoor Net Caption Competition
Thanks to those who turned up this morning to help with the shuttering for the new outdoor net. Click here to see a picture of the completed work and for details of a caption competition.
Sunday 8 March - EHCC Dinner
Please could all those people who wish to attend the EHCC Dinner on Friday 3rd April contact John Grainge ASAP with their orders - for further details click here.
Saturday 7 March - Outdoor Net Working Party
Thanks to everyone who turned up to help today. The weather was kind and we managed to make some excellent progress. Click on the photo below if you would like to see how we got on.
Tuesday 3 March - Outdoor Net Working Party
We are planning to hold the next work party on Saturday 7th March. We will need 4 - 5 people for the morning and more from lunch time onwards. Please bring spades, shovels and barrows if you have them. Theodolite Man Les Hill is coming first thing and the digger is arriving at 8.30 am and will be operating all day we hope.
Saturday 28 February -
Pre Season Ground Preparation
In anticipation of a start on the new all weather net, we have repaired the entrance to the field, it had become a muddy morass from visiting dog walkers cars, we suspect. With a combination of, rough stone supplied by DJTW, some finer stuff already purchased for the new net, and a few shovels, the entrance was soon given a spruce up, and should hopefully provide a smoother get in for all those lowered cars our players are purchasing these days! Click here to see the before and after photos.
Weather permitting, next Saturday should see the digging out and hard coring of the new net, so please keep a close eye on the web site for further information, we must have plenty of hands to lighten the load.
Monday 23 February - Various messages from Hodge
The mild weather this past weekend prompted the first bit of outdoor activity this year, with both mowers being given a run out, not to cut the green stuff, but just to stretch their legs ready for the off. The square and outfield are looking in good nick and Dave, that old country sage, puts it all down to the recent bit of winter we have had. Another beneficial side effect of this inclement spell, seems to have been to do for some of the local rabbit population, but has had the opposite effect on the moles, which are thriving on the road side of the field.
Late on Monday afternoon, the netting surrounding the square was removed, rolled up and dispatched to its summer quarters behind the pavilion. Talking of the pavilion, various tea urns, plates etc. etc. have appeared in the kitchen and look like they may have come from some village hall. Anyway thanks for the thought, but we have enough of our own, so if you could take them away we would be very grateful.
The area around where the new net is to go, is extremely wet still, which is a shame as the success of the appeal for donations, which has gone really well, means we are ready to go on that front, indeed in the starter blocks. We will be in touch just has soon as things dry up.
Don't forget to put your order in for the club dinner.
Sunday 8 February - Langbaurgh League AGM report by Mark Wheldon
For a summary of the main points click here.
Monday 19 January - Appeal for New Outdoor Net
Click here to see Stuart Hodgson's letter.
Saturday 17 January - First Outdoor Net Work Party
Click here to see the photos.
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Shand's July Quiz question 2009
Q.
Who is Freddie consoling in this picture?
If you know the answer just click below to email Shand. The answer together with the name of the correct entries will appear here next month.
I think I know the answer to Shand's July Quiz question
Last month Shand asked:
Q. Pictured is Guildford Grammar School. In 1598 a court case mentioned that a game of creckett was played by some boys attending this school around 1550. Why is this significant?
I had 2 correct entries to June's quiz question (Creckett is the earliest known reference to the game of cricket). Bomber & Gary Bliss were this month's brainboxes with the correct answer.
Thanks to those of you who entered last month and please have a go at this months quiz question.
Shand
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