5-11 Jan - U18 National Cricket Championship - Adelaide
Pip Taylor spent a few days representing ACT and had an outstanding championships. Pip was the main wicket keeper and opening bat.
As the opening bat, Pip had six ininings and scored a total of 127 runs at an average (25.4) and a strike rate of 64.5. It was a great display as Pip was placed fourth in the overall batting averages. Her innings of 80 in the play off for third/fourth place was the highest personal sore of the championship.
ACTs opening partnership of Zoe Richards and Pip had four of the top ten opening partnerships of the championships (2nd, 3rd, 4th and 9th). Pip also carried her bat in the innings against Tasmainia.
As wicketkeeper Pip had five stumpings and one catch in six matches played.
The Trundle dynamo at just 16 had an outstanding championship and helped the ACT to an outstanding result for the carnival.
8-9 Jan - Dubbo New Year Carnival
The old stager of Trundle athletics again proved competitive in his age group. Ian Leonard returned from the carnival with five wins and three seconds from eight events. Ian was runner up in the Shot Put, Discus and 100 metres and won 200 metres, Javelin, High Jump, Long Jump and Triple Jump. With new records in the High Jump and Long Jump shows the old fellow still has a little spring in his step and proves training with the younger Trundle athletes rubs off.
Feb - High Performance Training for Sam Coster
Four Red Bend Catholic College students, Toby Evans (Parkes), Cameron Clarke (Lake Cargelligo), Sam Coster (Trundle) and Ethan Williams (Lake Cargelligo), attended a special St George Dragons High Performance Unit (HPU) rugby league training session held at Wade Park in Orange. The training camp was conducted by HPU coaches Ben Haran and Dave Ballard. Sam Coster signed with the Dragons last year and has also attended training camps over the holidays at Wollongong. Dragons’ development staff now monitors Sam throughout the year - during club, school and representative games and trials.
March - NSW State Primary School Swimming Championships
Trundle Central School and St Patricks School both qualified teams to compete in the PP5 Relay. The Central Schools team of Karl Truner, Albert Wykes, Subrina Curr and Katrina Kolges finished in 12th place.
St Patricks School team of Tom Aveyard, Jaiden Burke, Molly Aveyard and Brad Watt had a great carnival finishing second overall.
Congratulation to both teams who were great ambassadors for Trundle.
March - Western Area CHS Touch Football Trials
Krystal Walsh attended the trials for the Combined High Schools Touch team in Dubbo on 2-3 April and was selected in the team to compete in Newcastle 30th April - 1st May. Krystal's skill's were on display at the years trials in Dubbo and continued her fantastic performance from being in the Western Region Primary girls team last year.
May - Western Rams Under 18's
Sam Coster was the captain of the victorious Western Rams side that took out the Country Championships. The game was played as a curtain raiser for te city v Country clash.
May 27th - Gobondery/NARRAF Cross Country
Trundle Central School had outstanding success at the Cross country at Tottenham. Trundle Central competed against seven other primary schools and had success winning the Handicap Trophy (Decided on points scored divided by school enrollment)
Brooke Morgan(10 years) and Albert Wykes (12-13 years) won there race while Monique Morgan (8-9 year) and Bryce Rowley-Howarth (12-13 years) finished second and Liam Walsh (10 years) finished fourth and qualify for the Region Cross country in Wellington on 15 June.
Jun - NSW Under 18 Team
Red Bend, Group 11, Western Rams and Country lock, Sam Coster, was named in the team to play Queensland 18's at ANZ Stadium on Wednesday 15 June, prior to the second State of Origin Game.
Sam was the only country based player to be selected in the team coached by Craig Sandercock. Sams follows in the footsteps of Parkes footballers, Brad Jayet who played for Western Division, Country and NSW against Queensland in 1978 and Travis Ware in 1988.
Match Report:
There will be no shortage of passion in future State of Origin matches if the U18’s fiery curtain-raiser to game two at ANZ Stadium is anything to go by.
The match, comfortably won by the NSW under 18s 16-6 over their Queensland counterparts, erupted five minutes into the second half when a brawl broke out on the Blues' try line. The scrap started when NSW fullback Nesiasi Mataitonga was set upon after he spilled a grubber kick and escalated into four separate fights.
NSW were fired up by champion Blues prop Glenn Lazarus, who handed them their jerseys pre-game, while coach Craig Sandercock said he had showed his team highlights of some of the great Origin moments during the week. "I got a little bit of vision and a few highlights of what Origin means and that probably fired the boys a little bit and inspired them to have a bit of a dig," Sandercock said.
Queensland may have won the fight - they received the penalty - but the Blues showed their future looks promising with tries to Sam Coster, back rower Kyle Lovett and Michael Lichaa securing the win.
Showing their never-say-die spirit, Queensland fought until the final whistle and were rewarded with a try in the 53rd minute to Tautau Moga.
Two players left the field with potentially serious injuries, with Blues lock Ben Roose dislocating his knee and Queensland's Caleb Binge suffering an ankle injury. Binge was the player who accused Penrith centre Timana Tahu of racial abuse last season.
Thailand Success
Former resident, Debbie Bishop is the first foreign girl to fight in the Famed Fairtex Muay Thai Boxing stadium at Pattaya Thailand.
Debbie was part of the recent 2011 MASA Thailand Tour, trained hard for the fight against a seasoned and tough Thai opponent. The fight was fought under full Thai rules - hands, feet, knees and elbows - in extremely humid conditions. Debbie had to dig deep as all the betting was on the more experienced Thai girl.
Debbie trains at the Jukudokai Gym situated at the Parkes PCYC under head trainer Darren Jordan. Darren said Debbie's better boxing skills paved the way for a victory.
"It was a very gutsy win. The fight had the crowd roaring, both Thai and foreign alike, as the battle see-sawed back and forth," Darren said.
In the end, the Thai referee raised Debbie's hand in what has become a historic win!
September - NSW Combined High Schools State Championships
Saturday 10th September at the Combined High Schools State Athletic Championships in the 17 years and over Javelin, Blake Ridges finished second.
Not a bad week,he also played in the winning Spaceman’s U18 Grand Final winning team.
September - Australian Primary School Athletics Championship
November - 2011 ACT Secondary Athletics Championships
The ACT Secondary Athletics Championship were held on 10 November. Pip Taylor representing Canberra Girls Grammar School in the 17 years girls division had another out standing day in the field. Pip was third in the discus (26.35m) second in the Shot Put (9.69 m) and won the Javelin with a throw of 34.40 m
December - Western Plains Zone Carnival
The Western Plains Zone Carnival was held at Dubbo on 3-4 December. The carnival was held in mild summer conditions. Athletes from the Tullamore Little Athletics had a grreat time and all qualified to attend the Regional Carnival in Feb 2012 at Kiama.
Pip Taylor won the Discus and Javelin and second in Shot Putt. Pip had an outstanding Javelin Competition with a throw of 36.18 metres to establish a new record and was also a personal best.
Danial Woods qualified to progress by finishing second in 80m Hurdles, Discus and third in 200m.
Monique Morgan progressed in 100m, 400m and had an impressive run in the 800m
The other athletes who performed well were were Brooke Morgan (1500m), Cameron Shepard (Discus), Simeon Kelly (Shot Putt), Mathias Kelly (400m), Elisa Kelly (200m Hurdles) , Lydia Kelly (100m, 400m, 200m Hurdles, Triple Jump, Discus, Javelin).
Surf Lifesaving Hall of Fame
Surf Lifesaving Australia has inducted the Killcare Men's Beach Relay Team into its Hall of Fame. The relay team dominated racing from 2000 to 2006, with five consecutive titles at the Australian Surf Life Saving Championships plus four straight word titles.
The team of Adam Bird, Stephen Munnery, Brice Johnson (Brice Johnson is the son of Sue and Graham, formerly of Trundle) and Marcus Kain were all part of the Killcare team to claim a fifth straight national gold, breaking the previous record of two in a row.
Club coach John Bourne, said the team was thrilled to be officially recognized for their achievements. Our team was formed in 1999, mainly to boost patrol members for Killcare SLSC, he said.
The club only had 20 patrolling members at that stage so the new relay team combined with the local winter swimming clubs, added much needed members. In our first season together, we won the Aussie and World titles which was an amazing feat. Over the years, we had a few relay members change due to injury, work commitments and geography, but the team spirit and enthusiasm stayed the same.
The SLSA Hall of Fame was founded, in 2002 and recognizes members and teams who .have made an outstanding contribution to surf lifesaving.
