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20 Mar 10 | FOR the second time in as many years, Sedgwick will be aiming to win its first Emu Valley Cricket Association premiership when it meets Spring Gully in this weekend’s grand final at Maiden Gully.
18 Mar 10 | GOLDEN Square all-rounder Scott Johnson has become just the fifth player in the award’s history to win the Bendigo District Cricket Association Cricketer of the Year twice.
Johnson polled 17 votes at The Bendigo Club last night to win the Bill Stephenson Trophy where in a tight count, the top-six were separated by just six votes.
17 Mar 10 | THE Bendigo District Cricket Association will host its night of nights tonight when it holds its Cricketer of the Year awards ceremony.
15 Mar 10 | SPRING Gully is into the Emu Valley Cricket Association grand final after yesterday winning an epic semi-final against United at Ewing Park that is bound to be remembered for years to come.
Spring Gully won on the second-last ball of the game, and will meet Sedgwick in the grand final.
The semi-final began with United winning the toss and batting, but what then unfolded over the following five hours was remarkable.
15 Mar 10 | WEDDERBURN has claimed its first premiership since 1989 after winning the Upper Loddon Cricket Association grand final against Bridgewater by two wickets on Saturday.
15 Mar 10 | STRATHDALE-MARISTIANS and Bendigo United will lock horns for the Bendigo District Cricket Association premiership in next weekend’s grand final.
12 Mar 10 | EAGLEHAWK junior cricketer Jordan Ilsley was in sparkling form on the weekend, scoring a century for his under-15 team.
In the match between Eaglehawk and Bendigo United, Ilsley notched up an unbeaten 104 to help Eaglehawk win the match by 67 runs.
It was the first time Ilsley has made a century.
01 Mar 10 | THE make-up of the Bendigo District Cricket Association final four remains up in the air after Eaglehawk’s bowlers skittled Bendigo United for just 126 at Canterbury Park on Saturday.
Bendigo United remains favourite to retain fourth place, but its poor batting performance has left the door slightly ajar for fifth-placed White Hills.
27 Feb 10 | STRATHFIELDSAYE has an extra reason to finish its BDCA season on a high note, with two of the club’s greats to celebrate milestones.
David Rosaia will play his 200th and final BDCA first XI game, while Greg Lyon will play in his 200th club match.
The duo have been part of the BDCA furniture for two decades.
27 Feb 10 | REBEL Day began as a bet when punters at a pub decided they could swing a bat and send down the leather better than the nearby cricket club. Tomorrow, the annual match between Raywood Cricket Club and the Raywood Hotel will hit the 10-year milestone on Raywood’s turf.
26 Feb 10 | BENDIGO Cricket Club’s Sam Harper has capped a historic innings, becoming the only under-13 player to score a century in more than six seasons in the Bendigo District Cricket Association.
The 12-year-old Crusoe College student struck 100 not out in last weekend’s match against White Hills, despite being retired early in the match.
25 Feb 10 | WHITE Hills will host next month’s Bendigo District Cricket Association first XI grand final.
The BDCA board decided earlier this week that White Hills would take over from Eaglehawk as the grand final host.
“It was a line-ball decision,” BDCA president Wayne Walsh said yesterday.
22 Feb 10 | THE Taylor brothers, Dom and Cameron, played key roles in Strathdale-Maristians beating Strathfieldsaye in the Bendigo District Cricket Association’s first XI clash on Saturday.
Dom scored 30 runs and took 2-17, and Cameron hit the Suns’ top score of 54 on home turf at Bell Oval.
22 Feb 10 | A DRAMATIC batting collapse for the second time in as many matches has put White Hills’ hopes of figuring in the Bendigo District Cricket Association’s first XI finals in jeopardy.
A 114-run loss to Bendigo at the QEO knocked the Demons out of the top four.
20 Feb 10 | BENDIGO won its second Melbourne Country Cricket Week provincial premiership in four years yesterday, with a hard-fought 47-run win over Kyabram at the Albert Ground.
A brilliant batting display set up the win, with Ben Gunn (83 off 88 balls), man-of-the-match Darren Petersen (77 off 49), and Matt Kile (66 off 65) posting half-centuries in Bendigo’s imposing total of 7-295.
The target proved too much for a gallant Kyabram, who gave Bendigo plenty of headaches in its run chase.
19 Feb 10 | SOME bowlers only dream of taking a hat-trick, but for 11-year-old Riley Saunders, it was only a matter of time.
Saunders claimed a hat-trick for Bendigo Cricket Club on the first day of the under-13A clash with White Hills.
He said he had gone close to hat-tricks in the previous two weekends, but finally broke through to achieve the feat.
19 Feb 10 | BENDIGO is through to today’s Melbourne Country Week cricket provincial group grand final after a dramatic last round yesterday.
Bendigo, third going into the final premilinary game, scraped home by 13 runs against winless Warrnambool, the previously unbeaten Kyabram suffered a shock loss to Murray Valley and second-placed Mornington was belted by Geelong.
17 Feb 10 | THE Bendigo District Cricket Association is on track to qualify for Friday’s Melbourne Country Week provincial final.
Bendigo defeated perennial finalist Sale-Maffra by 12 runs yesterday to top the ladder after two rounds.
A victory today over second-placed Kyabram would all but guarantee Bendigo a grand final berth.
16 Feb 10 | BENDIGO hit off its Melbourne Country Cricket Week campaign with a hard-fought victory in yesterday’s opening round showdown with Ballarat.
After being sent in on Altona’s turf, the Bendigo line-up passed the 200-mark in an innings where key batsmen Ben Gunn, Darren Peterson and Tim Wood took control.
Gunn played a key role in a 31-run stand with Matt Kile and then a 33-run partnership with Peterson.
09 Feb 10 | THERE will be plenty of pride at stake when the Bendigo District Cricket Association takes on the Emu Valley in tonight’s Twenty20 cricket clash at the QEO.
State Emergency Service crews will be the big winner as the night becomes a fund-raiser and also a chance for the community to thank the hard-working volunteeers.