Appointments for Season 2008/09

 

 

Head Coach - Alex Gerdan
Assistant Coach - Justin King
1st XI captain - Ivan Delac


Committee
President - Noel Pullen
Vice-President - Alex Gerdan
Secretary - Phil Hope
Treasurer - Julian Marwick
General committee - Phil Arnold, James Gaynor, Les Jason,

Matt O'Sullivan, David Wingfield
 

Pre-Season Training Schedule

 

MCC - Melbourne Cricket Centre

13 Duerdin Street Clayton 3168 Ph: 9558 6155

Presentation Day Awards

Congratulations to all those who picked up awards on our presentation day this year. This year, our centenary season has been very memorable and we salute those who performed exceptionally both on and off the field.

 

Senior Awards 07/08 Season
Perpetual  Trophies	Performance Trophies
Senior Club Award BRIAN McDONOUGH	1st XI Batting Ave	CON POTHITOS 67.0
	1st XI Bowling Ave	MICHAEL COVE 20.3
	1st XI Fielding Votes	AARON GREGORY 16
	2nd XI Batting Ave	CYRIL CAMPBELL 72.2
Senior Club Champion JUSTIN KING	2nd XI Bowling Ave	MARIO VUCKO 15.1
	2nd XI Fielding Votes	PAUL HACK 17
	3rd XI Batting Ave	DAMIEN RAYSON 51.2
	3rd XI Bowling Ave	MORWAN AMRO 18.7
Howard Leigh Award Outstanding Performance CYRIL CAMPBELL Century in 2nd XI grand final	3rd XI Fielding Votes	NEZAR DAOU 12
	4th XI Batting Ave	No Qualifiers
	4th XI Bowling Ave
	4th XI Fielding Votes
Most Improved Senior Player ANTONY STOJKO	5th XI Batting Ave	BRIAN McDONOUGH 81.5
	5th XI Bowling	No Qualifiers
	5th XI Fielding	MARK CORRIGAN 9
Greg Gorozidis Memorial Award Best Senior Clubmember  BRIAN McDONOUGH	1 Day XI Batting Ave	PAUL FOSTER 31.4
	1 Day XI Bowling	PETER McCONVILLE 11.6
	1 Day XI Fielding	MATT O’SULLIVAN 10
Junior Awards 07/08 Season
Perpetual  Trophies	Performance Trophies
Junior Club Champion ROBERT  BLAIR	U-16 XI Batting Ave		JAMES MORRIS 84.0
	U-16 XI Bowling Ave		ROBERT BLAIR 7.9
Best Junior Clubmember  (John & Margaret Grant Award) NICHOLAS  JEWELL	U-16 XI Fielding		TAYLOR JONES
	U-14B XI Batting Ave		NICHOLAS  JEWELL 95.7
	U-14B XI Bowling Ave		MATTHEW  NORTHAGE 13.0
Junior Most Improved Player ROBERT BLAIR	U-14B XI Fielding		CODY  SMITH
	U-14C XI Batting Ave		TIM  HICKOX 106.5
Junior Encouragement Award NICKOLAS  PERRY	U-14C XI Bowling Ave		BEN  HARRIS 12.1
	U-14C XI Fielding		BENJAMIN  VANROOY
Special Performances	U-12B XI Batting Ave		NICHOLAS  McCANN 35.8
U-14A XI - JACKSON  MOFFITT  4/29 incl  Double HatTrick  v  Beaumaris	U-12B XI Bowling Ave		RYAN  FOGARTY 8.3
	U-12B XI Fielding		TIM  GIRVAN
	U-12D XI Batting Ave		HENRY  BRAYSHAW 135.0
U-16A XI JACK JOPLING 5/15 incl  HatTrick  v  McKinnon	U-12B XI Bowling Ave		RYAN  FOGARTY 8.3
	U-12D  XI Fielding		RUPERT  LYONS
U-14C XI - BEN  HARRIS 4/19  incl HatTrick  v  McKinnon	U-12E XI Batting Ave		NICHOLAS  FREEMAN 24.4
	U-12E XI Bowling Ave		No Qualifiers
	U-12E XI Fielding		No Qualifiers

 

CENTENARY DINNER

Brighton Union's Centenary Dinner was held on March the 29th at the Melbourne Cricket Club (MCG). An amazing event was organized and all of the 200 odd attendees were treated to a magical night hosted by Victorian Legend cricketer Darren Berry and featuring a host of guest speakers.

The night culminated in the naming of the Brighton Union team of the century. Click below to see more detailed information on the full team selected.

Brighton Union CC Team of the Century

Throughout the night the crowd were treated to an amazing 4 course dinner and luxuriated in the surrounds of Australia Home of Cricket, a fitting place to celebrate this fantastic club and it's first 100 years. An array of memorable photos were flashed across the many screens in the dining area which brought about many touching applauses (for dearly departed the likes of the much loved Jack Vollugi & John Egan) cheers, jeers (when Big Al had hair) and laughs (again usually at Big Al's expense).

clockwise from above: Organizer Cyril Campbell with your webmaster and past President Kristian Byrne; Team of the Century gathered; Darren Berry chats with Nick Jewel; dinner is enjoyed while the photo collage rolls on; Darren chats with ex 1st XI captains George Polson (middle) and Graham Hamilton. George was later named team of the century Captain; your humble webmaster again with a VERY smart dressed Benny Coupe; Nezar & Nada Daou.

 

Con Pothitos wins Knight Sport Award

1st XI Captain Con Pothitos was awarded with the Longmuir Shield's highest individual honour by winning the Knight Sports player of the year for 2007/2008. Con had a very consistent year with the bat and polled well with the umpires to take away the award.

Con was joined by Ivan Delac in the CMCA best XI.

 

THE  CHAMP  HANGS  UP  THE  BOOTS

After a stellar career with Brighton Union spanning 353 games and 32 seasons, Con Gorozidis has finally declared his innings closed.

Con joined the club in 1974 as a 13 year old and from the earliest days was it was obvious he was an immensely talented player.  At the age of 14 he displayed great maturity to steer the 4th XI to victory, scoring 80 in a grand final that was slipping away, and rapidly progressed to the 1st XI, where he soon became an automatic selection.  An intimidating opening bowler, some of Con’s greatest moments have been with the ball – a marathon 9/140 off 54 overs in the 1982-83 final against arch-rivals East Sandringham (Union won by 2 runs) and 10/68 against Hampton United in a remarkable tied game in 1990-91.   Throughout the 1990/91 season, he and Michael Cordwell were a devastating new-ball combination, taking a combined 100 wickets to virtually bowl Union to the premiership.  In the 1992-93 semi-final against Bentleigh Uniting Con was dismissed cheaply but was so determined to contribute he bowled 44 overs unchanged at one end, taking 5/59, and was so exhausted at the end he virtually had to be carried off.   Brighton Union coach Alex Gerdan described him as “the ultimate competitor”.  His 630 1st XI wickets is the highest tally for the club that can be documented.

As well as being a great bowler, Con has been a spectacular and prolific batsman.  His six-hitting feats at Hurlingham Park are legendary, with some enormous hits sailing over 150 metres into the adjacent kindergarten and blocks of flats.  His best year with the bat was 1983-84, when he made 842 runs and took 38 wickets but was struck down with a serious knee injury at football training and missed out on playing in back-to-back premiership wins.  While age and injury curtailed his bowling in the late 1990s, Con continued to turn it on with the bat.  In Rd 1 of the 2003-04 season he smashed a typically brutal 130 before being runout attempting an ambitious second run.  Coming in at 3/2, he made 117 of the first 100 runs scored, and in true Con style had not picked up a bat since the end of the previous season.

above from left: Con with 90/91 opening bowling partner Michael Cordwell; Hitting a big one at Hurlingham Park; and receiving one of his 3 Knight Sports Awards

In a rain-shortened semi-final against Omega in 2005-06, he blasted a brilliant match-winning 52 in only 19 balls (6 sixes, including 2 that went over the Bricker Pavilion into the athletics track behind). In a great career Con has made 11 centuries in the 1st XI, scored nearly 10,500 runs (double the next highest 1st XI runs scorer Danny Frew), and has played 323 1st XI games, easily a club record.

A Life-member, 16 time Senior Club Champion, 5 times a premiership player, dual premiership captain/coach, winner of CMCA batting and bowling awards, 3 times winner of the Knights Sportsgoods Award as CMCA player of the year, the man known throughout the CMCA as “The Champ” has done it all.   Long-serving club secretary Noel Pullen commented “There will never be another one as good as him in the parks in a hundred years”.  Without doubt Con could have played cricket at first-class level had he wished.

On behalf of all club members past and present, we congratulate Con on his magnificent contribution to local cricket.

Thanks for the memories.

 

Con Gorozidis Statistics	1st XI 76-08	All XI's 74-08
Matches	323	353
Innings	330	365
Not Outs	20	21
Runs	10477	11485
Average	33.80	33.3
50's	68	72
100's	11	13
High Score	166	202
Catches	142	154
Overs	4070	4303
Maidens	1135	1174
Wickets	630	672
Runs	10839	11482
Average	17.2	17.1
5 wickets in an innings	43	44
Best Bowling	10 for 68	10 for 68

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