Senior Trophy Awards

The Club’s Presentation Night was not able to be held until Friday 4th September due to COVID. With the Bradman Medal Night cancelled, SACA awards to Glenelg players, were also presented at the clubs presentation night. These players were leading performers for both the club and the SACA competition.

Sam Starling Medal Winner

Jake Winter (2019 winner) presenting to 2020 winner Ben Bullimore

SACA Jason Gillespie Rising Star Award

Lynton Donisthorpe SACUA presenting to winner Liam Scott

Seafillies Trophy Women’s Best Player

Winner Anesu Mushangwe receiving the award from Sally Niehuus

SACA 2nd Grade Women’s Best Player Lyn Fulston Medal

Lynton Donisthorpe SACUA presenting to winner Anesu Mushangwe

SACA 4th Grade Best Player McLeod Wilson Medal

Winner Ben Sedunary receiving the award from Lynton Donisthorpe SACUA

SACA 4th Grade Best Player McLeod/Wilson Medal

Bev McLeod (wife of Graham McLeod deceased, after whom the medal is named) with the winner Ben Sedunary

SACA 2nd Grade Women’s Leading Wicket Taker

Winner Anesu Mushangwe receiving the award from Jarret Moyse (President GDCC)

SACA 3rd Grade Men’s Leading Run Scorer

Jarret Moyse (President GDCC) presenting to winner Steven Heatley

SACA 4th Grade Men’s Leading Run Scorer

Jarret Moyse (President GDCC) presenting to winner Scott Applegarth

Mayors Award

Mayor Amanda Wilson presents Mayors Award to winner David Boschma

President’s Award

Jarret Moyse presenting Life Membership certificate to Ashley Capp who was also recipient of the President’s Award

Ben Bullimore with his trophy haul

Anesu Mushangwe with her trophy haul

After finishing agonisingly short of finals action in 2018/19, the 1st Grade came into this season with fresh optimism and confidence that we could take that next step and make the top 4. The core of the team remained largely unchanged however we knew our batting depth would be tested with the retirements of club leading 1st Grade run scorer Tom Plant along with 1st Grade stalwart Nathan Schollar, as well as an untimely injury to last season’s record breaking run machine Jake Winter which would eventually rule him out for the entire season. To fill these roles, we recruited Australian U/19 representative Liam Scott from New South Wales to add to our group in both batting and bowling departments, as well as the return of English overseas player George Hankins after 2 previously successful stays with the club.

We began the season strongly with an away win to notorious powerhouse Tea Tree Gully, where Liam Scott on debut dominated with 115 and 2 wickets leading the way and showing us the star talent we had recruited. Unfortunately, an early batting collapse of 6/60 led to our demise against Southern Districts, which was followed up with a rain-affected draw against West Torrens in our first 2 day game of the season. Consecutive victories against Prospect and Adelaide was soured by a loss to East Torrens but we headed into the Christmas break 1 game outside of the finals race.

After meeting and going down to a high-quality Adelaide University side after Christmas, we had an amazing last over victory against Sturt with skipper Chadd Sayers coming to the rescue with an impressive 73* to guide us to victory. From here, we unfortunately didn’t play our best cricket the remainder of the season to have a draw (albeit rain-affected) against Port Adelaide and backto-back losses to Woodville and eventual premiers Kensington to all but end our chances of playing finals cricket. However, we did finish the season in impressive fashion, beating Northern Districts by a whopping 228 Our One Day cup campaign, which all games counted for 2 day Premier Cricket points as well, was a roller coaster. As alluded to previously, a thumping win against Tea Tree Gully was accompanied with 2 other victories against Prospect and Sturt, however defeats to Southern Districts and Adelaide University meant that we finished 5th and a game outside of 4th position to play finals cricket in the One Day competition.

Historically, we have fielded an extremely strong T20 side however, as was the case with the one and two day competition, we were slightly off the pace this season. A first round loss to Prospect was a big wake up call, but we responded well with a 68 run victory against Northern Districts in Round 2. Defeats immediately following the Christmas break to Sturt, Kensington and Tea Tree Gully all but ended our hopes for T20 success, albeit having a consolatory win against Woodville in the last game to restore some pride.

Whilst there are no doubts the 1st Grade underachieved this season, there remained highlights which shows promising signs for the years to come. We had 3 debutants in Liam Scott, Isaac Higgins and Riki Boschma, who all showed they are good enough to succeed at 1st Grade level. We also had three significant 1st Grade playing milestones with returning 2012/13 premiership player Trent Carter and fast bowler Jack Pudney playing their 50th 1 Grade games respectively for the club. We also had Ben Bullimore play his 100th 1st Grade game to become our newest life member at the club. Well done all on those achievements!

Outside of club cricket and we had great representation at national carnivals. Isaac Higgins had an outstanding U/17 carnival to be the leading run scorer of the carnival (425 at 85) and earn a spot in the Cricket Australia XI which competed at the U/19 championships, where Liam Scott, Will Bowering and Josh Hoffmann represented South Australia at the same time. Whilst all the boys went well, special mention must go to our leg spinning guru Will who led the carnival for wickets (18 at 12.83).

Continuing on and congratulations must go to Liam Scott who represented Australia at the U/19 World Cup in South Africa in February: a massive achievement! Liam also made his Sheffield Shield debut against Western Australia at the WACA prior Western Australia at the WACA prior to Christmas, and as credit to all the work he puts into his game he took