Congratulations to the Gauci family

Congratulations to Moonee Valley Life Member Mark Gauci and his partner Vanessa Schuller on the safe arrival of their first child.
Daughter Marley was born at the Royal Women's Hospital at 1.02am on October 5, hitting the scales at 6 pounds, 13 ounces.
Mother and daughter are both doing well - which is more than we can say for Gauch, who was exhausted after 49 hours without sleep while Vanessa did all the work.
Like a dutiful dad, Mark was present at the birth.
Gauch also raised some eyebrows when he missed his debut match as captain of the Moonee Valley Sixths to attend the arrival. We understand a coup to reinstate Brett Curran as Skipper is imminent.
As a past First Eleven Premiership captain, Mark said his responsibilities at Marley's arrival were not much different to the frustrating task of pulling 10 cricketers into line week in, week out.
Mark advises that he's already made all the right moves to ensure that Marley grows up as a Collingwood supporter. And he's also spoken to our Milo In2Cricket co-ordinator, fellow Life Member John Talone, to ensure that Marley can pick up a cricket bat for Moonee Valley as soon as she's able.
Congratulations to Mark, Vanessa and Marley from all of us at the Valley!

WE NEED MORE JUNIOR CRICKETERS

Moonee Valley Cricket Club has vacancies across all age groups for junior cricketers. Our juniors play in the North West Metropolitan Cricket Association, and our junior program offers an excellent pathway for youngsters to work their way up through the age groups and grades to senior cricket.

We're based at Ormond Park, in Pattison Street, Moonee Ponds.

Moonee Valley fields teams in the Under 16, Under 14, Under 12 and Under 10 age groups, and has a Milo In2Cricket program for the youngsters.

Our Under 16s play Sunday morning home games, which enables players who have compulsory school sport commitments to still play with our Club.

Our Under 14s play Friday evening home games, while we have a range of Friday, Saturday and Sunday alternatives for the Under 12s.

The Under 10s are a Friday evening competition, while we also run our Milo program on Friday nights.

Anyone wanting more information about our juniors should ring Club President Charlie Walker on 0409 237 543 or Junior Co-ordinator Kevin Gardiner on 0417 536 896.

Our cricket season's now here!
*   All the details on new clothing:
*   Call for nominations for Junior Committee:
*   Get on board with sponsorships - call James Holt:
*   All the details on Senior Membership Fees:
*   Keen to join Moonee Valley? Ring Charlie Walker:

Moonee Valley Cricket Club's getting into the swing as we head into our 2014/15 season.
Moonee Valley Cricket Club Vice President Simon Thornton has been busy in recent weeks organising new clothing lines and merchandise for our members - including personalised kit bags.
Simon is keen to take pre-orders. Look at the flier here to make your choice, and let Simon know on simon.thornton@hotmail.com

Junior Co-ordinator Kevin Gardiner (left) is again running juniors, which start their season the weekend after school holidays finish. Contact Kev at kevingardiner@hotmail.com if you're interested in being part of the Junior Committee this season.

Seniors are training Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5pm, and our season starts on the October 4/5 weekend. If you haven't yet been to senior pre-season training, now's the time to blow out the cobwebs. New players are welcome for our four turf and three hard-wicket teams. 

Committee member James Holt (right) is taking a priority look at our Club sponsorships leading in to the season. We're a big club with a lot to offer to local businesses, so get in touch and James will tailor a package to benefit both the Club and our supporters. He's on mvccsponsorship@gmail.com 

And here's the detail of our membership fees for this season. Simon Thornton is looking at some exciting benefits for members - especially those who sign up early. Watch this space!

New or interested senior players? Ring Club President Charlie Walker on 0409 237 543, or email to charlie.walker@optusnet.com.au  and we'll get you signed up.

We're proud of our Winter Comp Grand Finallists

Moonee Valley might have fallen short in the Mid Year Cricket Association Central Division Grand Final, but we didn't lose any friends doing it.

We put in a  hard-fought performance, but probably ended up chasing a few too many runs, and fell short.

But we're proud of our boys, for what was a great season  under first-time skipper Michael Ozbun.

Ozzie was terrific in the way he led the troops, and thanks must also go to Premier player Kern Kapoor, in his second Winter season with Moonee Valley, who was invaluable in advising and assisting Ozzie in the technical and tactical finer points of the game.

The team is pictured here: L-R. Back - Daniel Comande, Adam Patchell, Ben Thomas, Anthony Cafari, Kern Kapoor, Peter Golding and Mick Bannister. Front - Michael Ozbun, Bede Gannon, Jack Newman, Amandeep Singh and Gaurav Malhotra.

Moonee Valley's Words of Wisdom Wisden

Here's the long-awaited 2013/14 Moonee Valley Wisden, chock full of stats and information from the just-completed season and harking back to our distant past.
As always, there's hours of reading and stats to pore over.
Some of the questions you'll have answered are:
     *Who's the captain of our Wisden Team of the Year?
     *Who's the opening bowling attack in our Wisden Team of the Year?
     *Who scored most runs over the season?
     *What are our new all-time best partnerships?
     *Who's played our most combined senior/junior games?
There's 102 pages of reading and you'll find out all about the season that was - including the Sixths Premiership.
The 2013/14 Junior Wisden is in the final stages of production, and will be posted on the website shortly.
We should have printed copies of the Senior Wisden available to hand out at the Annual General Meeting on July 7.
*To see the 2013/14 Wisden, click HERE 

* To see the 2013/14 Junior Wisden, click HERE 

 Main Club contact details:

* Charlie Walker - President 0409 237 543; 9370 1802
* Adam Patchell - Club Secretary 0407 552 141 
* Peter Golding - Club Treasurer 0419 009 721
* Simon Thornton - Vice President 0417 570 779
* Kevin Gardiner - Junior Co-ordinator 0417 536 896

Email: mooneev@club.cricketvictoria.com.au


For more contacts, see " Office bearers & Officials " under "Club News & Info" at the top of the page

Last updated: October 7, 2014.

For more of our history, including our Premierships, click HERE