Our winter warriors 2017

OUR WINTER

WARRIORS

Moonee Valley held its winter competition presentation night in style, with a classy sit-down meal at the L'Osteria restaurant in North Fitzroy.
The September 10 gathering was hosted by Moonee Valley winter player Kern Kapoor, whose family owns L'Osteria and has been an excellent host to our presentations for four seasons now.
At right: Proud winter comp trophy winners: L-R Neil King, Michael Ozbun, Jordon McDonald and Matthew Esmore.
Kern's not only a good host - he's a good cricketer as well. He has played 39 winter games for the Valley - second only to Michael Ozbun on 43 - and has more runs and more wickets than anyone else at our club.
Our next mission is to get him into the summer whites at Moonee Valley - but at this stage Kern's still working up the ranks in Premier cricket.
Around two dozen Valley players and family attended the presentation for our two teams - Michael Ozbun's Moonee Valley Black and Shane McDonald's Moonee Valley White.
Matthew Esmore won the Black batting award with 345 runs pre-finals at a staggering 86.25 average, while Dwayne Barker won the White batting with 190 runs @ 23.75.
The ageless Neil King won the White bowling with eight wickets @ 11.38, and Chris Pollock took out the Black bowling with eight wickets @ 17.75.
The Black fielding award was jointly won by Anthony Cafari and Michael Ozbun, and Jordon McDonald won the White fielding trophy.
The Black MVP going to Matthew Esmore was no surprise, given he won the award for the whole grade, and Jordon McDonald was the stand-out player for the White team.
We also welcomed three players who played winter comp with the Valleys in 2017 and are joining Moonee Valley this season for summer cricket - Andreas Skiotis, Nigel Cowan and Akshat Sehgal.
At left: Our new summer recruits from our winter teams: L-R Nigel Cowan, Akshat Sehgal and Andreas Skiotis.