Valley on tour at the Barooga Over-35s

Valley on tour at the Barooga Over-35s 
Moonee Valley again sent a team to the Barooga Over-35s cricket tournament this year, and conditions were again challenging for sport.
From the mid-40s temperatures for our inaugural team at the January 2014 tournament, we ventured up this year for torrential rains and one game played in an outfield covered by sheets of water.
The players did our Club proud, even if we didn't win any of our three games over the January 13-15 tourney.
Our Valley regulars in the team were Sean O'Kane (capt), Mark Gauci, Daniel Phillips, Adam Patchell, Dean Jukic, James Holt, Neil King, Allan Cumming, Charlie Walker and Shannon Hood. We topped off our squad with two mates of Daniel - Brian Furlong from the Donnybrook Cricket Club and Steve Smales from Romsey CC.
The tournament is played on excellent turf wickets. Our first game, at Barooga, was 40 overs. The second, at Cobram, was 30 overs a side and the third, at Tocumwal, was shortened to a Twenty20 so that we could complete our Barooga fixture from the Tuesday, which had been postponed at the lunch break due to the downpour.
Thanks again to Moonee Valley's current Lindsay Jones best clubman Sean O'Kane for organising the team, financing the entry fee and providing excellent hospitality in his home town.
Our team plays under the Moonee Valley name and wearing our club colors and logo, so the stats from the tournament go into our club records as official Moonee Valley games.
Above: Our Barooga team after the final match: L-R. Back - Neil King, Brian Furlong,
Mark Gauci, Adam Patchell, James Holt, Steve Smales and Daniel Phillips. Front - Dean
Jukic, Sean O'Kane, Allan Cumming and Charlie Walker.