the history of western suburbs district cricket club 1921-2002

-59-included the same three players.A sponsorship arrangement was commenced with the new Indooroopilly Hotel and the trophy nightpresentation was held there.FIRST GRADECenturiesFive WicketsA J Bailey 172 K R Melksham 25/7/59/5A J Bailey 104 K R Melksham 10/3/23/6R D Lupton 104 G J Rowell 24.2/13/27/52000-1Significant changes occurred at the AGM with Marcus Titley beating Paul Mooney by ballot for thePresident’s position and the resignation as Secretary of Roger Prentice. They both remained on thecommittee. Marcus and Maurie Gray lent the club substantial sums of money to assist with finances.Stephen Le Flay added stability by continuing as Treasurer. Darren Whitney continued as Chairmanof Selectors and Jack Draney continued as groundsman. Alan Guimelli of AXA Insurance continuedas a generous sponsor. James Bazzo commenced his third year as Second Grade scorer and assistantFirst Grade scorer when Denise Gray was away with illness. Unfortunately Marcus Titley had to resignas President and Secretary after nine months because of personal business commitments.The First Grade team made the K&R Plumbing One Day final but were beaten by Valley at Alan BorderOval by a rampaging Shinnick and Hayden. The latter’s innings was the springboard to the highest runaggregate in a three test series (v India in India) and the highest Australian test run aggregate in acalendar year. It was no disgrace to lose to opposition of that calibre. The Women’s team were beatengrand finalists. The First Grade batting was led by Andrew Bailey (383 runs) and Ross Lupton and theleading wickets taker was the captain, Greg Rowell with 31 wickets.FIRST GRADECenturiesFive WicketsA J Bailey 115 R O Wallace (1D) 6/38D A Tuckwell 105 S J Magoffin 5/34R D Lupton 110 S J Paulsen 5/38S L Ryan 102R D Lupton 1022001-2Paul Mooney returned as club President and Jason Schubert took over as Secretary. The club hadone of its best seasons ever coming second in the Club Championship, First and Second Grades. Bothwere beaten finalists and the women’s team, while providing six state representatives won thepremiership. Following in the footsteps of Leonie Shields in the previous season, Melissa Bulow wasthe Club Cricketer of the Year winning the Carl Rackemann Shield. Melissa and Belinda Mathesonwere in national squads.First Grade’s success was due in no small part to Greg Rowell’s inspiring captaincy and on fieldperformances that made him the first Wests’ player to win the Peter Burge medal for grade cricket. Therunner up in the QCA competition was Steven Paulsen who made giant strides in all three departmentsof his game. He was selected at season end in the QAS squad whilst Steven Magoffin, after taking 17wickets in representative matches for QAS and the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy won a rookieBulls contract for 2002-3. Dean Tuckwell scored a century in a session in Round 2 and a scintillating98 run out in the second innings of the final. Matthew Lane played correctly and consistently throughoutthe season and bowled improving offspinners as did Aaron Nye, on transfer from Norths. Aaron scoredinnings of 98 in each of the semifinal and final to form the backbone of the team’s batting in thoseinnings. Andrew Bailey and Ross Lupton also batted well. The ground fielding of the team wassuperb.The club welcomed back Damien Mealey after more than a decade to captain Second Grade. This teamcontained a good blend of experience (Steven Ryan, David Lossberg and Nathan Coleman) andpromising youth in the form of Brett Beavan (2 centuries), Julian Nielsen (Queensland U19 selection),Anthony Murnane, David Pamenter and Chris Titley. Stuart Brand also batted well particularly in thesemifinal. Fred Gwinn had an outstanding season with the ball and Richard Saniga won the BobSpence Medal for outstanding performances in Second, Third and Fourth Grades with bat and ball.FIRST GRADECenturiesFive WicketsD A Tuckwell 120 S J Magoffin 5/73S J Paulsen 5/81