Tongala junior cricketer Tyler Robinson took 4/3 last week including a hat-trick.
Tyler is a chip off the old block
Memories of his great grandfather here.
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When 13-year-old Tyler Robinson took 4/3 for Tongala in an Under-15 cricket clash against Echuca South last week it included a hat-trick, a feat his great grandfather, the late and great Tongala and former KDCA all-rounder and skipper Allan Corry, was uncannily good at.
Allan Corry.
Allan still holds a record in Victorian country cricket as the only bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings at Bendigo Country Week.
He performed the feat against the Gladstone association at Bendigo Country Week in 1953 with a bag of 10/15.
In fact, he took 14 wickets for only 25 runs in that game including a hat-trick.
It could have been more only the captain Frank Howley wanted him to be fresh for the next day’s game and banished from the attack in Gladstone’s second innings after he had taken 4/10 to follow up his first innings blitz.
At that Country Week, Allan took a staggering 33 wickets, including three hat-tricks, at a cost of just 4.7 runs a wicket.
But despite his bowling heroics the KDCA was beaten in the final that year by Gisborne.
Like his record-breaking 10-wicket haul, Allan would also be a serious candidate for taking the most hat-tricks in his 30-year career with Tongala Cricket Club.
He performed the three-in-a-row-feat an incredible 24 times, including one in his last game when he claimed 6/76 against Tatura in the 1973-74 KDCA grand final, a game Tongala lost.
Reunion: Members of the 1959 Kyabram seconds (reserves) premiership side in 2013. Back – Noel West, Keith Hartin, John Boardman, Des Sleeth, Geoff Squires. Front – Bernie Elliott, John Healy, Kevin McDonell, Brian Cox, Bob Gilmour, Ray Tuhan and John McCormick.
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Stalwarts remembered
Kyabram Football Club has lost former players and town stalwarts with the passing in the last week of Kevin McDonell and Greg Norris.
Both played with the Bombers in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Kevin started his career with Lancaster in the Kyabram District League and as a teenager was a member of its team that was beaten in the 1954 grand final by five points by Kyabram Boys Club.
He went onto play with Kyabram and was in is 1958 senior squad, coached by Tony Bull that beat Nagambie for the premiership.
His father Ron was secretary of the club at the time.
Kevin was a member of the Tony Bull coached and Ern Hill captained Kyabram’s reserves side which won the 1963 GVL reserves grand final.
Kevin battled ill heath in recent years, but never complained and was one of the most positive people I have had anything to do with in my life.
He was also the proud father of Bombers legend and former GVL games record holder and Lancaster premiership coach Tony McDonell.
His funeral is being held this Saturday.
Greg, affectionately known as ‘Stumpy’, was a popular local who played for keeps out of a back pocket in Kyabram reserves sides in the early 1960s.
He is the grandfather of Kyabram’s present star ruckman Zac Norris.
Stumpy had a love for the outdoors and enjoyed his fishing, shooting and travelling.
He was a prominent member of the Kyabram Angling Club from its foundation days.
He also loved his clay bird shooting and was very good at in his younger days.
Kyabram Seconds - Premiers 1963. Back row: - Laurie Walsh, Ron Murley, Dick Clay, Ron McRae, Keith Howard, Brian Pleitner, Ray Barrat, T Jones, John Boardman. Centre row: Tony Bull (Coach), John Dettman, Geoff Robbins, Keith Hartin, Kevin McDonell, Bernie Harlen, Alf Vick, Max Murley, Brian O'Meara, Dave Bates, Les Anderson (Trainer).Front row: Doug Goldsworthy, Lindsay Wickham, Ian Hilton, Ron James, Ern Hill (Captain), Bryan Hilton, Ron Wilkinson, Ray Cox.
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Eagles turn to Scott
Murray League club Echuca United has named a new coach and it’s a revered name at the club - Scott Beattie.
Beattie is the man who led Echuca United to its only Murray League flag in 2013 and has a wealth of experience having played with Geelong’s VFL side, Goulburn Valley League clubs Kyabram and Echuca and Cohuna Kangas in the Central Murray League.
He has also coached GVL and Murray League representative sides.
Beattie has a close relationship with the man he is replacing as coach at Echuca United Farran Priest - they were teammates in the 2013 United flag win - and is keen to mend the shock and disappointment of his sacking.
Commissioner Kelton
AFL Goulburn Murray has a new commissioner with Peter Kelton taking the role.
Kelton is no stranger to GVL footy circles having served on the Mooroopna Football Club board.
He is a former Mooroopna Rotarian who has been practising at the Dawes & Vary Riordan Law firm in Shepparton.
AFLGM chairman Quentin Thomson said Kelton’s appointment brought a lot of knowledge in law, strategy and governance to his organisation.
Cats holler for Marshall
Mooroopna cricketer Paul Marshall certainly had a day to remember in its clash with Karramomus in Cricket Shepparton’s B grade competition which concluded on Saturday.
On the first day Marshall took 9/17 from 11.3 overs, which included a hat-trick, and which equalled the club’s previous best bowling performance achieved in A Reserve grade by Terry Cain in 1997-98 season.
New role: Blighty senior football coach Adrian Timmis.
Journeyman to take care of Blighty
Picola Football League battler Blighty will have a new coach next year.
Football journeyman Adrian Timmis, who has taken on the role from Kyel Bain, is no stranger to northern Victorian footy circles or the coaching ranks.
His first coaching appointment was in 2008 with the now defunct Wunghnu and he was a member of the Shepparton East flag winning side in 2010 when both teams competed in the Picola League.
He went onto coach teams in the Mornington Peninsula Football League.
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