August 19
Annual
Tennis Singles Play on Fridays
With
time running out, the annual singles this year will be held on Friday nights
commencing Sept 6th to run for about 4 weeks. This will allow
the current enjoyable womens and mens competitions which have good entries to
continue a bit longer.
Last
week saw the long awaited delayed autumn A grade womens final played and
this turned out to be a nail biter in a high standard match won by the Massey
Ferguson team of Julie Lawrence and Paula Comb the score being 6/3 5/6 making a
tiebreaker necessary resulting in 7 points to 5 against the AgFlite team
of Trish McGufficke and Lou Gardam .
Current
competition matches were also played with wins to Auscott, Hay Jewellers,
Murphys Clothing Co, Japps Pharmacy with the closest match going to Lani
Houston Consulting team of Archie and Lani Houston 6/1 5/6 against the Hay
Newsagency team of Anna Lilburne and Sue Parslow
Another
top round of mens competition matches was held on Wednesday night. There was a
draw between the 92Computing team of Steve Longworth and Scott Dixon 3/6 6/3
against the XTra Shot team of Kenny and Jensen Hargreaves. Les,s Mobile Repairs team of Stu Callaghan and Daniel
Stewart continue their unbeaten run following their 4/6 6/1 win against Radio
2Hay FM. A very close match resulted in the O’Briens fertilisers team led by
Shane McGufficke winning 6/4 5/6 against Slats fireworks. Other wins went to
North East Insurance Brokers, Lugsdin Toyota and Anthony Hyde Plumbing.
Juniors
A
pleasant day at Sunday morning activities saw Jonty Woods voted the most
improved.
A
coaching school will be held in the school holidays with further details to
follow
August 12
Tennis
Competitions underway
A
great start was made to the new womens and mens competitions. Many teams received first week byes , with new team entries
still being accepted.
In
the womens competition the match of the round was the draw 6/3 3/6 between Jan
Zambons, Japps Pharmacy team, partnering Anne Mc Nally against The Murphys
Clothing team Ellen Zambon with Kate Murphy ( the
mother against daughter didnt cause any arguments). Other winners on the
night went to Auscott, Bidgee Bobcat and Demo, Slats Fireworks as well as the
Lugsdin Toyota team of Stacey and Harriet Lugsdin having a good standard win
against IGA comprising Yvonne Mack partnering Yolanda Miller making a welcoming
return to the courts . This match a real mother
daughter combinations clash with a 6/2 6/3 score.
The
mens competition wins were recorded by Eddies Concreting, ,
Les’s Mobile Repairs and lugsdin Toyota as well as Anthony Hydes Plumbing who
had a marathon one and a half hour 6/3 5/6 win against
Elders.
Juniors
Sunday
morning activities were called off due to the miserable weather conditions but
will continue on the weekend commencing at 9am.
Weekly
Award
The
Foodworks award goes to Alice Laracy called in to play as an emergency at the
last minute and played so well in the A grade match. The AgFlite and Crightons
awards went to the four players who put in a top performance on Wednesday night
–these being Bede Schiller, Tom Porter, Peter Davies and Paula Comb.
August 4
Tennis
recommences
Organised
local night competitions commence this week following a two
month winter break.
All
details for both the womens and mens nights are detailed on the clubs website advising team entries and draws. Entries are
down but are sure to pick up when the temperature gets better so late entries
will still be accepted. At this stage there are 17 womens teams and 12
mens teams.
Sunday
morning activities also returned after a lengthy break with only a handful
attending but enjoyed both the tennis and sunshine.
Congratulations
to those hay juniors who finished in the top 8 on points of their age group
following the series of Junior Development tourneys played throughout the
Riverina this year. These players will likely contest the
finals being held this year again in Wagga on Sunday 11th
August . Good luck to those players who have so far
received their invitation to participate.
July 29
Tennis
commences starting on the weekend
Night
Tennis competitions commence from Monday night 5th August
Womens and 7th August Mens. Players should check the website to see
if their entry is listed with entries closing 4th August for the
womens and the draw appearing the following day.
Annual
memberships are now due with the one month grace
period expiring on 31/7/19. The new financial year has brought in a good
membership response with non members rates now taking effect.
Juniors
Junior
Sunday morning restarts this coming weekend on Sunday morning 4th
August at the new session times of 9am and 10am
Activ
Kids vouchers can be used for tennis memberships, weekly fees, or tennis
coaching.
All
juniors receiving coaching must be club members. Membership forms and payments
can be made online or at the clubhouse.
Stuart
Callaghan also joins the Sunday morning junior activities.
A
number of Hay juniors attended the last Regional Junior Development tourney for
the year at West Wyalong on Sunday with Tilly Weeks having a successful day in
the 10yrs group and after competing in three previous tourneys has now won
her first, a great effort joining a number of other Hay players who
have won tourneys this year.
July 22
Night tennis Competitions
The
delayed Autumn Womens finals in four grades will
be played Monday 29th July with all other team entries for the new
spring competition receiving byes.
The
finals time schedule will be –
5.45pm
B Res – IGA
( K.Hutchings & M.Booth) v
Elders (T & H. Jamieson)
C Grade- Hydes Plumbing (W.Hunt & E.Curtis)
v Hills Corner Store ( R. Johnston & M.Deacon)
7.15pm A Grade HBGC (J.Weeks & J.
Lawrence) v AgFlite (
L.Gardam,T. McGufficke, B.Schiller)
B Res - Pynors (K.Hutchings & J.Booth
) v Bidgee Bobcat &Demo (L.Houston & I.Wilson)
The
mens competition including the juniors competition will now commence 7th
August with details of the competitions on the
web.
Juniors
Stuart
Callaghan is back in town and will commence coaching for juniors and adults.
Full details of all our coaches are available on our web site.
July 15
Tennis
Entries now Open
Entries
are now being taken for the new womens and mens night tennis teams
competitions to commence from the week of 29th July. The four
postponed womens finals from the last competition will also be held on this
night.
Juniors
The
school holiday coaching clinic will now be held in the Sept /Oct school
holidays before The Hay Open Tournament.
Sunday
Morning junior tennis sessions will recommence on August 4
General
Early
plans are underway to convert the clay court 5 (
which has lighting) to synthetic surface. Currently this
court is not being used due to the work and cost.
July
8
Good day-tennis
courts usage
Despite no night
tennis being held in our winter break, the courts are getting a good workout
during the day.
Some days have been
very pleasant attracting court hire from both locals and visitors. Some locals
are taking advantage of their green pass court hire entitlement this year with
many participating thanks to the organisation of Lou Gardam and Beth Schiller
and other keen players. These people win the Foodworks, AgFlite and Crighton’s
Rural weekly awards.
Our coaches are
also getting plenty of business with Lani likely to be running a coaching
school in the second week of the school holidays with enquiries to lani.
Visiting player’s the majority just passing through town are
impressed with the Hay Tennis Clubs facilities. The main synthetic courts are
looking good and special thanks again goes to the Hay Shire for their
assistance particularly for the huge financial loan to the Tennis Club to
help pay the courts resurfacing. This loan has now recently been repaid and
plans are in motion to lay a synthetic court to number 5 clay court to
utilise the lighting to this existing clay court.
July 1
Jensen
Hargreaves and Sophie Curtis selected for Riverina Tennis
The
High Schools Riverina region held their selection trials in Wagga last week
with year 7 students Jensen Hargreaves and Sophie Curtis both being selected
for the boys and girls team’s . The other Hay student
to attend the trials was Ind yanna Wilson who has been named as a substitute
for the girl’s team. This is a great effort for the Hay War Memorial High
School in gaining these selections. Kenny Hargreaves has played in the boy’s
team for the past two years but was unavailable this year. The state boy’s
carnival will be held in Wollongong, with the girls in Inverell both in
September.
Meanwhile
Hay players had success at the Temora Development tourney on the weekend with
Hilton and Jensen Hargreaves and Tilly Weeks bringing home trophies while
Charli Giddins played well missing out on a first or second spot.
All
these juniors win the Foodworks, Crightons Rural and AgFlite awards this week
News Before June 30 2019