Club News

Past Players Day this Saturday 4th June

State League will be playing Williamstown on Saturday 4th June and we have scheduled this as our past players day. As always it will be a great day and opportunity to catch up with your former teammates from years gone by. There will be junior games starting at 9.30am, 11.00am and a Div 2 game at 1.00pm prior to State League at 2.30pm. We would dearly love to see you and as many of our former players attend, so please make an effort to return for the day. Also if you can inform any other former players that you might keep in touch with as we may not have them on our database.

We will have the BBQ going and the fridge stocked. To plan a successful day, if you could please notify the club with an email or call so we can arrange for catering on the day.

Jeff Campbell 0403 669 831 president@malvernlacrosse.com

Brendan Farrell 0412 887 871 farrell@creativity.com.au

Rod Ansell 0419 683 407 Rod.Ansell@disney.com

Gus Campbell 0408 850 007 digilithprint@iinet.net.au

Kon Mitsopolous 0403 913 988

Fixture and Social Calendar

The following link to an Excel spreadsheet has the latest update to the social calendar and to recent changes to the fixture. More changes to come.

Fixture and Calendar

Results from World Indoor Lacrosse Championship

21/5/2011	England	vs	Australia	20-8
23/5/2011	Canada	vs	Australia	26-2
24/5/2011	Australia	vs	Slovakia	12-7
26/5/2011	USA	vs	Australia	28-2
28/5/2011	Australia	vs	England	8-23

BarrowEsky of Booze raffle

We are still in the process of collecting donations for the Esky of Booze, so if you are a senior player and haven’t yet made a donation to the Esky it would be greatly appreciated if you could.

Merchandise and Equipment

The Club has a range of junior equipment and merchandise for sale.

Social Membership Keyring Stubbie Holder 1 free drink	$35.00
Adjustable Cap	$20.00
Polar Fleece Beanie	$20.00
Knitted Beanie	$20.00
T-Shirts	$25.00 or 2 for $40
Hoodie (last seasons)	$35.00 (2 left)
Hoodie	$45.00
Stubbie Holder	$7.00
Membership Keyring	$12.00
Reebok 7K Armpads	$45.00
Brine 8″ Junior Gloves	$45.00
Brine 12″ Junior Gloves	$45.00
Warrior 12″ Junior Gloves	$45.00

Photos of the equipiment and merchandise can be seen on the website under the Merchandise heading. http://www.malvernlacrosse.com/merchandise/

For further enquiries or to place an order if you cannot get to the club please contact Brendon Farrell on 0412 887 871 or email him at farrell@creativity.com.au

Fees Now Due

If you haven’t already done so, it’s time to pay your 2011 fees

Senior Mens	$300
Senior Womens	$250
U18’s	$200
U16’s	$180
U14’s	$160
U12’s	$160

Once your fees are paid in full you can get your free reversible training top, these tops are for all playing members from senior mens and womens through to the Under 12’s.

Fees can be paid at the bar in cash, cheque or via EFTPOS

This Weeks Games

Sat	14:30	State League (Malvern Town Hall )	Malvern	Vs	Williamstown
	12:30	Division 2 (Malvern Town Hall )	Malvern	Vs	Caulfield
	1:30	Division 3 (Malvern Town Hall)	Walkover
	11:00	Under 18 (Malvern Town Hall)	Malvern – Caulfield	Vs	MHS
	11:00	Under 16 (Malvern Town Hall)	Malvern – Caulfield	Vs	Williamstown Fearons
	9:30	Under 14 (Malvern Town Hall)	Malvern	Vs	Williamstown
Sun	14:15	B Grade (Footscray)	MCC	Vs	Malvern

Game Day Reports

State League Report by – Glenn Meredith

Malvern vs Eltham.

Result – Loss 14-7

Probably our worst defensive effort of the season allowing Eltham to score 14 goals with most of them one on one from the crease gave new goalkeeper David Gal no chance even though he was clearly our best player on the day with 18 saves, the game would have been a disaster without him. Josh Naughton, AJ and Callum played their best games for the year and Squeak always gives it all in the middle which were positives but our overall shooting areas were again undoing the time and space we had created for ourselves in attack. A lot of players in the squad have an opinion during the game on why we are struggling in the attack half but then go out and turn it over themselves which might explain my thinning grey hair, but they are passionate and competitive people and that will never be a negative with me, it just needs to be channelled into the game and attack on the ball, we as a group are so close to being a good outfit and that is what frustrates them “and me” more than anything!

Defensively we were loose for the first time in 2011 with ball watching and not recognising Eltham’s attack pattern hurting us badly on the day, this will be tightened up during the week.

Huge game against No 1 ranked Williamstown at the Town hall this week with a couple of hundred of Malvern’s past players and supporters going to make it a terrific day. It’s a real David and Goliath game but l know the 2011 Malvern team will give it everything we have and you will be proud of all our boys on the day.

Division 2

Malvern vs Eltham.

Result – Win 14-9

Division 3

Malvern vs

Surrey Park.

Result – Walkover

B Grade

BYE

Under 18’s

Malvern – Caulfield
vs
Melbourne High School.

Result – Loss 4-8

Under 16’s

Malvern – Caulfield vs Chadstone.

Result – Win 24-9

The Under 16 team ventured to Camberwell to take on a full strength Camberwell / Chadstone combined team.

The team welcomed back Mikey P, Dylan and Corey which certainly added strength and versatility to the line up.

Mikey P and Corey (playing out of his normal defensive role) dominated the centre face offs and gave the attack first use of the ball on many occasions.

Joe (5 goals), Hugo and Hamish ran hard through the midfield and provided plenty of scoring options in attack.

Dylan (6 goals), Jordie and Nick Chapman controlled the ball on the forward line and the team scored some great “team” goals.

Paul Loulatzis (U’14) playing his first game with the Under 16’s chipped in with a great last quarter goal.

The D is really starting to play as a unit with Darian having another solid game in the cage well supported up by Tim, Bruno and Nick.

Great effort all round.

Under 14’s

Malvern vs MCC.

Result – Win 29-2

It was a good game on Saturday and we started well with a good warm up under our belt.

The opposition were mostly first year players but we still had to get the job done and get the 4 points.

After quarter time we swapped the D and A around a bit so everybody could stay warm and get a good run.

We had some very good passages of play during the day and scored most of our goals via assists

which was very pleasing.

Our on field TALK must get louder as there were a few occasions of confusion.

We played very hard but were still able to maintain a very Sportsman like attitude for the whole game.

Special thanks to Pauly and Darcy for playing a quarter for MCC to help out.

It was also very pleasing to see Rupert getting into some great form playing a fair bit on the backline and ending up with 7 goals.

It was also a great leadership game from Co Captain Nick Chappy.

Final score – Malvern 29 v MCC 2

Good Tough Malvern Lacrosse Each and every Day

Under 12 Red’s

Malvern Red vs Eltham Russell.

Result – Win 10-0

Under 12 Black’s

Malvern Black vs Eltham Durham.

Result – Win 22-9

Malvern Black hosted Eltham Durham in the first round in the Sharks Division. A new problem for Malvern lacrosse this year is having good player numbers.

After splitting the players into two teams we had a mix of experienced and new players Noah and Sam. With a bench of 5 getting all the players a good run was going to be difficult. Rotation through the midfield was excellent by all players.

The number one request during the prematch chat was to have a smile on your face at the end of the game and everyone did.

Great transition through the midfield and excellent team work saw most players score including first gamer Sam.

Goal scorers Tom Bown 3, Lachlan 2, Ben 1, Aaron 5, Ally 3, Sam 1, Louis 3, Ashley 1, George 3.

Great first game

Lacrosse News

3 Positions available on ALA

The 3 positions being advertised on the ALA website will also be on the website www.sportspeople.com.au, and they are –

ALA Director of Marketing closing date for applications is Wednesday 15 June 2011

ALA Executive Assistant closing date for applications is Wednesday 15 June 2011

ALA Director of High Performance closing date for application is Monday 20 June 2011

To view the information please go to the ALA website www.lacrosse.com.au.

Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation

As most clubs would be aware, for the last 2 seasons , Lacrosse Victoria has supported Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation by encouraging clubs to support the Foundation by purchasing & wearing the Zaidee’s Shoelaces on designated finals days

Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation’s aim is to raise awareness of organ & tissue donation in Australia. For more information on work of the Foundation, see http://zaidee.org/home.

For 2011 , the LV Board has designated the men’s & women’s rounds on 18 & 19 June as Zaidee’s rounds & is encouraging all clubs to support this cause by promoting the sale & wearing of the rainbow shoelaces during games on this weekend.