Valley View Eagles Softball Club

Pre-season Training & New Committee Announced

benjsc — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:35:36 +0000

Preseason Training will commence on Sunday 22nd at 2pm. Please note that this is a change in date from which was previously advised.

We will be training at Duncan Fraser Reserve, Rowe Avenue, Northfield.

All new players are welcome, so if you have any friends that are interested in playing can you please forward this e-mail through to them. Also if you
know of any members who have changed their e-mail address or not on e-mail can you please let then know.

The association is looking at getting a boys junior competition up and running, so if you know boys under the age of 15 that would be interested please
ask them to come along.

In addition, the club would also like to nominate for u15 girls and a modball team (mixed), so if you know of anyone again please forward the
information through to them.

The committee is also calling for nominations for coaches. At this stage, we are planning to nominate 3 senior teams (at a minimum) and the junior
teams as stated above.

If you are interested in coaching or taking on an assistant coaching role please forward your application through to secretary@eagles.asn.au.

If coaching or playing is not your thing, we are also looking for people who are interested in umpiring and scorers. You don't need to know how to
umpire or score, we have people within the club who are more than willing to teach you what you need to know.

Other club news

Tonight we held our Annual General Meeting. Thank you to all those members that attended.

The committee for this season is

President: Sharon Perkins
Vice President: Judith Lukas
Joint Secretary: Kim Sanderson and Michelle Nichols
Asst Secretary: Josephine Kunde
Treasurer: Sharon Perkins
Uniforms and Equipment: Catherine Gregory
Fundraising: Catherine Gregory
Junior Development: Deb Kennedy

Welcome and thankyou to new members on the committee. It is good to see all positions on the committee filled.

A special thanks goes to Margaret Clark who after many years of being Treasurer has decided to take a well deserved break. Margaret was also
awarded Honorary Life Membership to the club for her commitment over the last 7 or so years.

Come and Try day

The Association is running a Come and Try day on Saturday 4th September, from 10am - 2pm at Ridley Reserve, Elizabeth. As a club, we need to
support this event through the provision of volunteers to help and on the day. So if you can help, can you please let me know. I would also
encourage our junior members to participate in this event

Looking forward to seeing you all on the 22nd August.

Cheers

Sharon Perkins
President
Valley View Eagles Softball Club

VVESC Helps out Modbury Lions Club with Clean Up Australia Day

benjsc — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:39:25 +0000

Whilst a little old, this is a thankyou to the members of the Valley View Eagles Softball Club who on Sunday 7th February 2010 assisted the Modbury Lions Club by participating in Clean UP Australia Day.
All participants received a Certificate which they are proudly displaying.

Back Row: Peter Wilson (Modbury Lions Secretary, Shannon Ward, Madison Ward, Connor Kennedy & Bob Gregory Modbury Lions President, Front Row: Brooke Whatley, Brittany Ward & Jamie Whatley

Thankyou to though who have helped the club

benjsc — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 05:22:43 +0000

Valley View Eagles Softball Club have a had a very successful year both on
the field and off the field with regards to our fundraising efforts and
grant applications. To recognise the contributors a Certificate of
Appreciation was presented by our President, Judith Lukas to those
organistions and individuals who have assisted us during this season.

Judith with Bob Gregory

Bob Gregory, besides being Cathy’s Dad is also the President of the Modbury
Lions Club. The Modbury Lions supported our club this season by donating a
significant sum of money after the New Years Eve Bunnings BBQ. This
donation has assisted in the purchase of equipment specifically new bats.

Judith is pictured with Bob at our Quiz NIght where he was presented with a
Certificate of Appreciation on behalf of VVESC.

Judith with Anne-Marie Hubycz

Anne-Marie is a councillor in the Northfield Ward for the Port Adelaide &
Enfield COuncil and she attended out Quiz NIght where she accepted on behalf
of Port Adelaide & Enfield COuncil a Certificate of Appreciation in
recognition of the grant received. The grant amount of $450.00 has enabled
the club to purchase much needed new playing shirts for our Modball team.

Judith is pictured with Anne-Marie at our Quiz NIght where she received the
Certificate of Appreciation on behalf of Port Adelaide & Enfield COuncil.

Judith with Cherylee Bennett

Cherylee is the owner of the Greenacres Drycleaners and for the last 2 years
has been donating bottles & cans to our fundraising efforts including during
the winter months. It is in recognition of Cherylee’s assistance toward our
fundraising efforts she was presented with a Certificate of Appreciation at
the Quiz Night.

Judith is pictured with Cherylee at our Quiz Night where she received the
Certificate of Appreciation.

Judith & Toni Norris

Peter and Dianne of Mendit, Aldinga Beach have been supporting Valley View
Eagles by providing cans & bottles to assist with our fundraising
activities. Toni Norris is pictured with Judith accepting a Certificate of
Appreciation on behalf of Peter & Dianne who were not able to attend our
Quiz NIght.

Two other businesses were identified as having supported VVESC this season
with our fundraising efforts and these were Ladywood Frames and Affordable
Print. Unfortunately neither were able to attend our Quiz NIght and their
Certificates of Appreciation have been hand delivered alas with no photo.

VVESC AGM Approaches!

benjsc — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:19:27 +0000

Dear Life Members and Club Members,

The Valley View Eagles Softball Club AGM will be held at: 32 Queensborough Ave, Hillcrest, entering off Fosters Road, on the 9th of August, at 7pm. ( Cathy Gregory’s house.)

All committee positions become vacant at that time and I invite all members to consider whether or not they are interested in a position on the committee. I’m only too happy to talk to anyone about the various positions, and what they entail. In many cases no more than a couple of hours per week, at a maximum. This season we operated without a Secretary which I would not like to see occur for a second season.

I invite nominations for Honorary Life Members to be made in writing at the AGM, criteria for Honorary Members is contained in the Club Constitution, which I can provide to anyone interested in making a nomination.
I ask all committee members and coaches to provide a brief written report for the season, this can be sent to me before the evening.

Please forward this to any members you know have recently changed their e-mail address.

Kind Regards,

Judith Lukas

President VVESC

Club Updates

benjsc — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:01:27 +0000

Welcome back to the new year, and already many of you have played plenty of softball!!!

We had a late start to the season with January 9th not played due to extreme heat until the following weekend, the 16/17th.

Club teams had a successful return to softball with Div 2 with 3 wins from 3 games, Div 1 2 wins and 1 narrow loss to Uni playing with the advantage, and div 3s with 2 wins and 1 loss.

Thank-you to all members for ensuring all teams had players, it is greatly appreciated when members freely offer to fill in for teams that are short of players.

This weekend saw many of our seniors take part in the State Championships with the Masters team and D grade taking out the championships at West Beach. I think it’s fair to say the calibre of our players contributed greatly to success of those teams. Congratulations to: Michelle Nicholls ( A grade), Cheryl Brown, Kim Sanderson, Isadora Roberts, Jacqui Richardson, Rebecca Blundell (Masters), Deb Kennedy, Mel Gilboy, Lisa Warnest, Rebecca Hall (D Grade) Sorry if I missed someone!

On New Years Eve Day club members manned the BBQ at Bunnings Parafield, and I’m very happy to say we walked away with a tidy profit of around $800. Thank-you to all those who so generously spent time in very hot conditions on the day, most especially Cathy Gregory, who is the driving force behind our fundraising efforts.

The club Quiz night is fast approaching us, on the 13th of Feb, it is not only a fundraiser but a fun social event for the club, so get in early and book your table to avoid disappointment!

Training tomorrow night has been cancelled, enjoy your Australia Day holiday!

Div 1 and 3 are playing at 12.45 this Saturday, and Div 2 at 4.45.

I have just negotiated a change to our base umpiring so Div 2 don’t have to provide base umpires this Saturday for the second time in a row. But I do need two umpires either Div 1 or 3 on Dia 2 at 10.45, any takers?

Just a reminder that no players can play down in a LOWER grade for the remainder of the season, including finals. Players can only play UP in remaining games.

Hot Weather Warning

benjsc — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:05:08 +0000

With the current forecast for Saturday being 41 in Adelaide, with little chance at this stage for it to be re-forecast down, it is looking like the games scheduled for Saturday will be cancelled

If in the event games are cancelled, in line with the Associations hot weather policy, all Junior games will cancelled and not re-scheduled. Senior games will be rescheduled to Sunday 17th January.

Can you please take this opportunity to advise your members that potentially there will be Sunday games on the 17th January.

Confirmation of any cancelled games will be made to your club contact on Friday night after the ABC News weather report.

2009/2010 Club Photo

benjsc — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:18:25 +0000

A snapshot of the 2009/2010 Valley View Eagles Members

Win A Fully Signed 2009 Crows Top

benjsc — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:53:46 +0000

Are you a mad Adelaide Crows Football Supporter?

Want to win a top, fully signed by 2009 Crows players? Then look no futher. For the cost of only $2 you could win the shown top, fully framed!

If you want a ticket in the raffle, please see Cathy Gregory, or if you can’t catch up with her, email her at committee@eagles.asn.au to request your ticket.

We’d also like to thank the staff from Ladywood Frames, Shop 3 865-869 North East Road Modbury, who happily framed the top at no cost to the club.

Milestones and Updates

benjsc — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:38:34 +0000

It’s been a few weeks since I last posted some news regarding club results, and I’m happy to say the club continues to tick along nicely with all teams competing strongly in their respective grades.

On the 21^st of November a third club member, Cheryl Brown, reached the incredible milestone of playing 500 club games for Valley View. She joins fellow club life members: Sharon Perkins (631+), and Kim Sanderson (511+), between the 3 of them that’s a staggering 1600+ games!

On the 28^th of November, teams played in the worst weather conditions I think anyone can remember, fortunately Div 3 were spared the experience with a bye that day.

Last Saturday, with the start of our turn running canteen, we had perfect conditions. All teams also recorded wins that day, and we were presented with an opportunity to have a “club” photo of as many members we could gather on the spur of the moment.

I wish to express my thanks, especially, to Cathy Gregory, for all her hard work in preparation for canteen, and to all of you for your continuing support in making this a successful fundraiser for the club. We have over a number of years been able to prevent any fee rises due to the healthy amount in our bank account.

I would also like to thank all of you who have had a turn at umpiring, the worst of our commitments are over now with the end of double headers, and I expect teams will only be asked to umpire every 3 weeks.

Thank-you to all who so generously give of their time to make our club the success it is.

Regards

Judith Lukas

VVESC President

Canteen this Saturday

benjsc — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:30:29 +0000

Hello All,

If you don’t know already Valley View has canteen this coming week and next.
So, we are looking for volunteers to assist with the serving in the canteen
and cooking the bbq. There are no 4:45 p.m. games so we will be out of
there relatively early.

There are still a few items we need assistance with and these are 3 x
lettuces (can shred on day), 3 kgs tomatoes (can slice on day), 60 x cheese
slices (large packs better) and 3 x kg bacon (short-back).

Any donations of the above gratefully accepted.

I will be bringing the canteen list out the training tomorrow night so if
you can help with serving or a donation please see me.

This is one of our major fundraisers for the season so please help if you
can.