Dave takes out stroke comp - territorystories.nt.gov.au...30 KATHERINE TIMES, WEDNESDAY MARCH 20, 2013 A NUMBER of tennis pro-grams have started in Katherine this year, illustrating

30 KATHERINE TIMES, WEDNESDAY MARCH 20, 2013 www.katherinetimes.com.au

A NUMBER of tennis pro-grams have started in Katherinethis year, illustrating the popular-ity of the game, maybe in part dueto the highly successful AustralianOpen, held in Melbourne everyJanuary.

St Joseph’s Year 11 studentsare using Katherine Tennis Clubcourts for a school based programand School Sport NT Rivers’Cluster tennis 12 and under teamis practising hard in preparationfor their competition in AliceSprings from 15 to 17 April.

Junior tennis lessons havestarted under the guidance ofMLC Hot Shots co-ordinator LisaAlexander and the coaching team.

School children can use theirSport Voucher for Club member-ship (compulsory to cover per-sonal accident insurance) and topurchase some lessons.

Junior membership is $50 peryear and family membership is$200.

Membership application formsare available at the club and onlineat tennis.com.au/nt and paymentcan be made using direct debit.

The club is working closelywith Tennis NT to provide moreplayer development opportunitiesto Katherine.

Last Tuesday 14 players joinedSocial tennis.

This was the largest number ofplayers for quite a few months,notwithstanding the extendedbreak during Deccember/January.

Welcome back to Fiona U andFiona W, who, rumour has it, wereencouraged by Dave B to return totennis after a break of about sixyears.

We look forward to seeing you(and your fan squad) at the courtsagain on a regular basis.

We hope there were not toomany sore muscles or bruisedegos after the fierce hitting and thesidelining which apparently kepteveryone on their toes - no doubtall in good fun.

We were sorry to hear John D,after a practice hit last weekend,pulled up with a sore shoulderagain so was unable to make hisreturn to Tuesday night tennis.

Thanks Tig for doing net main-tenance and Peter for keeping theweeds/grass under control at theClubhouse.

Millie has been doing a greatjob keeping Tuesday night tennisrolling along (until she rolled herankle).

Hope you’re on the mend Mil-lie – see you back on court soon.

There are plenty of playersmaking use of the two publiccourts (5 and 6) and the hittingwall and members have been spot-ted frequenting the courts regu-larly.

One member deserves specialmention. Congratulations to IsaacB for winning the footy on Satur-day and still having the energy fortennis on Sunday. You’re amaz-ing.

Tennis is a great social gameand is suitable for the whole fam-ily, so grab your racquet and headdown to the courts; you’ll quicklyimprove your game and as anadded bonus, improve your fit-ness.

LAST Sunday a good field of keenKatherine Golfers toiled under un-seasonable and uncomfortable condi-tions to play out an 18 hole strokecompetition.

Unfazed by the heat and the sti-fling lack of wind, the winner DaveFidock was able to master the condi-tions to greet the clubhouse with avery meritorious nett 66.

Right behind Dave was runner-up

Mal Richter who carded a 67 nett.Course was excellent again, thanks toPhil and the team.

If this weather continues, golferswill be queuing up for early tee offtimes for next Sunday’s stablefordcompetition.

A time sheet has been placed onthe notice board.

Due to the heat, last Saturdayarvo’s Pennants teams end of seasonbash proved to be a bit of a fizzer.

Too hot for some, particularlythose of us who toiled with the Vets inthe morning.

Captain Bruce is planning an alter-

native for later in the season.On Saturday last the Katherine

Veterans Golf Club staged a nine holestableford competition.

On a day when nine holes werequite clearly enough, and dehydrationmanagement was at a premium, oneJeff Shields bobbed up with an excel-lent 22 points.

However, the next day Jeff wasable to easily reverse the “old rags toriches” scenario during Sunday’sKGC competition by ”missing thecourse” with six consecutive shots torecord 16 strokes on the 15th hole.

The consistent Steve Marcus came

in second in the Vets. Next Saturday at 10.30 the Vets

will once again line up for nine chal-lenging stableford holes of qualitysenior golf. Visitors most welcome.

Meet in the club at 10am.The Men’s NT Golf Open is being

held at the Darwin Golf Club on May30 to June 2 this year.

Players can now nominate on lineusing “MITournament”.

I understand the NT Golf VeteransOpen will be held at DGC the weekbefore.

Accommodation will be at a pre-mium, so get in early.

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Dave takes out stroke comp

THE Katherine Junior Baseballcompetition will start on Saturday,April 6, at 9am at the Katherine Base-ball ground.

This season of baseball is lookingto be bigger than before, with thecompetition moving up to an under 17level of competition.

Because we have moved up an agedivision, we now will be playing onthe senior sized infield and will playunder the national under 17 rules.

This will mean that stealing of

bases is now allowed which shouldmake Baseball even more excitingand entertaining for both players andspectators on Saturday mornings.

The age category this season is forplayers between the ages of 13 to 17years of age.

There will also again this season be“T” ball for the junior players and thatshould be looking to start on April 24.

More details will become availableas we get a bit closer.

The under 17 sides are still beingput together so if there are any playersinterested in having a game let meknow and we will slot you into ateam.

The team training nights andcoaches are:

Dodgers will train on Thursday

nights under new Coach Ryan Hodg-son (0418825934)

Cubs will train on Monday nightsagain with Coach Brett Dawson(0411236975)

Braves will train on Tuesday nightswith new Coach Tim Francis(0407854783)

Angels will train on Wednesdaynights under old Coach Peter Hopkins(0417806391)

A big thank you to our newcoaches who have offered to give uptheir time and take on a junior team itis much appreciated.

All training nights are at theKatherine Baseball ground and train-ing is from 5pm to 6pm.

First training nights begin nextweek, any problems ring the coach.

We have new uniforms and equip-ment ordered for each side so theteams will be looking pretty sharp thisseason.

Registration forms and fees will besorted over the next weeks so basi-cally we just need to get the playersout to training and begin the season.

Any new players wanting to trybaseball or requiring a bit more infor-mation give Hoppy a call on0417806391.

A big thank you to all those whoassisted with the working bee, to en-sure the ground is ready.

The bases are now looking fantas-tic and I am sure that the players willenjoy sliding into the base this season.

So everything is gearing up for an-other exciting season of baseball.

Junior baseball season starts soonJunior

Baseballwith Hoppy

Golfwith Richo

Young tennisplayers gearup for compin Alice

Tennisby Michelle Kealy