CANA - Day 4 (Tuesday)

Fantastic weather conditions today in Adelaide for netball.

The U17s played played SAUCNA again this morning. The girls started poorly and were always playing catchup. Bec Boxall came into the game after half time and the team rallied. Unfortunatley the girls werent able to get over the line and they lost the game by only 1 goal. Best Players: Bec Boxall - GD, Ashlee Nichols - GK and Sara White - GS.

Their second game was to be a hard one against top of the pool - Westfields. This is a well oiled team and extremely disciplined and acurate. They were run away winners 35-17.

Our U13s again played Marleston this morning. The Tassie girls looked sluggish and disappointingly uninterested - this of course enabled the Marleston girls to take hold of the game and were clearly the better team on the day winning by 17 goals.

Their second game tonight was against SAUCNA and again the girls had their work cut out for them. Marleston were making the most of every scoring opportunity whilst Tassie were indecisive and it caused turnovers. SAUCNA won 42-20.
Best players: Emma Groves - GD and Isabella King - C tried hard.

CANA - Day 3 (Monday)

We finally getting to see the sun today - YAY !!!

U/17's played at 2.00pm against Corcoran Park (Townsville). Our girls looked like giants against them :( . It's difficult to report Best Players because the final score was 70-9. Claire Minton - WA, Bec Boxall and Ashlee Nichols all played well.

The U/13's played at 5.00pm against Corcoran Park and unexpectantly experienced a tough game. A few player changes at half time enabled the girls to reduce deficit and they were unlucky to lose the game by only 3 goals !! Final Score: 33-36. Best Players: Chelsea York-GA, Chloe Eiszele-GS and Isabella King-C.

The U/13's enjoyed a few hours of fun and excitement at the Glenelg Beach House today. Its an indoor waterpark. I have included a few photos of their excursion.

My housemates (Lisa Eiszele, Clay and Michelle King, Melinda Roach and Michelle Fogg) along with myself enjoyed a lovely countermeal at the "Seven Stars" pub just along the road from our house and then we stopped by the Bottleshop and enjoyed a drink and a few laughs before heading to bed at 2am !!!

Clay and Michelle Fogg were heading to the airport at 5.30am for their flights home - poor buggars !!!

Monday's Weather in Adelaide !!!

Looks like the weather has finally settled down here in Adelaide - YAY !!!

Although I havent been outside as yet - there is NO wind and I can see blue sky (still a few clouds hanging around though).

As I didnt get to upload the U/13 photos from yesterdays games - I have loaded a few on this entry. As I mentioned before, I wasnt able to take pics of the U/17's due to severe weather storm and scoring duty.

I hope to rectify that today :)

CANA - Day Two (Sunday)

Day 2 in Adelaide and OMG the weather is still CRAPPY !!!

U/13s played SAUCNA blue this morning. After a rocky start our girls fought hard and eventually prevailed 39-33. Best players: Isabella King (Bock) - C, WA, Chelsea York, GA and Ghislaine Morgan - WD. Ghislaine came into the game after qtr time and kicked butt !!!

Their second game at 4.30pm was against PANA (Port Adelaide Netball Assoc) and although they got a jump on our girls at the start, we fought back and after being 7 goals down in the 3rd qtr the girls played well and won the game 31-24.
Best Players: Chelsea York - GA, Bock King - C and Chloe Eiszele GS.

The U/17s only played 1 game today and unfortunately I dont have the final score to report, but Fuzz tells me they lost by a LOT :( . There was a massive rain and win storm that hit during the game and the girls were absolutely soaked !! I'm unable to report on the best players as I wasnt able to watch the whole game, but what I saw, I thought that Bec Boxall - GK and Ashlee Nichols - GD were playing very well.

I'm very sorry, but due to scoring duties and severe weather conditions, I was unable to take any photos of the 17's game :( . I promise to make up for that next time.

CANA Championships - Saturday 26 September 2009

Day One - Saturday 26 September 2009

The weather here in Adelaide has been very poor. It blown a gale, rained, haled and did I mention the wind ???

The opening ceremony was quite short (just the way we like it) and thank God the rain held off for entire time. Chels was quite nervous as the first duty as Captain of the U/13 team was to lead the entire Championship teams onto the courts. There werent many smiles forth coming as the look of concentration took over.

The U/13 team played Marleston first up and the U/17's took on SAUCNA.

The 13's started quite well but Marleston ran away with the game in the second half and won the game 31-11. Best players: Emma Groves - GD, Chelsea York - GA, Isaballa King - C, WA.

The 17's game was very close throughout and with a deficit of 6 goals heading into the final quarter the girls rallied but heartbreakingly lost the game by only 2 goals.

Best players: Ashlee Nichols - GK, Hollie Coleman C, WA & Sara White GS.

Our U/13s played SAUCNA in the 2nd game at 7.30pm. It proved to be the tough game as it promised to be and our girls lost the game 14-39. The wind was playing havoc with the ball and our girls found it extremely difficult to score.

Best players: Isabella King - C, Chelsea York - GA, Emma Groves - GD.

The U/17s were outclassed in their game against Westfield (new association from NSW entering the competition for the first time). The courts were very wet following a severe hail storm that left fairly large stones on the court prevented our team from using their past paced game and the Westfield team were runaway winners by 30 goals.

CANA - National Championships - Adelaide 2009

This year's CANA National Championships will be hosted by SAUCNA and held in Adelaide, SA during 26 September - 3 October 2009.

Four teams - U/13's, U/15's, U/17's and U/21's will be playing against some tough competition during the week.

The Captain and Vice Captain for each team were named on Sunday 20 September 2009 at the Presentation Day. They are as follows:

U/13's Chelsea York - Captain
Sophie Saville - Vice Captain

U/15's Jess Duske - Captain

Ellie Grace - Vice Captain

U/17's Sara White - Captain

Ashlee Nichols - Vice Captain

U/21's Nat Curtis - Captain
Chontelle Madson - Vice Captain

I have posted a photo of Chelsea York (C) & Sophie Saville (VC) of the U/13 team that was taken after the announcement, along with a photo taken of the U/17 & U/13 teams.

Well Done Girls

Gold Coast Queensland - 2009

We had a FANTASTIC holiday on the Gold Coast during the September school holidays.

The weather was great and the company we shared was equally as good.

We enjoyed trips to the Theme Parks and of course the girls and Ian enjoyed shopping at the DFO's.

I've posted a couple of photos of our family having lots of fun !!