SCCC does Golf - again

Summary by Puneet G - Pictures by Shahab R to follow.

For the second year in a row, the SCCC contingent that was present were in great spirits, and this was before any spirits made it into their respective systems. After checking in and buying a ton of mulligans (because I need them) we trooped out to our carts where we waited for the shotgun start to our respective assigned holes. SCCC started on Hole # 5 with one of our 4 carts finding a rather creative route to it by traversing holes 2,3 and 4 on the way... lets just say we wanted a fuller experience before the first tee shot.

Santa Clara Golf and Tennis course on Tasman is a nice enough place to play golf and has relatively few hazards. The excellent weather and of course SCCC camaraderie was always going to make it a great day away from work. We tee-ed off approximately at 1pm.

Hole # 16 was sponsored by SCCC and SCCC 1 team got a par on this one, so I'm assuming that SCCC 2 foursome had a birdie.

SCCC 1 did pick up an Eagle on the Par 5 - 496 yards - Hole # 14 due to Harsha's heroics of getting us out of the rough on our tee shots and hitting a brilliant recovery shot onto the green, just a few feet from the hole.

The tournament organizer Jeff Driggs was obviously delighted to have us on the course and since we were seemingly the only non- City government entity there, we got some special attention as the Cricket Club guys who also play golf. Overall it was a friendly atmosphere though I did try to trash talk Fareed and then got it back on last tee shot when I accidentally tapped the ball off the tee with my practice swing ;)

There was a decent buffet afterwards.. and for those who stayed and participated, a raffle too.

I'm looking forward to doing this again next year.

SCCC were represented by members Fareed, Sunil, Shahab, Harsha and Puneet and guests Ravi and Colin participated in to make it a 4some and a 3some. We hope we'll have 3 foursomes next year.

Fwd: [SCCC] Aces beat Union City-2 by 7 Wickets

On behalf of our Skippers;

 

UCCC-2 won the toss and batted first.

UCCC-2 86/10  in 4 overs
Sridhar Reddy 33
SCCC-1 Bowling ---> Amalraj 3/16, Saad 2/20, Shantanu 2/25, 2 direct hits from Vijith and Mangesh

SCCC-1 Batting ---> 89/3 in 27 overs
Shantanu 41, Sandesh 35*
UCCC-2 Bowling ---> Jayavel  1/9, Srikanth 1/12, Naren 1/15

Thanks,

Shantanu

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Match Report - Bees sealed second win beating CVCC at home - June 26

Division - A
Game : CVCC vs SCCC II
Ground : Wilson Educational Center
Umpire: Jaggy & Ganesh Sanap (Valley-I)
Toss won by : SCCC II (Elected to bat)
Game Won by : SCCC II

Scores:
SCCC II : 281 for 6 in 50 overs
(Arjun Thyagarajan 106 Not Out, Shiva Vasisht 90, Fareed Ahmed 25,
Krishna Vasudevan 21, Ahmed 2/27, Ranvir 1/54, Prabhjot 1/45,
Sukhjinder 1/50)

beat

CVCC: 122 for 10
Carmo 36, Sukhjinder 37, Shahid 24, Mukund Rajan 3/0, Saad Khan 3/23,
Sujesh Pulikkal 2/25, Govind Unkalkar 1/27, Apporva Chacha 1/21

Good batting by Arjun and Shiva set up comprehensive victory for SCCC
II. Arjun played a master class innings. Shiva played a brilliant
innings with full control to support him. SCCC-II were 47 in 17 overs.
Chanceless innings by Arjun and Shiva for a 200 run partnership was
key and it was treat to watch. Shiva Missed another ton timing a ball
too well where imran nana took a very well judged catch. Carmo played
a blinder for his 36 where he hit the ball cleanly to the longest part
of the boundaries at santa clara ground. Apurva Chacha (Magic chacha)
took a blinder at short mid wicket to get carmo out. Mukund bowled 3
maidens and picked up 3 wickets. Saad cleaned up the top order and was
literally unplayable using his variations.

Umpiring by Jaggy and Ganesh Sanap was of very high standards.

Sujesh Pulikkal
Santa Clara Cricket Club

Let the net practices begin!

From: umesh_99 <kelkar_umesh@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 26, 2010 at 6:37 PM

 

After months of work, we are pleased to announce that our facility rebuild (container, trolley, shelving, scoreboard, and cages) is complete.

Today, the netting work was done in the morning followed by installing matts (one new one), covering up the runup area etc. thanks to ashish and Krishna for superving the work in the afternoon. Thanks to sunil for coming in the evening.

Although, an official opening cermony will be scheduled for next week, let the net practices begin...

regards,

Umesh

Bees lost to UCCC-I by 67 runs- Match Report

A Division: Union City I @ Santa Clara II
Date: 5/22/2010
Played at: W.A Wilson
Umpires: Vaibhav and Avtaar (Stanford-A-I)
Toss: won by Union City and elected to Bat

Union City CC 164 all out in 44.1 overs (Ranvir 47, Raiyan 38, Bobby
22, Jaggi 21, Krish G 10-0-38-6, Rishit 2 wickets, Apurva 1 wicket, 1
Run out)

defeated

Santa Clara CC-II 98 all out in 25.4 overs (Sunil C. 33, Jaggi
4-1-5-4, Ranvir/Sheryar/ Happy 2 wkts each)

Man of the Match : Jaggi

Union City won the toss and had no hesitation in choosing to bat on a
beautiful day and lovely Santa Clara ground. Santa Clara started
really well picking up both Jigar and Ajay early with just 12 on the
board after 6 very tight overs. Santa Clara continued with their tight
bowling and made runs very difficult to come by for UCCC. However,
Ranvir and Raiyan stiched together a 93 runs partnership to lay the
foundation down. Ranveer scored an excellent 47 as Raiyan provided
support at the other end with 38. However, it was young Krish that
provided the breakthrough picking up both Ranveer and Raiyan in quick
succession at the 32nd over with 112 on board. Suddenly the UCCC
innings came apart with Kitty, Happy and Kamal also getting out soon
thereafter as Krish kept picking up wickets. However, a very good 22
from Bobby and 21 from Jaggi in a 42 run crucial partnership provided
UCCC with a moderate total as UCCC bundled out for 164 in 45 overs.
Krish bowled brilliantly to pick up 6 for 38 to wreck the UCCC innings
completely. Risheet also bowled really well to pick up 2 for 22 in his
8 overs. SC-2 bowling was tight and miserly as ever.

Santa Clara started well with Sunil attacking from the word go but
Ranveer picked up two quick wickets of Krishna and Hirsh to get UCCC
back into the game. In came Krish at 4 and looked really good. A
bowling change brought Happy into the attack as he cleaned up Krish
immediately to a ball that swung a little. Suddenly UCCC had a sniff
at defending the small total. As Shehriyar picked up Sunil SC-2 was
down 4 for 61. Jigar held on to an excellent catch to dismiss the
dangerous Arjun off Jaggi. Jaggi cleaned up the remaining tail to pick
up 4 for 5 runs off 5 overs and 1 maiden. In the end it was an
excellent bowling performance from UCCC bowling lineup and finally
stepped up when it mattered today. The potential for this bowling
lineup is immense and hope UCCC carry on in the same vein for the rest
of the season.

Umpiring at it's best and played a crucial role in this game adding
more trouble to SCCC-II's current situation.

SCCC-Bees will bounce back soon from this after a good long weekend.

Bees Lost to Cougars - April 24th-2010 - Match Report

Division - A - DIV
Game: SCCC - II v/s Cougars-I
Date: April 24th Saturday
Venue: SCCC ground- Wilson Adult School
Toss: Won by SCCC-II and elected to bat
Umpires: Naveen and Brian

SCCC- II 171 All out in 49.1 overs (Krish Goel 43, Govind 37, Harsh
26, Prumjot 16)
(Ayan : 10-1-29-2, Montu: 10-0-32-2, Krishna, Dashrath and Doanne 1
wicket each, 3 run outs)

Lost to

Cougars-1 174 for 7 in 48.2 overs (krishna.P 44 Not Out, Ayan.B 39 Not
out, Majid 18, Ankur 16, Montu 14)
(Sujesh: 10-0-30-3, Govind; 8-1-34-2, Hamel: 10-1-14-1, krish:
6-1-19-0, 1 Run out)

By 3 Wickets.

SCCC-II won the toss and elected to bat. Govind and Arjun started the
proceedings. Arjun got bowled to Doanne and SCCC-II played well with
harsh and Govind stitching a good partnership together for 64 runs.
Dashrath and Doanne helped with few wides otherwise for a very steady
attack. Harsh got out getting a thin edge to keeper. Umpire ruled not
out since it wasn't evident. Harsh walked and showed true
sportsmanship making SCCC proud. Cougars team applauded the effort.
SCCC-II never got going other than little krish Goel batting like a
champion with crisp drives, backfoot punches and immaculate placements
against a very spirited and disciplined attack. Sujesh and krishna
fell cheaply and this added more concerns but Prumjot and krish showed
why they belong to the higher division by playing smartly taking
singles and 2s and occassionaly found the odd boundaries. SCCC-II
managed to score 40 odd runs between 43rd over to 48th over. Sujesh
played an irresponsible shot against Montu to put SCCC-II in further
trouble being caught at deep mid wicket. krishna was caught by Sunny
off a Blinder with left hand at cover point(Jonty Singh). Disaster
struck when krish was run out in the 47th over to a close call and
SCCC-II lost last 4 wickets for 1 run winding up for 171 in 49.1
overs. Ayan bowled leg spinners with immaculate control and he killed
the middle overs for SCCC-II which was the turning point. krishna,
majid and montu supported him well. Dashrath bowled a 7 over tight
spell.

Cougars-I started their batting with Sunny and Ankur. Sunny got out
early to Sujesh and Cougars went to defensive mode with Govind and
Hamel bowling exceptionally well choking runs. Saami joined Ankur and
wasn't able to move the score. Ankur hit a six and 4 to up the rate
but fell soon to Govind. Arsh found it difficult to score with his
favourite leg side fully covered by fielders and fell to the trap by
flicking to short fine leg. Saami played a powerful shot to extra
cover and govind plucked off a one-handed catch. Majid and krishna did
the recovery act by playing carefully. Sujesh trapped Majid infront
and more worries at the cougars camp even though they bat really
really long (up to #10). SCCC-II did well to restrict in the middle
overs. Montu Joined krishna and looked in very good touch hitting his
trade mark bullet shot. Krishna remained calm as usual and batted with
a purpose. He hit jut one boundary in his 44 Not out. He proved again
why he is such a reliable batsman in NCCA. Montu tried to cut and got
out to sujesh's bowling when everything was going fine. Bhargava
joined krishna and played steady. Bhargave got run out and Cougars
needed 52 runs in last 10 overs with 3 wickets. SCCC let go the golden
opportunity created by krish Goel who is known for changing games with
his tight off spinners in the death. Arjun mis-judged a catch and
didn't get to it at Long-off. This was all that was needed for Ayan
and he played sensibly and opened shoulders for anything marginally
fuller. he continued his form from morning via bat this time and
scored a breezy 39 runs and cougars finished off in style in 48.2
overs. Satish Bowled well but catches went asking in no-mans land.
This game had ups and downs and at one point it was SCCC-II to lose
this game and it happened. All Credit to krishna for putting his head
down and batting till the team is through. Hamel bowled a tidy spell
just giving away 14 runs in his 10 overs including death overs.

Excellent Umpiring by Naveen and Brian

-Sujesh Pulikkal

Bees lost by 6 wickets - April 18 -2010 - Season Beginner against Stanford CC

HI All,

Bees batting from 130 for 5 in 34 overs got cleaned up in 40 overs for
139 runs (last 5 wickets for 9 runs). Govind, Prum and harsh gave a
great start bit didn't capitalize on it.

Lot of them batting after a while showed some rustiness. (But this was
a game for Bees to lose)

Arjun 36, Govind 31, Krish 25. All got starts but didn't convert to big ones.

Stanford were 37 for 4 in 17 overs and then Rishi and Prithvi put dead
bat to ensure they didn't lose further wickets. Rishi 67*and Prithvi
38 not out.

Satish bowled with fire and got 2 wickets for 22 runs. Govind bowled
beautifully with the new ball and removed their opener Vinay.

Everyone bowled well and stanford batted 40 overs to get to the score
but Bees didn't have enough runs on board to Defend it. Catching and
fielding were good.

Rajan Yadav had a good debut and bowled very well with the new ball.

Bees will kick back next game against the 'COUGARS".

-SUJU