The Weekly Times - TWT - 4th July 2018
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Wednesday 4 <strong>July</strong>, <strong>2018</strong> THE WEEKLY TIMES 27<br />
Ryde young guns shine<br />
in Champions Trophy<br />
By CHRIS KARAS<br />
RYDE Hunters Hill hockey wizards Tom Craig, Lachlan Sharp<br />
and Tim Brand have covered themselves in glory with the world<br />
champion Australian Kookaburras hockey team.<br />
<strong>The</strong> outstanding trio<br />
helped the Kookaburras<br />
clinch a record 15th Champions<br />
Trophy in Breda,<br />
Netherlands with a victory<br />
over India in the final in<br />
shootouts.<br />
It was a meritorious<br />
achievement by the local<br />
Panthers’ products who<br />
stamped their mark at the<br />
prestigious tournament with<br />
classy performances.<br />
Australia and India finished<br />
1-all at fulltime in the<br />
final before the Kookaburras<br />
secured the trophy 3-1 in<br />
the shootout with goals by<br />
co-captain Aran Zalewski,<br />
Daniel Beale and Jeremy<br />
Edwards.<br />
Gun strikers Craig and<br />
Brand and attacking midfielder<br />
Sharp have come<br />
through the junior and senior<br />
ranks at Ryde-Hunters<br />
Hill Hockey Club and are all<br />
former recipients of the <strong>TWT</strong><br />
Club Six/Ryde Sports Foundation<br />
Sports Star of the<br />
Year Award.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are now established<br />
members of this skilful and<br />
exciting Kookaburras line<br />
up - which is a proud feat for<br />
the respected Ryde club that<br />
competes in the Sydney Premier<br />
Hockey League.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Kookaburras drew<br />
3-all in their opening Champions<br />
Trophy clash with Belgium<br />
with Sharp nabbing a<br />
goal before posting victories<br />
over Pakistan (2-1), India<br />
(3-2) with Sharp and Hogan<br />
among the goal scorers and<br />
<strong>The</strong> Netherlands (3-1).<br />
<strong>The</strong>ir only defeat came in<br />
the final pool match against<br />
Argentina who registered a<br />
3-2 upset with 19 year old<br />
ace Tim Brand notching a<br />
double - his first goals for<br />
Australia at senior international<br />
level.<br />
20 year old Sharp and<br />
Craig, 23, were part of Australia’s<br />
triumphant Commonwealth<br />
Games team that<br />
captured gold on the Gold<br />
Ryde Hockey young guns Lachlan Sharp, Tom Craig and<br />
Tim Brand played key roles for the Kookaburras, who collected<br />
yet another Champions Trophy on Monday morning<br />
in Breda, Netherlands.<br />
Coast earlier this year.<br />
Young gun Sharp has experienced<br />
an incredible<br />
six month period with the<br />
mighty Kookaburras since<br />
making his senior international<br />
debut last December.<br />
Livewire Lachlan helped<br />
Australia claim back-to-back<br />
Hockey World League titles<br />
before playing alongside<br />
Ryde club mate Craig as<br />
the Kookaburras lifted the<br />
Sultan Azlan Shah Cup and<br />
Commonwealth Games titles.<br />
“What a wonderful tournament<br />
by our three heroes,”<br />
beamed a proud Ryde-<br />
Hunters Hill Hockey Club<br />
president Glen Castensen<br />
yesterday.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> Club couldn’t be more<br />
delighted for them and their<br />
families,” he said.<br />
“It’s been an amazing week<br />
watching them perform so<br />
well on the highest international<br />
stage and play such<br />
critical roles for the world<br />
number one team - the<br />
Kookaburras success.<br />
“It’s such a special moment<br />
for them, our Club and everyone<br />
who has and continues<br />
to support these world<br />
class young men. Bravo Lachi,<br />
Tim and Tom.”<br />
This was the final iteration<br />
of the Champions Trophy<br />
which will now be replaced<br />
by the FIH Pro League from<br />
2019.<br />
All eyes now turn to the<br />
Men’s World Cup in November.<br />
Reigning <strong>TWT</strong> Club Six/Ryde Sports Foundation Sports Star of the Year Lachlan Sharp<br />
holds the silverware as Australia’s mighty Kookaburras celebrate a record 15th Champions<br />
Hockey Trophy title after defeating India in the final.<br />
Rabbitohs sign Tigers son of a gun<br />
SOUTH Sydney have<br />
secured the services of<br />
Wests Tigers’ emerging<br />
utility forward Bayley<br />
Sironen (pictured).<br />
<strong>The</strong> talented 21 year old<br />
colt, who is the youngest son<br />
of legendary Balmain international<br />
forward Paul Sironen<br />
and kid brother of Manly back<br />
rower Curtis Sironen, has<br />
signed a one-year deal with<br />
the Rabbitohs from 2019 with<br />
a one year option.<br />
Bayley is yet another product<br />
of the Tigers’ proud rugby<br />
league nursery at Holy Cross<br />
College Ryde and made two<br />
NRL appearances with the<br />
joint venture club last season.<br />
He will join his former Holy<br />
Cross Rhinos, Balmain junior<br />
representative and U/20s<br />
Holden Cup team mate Junior<br />
Tatola at the Rabbitohs next<br />
season.<br />
<strong>The</strong> pair formed a crack<br />
combination for eleven seasons<br />
with the powerful Rhinos<br />
- winning a swag of premierships<br />
in the Balmain Junior<br />
League and Combined Sydney<br />
competitions.<br />
Bayley skippered the Tigers<br />
in the U/16 Harold Matthews<br />
and U/18 S.G Ball Cup series<br />
and tasted success with the<br />
NSW U/16 and U/20 representative<br />
teams.<br />
<strong>The</strong> skilful forward was rewarded<br />
for his strong performances<br />
in the Western<br />
Suburbs Magpies team this<br />
season in the Intrust Super<br />
premiership with a NSW Residents<br />
jumper.<br />
Bayley helped the Blues blitz<br />
Queensland Residents 36-20<br />
in the recent interstate challenge<br />
at ANZ Stadium that<br />
was played as a curtain raiser<br />
to State of Origin 2.<br />
He was joined in the NSW<br />
side by Western Suburbs<br />
Magpies forward team mates<br />
Luke Garner and Jacob<br />
Felise, who was released by<br />
the Tigers before the June 30<br />
deadline to join the Newcastle<br />
Knights.<br />
FOOTY<br />
TIPSTERS<br />
WESTS<br />
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ROBERTS<br />
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GRAEME AGGETT<br />
Ryde Eastwood<br />
Leagues Director<br />
SARKIS YEDELIAN<br />
Ryde City Clr<br />
DICK READING<br />
North Ryde RSL<br />
Club Director<br />
VICTOR<br />
DOMINELLO<br />
Ryde MP<br />
CHRIS KARAS<br />
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