I RECENTLY returned from Bathurst where I watched the Hay War Memorial High School girls cricket team play in the finals of the Combined High Schools NSW series.
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The Hay team had players ranging from 13 to 17 years.
The team were successful in their semi final where they convincingly defeated the Elderslie High team from Camden by some 100 runs.
This brought them into the final playoff against Hunter Sports High School from the Newcastle area.
The Hay side were against a very strong team and after being dismissed for only 63, were defeated.
I must say that the attitude of this young team from Hay really demonstrated a strong team spirit in everything they did.
The whole team showed just how much support there is from their teachers and coaches.
They really did really put forward their best individual efforts to reach second place in this state carnival.
This young team were place third in the 2014 carnival and now second place in this 2015 carnival.
Really, this is a tremendous effort for a team of young girls from a small town such as Hay.
This team of girls from Hay War Memorial High School will lose some three to four members of the team for next year, but from my view there are several 13/14 year old girls in this group, who performed very well this year and no doubt with some good coaching from Ms Laws and people like David Davies, I am confident in the next couple of years they may well rise to the No. 1 position in the state CHS girls cricket carnival.
The Hay War Memorial High School and the whole town of Hay can be very proud of these young girls. The spirit shown by these young girls simply demonstrated to me the wonderful team spirit I experienced during my ten-and-half years at Hay.
Congratulations girls, and well done one and all.
Kevin Wales
Wagga
Bridge repair overdue
THE call for action on Marshalls Creek Bridge is nothing new.
There were calls for action in the late 80s and early 90s that I know of. Some $3m has been spent to resurface about 500m of the western approach. A three-span bridge costs about $5m and this is only a single span bridge – I find this yet another mismanagement of public funds.
To have the RMS spokesperson say “there is no plan to widen it because there were no known congestion issues and only one crash in the last five years”, goes to show the level of incompetence and ignorance of what is actually going in our electorate.
You would have to be getting around with your head buried to not know that this is a major issue. Thank goodness that the drivers to date have avoided a serious situation. This is a major highway.
Compare this to the Baird government spending $25m on a footbridge over the Nepean river at Penrith.
The other fact here is, do we wait for a fatality or series of serious accidents, spend more money on some survey when common sense will show us the way, or do we actually get a plan and a vision for the future and be proactive rather than reactive?
Remember two things here, the Wagga industrial area, which is expanding, is fed by this road, therefore increasing congestion and risk, plus, these issues can be resolved by an informed proactive local member that is prepared to get in and micromanage if necessary by representing the needs of the people, not the party or bureaucrats.
I would urge everyone to keep up the pressure on this matter and get an outcome.