BRIDGEWATER will wait until after the football season before deciding whether it can field senior and junior teams in the Upper Loddon Cricket Association competition for 2025-26.
Club president John Daldy said after the Bridgewater AGM this week that “we are working towards having a team. “We still want a senior side and a junior side.”
Bridgewater returned to the association last season after a year in recess, increasing the competition to five teams.
The club initially struggled to be competitive, with many juniors doubling up in the senior team, and had to forfeit one round.
But there were some narrow defeats, and a remarkable tie with subsequent premiers Kingower in the final match of the home and away season. “I’m pretty sure we will get one team up,” said Daldy, who is also president of the association. “We’ve got a little team pushing for it, but we won’t know until the end of the football season,” he said, noting that potential players often didn’t make up their minds until football commitments were over.
Daldy was “not 100 per cent sure” he would seek re-election as ULCA president.
“There are a few things I have to work through personally and with the association.”
- GARY WALSH