We would like to extend a warm welcome to everybody here today at the Arkaba Oval, especially to Richard Melhuish who is doing us the honour of tossing the commemorative Life Member coin for this important Cup game against Bridgewater.
A life time resident of the area, Richard or Mel or Wally as many know him, is a Life Member of both Heathfield Aldgate United (1978) and the Mt Lofty District Football Club (1986) recognising years of distinguished service as both a multi Premiership player and official of both clubs.
Richard started his junior football at Heathfield, went on to play at Sturt and was enticed back to Heathfield Aldgate United in 1969 to play with his mates and go on to be a member of seven A Grade Premierships at Full Back for HAU and multiple Premierships for Mt Lofty, playing until 1987 at A, B and C Grade levels.. Also a very talented athlete who held many Heathfield High School records for decades, he played 345 games and was a member of the HFL team which won the Lovelock Shield for the first time in 1973.
His record as an official and volunteer was as impressive as his playing career – He became Secretary of HAU at the age of 20 and held the position from 1971 to 1978, sat again as Secretary of Mt Lofty from 1980 to 1984, Football Director from 1980 to 1986, Chairman of the Club in 1989 and finally served as A Grade Team Manager from 1984 to 1994.
Congratulations to lifetime Devil Andrew Frolow, who will run out in the B Grade for his 50th senior game for the candy stripes today.
Andrew is a hard working, quiet achiever that just gets in and gets the job done. An extremely useful utility on the footy oval, Frols is also known as a talented athlete across the range, especially in volleyball.
Welcome to the 50 club Fols! Give ‘em Hell today 💪
Thanks to Jason Cook for collating the scores for the Moddies from the weekend 💪 Here is how the weekend panned out for the kids 👹
Mt Lofty U8 White def Mt Lofty U8 Red 10-5-65 6-5-41 White GOALS: S Purcell 4, E John 2, W tenRaa 2, J Wallis 1, W Spencer 1 BEST: S Purcell, W tenRaa, E John Red GOALS: G Went 3, J Grbin 2, L Brewster 1
Mt Lofty U9 Red def Onkaparinga U9 11-9-75 0-0-0 GOALS: J Hartwig 2;A Wallis 2; L Leslie 1, C Wallis 1, A Trowse 1, H Wainright 1, H Moon 1,
Mt Lofty U9 Green def by Hahndorf U9 2-1-13 8-9-57 GOALS: H Booth 2, S Dawes 1 BEST: S Dawes, P Hartwig
Mt Lofty U10 def Onkaparinga U10 4-3-27 2-4-16 GOALS: H. Calvert 1, E.Kerr 1, W. O’Rourke 1, R. Oliver 1. BEST: F Della Torre, R Oliver, G. Leake, B Lamshed, J Bogdanovic.
Mt Lofty U11 White def Nairne-Bremer U11 8-7-55 1-1-7 GOALS: O Makin 4, L Martin 2, G Walsh 2 BEST: A Cochrane, H John, S. Cootes, O Makin, K Furniss
TBC U8 Lofty Black v Lofty Green U9 Lofty White v Meadows U11 Lofty Red v Bridgewater
