250 up - congratulations to our Gauch

250 up - congratulations to our Gauch

Moonee Valley coach and past First Eleven premiership captain Mark Gauci continues to rack up the accolades at our Club - with his latest great achievement being his 250th game.
Gauch captained the Thirds at home at Ormond Park on January 30 to bring up his milestone, and led the team in a great defence of our total before being overtaken in the last over of the day.
A collection of Life Members came down to watch his milestone match, including Ian Denny, Darren Nagle, Joe Ansaldo, John Talone, Bob Sciacchitano, Dan Terzini, Jim McKenzie, Sandro Capocchi, Jim Polonidis, Kevin Gardiner and Charlie Walker.
Gauch came out all guns blazing with the bat to set us off to a bright start, then when we set about defending our score against Burnley CYMS, he bowled a tight spell along with Kevin Gardiner to make things hard for the opposition.
Mark has made more than 5000 runs for the Club - a good proportion of them in the Firsts - and taken 200 wickets.
He captained the Firsts for eight seasons, including our North A premiership team in 2009/10, and was Club Champion in 2005/06.
He took on the coaching role this season, after captaining our Sixths to a flag in 2014/15. Gauch, well done!
Above: We may have missed out on the win, but the team did Mark Gauci proud in his 250th game. From left: Vishal
Chopra, Kevin Gardiner, Peter Whebell, Mark Gauci, Dean Lawson, James Beilken, Sam Carbone,
Ben Skok (front), Brendan Powell, Dylan Wright and Mick Bannister.