Lithgow cricketers shine at presentation night | Photos

Valley's Aron Crowder was recognised for his stunning individual performance in a game against Hampton in which he took 7-4, taking out five batsmen before they could even find a run.

He led Valley to an easy win and, because of his accomplishment, he was awarded on presentation night with the inaugural Jeremy Fittler award for the season's best bowling performance.

Crowder also received an award for most wickets for the year with 31, while most runs for the year was awarded to Phil Wright with 660.

The club championship was awarded to Valley, and also shining on the night was Hotel's Jon Cronin who received the Richard/Lemcke award for his best individual batting performance of 198 not out.

The Val and Jack Offner trophy for player of the year went to Ben Sheehan and the Chris Hutchinson memorial trophy for best junior playing seniors went to Dom Dellabosca.

Dellabosca still came out on top despite having to take a break mid season with a broken wrist.

Club president Danny Whitty said presentation night was a night to celebrate the players' achievements and he hoped to see everyone back next year.

With the 2018-19 competition having limited numbers of teams, which required a different format, Whitty said everyone did the best they could.

"Everyone played and then we split the teams into the top six and bottom five, we also didn't have a second grade comp as such but we did as best we could," he said,

Whitty expressed his concerns that cricket was battling like other sports but he understood that, due to people's commitments. Overall he was hopeful for a better season next year.

Whitty also wanted to thank players who turned up each week to keep the competition going and the crowds who supported them.

"We have some great standouts here in Lithgow that could hold their own anywhere, and the community spirit supporting them this year was fantastic.

"It was pleasing to see a crowd at all the grand finals, probably the best I've seen in the last five years," he said.

He also thanked sponsors Club Lithgow for their support and Kookaburra for supplying playing gear at a reduced price.

Valley was recognised as the premier and minor premier team of first grade while the La Salle Hornets was recognised as the premier and minor premier team for second grade. The third grade plate was awarded to Hartley.

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In first grade Richard Sharp was named the best batsman of the season with his average of 100.00 and Aron Crowder took out best bowler of the season with an average of 6.5.

In third grade Graeme Bell was given the title of best batsman with his average of 43.2 and Josh Blanchard was recognised as the best bowler for 9.5

In the Brian Sharp 7 a side knockout competition, first division winners were the Norms followed by second division winners Hartley and Lumpy Balls as third division winners.

At the end of the night there were lucky door prizes given out valued at $3500 from Kookaburra which included cricket bats, gloves, pads and a bag.

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