Blackwood Cricket Club

The home of the Blackwood Eagles started way back in the 1870s. Stopped and started a few times over the years and has now been going since 1990.
Many players have come and gone over the years with not many long term players.
We are a struggling side but a good bunch of people that enjoy having a good time and what we think is the best cricket ground in the state!
New members are always welcome, kids cricket will happen again and anyone 14 and over will make up the senior team.
GO EAGLES



Here is some interesting history on the Cricket ground.

The area where the Blackwood Sports Ground now stands was originally the Chinese market gardens, and in 1889 they sold the land to the Blackwood Cricket Club, and this land became a recreation reserve.

Excerpt Recreation Reserve Trust Meeting held - 1908. A meeting of the Recreation Reserve Trust was held on Wednesday last. Present - M.T. Vigor (chairman); M.M.J. Croker (Hon Sec), Messrs H.H.Cann, H.H.Terrill. The contract price for forming a bicycle track, £12, Mr W. Croker, was passed for payment, and tenders are called for removing and re-erecting the cottage purchased by the Trust for a dressing room. Tenders returnable on Wednesday next.
This cottage purchased by the Trust for a dressing room was originally the home of Billy Pincombe, and sold after his death to be pulled down and the timber used for the Blackwood Cricket Club dressing room.

This building was later washed away in 1909 when the Simmons Reef Reservoir embankment burst, and an immense lot of damage was done; no fewer than five big bridges being swept away. The cricket pavilion, containing three rooms, the dressing room erected in 1908 at the bottom end of the ground, and all other buildings, disappeared at one blow right down the river.
Historical information provided by Margot Hitchcock, Historian Blackwood & District Historical Society

Blackwood Go Club

Go is probably the oldest board game known. Created in the Chinese Emperor Shu dynasty (approx. 2200 BC), it is a game where balance of territory is primary but balance of power enables influence and enhances security. I agree that Go is to chess as chess is to checkers, but I’m no checkers expert! Go is played on a rectangular block with a grid of 2 sets of 19 black lines. Black & white stones are placed on the interstices of these. At the end of the game the player with control of more territory is the winner. Unlike chess, all pieces in Go are equal. In chess if a major piece is lost, that probably means the game is lost. In Go, one can lose a battle but still win the ‘war’. In the Japanese Tsin dynasty (200 BC - 600 AD), 2 warlords, after much bloodshed, decided to let the resolution of their antagonisms rest on a game of Go played against each other. Now that’s an idea!

Blackwood Bocce

The Blackwood Petanque Group meets at 10.00am each Sunday at The Blackwood Oval for about 5 years. It is a group that is as much about keeping active and having fun as it is about competition! A message to remind and prepare players is sent out each Saturday afternoon.

We like to keep active and have fun whilst enjoying some good natured competition. The great advantage of this game is that it is not too physically demanding so it suits most people.

We have a regular core group of about 8-10 people and have had many visitors over the years. After the game we gather at the Post Office Cafe for a coffee and have a pleasant catch up.

Everyone is welcome to come and have a try!