Trophy Origins 9

Today we review the history behind the Tony Pettitt Award, a trophy you will see presented at the Awards Banquet on March 3rd.

Through this series of explanations we have attempted to give you some background about the people the awards are named after, and donated in memory of.

This award, established in 2007, is given annually to “A non -coaching adult volunteer” that contributes to the league success. Tony had a daughter, Trish McAuley that was involved in the league as a member of our executive, as was her husband Greg and Tony had grandchildren playing in the league too. He became a fixture on the score clock on game nights, but it was at the banquet, however, that his “free spirit” shone through the brightest.

Always there for the pre-banquet set up, on banquet day Tony would patrol the hall with a box of chips doing his best ball park vendor imitation tossing bags to the outstretched hands of players calling for more, and laughing the whole time he was flicking his wrist to send another bag flying. Dave Noble , who still volunteers, was the first recipient of this very special recognition of people that do what they can to make the league work on a regular basis.