Woolsthorpe and Mailors Flat have merged to become Spring Creek Cricket Club and the Strikers are pushing to join the Warrnambool and District Cricket Association.
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Former Woolsthorpe president Jason Willie, who is on Spring Creek's committee, confirmed the merger.
"It's a whole new identity, new club, everything," he said.
Willie said the club's aim was to have two teams, one in division two and another in division three.
While the move into the WDCA is yet to be ratified, Willie said the club had already had a positive meeting with the association.
"We've already had one meeting which went really well and then they came back to us with a few things we need to go back to them with.
"So we're actually meeting them next Monday night."
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Willie said the WDCA wanted the Strikers to have their annual general meeting and establish a committee.
And the new club did just that on Monday night getting 12 committee members.
"Compared to what it's been like the past four years, we've probably got the strongest committee we've had for probably eight years within the Woolsthorpe and Mailors Flat cricket clubs together," Willie said.
"We both have been struggling clubs and just to see some of the people that have joined the committee, just shows how much support that there is out there for us."
Willie said juniors were a focus for the club - something the WDCA is big on.
"Especially for quite a few of us, like myself, I'm not much of a player anymore," he said.
"It's more I've got two boys I want to see keep playing cricket in our home town and that's one of my main reasons for staying on there is for the juniors.
"If we don't keep cricket alive within kids, we're not going to have cricket in years to come."
Willie said his son, who is in year six at Woolsthorpe Primary School, went to school and told friends about the new club's name.
"Just out of that there was about 28 kids that showed interest in having some sort of part in the Spring Creek Cricket Club," he said.
Spring Creek waterway runs behind Woolsthorpe and down to Winslow.
Willie said Mailors Flat had been playing home games at Winslow for years.
He said the merger was decided on about two months ago when Woolsthorpe and Mailors Flat held a meeting and vote for those involved with the clubs.
"It probably was all set about two months ago, we've been doing a lot of work in the background," he said.
"Because obviously with the GCA folding we had no home, a group of us got together, about eight of us, and that's where it all started from about three months ago."
Willie said the new club had overwhelming support from the community.
"It's just from what we've been doing in the background in talking to people within our communities about keeping the cricket clubs going," he said.
Woolsthorpe and Mailors Flat played together informally in the final season of the Grassmere Cricket Association.
Willie said they joined forces a week before the GCA season started.
"Mailors Flat talked to us and we were struggling for numbers and they were struggling and we thought let's just sort of merge (play) together for the last season and have an A grade and a B grade side," Willie said.
He added having a women's side was on the new club's radar.
"It's definitely something we will work towards, especially with the area of Woolsthorpe, Winslow and Mailors Flat - it's all community that's growing stronger, there are houses to be built in Winslow," he said.
"There's going to be a lot more people in the communities as well."
Willie said the logo and colours were not finalised. Damian Jones is president.
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