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Monday, January 27, 2025

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cricket

SHDCA claims shield bragging rights

SWAN Hill & District Cricket Association has been declared the kings of Country Week, after racking up an impressive double this season. In the first leg, the Under 17s, 15s and 13s travelled to Cohuna on Sunday, December 8 for the...

25 Jan 2025
Netball

Magpies aiming high again with Ryan

OPPORTUNITY and development will be the key pillars for reigning CMFNL A Grade premiers Lake Boga under new coach Lisa Ryan this season, with the club confirming her appointment last week. Ryan will take over from Anne-Marie Stewart as senior netball...

24 Jan 2025
cricket

Rivalry resumes

ANOTHER chapter in the rivalry between Nyah District and Woorinen will be written this weekend, with the two clubs set to clash in this year’s Kookaburra Cup grand final. The Demons enter Saturday’s decider looking for back-to-back Kookaburra Cup...

24 Jan 2025
Bowls

Three-way fight for finals

MURRAY Downs knows what’s at stake this weekend as they go on the road to face third-placed Barham in Northern Valley Premier League bowls. After a tough defeat against Racecourse last weekend, Murray Downs will have to put in a big performance this...

24 Jan 2025
Bowls

Bowls Notes

Bowls notes : Lake Boga, Murray Downs, Nyah District, Racecourse, Swan Hill, Tooleybuc, MVPA

24 Jan 2025
Golf

The 19th Hole

THE wind picked up for everyone playing Thursday’s Stableford competition, but that didn’t bother our current Junior Golf Champion and Golfer of the Year for 2024 Noah Starrs (4), who blitzed the field with 40 points to win the...

23 Jan 2025
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Tennis

Tennis dream comes true for Tristan

WHEN Tristan Schoolkate visited Swan Hill two years ago, it would have been with a racquet in hand and a big dream in his heart. Then 21 years of age, Schoolkate was the winning top seed of the first ITF ProTour event held at Swan Hill’s lawn tennis...

22 Jan 2025
Sport

Magic Matty wins for Watson

A PATIENT drive and charge down the sprint lane was enough to secure Merbein driver Kathy Watson this year’s Kiel Tiling Blue Pearl Classic at the Swan Hill Trotting Club’s meeting on Sunday night. Watson, along with trainer-husband Luke...

21 Jan 2025
cricket

Singh on cloud nine

AN incredible nine-wicket haul from Woorinen veteran Gurmander Singh helped Woorinen secure a commanding win over Ultima-TUF, with the opening bowler falling agonisingly short of creating history on the weekend. In fact, if it wasn’t for the decision...

21 Jan 2025
Cricket

Demons survive Raiders scare by one wicket

BARHAM-KOONDROOK v NYAH DISTRICTLADDER leaders Nyah District were made to earn the six points against a gallant Barham-Koondrook, with the Demons securing a one-wicket victory in one of the games of the season on the weekend. Chasing the...

21 Jan 2025
Cricket

Ruthless Tigers maul Roodogs

TWO incredible individual performances have helped Woorinen prepare for this Saturday’s Kookaburra Cup grand final against Nyah District in the best possible way, with a nine-wicket thrashing of Ultima TUF. A nine-wicket haul from Gurmander Singh and...

21 Jan 2025
Sport

Ladie vie for blue pearl event

THE Kiel Tiling Blue Pearl Classic will be held on Sunday and promises an exciting seven-race event and a showcase of women drivers in the sport of harness racing. Swan Hill Trots Club president Noel Watson said the main event was race...

17 Jan 2025
Sport

Fast times at the trots

AN interesting seven-event card of harness racing was held at Swan Hill on Sunday, January 5 with fast times the order of the night. The Braemar Air Conditioning Pace over 2240 metres to start the program went the way of veteran Charlton...

17 Jan 2025
Bowls

Bowls Notes

Bowls notes: Murray Downs, Nyah District, Racecourse, Swan Hill, Lake Boga, MVPA. FIRSTLY, congratulations to Buck Lehmann who won the Murray Valley Playing Area Champion of Champions January 5. Another fantastic win.

17 Jan 2025
Golf

The 19th Hole

SHOT and sunny conditions laid down the path for good scoring this week at Murray Downs Golf & Country Club. Thursday’s Stableford competition was run as a medley with 102 men and women competing on the day. Young Mabel Spitty (11)...

16 Jan 2025
cricket

Juniors battle in country cricket

THE best of the region’s young cricketers beat Sunraysia’s best last week, stealing victory with a total score of six match wins to five in the Junior Country Week tournament. Three age groups, under-13, under-15 and under-17 competed in a total of...

14 Jan 2025
Cricket

Demons still on top

ROUND 10 offered some interesting one-day results in the men’s A Grade cricket series, the biggest surprise being a comfortable win to St Mary’s Tyntynder in their match against second-placed Woorinen on the Tigers’ home turf. In Koondrook...

14 Jan 2025