Sports
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Riders raring to race
Harcourt’s new mountain bike park hosts its first major competitive mountain biking event this Sunday. The Goldfields Winter Series is expected to bring up to 140 riders to the scenic La Larr Ba Gauwa Park for the competition. The competitive series is a new initiative of the Castlemaine Rocky Riders Mountain Bike Club and the…
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Futsal refs get involved
Futsal is a sport growing in leaps and bounds in the Macedon Ranges. This modified form of soccer, traditionally played indoors, is growing in popularity with more than 450 players of all ages from under eight years old, all the way through to open-age players. Macedon Ranges Futsal has in recent seasons had many of…
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Sports precinct gains momentum
Macedon Ranges Shire Council is advocating for state and federal government support for a Regional Sports Precinct in New Gisborne. Last week the council met with Minister for Sport John Eren, Macedon MP Mary-Anne Thomas and representatives from the New Gisborne Regional Sports Field and the Macedon Ranges Regional Sports Hub Projects for a briefing…
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Match 500 for a sport master
If, when he began playing junior footy for Macedon in 1981, Ray Tadd had listened to people who told him that he was “not much chop” then he wouldn’t have run out with the Woodend-Hesket Masters last Sunday afternoon through a banner congratulating him on his 500th game playing football. Ray, who has been playing…
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A different look at footy
A special project in a university course has extended into a season-long behind the scenes photographic study of Woodend-Hesket’s senior football team. Ties Urie will end up with thousands of photos which he hopes to condense into a small book. He snaps around 500 photos at each match he attends in what is believed to…
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Consistency works for Bulldogs
Gisborne took on Castlemaine on Saturday at the Magpie’s home ground with the aim of winning back to back games and playing four consistent quarters. The game started with both teams kicking early goals before Gisborne broke the game open with 10 majors in the first quarter, leading by a comfortable 60 points at quarter…
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Learning from one of the best
Pathways to becoming a professional tennis player, developing weapons and enhancing training habits were the key messages in Sunday’s session of the Macedon Ranges Tennis School Development Squad. Held at the Woodend Tennis Club, it’s the third such session held for the squad. On hand to help head coach Marcus Wills was former pupil and…
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Senior men on a roll
After a slow start to the season, the Kyneton District Soccer Club’s senior men have won their last three games. On Sunday, they took on Maidstone United at Barkly Square. Kyneton opened their account early through Ben Plant putting the ball into the net within the first two minutes of the game. Plant went on…
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Limited edition … get in quick!
Do you have a special number you, your dad or grandfather played in for the Kyneton Tigers? The Kyneton Football Netball Club has produced a limited edition all-Australian woollen football jumper to mark the club’s milestone 150th anniversary. Made with the traditional long sleeves and collar, the black and yellow merino jumpers will be numbered…
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Cats by just one point!
The 2018 Riddell League football season kicked off on Saturday with a frenetic, pulsating encounter as reigning premier Macedon survived a desperate late charge by Riddell to win by a solitary point. The see-saw match before a massive opening round crowd at Riddell certainly lived up to expectations, with both sides showing they have the…