Sports
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League life member
Ron Cole has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to the Kyneton District Soccer Club and the Bendigo Amateur Soccer League for more than 40 years. His remarkable dedication to the game in every capacity earned him the honour of being inducted as a life member of Bendigo Amateur Soccer League. Cole has served 27 years as…
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Locally grown talent
Kyneton District Soccer Club’s Sian Hooppell has had a big 2024 soccer season. Sian played in both the Division 1 and Division 2 Women’s teams for KDSC this year and was awarded Best and Fairest and Leading Goal Scorer for both teams at the club’s presentation night. “Sian has had an outstanding soccer season and…
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Championship claimed
The Kyneton Bowling Club men’s pair of Jim Cooper and Jerry Richmond won Ballarat Highlands Bowls Region Over 60s championship at Ballarat Memorial Sport last Wednesday, defeating the pair from Victoria Bowling Club of Noel Verlinden and Barry Clark. The game was closely played throughout with Cooper and Richmond taking a four-shot lead on the…
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Kyneton pair come close
A very close final prevailed for the bowls final of the Region’s Mixed Pairs championship played at the Kyneton Bowling Club, which saw it being a family affair. The Kyneton pair of Kisha Monleon and Anthony Mathison (father and stepdaughter) narrowly lost out by two shots to Webbcona’s Leah and Ben McArthur (mother and son).…
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‘Name’ bowlers make an impact
Several highly credentialed bowlers made an impact in the top division of Highlands pennant on Saturday. Young dynamo Nathan Lynch, from the strong Moonee Ponds club, lined up for Romsey. He was skipper in the winning rink, which included his grandfather Garry Templar — the Redbacks’ senior coach. Vastly experienced and multiple Sunbury club champion…
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Fortunes ebb and flow
A largely absorbing third round of McIntyre Cup 1sts cricket on Saturday afternoon saw fortunes ebb and flow across all four matches. Reigning premier Gisborne struck trouble with a Fox, namely paceman Stephen, who took five of the first six wickets to fall for Sunbury Kangaroos, and it was vice-captain Leigh Brennan who largely put…
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Close battles in CDCA
Castlemaine District Cricket Association senior sides contested one-day matches in round two last Saturday. Friday night the Women’s comp was also scheduled to get under way but was heavily impacted by rain. B Grade and C Grade (Under 16) comps swung into action on Saturday but several junior matches were also abandoned due to the…
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Kyneton’s the team to beat!
After plenty of pre-season speculation about Kyneton’s division one bowls prospects this season, the answer came with a convincing all fours up victory over Kyneton Golf on Saturday. The influx of an array of new players, including proven skippers Greg Podesta (ex-Kangaroo Flat) and John O’Donnell, as well as much-travelled Glen Gascoyne and ‘Big G’…
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‘Life’s good’ — national champ
Kyneton Bowling Club is very proud of new National Champion of Champions bowler Chloe Stewart. And Chloe says she will always remember where she grew up and began her amazing journey, which has taken to her top level in her chosen sport, and become a career path as well. “Life’s good,” a reflective Chloe said…
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Romsey on the last ball
A brilliant unbeaten 130 runs for the fifth wicket between skipper Ben Way and battle-hardened Matt Burkett enabled Romsey to topple Sunbury United on the very last ball delivered on Saturday. Burkett pulverised a drive through cover point for a boundary to give the Redbacks their second successive McIntyre Cup win on the last ball…
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CDCA swings into action
The Castlemaine District Cricket Association 2024-2025 season kicked off last weekend with one-day matches in round one of the A Grade and A Reserve competition. The Women’s competition begins this Friday October 18 and the B Grade and C Grade (Under 16) competitions commences this Saturday October 19. The opening round saw Taradale A Reserve…
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Sixth Cup for Station One
Station One’s remarkable record in country cups continued when he won the $50,000 Murtoa Cup in a photo-finish on Saturday. The brave win by the Liam Howley-trained stable star gave him his sixth Cup in the space of two years. It also brought up the third win in four days for the Macedon Ranges stable,…