Sports
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Lakey, Stewart, Gisborne’s best
Bill West Gisborne’s highest football award, the Gardiner Medal, has been won by 19-year-old dynamo Flynn Lakey. And not unexpectedly, star netballer Maddy Stewart – twice a Bendigo League Betty Thompson Medal winner – took out Gisborne A-grade netball’s best player award. The club’s awards night on Thursday was at the Starlight Room at Taylor…
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New coach for Tigers
Bill West Gisborne resident Tim Bannan is really looking forward to being the new senior football coach at Lancefield next season. His appointment was confirmed last week, and the 43-year-old comes to Tigerland having had a long involvement at a playing and coaching level in both football and cricket. Last year Bannan coached a youthful…
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First legend in 149 years
Bill West It’s official! Formed in 1872, Lancefield Football Club – now known as Lancefield Football Netball Club – has its first ‘Legend’. There was a standing ovation from a packed gathering at Kilmore Trackside on Saturday evening after 77-year-old Barry ‘Mocca’ Hunt was installed as a Tiger ‘Legend’, with his credentials outlined in detail.…
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Netball premiers dominate
Sandhurst and Gisborne were the dominant clubs in the Bendigo Football Netball League’s grand finals played on Saturday. In A-grade, Sandhurst was far too strong for Kangaroo Flat, with a 48-33 margin. Kangaroo Flat reached the grand final with a 52-49 victory over Gisborne. Gisborne’s two premierships came in the 17&Under and A-Reserve grand finals.…
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Saints Reserves claim cup
The Trentham FNC Reserves side has capped off their season with a premiership victory over Talbot in the Maryborough Castlemaine District Football Netball League. In a hard-fought opening term, the Saints managed to squeeze through two goals to the Hawks’ one for the term to hold a slender four-point advantage at the first change. In…
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Premierships at last!
Bill West Gisborne footballers won their first Bendigo League senior football premiership since the 2006 season on Saturday, overcoming Strathfieldsaye in a hard, slogging contest in wet and heavy conditions at the Queen Elizabeth Oval. The Bulldogs also won the Under 18s flag, and two netball premierships. The first three quarters of the main match…
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Superior Bombers land premiership
Riddell took out the 2022 football premiership in comprehensive style on Sunday, fighting back from a 28-point first term deficit to overhaul Diggers Rest.
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Magpie women win ultimate prize
The Castlemaine Football Netball Club’s inaugural Senior Women’s Football team completed the ultimate fairytale claiming victory in the Central Victoria Football League Women’s Premiership at the Queen Elizabeth Oval in Bendigo on Friday night. The local side put on a show in front of a packed crowd kicking 5.8 (38) to defeat Golden Square 2.7…
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Bulldogs chase six flags
Gisborne Football Netball Club has six teams in Bendigo League grand finals at the Queen Elizabeth Oval this Saturday. To have all three football teams and three netball sides with premiership chances is a remarkable performance by the southern-most club in the BFNL. Gisborne A-grade netballers went down 52-49 to Kangaroo Flat in the preliminary…
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Gisborne women seal title
Gisborne Soccer Club is celebrating league success after their senior women clinched the State League 4 West Championship with a 3-0 win over Point Cook at Dixon Field on August 27. Needing a win in their final game to secure the title, Gisborne dominated the early stages of the match and took the lead in…
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Saints stay in contention
The Sainter Undeterred by a narrow loss to Harcourt, Trentham senior footballers showed plenty of intensity and spirit to defeat Navarre on Saturday and stay in the MCDFNL finals race. The Saints knew their season was on the line and for three quarters it was an intense, low-scoring battle. Navarre had kicked a huge score…
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Extra time called
Gisborne netballers were involved in two astonishing Bendigo League knockout semi-finals on Sunday. Both went to extra time, and the Bulldogs finished up with a 50/50 outcome – the A-graders surviving with a pressure packed victory over Castlemaine, while the B-graders succumbed to South Bendigo. The A-grade semi-final was a see-sawing affair, with the in-form…