Sports
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Cochrane to lead new Magpie squad
Castlemaine Football Netball Club has announced its inaugural Senior Women’s football coach for the 2022 Central Victoria Football League – Women Season as former CFNC Youth Girls U18s footballer and ex-AFLW player Tiahna Cochrane. Tiahna has most recently played for Golden Square Football Netball Club and in season 2021 was winner of the Champions IGA goalkicking…
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Magpies gear up for 2022
Campbells Creek Football Netball Club has wasted no time recruiting coaches and playing talent since signaling its intention to return to the Maryborough Castlemaine District Football Netball League in 2022. The club issued a letter to the league on September 21 stating it would be coming out of recess, and participating in season 2022. In…
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Lakey’s Morrish Medal
There was plenty of elation in the Gisborne area last week as teenage star Flynn Lakey won the NAB League’s Morrish Medal. Lakey played nine matches with the Calder Cannons this season in between some senior matches with Gisborne. The ball-winning midfielder was best afield three times with the Cannons, and finished with 12 votes…
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Always an honour
“No matter the outcome, it’s always an honour to wear the green and gold.” This was the reaction of Lauretta Hanson after representing Australia in the gruelling women’s world road race championship in Belgium at the weekend. The 26-year-old Hanson, a professional cyclist who grew up on a farm at Fern Hill and attended Sacred…
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HOME-GROWN STARS FACE OFF
The 2021 AFL Grand Final is taking place far away in Perth on Saturday, but there’s an extraordinary level of interest through much of the Macedon Ranges. Two of the players taking part, Jake Lever (Melbourne) and Mitch Hannan (Western Bulldogs) played with Riddell League clubs as youngsters, and attended secondary schools in Kyneton. This…
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Over until next year
Diminishing hopes that there would be a Bendigo Football Netball League finals series in 2021 were finally snuffed out on Friday. The season has been cancelled, with no team or individual awards whatsoever in senior ranks. In a media release, the BFNL’s board of management in conjunction with affiliated clubs, regrettably announced a finals series…
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Six months on – heading in the right direction
How time flies! Six months ago Liam Howley Racing was launched and has become firmly established at a state-of-the-art training complex in the Macedon Ranges at Pipers Creek. “Spring is the best time of the year (from a racing viewpoint),” meticulous trainer Liam Howley said yesterday. Howley and his valued staff were buoyed when ultra-consistent…
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Riddell League pulls the pin
The Riddell District Football Netball League has cancelled its 2021 season, but it has not yet been decided if premierships will be awarded. After weeks and months of competition changes and plans being altered to keep football and netball alive across the RDFNL, the death knell arrived with the state government’s announcement regarding a further…
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Fine training effort from Lawson
Kyneton trainer Marita Lawson was thrilled to win a race on Saturday with a galloper who had not raced for just over nine months.Having his third race start, San Mauritz showed plenty of courage to race on the pace in a 1200m Maiden at Warracknabeal. Starting as a $11 chance, the four-year-old gelding was ridden…
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Tigers appoint club manager
Kyneton Football Netball Club has appointed Nikki Young (pictured) to the full-time role of club manager. President Hayden Evans said the club was now in a position to employ Nikki who would oversee all club communications and administrative functions for Auskick, junior football, netball, women’s football, men’s football and FIDA (all-abilities football). “This will help…
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First win on career path
Jeff Hanson Apprentice jockey Fiona Sandkuhl, from Gisborne, has notched her first career winner, guiding the Mitch Beer-trained Snowbella to victory at Goulburn.In only her sixth ride, the 21-year-old looked a natural in the saddle on July 30, taking the grey mare forward in the 1300m BM58 Handicap from gate four, before holding on for…
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Darwin Cup record breaker
The annual Darwin Cup Carnival has often provided an opportunity for gallopers from Kyneton to make their mark. Last Monday, Jessie Philpot – formerly apprenticed to Kyneton trainer Mick Sell – created history by becoming the first female jockey to ever win the most prestigious race in the Northern Territory. And the Sell stable’s favourite…