Sports
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Weather impedes match for Macedon Ranges-Sunbury veteran cricketers
Macedon Ranges-Sunbury veteran cricketers welcomed The Australian Cricket Society team to play on turf at Keilor Park on Sunday. Ranges skipper Dave Cordy won the toss and elected to bat. Due to the weather forecast, it was decided to play four lots of 20 overs rather than the usual 40 overs apiece. After both sides…
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Bulldogs picked up in draft
Two former Gisborne footballers are beginning to live the dream. Sam Ramsay and Harrison Jones, who until this season just gone played with the Calder Cannons, were picked up last week in the AFL draft. Ramsay, who was number 47 in the draft has been snared by Carlton. Jones was pick 30 and is now…
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Grogan’s big day at Kyneton races
Hardworking local trainer Ted Grogan is kept busy with thoroughbreds and quarter horses, and stole the limelight when his very long-priced entrants made their presence felt at the Kyneton race meeting last week. Grogan had four runners at Kyneton, with rank outsider Evolvement winning at odds of $61, Cerveau running second at $101, Discombulate finishing…
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Stable star in top form
Robert Linnell describes himself as Riddells Creek’s only horse trainer, and he’s really pleased with the recent purple patch of form shown by stable star Keep The Magic. It’s often hard to win a race, but the well bred nine year-old chalked up three successive victories – starting at long odds each time – before…
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Thrilling finish in Kyneton Cup
The bet365 Kyneton Cup produced the most exciting finish on the nine-event program staged by Kyneton and Hanging Rock Racing Club last week. Just when the well fancied and supported duo of Pacodali and Double You Tee were fighting out the finish of the $125,000 feature event, Midterm swooped down the middle of the track…
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Gisborne’s Gardiner Reserve upgrades given go ahead
A major cost blowout will not stop two pavilion upgrade projects for Gisborne’s Gardiner Reserve from getting underway before the 2020 game season. Macedon Ranges Council agreed to allocate $20,000 from its Public Open Space Financial Reserve and to run a $462,099 short-term budget deficit to fund the project. Reserve user groups have spent years…
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Riddell Bombers on front foot
There was plenty of optimism at Riddell Football Netball Club’s annual meeting last week, with Justin Belleville confirmed as senior football coach for 2020, and three talented recruits from Gisborne signed up. The Bombers finished third on the Riddell League ladder in 2019, but ‘bombed out’ unexpectedly in an elimination final against Wallan, shattering premiership…
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The English connection
“There’s quite a lot of people from Denby who are now following Gisborne cricket from thousands of miles away – all thanks to Tom.” That’s how Denby Cricket Club’s secretary Jimmy Gumbert summed up the impact of 19-year-old Tom Sanders bypassing university in England and coming to Australia joining Gisborne Cricket Club this season. A…
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Romsey bats stun Marsh
Master batsman Ben Way hit a stunning unbeaten 79 from 59 balls and with help from all-rounder Taylor Stevenson enabled Romsey to beat Bacchus Marsh with a ball to spare on Saturday. Way slammed five fours and four sixes in a pulsating innings at Maddingly Park to highlight the second round of Gisborne District Cricket…
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Cost blowout – Gardiner Reserve upgrades face setback
A major cost blowout for upgrades at Gardiner Reserve threatens to disrupt Gisborne’s 2020 winter sports season or delay the project by 12 months. The $462,099 shortfall for two pavilion upgrade projects is expected to push back works to game season: a scenario that has been described as “a nightmare” for five tenant clubs and…
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Kyneton gymnastics squad wins national gold and bronze
Kyneton High’s gym squad has returned home with a gold medal and four bronze from the National Gymnastics Competition held in the Gold Coast. Golden trio Evie Robert, Jessie Harrison and Caitlyn Merrall won the title for Level 3 Intermediate Trio. Bronze was awarded to Level 3 Senior Pair: Tarnee Hammond and Emily Rowe, Level…
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Tankard for Hawks
Woodend-Hesket’s new senior football coach is Ben Tankard who has been in charge at Macedon for the past two seasons. The Hawks announced Tankard was their choice to lead the club on Thursday night. He takes over the reins from playing coach Tom Carland, who put in a power of work over the past two…