Sport

  • Race perfect

    PERFECT spring weather greeted thousands of racegoers at last weekend’s Avoca Cup.
    The Avoca racecourse was a sea of people and colour for the running of the annual race.
    While the racing was the main attraction, there was plenty going on behind the scenes.
    Fashions on the Field attracted dozens of entrants as both men and women dressed in their finest strutted the catwalk.

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  • Cup Fever

    UP to four thousand people are expected to converge on Avoca Racecourse today for the running of the Plue Pyrenees Avoca Cup. The day is one of the biggest on the local calendar attracting people from the Pyrenees Shire as well as Ballarat, Bendigo, Warrnambool, Geelong and Melbourne. The first of eight races will commence […]

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  • Celebrating 100 years

    THE Avoca Ladies Golf Club members celebrated 100 years on Sunday.
    President Carmel Briody welcomes 24 present and past members before handing over to club stalwart Melva Burns who joined the club in 1960 and has been a continuous member for 64 years.
    In usual Melva style, she started off her reminiscing with a joke which brought many a chuckle.

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  • Lights On

    THE Australian and Victorian governments in partnership with Pyrenees Shire Council have marked the completion of a high quality lighting upgrade at Beaufort’s Goldfields Recreation Reserve.
    The more than $630,000 project was supported by $236,155 from the Australian Government under the Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program, $250,000 from the Victorian Government and more than $145,000 from the Pyrenees Shire Council.
    The project, benefiting Beaufort’s sporting clubs, was a significant undertaking and included a full electrical system upgrade, completed by Powercor, to enable the power capacity for upgraded lighting.

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  • Megan Mullane wins Beaufort best-and-fairest

    VERSATILE mid-courter Megan Mullane capped off her 2022 season at Beaufort by winning the A-Grade’s best-and-fairest medal.

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  • Avoca laying the blueprint for prolonged success

    EVEN with a premiership up for grabs on Grand Final day do Avoca’s netball coaches cast an eye towards what their club’s future holds.

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  • Ella Tranter caps off remarkable season

    Natte Bealiba’s Ella Tranter ends the 2022 A-Grade campaign with one of the best individual seasons in recent memory

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  • How Natte became champions

    AS the heavens opened over Princes Park last Saturday, so too did an outpour of relief, disbelief everything in-between from a sea of red-and-white. The sound of the final siren on Grand Final day acted as the perfect swansong for Natte Bealiba’s players at the end of a season unlike any other. A season which, […]

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  • Third Nalder Tracey Trophy for Naomi Medlyn

    NAOMI MEDLYN became a Nalder Tracey trophy winner for a third time on Monday – sharing the award with Carisbrook’s Laura Hurse following a thrilling count. Medlyn polled three votes in the final match of the season to jump ahead of Natte Bealiba teammate Ella Tranter and equal Hurse on 25 votes to be named […]

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  • Super Saturday ahead for MCDFNL

    SEVEN positions inside the MCDFL top eight will be up for grabs this Saturday on the eve of the competition’s first finals series in three years. Like the chaos of the final matchday of England’s Premier League season (where all ten matches are played simultaneously) players, coaches and supporters across the region will be monitoring […]

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