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Mitch Rodd

Delighted Magpies’ flying start

A TOP three position at this stage of the Sunraysia Cricket Association Premier Women’s season has Merbein co-captain Michelle Griffiths feeling “stoked”.Currently sitting third with a 4-2 record after seven rounds, only 10 points...

4 hours ago

Basketball

Tigers, Wildcats devour opponents

IRYMPLE Tigers have extended their record to 4-2 in the men’s Mildura Premier League Basketball after their impressive 75-52 win over the Mildura Demons. Coming out of the gates firing, the Tigers built themselves a comfortable cushion after...

4 hours ago

Education

Teachers tee up new day on fairways

GOLF’S increasing popularity with juniors had led to the inaugural Sunraysia Schools Golf Day next week. The brainchild of Coomealla High School teachers Chris and Shannon Bush, 45 students from local primary and secondary schools will play 18 holes...

4 hours ago

Netball

Tigers ready to rattle cages

FOLLOWING a foundation year at the helm, Red Cliffs A Grade netball coach Romany Bowen hopes her side can take another step in their development next year. Despite finishing on the bottom of the ladder with two wins, moving further up next year is...

24 Nov 2024

Sport

Softball support for anti-violence message

SUNRAYSIA Softball is embracing orange for a good cause. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence, which runs from Monday until December 10, is a global campaign led annually by UN Women. During the 16 Days, communities around the world...

24 Nov 2024

Basketball

Core returns for Big V season

MILDURA Heat Big V men’s coach Sammy Gazzo is set to take a younger squad profile into his second season in charge. Captain Tarryn Shaddock leads a strong core of returning players to the 2025 squad alongside Jack Bakewell, Dallas Brown, Lachlan...

23 Nov 2024

Football

Jack and the Giant draft pick

JACK the Giant. It’s got a nice ring to it for new GWS AFL recruit Jack Ough of the Wentworth District Football Netball Club. The 17-year-old realised his dream of making an AFL list when the Giants selected him at pick 36 on Thursday night during the...

23 Nov 2024

Basketball

Finley fits for Heat

EXPERIENCE and excitement should come in spades when new Mildura Heat import Sam Finley walks through the door. The 30-year-old guard from Riverside, California will join the men’s Big V basketball squad next year, providing a mature head and...

23 Nov 2024

Soccer

National camp invite for emerging star

EMERGING soccer talent Alexis Pantazopoulos will soon take another step towards realising her dream of becoming a Matilda. A former Irymple Knights junior, the teenager will join a select group of Young Matildas prospects for a seven-day camp under...

23 Nov 2024

Cricket

Irymple’s man of Steel

A RETURN to Irymple has been a few years in the making for Englishman Scott Steel, and he’s keen to make up for lost time. The big hitting all-rounder made his maiden century for the Swallows in style on day one of of their SCA contest with Merbein...

23 Nov 2024

Cricket

Finch feat a rarity

A HAT-trick is a rarity in cricket, but four wickets in an over is even greaterIn his almost four decades playing cricket, Nursery Ridge bowler Jason Finch said he had never experienced a four-wicket maiden, until last Saturday. The veteran’s fourth...

23 Nov 2024

Cricket

Top four to the fore

CLASHES between the top four sides, each looking to create space between them and the pack, headline round 7 of the Sunraysia cricket Women’s Division. Ladder leaders Merbein will meet third-placed Mildura Settlers at Mildura Senior College on Friday...

22 Nov 2024