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Heath Kendall

Heath is a sports journalist at Sunraysia Daily. Email [email protected] to get in touch.

Pennant bowls on hold

A START date for Pennant bowls remains unclear. Bowls Sunraysia officials had hoped the easing of restrictions this week by Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews would allow them to bring forward their start date. “We thought we might be able to get...

19 Sep 2020

Cricket

Saturday Serve: Regions ignored again

REGIONAL sport continues to be ignored by the Victorian Government. This week’s announcements again left us all confused and frustrated. Local sporting clubs throughout regional Victoria are being held back by case numbers in metropolitan...

19 Sep 2020

Cricket

Wyld optimistic about coming Sunraysia Cricket Association season

MILDURA Settlers all-rounder Richie Wyld is confident the 2020-21 Sunraysia Cricket Association (SCA) season will go ahead. New South Wales border restrictions have continued to cast doubt over this season’s competition with two clubs, Coomeall...

18 Sep 2020

Football

Sunraysia Football Netball League upbeat about ’21 start

SUNRAYSIA Football Netball League (SFNL) clubs remain positive about the future despite missing the entire 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic. League boss Peter Walker said planning had already started for 2021 with an announcement...

16 Sep 2020

Health

Hospital chat started Reclaim the Base fight

TWO decades of private management comes to an end at midnight on Monday, when the Mildura Base Hospital returns to public hands as Mildura Base Public Hospital (MBPH).For former midwife Sam Cooke, it will be an emotional moment, one...

14 Sep 2020

Business

Mildura tourism recovery needs plan, says Stefano de Pieri

CELEBRITY cook Stefano de Pieri believes tourism is the key to helping rebuild the hospitality and accommodation industry in Sunraysia. Mr de Pieri expects regional Victoria will attrract a big increase in visitor numbers once...

14 Sep 2020

Sport

Saturday Serve: Get behind your local club

YOU don’t really appreciate something until it is taken away. For the past six months we have all been in limbo, waiting, hoping this hideous virus is bought under control. I can’t tell you how much I have missed weekend sport. Whether it’s...

12 Sep 2020

Cricket

Sunraysia Cricket Association sticking to plan – for now

SUNRAYSIA Cricket Association (SCA) officials are continuing to plan for an October 10 start to the 2020-2021 season. The board will meet Monday evening following weekend announcements by the Victorian Government. President Andrew Farlie is hoping...

11 Sep 2020

Golf

Bottomley coming up aces to claim family bragging rights

COOMEALLA Golf Club ladies captain Lee Bottomley has further enhanced her reputation as one of the region’s best players, after scoring her third hole-in-one for the year. Playing at Riverside Golf Club last Thursday, Bottomley aced the 18th hole...

09 Sep 2020

Football

Young Eagle’s draft hopes receive boost

ROBINVALE Euston speedster Seamus Mitchell’s pathway on to an AFL list received a major boost last week when he was invited to attend this year’s NAB AFL Draft Combines. Mitchell was one of 94 players from around the country who will test at the...

09 Sep 2020

Saturday Serve

Great view, but bad look

IT’S official, for the first time in the history of the AFL/VFL, the grand final will be played outside of Victoria with Queensland winning the right to host the big game.

05 Sep 2020

Opinion

Tough times facing the Millewa Football League

LAST weekend the Millewa Football League (MFL) grand final was scheduled to be played, today it would have been the Sunraysia Football Netball League’s (SFNL) big day.

05 Sep 2020