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Mitch Rodd

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...

10 hours ago

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...

14 hours ago

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...

14 hours ago

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...

14 hours ago

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...

14 hours ago

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...

15 hours ago

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

Horse Racing

History in the making

THE Sandra O’Connor-trained Powersofpersuasion claimed a historic win at Friday’s 100th anniversary Mildura Harness Racing Club meeting at Mildura Recreation Reserve. Wayne Hill drove the four-year-old pacer to victory in the Grace Hepworth Ladies...

21 Nov 2024

Golf

Coomealla’s pennant three-peat

A THIRD consecutive Murray Darling Golf Association women’s pennant flag has been taken back to Coomealla Golf Club. After the club entered two teams in this year’s competition, it was Coomealla White who earned victory over Red Cliffs in Sunday’s...

20 Nov 2024

Golf

Pro-am success against the stars

RUBBING shoulders with some of Australia’s best golfers, including Cameron Smith and Lucas Herbert, is an experience Josef Moisidis won’t forget. On top of that, the Coomealla Golf Club member can lay claim to beating both of the LIV Golf stars. Before...

20 Nov 2024

Golf

Decade drought over for Red Cliffs

RED Cliffs Golf Club’s first Division 1 pennant flag for a decade is a special moment to savour for team captain Daryl Morgan. Breaking into the A Grade side as a teenager before moving away and then returning to the district five years ago, Morgan...

20 Nov 2024

Table Tennis

One Wood helps team into table tennis finals

WITH nine rounds played and one to go before the finals of the Sunraysia Table Tennis season, Weightman’s Packaging have secured top position on the ladder with a hard fought 7-4 victory over bottom team Choices Flooring Mildura who have now been...

20 Nov 2024