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By Jenny Dickenson Team Andrew won the Naracoorte Squash Club’s winter pennant. Andrew won 1 set against Jack who has been a consistent winner all pennant. Rowan had a convincing win over the jet-lagged Pete and Toby showed his improvement with a win against Jaspreet in 3. Ewen won his match against Chris and then […]

By Georgia Gill In Focus – Division Three Fifth placed Border Districts hosted fourth placed Lucindale and after an incredibly even first half the two sides could not be split sitting on 17 goals apiece. Led by Mahney and Sambell in goals, Borders came out firing in the third term shooting 13 goals to four as they pushed out to a handy lead going into the last quarter. Another evenly contested quarter in the final term ensured the margin remained similar with Borders running away winners by 10 goals, 34 to 24. Despite the result, Penola remain in fourth spot on the ladder with Borders moving one win clear of sixth place Penola to stay in fifth. In the other game in Div 3, sixth placed Penola played third placed Bordertown with the latter getting the better start of the two sides to be up five at quarter time. Bordertown […]

By Sally Bywater Keith v Kybybolite What a game! Kyby came to Keith and left nothing behind. A hard fought game to the final whistle. Kyby were one up at quarter time (15-14) then Keith flipped the lead to be one up at half time (31-30). An intense second half saw both sides continue to apply pressure down the whole court. Whitney Smith (Keith) and Gorgia Sealey (Kyby) had a close tussle in the midcourt, both contributing positively to their sides in attack and defence. Charlee Hodges’ (Kyby) precision passing into Chelsea Bull kept Keith’s ability to turnover the ball minimal. The game was close until the last 5 minutes, where Keith pulled away to finish with a 9 goal lead, 64-55. A highly contested game across the entire court for a full 60 minutes. Great game girls. Mundulla v Naracoorte In a fast paced game at Mundulla, Naracoorte took […]

By Sally Bywater A Grade Keith 64 (M Wachtel, W Smith) d Kybybolite 55 (A Donnelly, G Sealey) Naracoorte 61 (L Henschke, G Gill) d Mundulla 44 (C Bernhardt, E Clarke) Lucindale 47 (N Smart, H Ogilvie) d Border Districts 42 (K Moyle-Read, P Moyle-Read) Penola 57 (C Bradley, J Adams) d Bordertown 36 (S Ansell, A Fuentes) A Reserves Keith 70 (E Gray, M Evans) d Kybybolite 34 (M Hole, E Stokes) Naracoorte 69 (K Mott, K Boon) d Mundulla 48 (A Eastwood, K Couzner) Lucindale 55 (M Gear, N Hocking) d Border Districts 33 (D Rata, A Haynes) Kingston 54 (N Banning, F Traeger) d Padthaway 35 (E McCauley, A Haydon) Penola 43 (K Honner, H Klemm) d Bordertown 35 (T Rattus, T O’Sullivan) B Grade Keith 61 (C Nicolai, S Pese) d Kybybolite 35 (B Noske, L Sandercock) Mundulla 49 (T Stone, A Hood) d Naracoorte 45 […]

This week I want to focus on umpiring. I have watched a lot of AFL footy over the weekend, and I am not really all that happy about the standard of umpiring at the top level. I watched a local game on Saturday and after watching the same sport on Friday night I am really happy to keep going to my local footy every Saturday. I simply can’t believe with all the technology and whatever that is going on with the AFL, that they could mess up a couple of decisions in an important game so badly.  I was watching Collingwood V Geelong. Jeremy Cameron definitely did not mark that ball, it was over the boundary line. But the Boundary Empire was right there, so he was in the better position than me to judge that one. I will give you that one, but watching it back, it was definitely […]

Naracoorte may have handed Keith the double chance in the race for the KNTFL A grade finals after a significant loss last Saturday. Sitting in third going into the game against second-place Mundulla, Naracoorte were no match for the northern Tigers and were thrashed by 10 goals, meaning they have been leapfrogged on the ladder by Keith.  Naracoorte trailed from the start and Mundulla only extended the margin the further the game went, with star forward James Hinge kicking six goals and young Harry Kuchel named best player. Zac Peake kicked three goals for Naracoorte and Nathan Davey was named best, but the Demons were well beaten.  Keith were challenged early by Kyby but pulled right away after half time to win by nearly 10 goals. Blake Read was again a star forward with five goals for the Crows, who moved into third place ahead of Naracoorte with the win.  […]

by Paul Mitchell The Murphy stable in Naracoorte is chugging along nicely, with a number of horses performing well across SA tracks.  “Duke of Anjou has been thereabouts lately,” said trainer Sue Murphy.  “He’s just had a bit of bad luck, but he’s knocking on the door.  “Hasta La Chilly is the new kid on the block, and he ran second at Gawler recently.  “We’ve got a couple of others who have just turned four but haven’t raced yet…  “They’re ready to go.”

By Paul Mitchell Despite starring at a recent Saturday SA metropolitan meeting, Naracoorte stayer Hasta La Fiorente will soon resume his role as supporting act to a rock-star stablemate.  Hasta La Fiorente bolted in over 2500m at Murray Bridge earlier this month, posting his ninth career win and lifting his prizemoney to just under $285,000. […]