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Sport brings open doors for Macca

DAVID McKenzie remembers his first day of high school well. “The teacher, Miss Walsh, asked us all what our ambitions were and I said I wanted to play league football and run a Stawell Gift. I can still remember her looking at me like she was...

Numurkah Leader
07 Jul 2020
Golf

Clarky gets a medal

by “Juan Antonio Ramon Del Los Squanderosa” IAN “Clarky” Clark posted the best nett score of the day to capture the June Compusult monthly medal at the Numurkah Golf Club on Saturday. Ian returned a very solid round of 89-18-71 to win B...

Numurkah Leader
06 Jul 2020
Breaking

Seasons cancelled

THE Murray Football Netball League has officially cancelled its 2020 season on a unanimous decision of the league executive and club presidents. The executive and club presidents met last night and made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020...

Numurkah Leader
25 Jun 2020
Numurkah Leader

Lucky career for Eric Beitzel

WHEN Eric Beitzel tried to break in to the VFL in the mid 1950s, he didn’t have a lot of luck. But, in terms of his football career, that’s pretty much where luck of the bad variety ended for him. Eric played in six grand finals, with his team...

Numurkah Leader
16 Jun 2020
Sport

Faye slays behind the scenes

BEHIND every sport, and every sporting legend, is an army of administrators making it possible for sporting events to take place. Whilst in the big state, national and international leagues and associations those administrators are usually paid -...

Numurkah Leader
23 Jun 2020
Numurkah Leader

First round of championships under way

ANOTHER bumper field of 74 players greeted the starter as the Numurkah Golf Club’s men’s championships got under way last Saturday. It was a huge day as far as major events are concerned, as it was also the first round of the James Price...

Numurkah Leader
23 Jun 2020
Golf

Foggy start to Jack Roche first round

THE prestigious Jack Roche competition at Numurkah Golf Club got off to a cold and foggy start, with the first tee times delayed for about an hour on Saturday morning due to very poor visibility. When play did eventually get going, it was a couple...

Numurkah Leader
09 Jun 2020
Breaking

Picola league sets start date

PICOLA and District Football Netball League president Denis Brooks has announced that the league is aiming for a season start on Saturday, July 11. The league’s board met on Tuesday to discuss the various options available for the balance of the...

Numurkah Leader
04 Jun 2020
Sport

Bullant saves the best till last

PETER “Bullant” Cowan joined the club that every golfer dreams about on Saturday, getting his first hole-in-one, during his round of golf at Numurkah. Bullant saved his best shot until the last of the day, holing out on the par three 18th...

Numurkah Leader
02 Jun 2020
Sport

Going out on top for family

MARK ‘Bussy’ Davies was at the top of his game when he retired from competitive water-skiing in 1986, having just won the national men’s title for the third time, but he has no regrets. “My first child was on the way, so I chose family -...

Numurkah Leader
02 Jun 2020
Sport

Youngster grinds out the old fellas

OBVIOUSLY Numurkah golfers couldn’t wait to get back into competition golf, with a terrific field of 69 men out on the course on Saturday for a stableford round. While some members appeared to be a little rusty, with 34 points the very popular...

Numurkah Leader
26 May 2020
Exclusive

Passion drives a successful sporting career

THERE are not a lot of sports where people of all ages and genders compete against each other at an elite level, but in one of the few where they do, local farmer Lorraine Cairns rules the nation. Lorraine is current national champion in the...

Numurkah Leader
26 May 2020
Sport

Golfers back getting their fix

AFTER what seemed like an eternity to most, local golfers were back on the golf course last week, more than seven weeks after they had played their previous last round. Nathalia was back playing competition on the weekend, but Numurkah only allowed...

Numurkah Leader
19 May 2020
Cricket

All round love of the game

LIAM Gledhill had loved cricket since he was eight years old, but it was a moment watching an A grade game with his dad as a 12 year-old that cemented his determination to one day take to the pitch as a senior player. “Shane Collins got hit in the...

Numurkah Leader
19 May 2020
Sport

Sport’s back ... for some

LOCAL sporting clubs are celebrating an opportunity to get back onto their sporting arenas after Victorian Premier Dan Andrews announced an easing of lockdown restrictions on Monday morning. Andrews announced the state would take the first steps to...

Numurkah Leader
12 May 2020
Sport

Cool-headed Bev still shooting

ANY international rifle-shooting competitor who thought they could get one over on Australian officials at the 2000 Sydney Olympics hadn’t reckoned on coming up against Bev Braybon. “I think some of them thought that, because we hadn’t hosted...

Numurkah Leader
12 May 2020
Sport

Journey man happy to be home

WHEN Jye Warren left Numurkah Football Club to play for Strathmerton, he promised he’d be back. “I always said I’d come back - I told George Lester and all those blokes from the club when I left for Strathy that I’d come back,” he said...

Numurkah Leader
05 May 2020
Sport

Local sport lucky to have Sue

TO hear Sue Cleeland tell it, her impressive sporting achievements are a result of luck. “Through sport you could say I was lucky enough to have five life memberships, including the Waaia Football Netball Club and Waaia Bowls Club, which I...

Numurkah Leader
28 Apr 2020
Sport

Hitting his goals on target

FARMERS are immensely practical people – they deal with the situation at hand, do the best they can with what they’ve got, and don’t waste a lot of time on what-ifs. So it’s not surprising that when the Leader asked Brodie McIntosh if, given...

Numurkah Leader
21 Apr 2020