Sport

Brereton to take on state team

AS if juggling work, a family of two young boys, and the difficulties facing Victorians in the current pandemic climate isn’t enough, Nathalia’s Tracey Brereton has decided to add a little something else into her already hectic schedule...

Numurkah Leader

08 Sep 2020

Sport

Hughie satisfied with round ball career

NO matter where they grow up, there is one thing that unites almost all little boys - football. So it was that, growing up in Edinburgh, Numurkah’s Hughie Gunn was obsessed with what we in AFL country call soccer, but is known in most of the world...

Numurkah Leader

08 Sep 2020

Football

No rest for footy club

AFTER quite a long time since his first appointment as coach of the Numurkah senior football side, Sean Harrap is keen to get his side on the ground, just playing footy. “It’s still a big unknown as to what’s going to happen next year, but...

Numurkah Leader

01 Sep 2020

Sport

Team player looks back

IN his two decade playing career with Nathalia Football Club, Kevin Pell consistently proved himself to be the type of stalwart player that every club needs; a player that puts the team first. Kevin said his main contribution to the team lay in...

Numurkah Leader

01 Sep 2020

Sport

All round Gunn

VAL Gunn never met a sport she didn’t like, but badminton was her favourite. “I don’t know why, because I really enjoyed tennis and netball and basketball as well, but I enjoyed badminton the most,” she said. “I played that with my sisters...

Numurkah Leader

25 Aug 2020

Sport

Success indoors and out

ALLAN Clark’s achievements in bowls - of both the indoor and outdoor variety - are impressive to say the least. These achievements include representing Victoria in indoor bowls a dozen times - coming runner up at the national championships twice -...

Numurkah Leader

18 Aug 2020

Golf

Back in hibernation

by “The Shankster” SO soon after coming out of hibernation, the Shankster is heading back there again, with no competition golf allowed to be played under current stage three COVID-19 restrictions. But I have one last game to report on, last...

Numurkah Leader

11 Aug 2020

Sport

Racing against history

FOR Greg Watters, the appeal of land-speed racing is multi-faceted. “There’s the technological challenge of building a bike that’ll go faster than anybody’s ever gone before,” he said. “If you can break a record, you’re not just faster...

Numurkah Leader

11 Aug 2020

Sport

Persistence sends Panthers to the top

ANY long-running sporting team knows that ups and downs are part of the game - sometimes you’re up, and sometimes you’re down. There is one local sporting team that has done things a little differently though, and has forged a slow but steady...

Numurkah Leader

04 Aug 2020

Golf

Course record but still no shirt

ANDREW “Strazz” Storer shot a course record-equalling 65 shots off the stick at Numurkah Golf Club on Saturday, but it still wasn’t good enough to win the day’s major prize. Strazz was almost upstaged by his son Hudson, and was upstaged by...

Numurkah Leader

04 Aug 2020

Numurkah Leader

Continuing a family tradition

MARK Hansford competed in his first wood chopping event at the age of 15, but he had been attending them since he was two weeks old. With his father a long-time axe man, and Mark’s older brother following him into the sport, it was pretty much...

Numurkah Leader

28 Jul 2020

Numurkah Leader

A love of community involvement

BY his own admission, Jack Dell is rarely lost for words, but it was a different story at the Numurkah Golf and Bowls Club’s annual meeting last Monday night, when Jack was awarded with life membership of the club. Jack was left speechless when...

Numurkah Leader

28 Jul 2020

Golf

No letting up for Tracey

IT’S no secret that Tracey Clouston is one of the best women golfers to have ever played the game at Numurkah, but Tracey keeps hammering home the point at the moment, taking her 10th club championship last Wednesday. In terrific form since...

Numurkah Leader

21 Jul 2020

Sport

Strathy man through and through

IF John Ryan had harboured any kind of desire to play football for any club other than Strathmerton, his name may well have ended up in the history books as one of the great centre half forwards of the 50s and 60s. Nine out of the 12 VFL teams at...

Numurkah Leader

20 Jul 2020

Golf

Ten titles and counting

ANDREW “Strazz” Storer cemented his posi- tion as the best amateur golfer to ever come out of the Numurkah Golf Club when he captured his 10th club championship title last Saturday. Going into the last round, Storer held a four shot lead from...

Beverley Hutchins

14 Jul 2020

Sport

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