Sport

The 2024 State Finals took place in Bendigo alongside the Australian Sheep and Wool Show. The weekend showcased some impressive performances in shearing and wool handling.

Last Saturday, July 20, 2024, prior to scheduled games of club football, netball and hockey, former players, officials and others gathered at Donald’s A. A. Dunstan Stadium to celebrate the North-Central District’s history-making victory in the Victorian Country Football Championships at Warrnambool, on Saturday, July 20, 1974.

For three days, working dogs and their owners competed for a prize pool of $18,000 at the state titles at Casino Showgrounds. The NSW Working Stock Dog State Championships ... Organiser Ben Gould said it was the first time the event had been held at the new undercover arena at the showgrounds.

Families from around the Riverina converged on Barellan sportsground to don a white glove and hold one of the nation’s most iconic sporting trophies, the Lexus Melbourne Cup. The tiny town with no racecourse was the final NSW leg of a global and Australian tour of 39 destinations for the $750,000, 18 carat gold and 3.85kg Lexus Melbourne Cup.

In a stunning debut season, rookie rider Judd Chislett from Pyramid Hill has firmly established himself as the frontrunner in the 2024 Senior Victorian Motocross MX2 C Grade Championship. Despite a broken collarbone at the start of the year, the 16-year-old has bounced back in impressive fashion, winning every race he has contested so far.

“Imagine shifting gear from being just pig chasers to becoming field staff in the world's biggest wild pig research project.” That’s the message the Australian Pig Doggers and Hunters Association (APDHA) is sending to pig hunters across Australia. The bold plan by the national hunting group aims to collect 10,000 feral pigs' ears as part of a study of the animals...

Sebastian Calderon. Speed and adrenaline were the highlights last weekend during round one of the South Australian Off-Road Racing Championship. The Waikerie Hotel Motel Riverland Enduro was held on New Well, south of Waikerie, over Saturday and Sunday.

Michelle Daw. Yorke Peninsula commercial fishers say they are being discriminated against by a new fees regime that took effect this month, which has been described as a "kick in the guts" that could send them out of business. The fees are based on a quota system aimed at making fishers pay the full cost of government management for King George whiting, garfish and calamari, in Gulf St Vincent and Spencer Gulf only.

Jess Liddy. Sam Clayson is acing achievements off the court. The regional South Australia tennis coach, formerly of Wallaroo, has been selected to go on a Tennis Australia coaching tour around the US.

Glyn Rees. An imposing up front performance by back row enforcer Tyson Stevens and a blistering right side try hat trick by wing flyer Joe Willett were among the highlights on a cool and breezy Saturday night at Clifton’s Platz Oval in the ‘Stillwater Pastoral Company’ Wattles Warriors 62 – 12 dismantling of the Brothers Leprechauns.

This huge mural of Matthew Denny has attracted plenty of attention in Allora since being completed last Friday. The mural, commissioned by Qantas, has been painted on the side of the Railway Hotel.

Phoebe Roche has been chosen as part of the eight-person team to compete at the 2024 Virtus Open European Equestrian Championships in the UK ... It's been a long road for Phoebe and her mother, Shaneen ... Shaneen sold her car and organised sausage sizzles and garage sales meaning Phoebe will be able to compete.

Michael Roberts. Frank Tuck arrived at Victoria Park from Murray League club Strathmerton in 1950 as an 18 year-old forward. He went on to captain Collingwood in the two seasons prior to his retirement in 1959 and played 131 games for the club.

In 1949, Leyburn, like every small country town in Australia, was rebuilding after World War II and the opportunity to host the Australian Grand Prix the nation’s most important motor race on a nearby ex-wartime aerodrome provided a highlight for people throughout the Darling Downs region ... The Australian Grand Prix will be remembered with major celebrations at the Historic Leyburn Sprints on 17-18 August 2024.

150 Murray crayfish were released in Barham on Friday after many of the iconic species were relocated during the 2022 and early 2023 blackwater events. During the flood event, blackwater poured out of forests that had already had long periods of inundation with environmental water, contributing to poor water quality within the river system.

The 2024 Penrite Hattah Desert Race, held over the weekend, provided thrilling moments as the challenging race culminated in victory for some and disappointment for others. Callum Norton has been a notable figure since his junior racing days at Hattah.

Hugh Schuitemaker. Collaboration between Renmark Paringa Council, the State Government and a local rowing club is set to support a $1.7m infrastructure upgrade ... "The project will result in a 70m long wharf with 6m ramps down on either side to allow the Renmark Rowing Club to host large meets and become a premier destination for rowers statewide": Tim Tol.

Christine Webster. The owners of about 30 boats found themselves moored around Renmark after a build-up of silt and low River Murray levels in two areas prevented them from travelling to Wentworth, in south-west NSW, for a popular rally. Owners of the PB Curlew, Jim and Heather Maywald, from Good Hope Landing, east of Waikerie, said it was disappointing for the boat owners ...

It was fantastic to see the Nhill Tigers win their third win in a row on Saturday when they beat their rival neighbour Dimboola by 102 points. Coach Jake McQueen said, “ Very happy with how everyone played on the weekend, we played a great team game."