On an overcast misty morning, the SAAC raced with SACCC for the first of three combined races this season. The club would like to thank Best’s Winery for their sponsorship and venue for the race. Peter Hilbig ran an excellent cross country race to storm home by 47 seconds ahead of Terry Jenkins and Leon […]
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Leon Monaghan is a handy local tennis player, but not once in his fifty-five years had he given any thought to competitive running. But good emerged from the doldrums of lockdown when Monaghan, for “something to do,” joined his seventeen-year-old daughter Elise, a promising junior athlete and gymnast, in casual runs that first became a
Naomi Hunter became our sixth winning female in the last seven races when she captured the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club division of the eight kilometre Best’s Cross Country Classic. Now fully recovered from a nagging achilles injury, Hunter had reason to smile with a stunning two minutes to spare from evergreen Gary Saunders in the
Wiry veteran Keith Lofthouse confounded the evidence of poor form this season by scoring a surprise win in the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s leg of the eight kilometre Best’s Winery event last Saturday. Lofthouse runs with both the Amateurs and the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club at weekends but his form card with the
ESS CASS TOO CLASSY TO CATCH The club’s most improved athlete, Jess Cass, continued her steady ascent to win for the second time this season and narrowly deny Mark Whyte his first. Jess, who did not run in the inaugural Best’s Winery Cross Country Classic last year, reveled in the gentle undulations on the user-friendly
It was a day of doubles, dominated by the girls, when the region’s running clubs got together for the inaugural Best’s Winery Cross Country Classic at Great Western last Saturday. Kayleen Urquhart and Sharon Howen, who fought out the finish of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap the previous weekend, stunned