Horsham runners squared the ledger with their Stawell counterparts when Daryl Scollary converted three straight seconds into a maiden win in the five kilometre Run For Ray in the Ironbarks Forest last Saturday. It was a clean sweep for Horsham with four of Dayl’s “neighbours” – Col Barnett (the unofficial 2011 club champion), Selina Heard-Price, …
Mountain goat Anthony Morey made a mockery of the claim that the Oscar’s Furniture race at Rose’s Gap is one of the toughest eleven kilometres on the masochist’s calendar when he used the event as a warm-up for the Adelaide Half-Marathon on Sunday – and won! Anthony, 33, who only commenced competitive cross country last …
Club stalwart Charlie Jones reverted to an “oldtimer’s” training strategy which enabled him to score an unexpected win in the Stan and Karen Watson sponsored five kilometre handicap last Saturday. Charlie, 57, who has trained up to 60 kilometres a week for most of his adult life, decided to add an extra training run to …
With Horsham runners featuring strongly on the leaders board over the majority of the season, Stawell runner Meg Parnaby has kept the winning theme following Rhonda Clarke’s win last week. With a major disruption in her training program, Meg Parnaby has shaken off the the effects of a “bruising slip at the supermarket” where she …
One week after the club’s first female quinella in more than a year came a second when Rhonda Clark and Sharon Howden fought out the finish of the 10 kilometre S and R Young Sportspower Handicap last Saturday. The race was run as a sealed handicap. After showing consistent form to finish just behind the …
Born-again sportswoman Selina Heard-Price continued her remarkable transformation into a competitive runner when she strolled to her second win of the season in the five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap, held near Stawell last Saturday. After spending most of her sporting life as a netballer, badminton and squash player, Selina joined a our running club for …
Horsham runners issued an unspoken challenge to their comrades in Stawell when Glenn Ryan became the fifth athlete from further west to win a race with the club this season. Glenn’s win, the first of his short career, meant that the score is five-all in the ten races conducted by the cross-country club so far …
After half-a-lifetime of competition with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club, Col Barnett finally broke through for a win in the club’s showcase event, the eight kilometre Lindsay Kent Memorial Handicap, held near the Stawell Airport last Sunday. Ploughing through the mud and slush, with the race run in driving wind and rain, Col, 48, finally …
In memory of his late father and former club president Ray Scott, son Karl, 22, ran the race of his life to win the Concongella Vineyard Handicap over 6.5 kilometres on Sunday. A cloud hung over the corresponding race last year when it was run the day after Ray’s sudden death and grey skies greeted …
Gaynor Radovic broke an eight year drought with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club when she scored a plucky win in the 6 ½ kilometre Telstra Store Handicap at Horsham last Sunday. Showing her liking for the flat and fast courses that enable her to get some rhythm into her running, Gaynor looked a probable winner …