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Picture this: rolling vineyards bathed in sunshine, runners weaving through the vines like nimble grapes on the vine, and the sweet smell of victory in the air. That’s exactly what went down at the SAAC and SACCC combined run, hosted by club legend Garry Rice at his picturesque vineyard. Twenty-two athletes took on the varied […]
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The SAAC combined with SACCC on a wet and wild Sunday for the third and last combined run of the 2022 season. Host and sponsor Gary & Rhonda Rice marked out a tough undulating 6.5km course around the vineyard. Elise Monaghan 34:04 was the fastest female and Andrew Sos was first across the line in
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It’s been over 4 years since Matilda has experienced a win with the club. Her last was the 5km Rupanyup Garden Centre in April 2018. With two years of COVID and changes to her work schedule, Matilda hasn’t been able to attend as many SAAC events as she would have liked.  The 42-year-old mum hasn’t
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Jakob Davis scored one of the more remarkable wins in the fifty-five year history of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club when he ran solo in the Advance Bricks and Pavers Handicap and then dashed off to play football at Natimuk. The thirty-one year old Davis was given a handicap before the main body of the

Bec Hurley
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Rebecca Hurley might have to rethink her mantra that she is “not really a runner” after winning her second Stawell Amateur Athletic Club race just three starts after her maiden success in her rookie season. Twelfth and thirteenth in the Concongella Vineyards run the week before, Hurley and Naomi Hunter staged spectacular form reversals to
Garry Rice Vineyard /

For 6.4 kilometres of the 6.5 kilometre Concongella Vineyards Handicap last Saturday it was a war of attrition between a fresh-faced rookie and a wily veteran…and it came down to a 100 metre sprint that finally blew the greybeard away. Michelle Dunn’s first win with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club was well overdue after her
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Caught on the run with telephone in hand taking care of business in the Advance Bricks and Pavers Handicap at Stawell last Saturday, Meghann O’Brien dashed from the course not realising she had won on debut. A locum radiographer, O’Brien was on call in case of emergency and was anxious to finish the Stawell Amateur
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Luke Baker has had his first win with the club in the Rice Concongella Vineyard 6.5 kilometre Championship. Baker said that that, “I have been running for a bit over two years after a friend challenged me to get involved in the sport. I was nervous in my first run with the club, but the
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Halls Gap chef Bal Sukhpreet emulated the feat of Halls Gap masseuse Tina Baker a week earlier when he won his first ever competitive foot race at Stawell last Saturday. Sukhpreet finished with a withering burst to overwhelm Luke Baker (Tina’s husband) in the last 100 metres of the 6.5 kilometre Advance Bricks and Pavers
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Matilda Iglesias, fully fit again after a long, slow recovery from freakish injury, returned to the scene of her very first win with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club in 2012 to triumph in the Concongella Vineyards Handicap last Saturday. A dedicated trail runner, the thirty-seven-year-old mum had built an impressive portfolio of endurance credits before

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