Concongella
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The picturesque vineyard of club life member Garry Rice was the location for the run on the 17 th of June. A varied cross-country course saw runners navigating grass and gravel weaving between the vines. The run was held in conjunction with the Stawell and Ararat Cross Country Club. Twenty-two Stawell Amateur Athletic Club runners […]
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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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A feat never seen in the 56 years of SAAC races, 60+-year-old runner Terry Jenkins bags his third race victory for the season from four starts. Terry’s last win was back in 2018 in the Run for Ray handicap. Training almost every day of the school holidays leading up to the run, Terry had a
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A warm up in the Lindsay Kent Memorial Fun Run at Stawell on April 4 was the perfect tune-up for cross-country rookie Drew Christian who six days later won the first race of his adult life at Concongella last Saturday, just weeks before he turned fifty. Christian’s competitive juices were ignited by a second on
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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Vicki Tyler made amends for a barren season of racing in 2018 by leading an all-girl charge to a surprise win in the five-and-a-half kilometre Hunter Gardens and Landscaping Handicap at Concongella last Saturday. In twelve runs with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last season, Tyler managed just one-third placing but had otherwise finished no
Garry Rice Vineyard /

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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Whiskered warrior Gary Saunders spoiled the birthday party for Kayleen Urquhart when he staged a massive form reversal to win the Hunter Gardens and Landscaping Handicap at Concongella last Saturday. Having finished near the tale of the field (fifteenth and twelfth) at his previous two starts, Saunders, at seventy-five the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s oldest
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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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