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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
The Stawell Athletic Club’s oldest runner, Gary Saunders, defeated one of the newest in the five kilometre Stephen Baird Handicap on Saturday, and then offered some helpful hints to runner-up, Michelle Dunn, who is still to break through for her maiden win. The Bonnie Dundee course on the edge of the Ironbarks is notorious for …
In a week in which Stawell received an overdue deluge, Nathan Baker emulated Peter Barham’s drought breaking-win of the previous week in posting his first cross-country win since 2014 in the five kilometre Axis Employment Handicap last Saturday. Like Barham, whose appearances with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club have been spasmodic over the past few …
Peter Barham broke through for his first race win since 2013 with the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club last Saturday and then was embarrassed to accept his prize. “I don’t know if I deserve this,” the Stawell insurance broker said sheepishly after the five kilometre Mitre 10 Handicap. “I haven’t run in enough races! I haven’t …
It took thirty-years for Simon Edge to win his first ever foot race a fortnight ago and seven days to win his second. Despite being re-handicapped for his maiden win in the King of the Mountain at Halls Gap, Edge backed-up a week later to beat not only the handicapper but a field of determined …
Simon Edge hated cross-country running as a schoolboy but the Halls Gap school-teacher was telling a different story after he won the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club’s five kilometre King of the Mountain at Hall’s Gap on Saturday. “I’ve played footy in Queensland, cricket and competed in triathlons, but never in my life before have a …
The too often underrated Rhonda Rice has done it again! Judicious in picking and choosing races to her liking, she bobbed up for only the sixth time in the seventeenth race of the Stawell Amateur Athletic Club season to snatch victory in the 16 kilometre One More Step For Ray Rickard Handicap at Stawell last …
