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THE Bendigo Car Club will hold its Sales Yard Dash at the Huntly Livestock Exchange again this Easter Saturday.
Competitors from across the state will undertake a series of motorkhana tests to challenge both driver and vehicle.
Drivers are able to compete from 12 years old, both male and female, and there are multiple classes, separating the vehicles into capacity and type.
A display of vehicles will also be at the complex for visitors to view during the day.
Spectator entry is by gold coin donation with proceeds going to help the Bendigo Air Cadets.
Competitor information can be found at www.bendigocarclub.com.au or on 0427 511 158.
Competitor registration, vehicle safety checks and scrutiny at the complex from 8am Competition from 9.45am until mid afternoon.
JUNIOR NETBALL PROGRAM
THE Marong Football Netball Club is hosting San Remo NetSetGO, Netball Australia’s junior program for kids aged five to 10 years.
The program will begin on Friday, April 29 at the Maiden Gully Primary School Indoor Stadium 5pm to 6pm to July 1.
Cost is $80 per child. For more information contact Bob Gartside on 5447 9724, Maxine Parlby on 5435 3650.
GISBORNE
EAGLEHAWK and Sandhurst face off in the BFNL netball match of the round this weekend.
Both teams are unbeaten so far this year, and are second and third respectively.
Castlemaine play at Maryborough, Kangaroo Flat host South Bendigo and
Golden Square and Strathfieldsaye play at the Wade Street oval.
Last round, Marybourough defeated Kangaroo Flat 38 to 31, Eaglehawk were too strong for South Bendigo, winning 47-29, ladder leaders Gisborne thrashed Castlemaine 53-23 and Sandhurst had a six goal win against Golden Square.
BFL EVENS OUT
LADDER leaders Gisborne, Golden Square and Maryborough should keep their unbeaten start to the Bendigo Football Netball League senior football season intact this weekend.
Gisborne travel down the road to take on last-placed Kyneton tomorrow, Maryborough hosts Castlemaine, also on Good Friday, and Golden Square play Strathfieldsaye on Easter Sunday.
In other matches, Eaglehawk and Sandhurst meet at Canterbury Park tomorrow and Kangaroo Flat hosts South Bendigo on Saturday.
Last week, Gisborne thrashed Castlemaine by 108 points, South Bendigo defeated Eaglehawk by 24 points, Strathfieldsaye downed Kyneton by 134 points, Maryborough continued its strong start to the season by defeating Kangaroo Flat by 11 points and Golden Square fought off a last quarter comeback by Sandhurst to win by three points at Huntly.
REG RUNS ON
Rampaging Reg Schleiger is showing no signs of slowing down.
The evergreen legal eagle cleaned up at the South Australian Masters in Narracoorte, where he won three gold medals, including the 60metre, 100m and 200m events, on his 87th birthday.
“It was a double celebration,” he said.
Schleiger, who began his track career as a schoolboy back in 1941 when he set a high jump record that lasted 20 years, also won two silver at the Pan Pacific Masters Games at Broadbeach last November.
He also won two silver at the Sydney World Masters in 2009.
“It was a big event, more than 50,000 competitors,” he said.
Schleiger, who still trains four times a week, has
set high standards over the years.
In 1947 he recorded the fastest time in the heats of the Stawell Gift, then seven years later he won the Ballarat Gift, setting a track record that was never broken.
In 1949 however came one of his most memorable: for the wrong reasons.
He was leading the Bendigo 1000 before the elastic broke in his shorts.
“I had to pull up immediately,” he said. “There was £10,000 put on me that day, but I had to stop.”
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