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Some junior cricketers will go pink tomorrow, as Bendigo United’s Under 11A team takes part in the McGrath Foundation’s Pink Stumps Day. The team received a $500 Pink Stumps Day Team Kit, including two sets of pink stumps, balls, wicketkeeping pads, caps and 100 pink tattoos – do..

BENDIGO Spirit WNBL coach Bernie Harrower has slammed the league's referees as "arrogant" and inconsistent after another close loss on Friday night. The Spirit went down to the Sydney Uni Flames 70-72 in a must-win for both teams on the eve of finals. It was the Spirit's ninth loss by le..

With just three rounds remaining in the Emu Valley Cricket Association season things are really starting to heat up with the top four far from settled and the start to Round 10 on Saturday providing even more twists to the closest season in years. Early season strugglers Spring Gully are peaking a..

Grassroots football in Bendigo will be strengthened by a new junior footy competition that’s hoped will unearth the next Joel Selwood and Dustin Martin. The AFL9s, held from February 10 to March 16, is a new nine-a-side, non contact game for both girls and boys aged between nine and 14. Th..

Round Nine saw all games completed as predicted with Mandurang and Spring Gully being able to hang on for victory after giving their opposition sizeable targets. United, who had already claimed first innings points, defeated Sedgwick outright, Marong easily accounted for Axe Creek in their one d..

The Bendigo Spirit’s backs are against the wall as they battle towards a WNBL play off spot, but Chelsea Aubry says the team will continue to thrive in the cut-throat conditions. An against-the-tide win over second placed Bulleen by 18 points has continued their rollercoaster ride of a seaso..

Bendigo could be on the cusp of a sailing revolution. Bendigo Yacht Club’s Ralph Chant said the Bendigo-made Formula 16 Viper catamaran could potentially be the class for the 2016 Olympics. “There’s going to be a trial in Spain next month, and the Viper is likely to become the..

THE Bendigo Spirit defeated WNBL champions Bulleen Boomers 74-56 on the weekend in a stunning result for the club. After losing to the West Coast Waves in what was the low point of their season last round, the Spirit turned things around to secure their second victory on Bulleen’s home..

One of the region’s top swimming officials has praised the efforts of the Bendigo East Swimming Club, which mixed it with the best swimming clubs in the state at the Victoria Country Swimming Championships. Championship chief official Margaret Lang said East’s effort to ..

The Emu Valley Cricket Association has a new ladder leader in Mandurang after United suffered their second straight defeat since the Christmas break. Spring Gully got the perfect start with an opening stand of 173 with skipper Shaun Makepeace leading from the front with a magnificent 115, and grea..

Young Strathfieldsaye quick Lachlan Ross has claimed a hat trick in just his eighth senior match of BDCA cricket, and broken a 27-year club drought in the process. It was a memorable afternoon for the 16-year-old, who not only claimed his first-ever wicket in seniors, but his maiden “five f..

It’s been all about development for Bendigo Blue in Division Three of Bendigo Country Week. The colt team, comprising some of Bendigo’s up-and-coming talent, went down in their first three games of the competition, losing to Deniliquin by 128 runs on Monday, 41 runs to Northern United ..

Women’s cricket in Bendigo will continue to grow as the Twenty20 version remains a viable introduction to the traditional format of the game. Speaking after Essendon Maribrynong Park/Western Waves beat Ringwood in the grand final of the women’s division of Bendigo Country Week b..

BENDIGO’S sporting scene will come alive with three major sporting championships held in the city over the next three weekends. The events will kick off from today, with almost 2000 people, including about 450 athletes, taking part in the three-day Victorian Country Athletics Championships a..

THE Bendigo Cycling Club is gearing up for the launch of a major summer criterium series, to be known as the Symes Motors Summer Series. Co-organiser Scott McGrory, a two-time Bendigo International winner and Olympic gold medallist, said the Symes Motors Summer Series was a new event for cycling ..

TRIATHLON continues to grow in popularity in Bendigo, and last weekend’s instalment of the Bendigo Triathlon Club’s Summer Series program was no different. The course around Eaglehawk’s YMCA pool and Lake Neangar proved popular, with 64 children taking part in the club’s mi..

Bendigo sailing sensation Glenn Ashby, pictured, has got off to almost the perfect start in the A Division of the Catamaran Australian Championships, taking out the first two races on the nine-race card, on Tuesday. On Lake Macquarie, north of Sydney, Ashby won the opening race in his 18-foot..

BDCA batsmen take note. Bendigo United’s premiership quick Miggy Podosky is yet to reach his best, despite dominating the competition so far. Sitting on top of the ladder, the Redbacks are on course to avenge last year’s 94-run grand final loss to Strathdale-Maristians. And pivotal..

THE second half of the Emu Valley Cricket Association is shaping up to be an absolute cracker. Apart from United, who are sitting comfortably on top of the ladder, less than one game separates second and sixth positions on the ladder with another two sides less than a game behind sixth spot. ..

WITH the Australia Road National Championships looming this weekend in Ballarat, leading Bendigo cyclist Zak Dempster is primed and ready to compete in what is expected to be another gruelling Battle of Buninyong. Dempster, part of a large Bendigo contingent battling it out for the coveted green a..