1975
Marg Lilford was the latest winner of the Kyabram Football Club Ladies Committee Miss Kyabram Football Quest. Marg, 17, is a sister of Bombers ruckman John and was selected as an entrant at the Tongala and Kyabram game.
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John Primmer and Mick Souter kicked three goals each for Tongala, while the Blues rucking combination of Keith Argus and Ron McNab were dominant.
Kyabram went into the game without Ian McDonald and the suspended Lindsay Wickham, on the back of the retirement of coach Peter Lyon.
After half time they were also without assistant coach Rod Bray and veteran fullback Bernie Harlen.
Bill Fry was the Bombers best, while on the other wing Bob Ferguson also battled hard in the 38 point loss.
Kyabram was second on the ladder after 12 rounds and Tongala was eighth.
– Lorraine Gemmill followed up her 10th victory in the Valley View golf championship by winning the club’s annual 27 hole scratch tournament.
She had 120 for the event, beating 106 other players from more than a dozen clubs.
– Merrigum beat Lancaster by 43 points and sat second on the ladder, with the Wombats second from the bottom.
Des Green kicked five goals and a young John Cortese kicked three goals in the victory.
Lancaster’s ruck and rover combination of Joe White and Kevin Bell were their best players.
Girgarre was fourth on the ladder after 10 rounds, but lost to third ranked Murchison by 47 points.
– Chas Waite was named Kyabram district carpet bowls champion after being players from three clubs to claim the title.
His father Joe had been the dominant figure in the sport for many years, including a state title, while 17-year-old sister Heather was also a former junior champion.
– Kyabram squash club won the B grade premiership in the Goulburn Valley event, the team including Ian Bickley, Ian Mannison, Phillip Tucker and Gary Baker.
In the women’s day competition the premier team was made up of Jan McHale, Jean Crawford, Ben Woods and Pat Wooller.
– Kyabram’s third combination was sitting second on the GVL ladder after winning its 10th game of the 13-week-old season against Stanhope (by 129 points).
Greg Bowers kicked seven goals and Sep Tairi five as team captain Les Dillon and ruck rover John Fitzsimmons were stars.
1988
Kyabram District Cricket Association honoured the man considered the greatest runmaker in the competition’s history, John Wallis (Senior).
The event was organised by former KDCA and Cooma skipper Peter Fry, as Wallis and his wife Laurel prepared to return to Tasmania’s north west coast to live.
Wallis played six years for Cooma and was later a member of two Tongala premierships.
His last game was as a member of a Kyabram premiership team in the 1983-84 season.
Former Cooma teammate Tony Kilmartin produced figures to show in six years of A grade cricket with Cooma he amassed more than 3000 runs.
In 1971-72 hew compiled just on 1300 runs at club level, inter-association and country week — making five centuries for the season.
Ian Purdey was MC for the evening and KDCA president Gus Underwood also spoke about the star’s sporting achievements.
– Tongala’s Geoff Cameron was taking on Australia’s best lawn bowlers at the $61,000 Capita Challenge, the sport’s richest event.
Cameron had recently been invited to compete in an event which was the selection tournament for the eight member Australian team to contest the world lawn bowls titles.
He and Geoff Cameron had earlier in the year won the state pair’s title.
– Lancaster was on top of the Kyabram district league ladder with 10 wins from 13 games and had just beaten third ranked Nagambie by 18 points.
Alan Gascoyne was Lancaster’s best player and Gary White also impressed as the team watched from afar as neighbours Girgarre and Merrigum did battle.
Wayne Deledio and Russ Morgan kicked two goals each for Girgarre in the win and Gus Wallis was best on ground in the Kangaroos 28 point win.
Paul Bell, Tony Arceri and Gavin Ryan were Merrigum’s best players.
Kyabram was sitting fourth on the ladder after Phil Tucker kicked eight goals against a young Tongala team.
The Bombers won by 121 points as Fatui Ataata kicked three goals and Rick Demarte was again brilliant alongside regulars Normington and Fitzsimmons.
1995
Kyabram netballer Di Hanslow was sitting second in the Most Wanted Player Award in the State Netball League.
Judged by opposition coaches her status in the competition came despite the Goulburn Region-Diamond Valley team not having won a single game in the 12 week season.
She is the sole survivor of the Kyabram team that debuted in the competition eight years earlier.
She and young Tongala star Rebecca Elborough are the only two players from the town in the team, along with former Tongala player Sharon McHale.
– Stanhope’s Paul Macknamara was best on ground for Stanhope as the team beat Avenel by 22 points.
Sitting sixth, the Lions were also served well by Graeme Nurse and Mark Patton.
Around the grounds Shane Loveless kicked 12 goals for Ardmona, while despite the efforts of Mal Hedges, Col Robinson, Shane Keck and Fabio Pigatto Merrrigum lost to Undera by 14 points.
Girgarre beat Lancaster by a goal in their meeting, Wayne Cowley kicking three goals for the Kangaroos and Brett Scoble among the best players. Daryl James and Michael Pell were Lancaster’s best players.
– After 14 games Kyabram sat second on the GVL ladder, Chris Stuhldreier leading the goalkicking with 72 goals from Lemnos’ Darryl Taylor (69), Echuca’s Ash Byrne and Tatura forward pair Travis and Steve Ryan.
John Mrakov from Tongala was next on the list as the Blues sat fifth on the ladder.
– Kyabram’s 1975 premiership team conducted a reunion where two of the club’s past secretaries, Neil Hindson and Trevor Stone, launched a book on the club’s history.
It was launched by former club presidents Harry Castles (1975 premiership season president) and Nev Dickson.
They issued a challenge to the club to break the long premiership drought when launching the book.
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