1986-87 Sportstar: Tongala lawn bowls champion Geoff Cameron accepts his Kyabram Apex Club Sportstar of the Year award from previous winner, former Kyabramite and Australian Cricket selector Jim Higgs.
1977
Judges settled on the final list of candidates for the 1976-77 Kyabram Apex Club Sportstar of the Year award.
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Claybird shooters Bill Wickham and Trevor Byrne were joined by golfers Graeme Brown and Glenda Prior, netballer Beck Hancox, endurance runner Keith Marshall and rifle shooter Phil Thomson on the list of monthly winners.
Fire brigade members Stephen and Tony McDonnell, Owen Gregory and Craig McDonald all shared a nomination, while bowlers Mavis Meadowcroft and Jean Roulston were also joint monthly winners.
Swimmer Gary Baker and athletics stars Pam Matthews and Brendan Clark were also recognised among the nominated sportspeople.
— Rob Newman kicked five goals and Peter Warburton four in Kyabram’s opening win of the 1976 Goulburn Valley league season.
The 68-point win came as a result of the work of back pocket David Long, ruckman Ian Burgess and winger Tom Devlin.
— Owen Gregory, Chris Ford and Shane McCormack were all selected in the Goulburn Valley schoolboys team to contest the Victorian championships.
Ford was winner of the Kyabram district association’s Under-13 best and fairest award from the year before, while McCormack had been runner-up for three years running.
— Ruckman Garth Honey said he was “disillusioned’’ and ”definitely won’t be playing with Tongala’’ when he lost an appeal to be cleared from the club and play with Hay Rovers.
The Hay club had offered Honey more than $150 a game, Honey recruited by former Kyabram player Maurie Fowler.
1987
Geoff Cameron was named the 1986-87 Kyabam Apex Club Sportstar of the Year, having earned state selection and been part of a country championship team.
It was the second year that Cameron had been nominated and he received the award from a previous winner and current Australian Test selector Jim Higgs.
National champion: Ray McKenzie won the points score Australian title at the claybird shooting titles in Brisbane.
— Ray McKenzie won the Australian points score title at the National Claybird Shooting Championships in Brisbane.
McKenzie shot 57 claybirds in succession in the sudden-death event to earn a place in the Australian team to contest the New Zealand championships.
Tongala’s Steve Atkins was also named in the team of 25, selected from the national titles.
McKenzie is president of the Echuca Gun Club.
— Gavin Hofert kicked six goals and coach Mick Lovison four as Kyabram sat on top of the ladder with a fourth successive win to start its GVL season, against Rochester.
Lawrie Casey had 17 possessions in the opening quarter of the game and finished with almost 40 for the match.
Peter Gittos and Steve Kirwan were other players to feature in the victory, while at the opposite end of the table Tongala was still winless.
The Blues lost by 131 points to Shepparton when former Seymour star Darren Comi kicked 10 goals.
1997
300 club: Tony “Rusty” McDonnell and his son Sean just before the Kyabram premiership captain played his 300th game for the club.
Tony “Rusty” McDonnell was preparing to play his 300th club game for Kyabram, among those 282 senior appearances.
He was being compared with all-time great Wilf Cox, believed to be the only player to play as many games in the red and black.
Cox was credited with playing 340 games with Kyabram, but was also known to have played two seasons with Kyabram Imperials.
McDonnell made his senior debut in 1983 and was skipper of the drought-breaking premiership of 1996 — Kyabram’s first in 21 years.
— Girgarre Cricket Club won the Kyabram Cricket Association A-grade premiership.
Kelvin Walsh was president and Russ Morgan captain of the club, which included Jeff Turpin, Dean Geddes, Mark Scowan, Craig Roberts and Simon Shay.
And that makes four: Kyabram District Cricket Association Jack Stone Medallist, Tatura’s Phil Watt, collects another cricket title.
— Tatura’s Phil Watt won his fourth Jack Stone Medal as the best player in Kyabram district cricket.
Watt won by seven votes from Fire Brigade skipper Jon Varcoe, with the previous season’s co-winner Brad Mueller further back on 20 votes.
Watt scored 666 runs for the season, while the top wicket taker was Stanhope’s Scott Hanson (38 wickets).
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