Undefeated: Roadrunners were the premiers of the Kyabram-Tongala association’s A-grade 1973 basketball title. The team consisted of John Malley, Lyle Reid, Keith Gledhill, Ron “Spud’’ Florence and Daryl Reid.
1973
Kyabram football supporters had their first look at new captain coach Ron Auchetti on Saturday in a practice match against Murray league club Cobram.
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Geoff Cox, who missed most of the 1972 season with a broken leg, returned for the game and ruckman Ron Morley was also making a comeback after a year on the sidelines.
Assistant coach Ian McDonald and Girgarre recruit Peter Doolan were in form and Neil Hindson kicked thre goals after half-time.
— Tongala White won the Kyabram District Cricket Associaiton A-grade premiership, dismissing Kyabram Red for 87 and 115 after posting a score of 329.
A 37-run last-wicket stand betwen Kyabram captain Ian Purdey (28 not out) and Jim McIntyre (19) held up the Tongala onslaught in a match completed on a hurriedly-prepared rain-affected wicket.
Tongala skipper Maurie Varcoe completed a memorable match by taking 5-40 off 12 overs, with support from Tex Onley.
A week earlier Steve Carmichael had scored 97 for Tongala and Varcoe 55.
— Tongala’s Roadrunners team was crowned the winner of the Kyabram-Tongala Basketball Association’s A-grade crown.
Daryl Reid was the star of the season, named the association’s best-and-fairest player, while Pam Jephcott won the A-grade women’s award. Other winners were John Hausler and Marie Bazeley (B-grade), Roy Hindson and Pam Foster (Under-18), while Lindsay McKenzie won the Under-16 award.
Stanhope’s pennant: Hedley Buzza, Kieran Walshm, Max Stewart and Peter Flanagan with Pat Ivey, Joan Walsh, Jan Enders and Faye Gibbs, after winning the 1973 Cooma district A-grade tennis title.
— Stanhope took the A-grade premiership title in the Cooma and District Tennis Association, beating Tongala in the final.
The win came despite Stanhope’s Kieran Walsh losing his singles to John McGregor. In other matches Hedley Buzza beat Tongala’s Ray Denham, Peter Flanagan beat Harry Fowles and Max Stewart won against Geoff Tinning — giving Stanhope three out of four men’s singles wins.
1983
Wendy McLay was named in the Victorian Under-17 netball team for the Launceston national titles.
Another Kyabram player, Lisa Callum, also made the last of three selection days, but missed a spot in the 10-member team.
Wendy, who plays with Lancaster in the open grade of Kyabram Senior Netball Association, was also a member of the Under-16 state team, which won the national title 12 months earlier in Darwin.
GV schoolboys: Dallas Normington and Ross Pritchard after they had been selected in the 1983 Goulburn Valley schoolboys team to contest the state titles.
— Ross Pritchard and Dallas Normington were the only district players named in the Goulburn Valley Schoolboys team to contest the state titles in Melbourne.
Both are members of the Kyabram Blue team in the Goulburn Campaspe Junior Football League, with Normington still having another year in the Under-15 competition.
Normington’s older brother, Paul, had been a member of the same team two years earlier and won state selection.
— After four rounds of the GVL competition Tongala was the only unbeaten team, with Kyabram sitting on the ninth rung of the ladder with one victory.
Star forward Tony Jones kicked six goals for the Blues against second-ranked Mooroopna, with Mick Lovison best on ground and John Clark kicking two goals.
In the Kyabram match Maurice Wingate kicked five goals for Kyabram in a 20-point loss to Echuca, with Steve Bubb also kicking two goals.
1993
Super Saints: St Augustine’s A-grade team of Tony Hansen, Matt Hansen, Peter Caldow and Brad Breen with Sharon Mangan, Loreta Gardiner and Bev Lyon after winning the 1993 Kyabram tennis title.
St Augustine’s came from fourth place to win the Kyabram District Tennis Association premiership against favourite Kyvalley.
Tony and Matt Hansen, along with Brad Breen and Peter Caldow, won all four men’s sets and the association’s best femlae player Faye Glover won 6-0 in her singles with Loretta Gardiner.
Glover, Jeanette Breen, Bev Lyon and Sharon Mangan then did their bit to secure the pennant title for St Augustine’s.
It was, however, John Gibbs who secured the Player of the Year award. He polled 20 votes to win by two from Glover, with Brendan McConell and Mark Schumann not far away.
— Chris Stuhldreier kicked another seven goals and after four rounds of the GVL season had 33 majors to his credit, 12 clear of Tatura’s Travis Ryan and Shepparton United’s Brenton Cooper.
A week later Stuhldreier kicked 14 goals as Kyabram kicked 35 goals and beat Tongala by 119 points in a match that featured 50 goals. At the opposite end Mick Souter kicked eight goals for Tongala
Kyabram was second on the ladder, one of only two unbeaten teams in the competition, while Tongala was second from the bottom after losing by 30 points to Euroa.
Benny Gugliotti was best on ground for the Bombers, kicking four goals in its 23-point win against Lemnos.
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