1976
Fifty-year-old Laurie Sherman made 92 for Stanhope in a game against Tongala in his 38th season playing with the club.
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He had played with the club’s B grade team for the last 10 years, having been a star for the previous 28 years with the A grade outfit.
Laurie’s brother, Bill, also played cricket into his 50s.
After making the 92, Laurie explained it had been tough going as a result of him striking just three boundaries on a Tongala ground he described as having “rather long grass”.
• Wayne Hanslow completed the almost impossible by beating Bill Stone in A grade Kyabram Tennis Association competition.
It was a third straight defeat for Stone’s KLTC Red team and Tongala’s Hanslow had been shuffled up in the ranks to play as number one — a move seen as a sacrifice.
Normal number one player John McGregor was at two and Geoff Tinning at three, with Frank Brown-Graham number four.
Hanslow beat Stone 6-4 in the singles and the Kyabram legend ended the game without a set win — a rare event indeed for the champion player.
1986
Mick Lovison was appointed coach of Kyabram Football Club for a two-year term, the 30-year-old planning to bring former Collingwood reserves player Peter Gittos to the club.
Gittos was a teammate of Lovison at Sherwood in Brisbane during the 1986 season, the pair finishing second and third in the best and fairest voting.
Lovison was a member of the Tongala premierships of 1983-84, having joined the Blues from GVL rival Echuca.
Former Richmond reserves player Noel Langley was appointed Kyabram reserves coach after a season as coach of Girgarre.
• Daryl Reid, a 260-game veteran and premiership captain, was appointed coach of Tongala for the 1987 season.
Reid and ex-player Mick Lovison were the main targets in Tongala’s search for a new coach to replace the injured Peter Gorski.
Reid had won two club best and fairest awards with Tongala and was in the GVL’s history making first Winfield Country Championship side of 1978.
• Girgarre tennis star Margaret Walsh won her first Goulburn Valley singles tennis crown when she beat Shepparton’s Adele Ellis in the final 6-3 and 7-5.
Margaret had been runner-up to Mrs Ellis for the past two years, the Shepparton champion having won the crown six times prior to the defeat.
It was a fifth Goulburn Valley title for the 20-year-old Girgarre star, who played regional competition for Stanhope, having won the Under 19 championship on four previous occasions.
In the women’s doubles she and sister Joan McCraw lost in the semi-finals, while Kyabram’s Gary Beamish lost the final of the Under 19 boys singles.
1996
Kyabram cricketers Andrew Torney and Josh Finn were selected in the GV Schoolboys side for the secondary schools sports association carnival.
Torney scored a century and 90 in successive days to start the tournament, having failed on the opening day of the tournament.
He brought up his century from the last ball of the second round innings for the GV, against Loddon Valley at Koondrook.
Torney and Finn, a wicket keeper and middle order batsmen, were both members of Kyabram Fire Brigade Cricket Club.
• Kyabram’s Damien Morvell had qualified for the inter-regional singles championship for a fifth time after winning the GV men’s singles event against Echuca’s Andrew Crossman.
Morvell and Wayne Hanslow successfully defended their GVB doubles title.
• Kyabram District Cricket Association opening batsmen Ben Langley and Dehne Hausfeld re-wrote the record books against Deniliquin in a McPherson Shield game.
Playing on the Girgarre oval the paid had an unbroken partnership of 176 to score Kyabram to a 10 wicket win in the 50 over competition.
Langley made 100 and Hasfield 70, both players not out as they hauled in the Deniliquin score of 165 in just 29 overs.
2006
Kyabram Little Athletics Centre produced another medal winning combination at the state relay championship.
A silver medal in the Under 9 4x200m mixed relay was won by Jana Lawson, Elivia Hall, Winton Findlay and Brad Whitford.
The winning clocked a time of two minutes and 19 seconds, only .24 seconds off the gold medal winners.
Jana Lawson started the relay and Elivia Hall increased the team’s advantage, the Kyabram team marginally in front as the final change was made to Brad Whitford.
He was facing one of the state’s top sprinters and was just pipped at the post. Earlier in the day the same team finished sixth in the final of the 4x100m event.
Others to feature on the program were Thomas Jackson, Luke Mangan, Hayden Femmill and Aaron Hayes, while the girls under 11 medley team of Freya Findlay, Abbey McKenzie, Emily Lawson and Carlie Whitford also finished sixth in the final.
• Russell Barrett and Helen Bubb were named as recipients of Cricket Victoria awards for their efforts to the Kyabram District Cricket Association at a state event.
Cricket Victoria presented 20 volunteers with awards before the fourth Ashes test at the MCG, Helen unable to attend and Russell there with his cricketing sons Mitchell, 14, and Liam, 10.
Helen had been involved with Kyabram Cricket Club since 1983, when husband Stephen, first became a star player with the team.
Russell had a 25 year association with the Cooma club and was a former star of the Kyabram competition in his own right.
• Kyabram Small Bore Rifle Club shooters were again on target, winning the state B Section title at the Melbourne International Shooting Complex.
The six month competition involved half a dozen clubs and was announced after Ian Puckey, Vin Anderson, Chris Lott, David Pettifer, Shaun Peirce, Jeff Newton and Angus Hill had performed brilliantly.
The win came on the back of an 18th successive win for the club in the Crawford Shield, a competition contested by the Kyabram, Numurkah and Shepparton clubs.
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