Page 20 The Moorabool News – 22 March, 2022
Bacchus Marsh Netball Association Results - Week ending Sunday 20 March JUNIORS Section 1 Phoenix 27 def The Suns 2 Diamonds 26 def Hunters 13 Vultures 18 def Super Stars 12 Section 2 Hotshots 9 def Lightening 4 Diamonds jnr 19 def Mustangs 2 Section 3 Flamingoes 19 def Maltesers 1 Minties 10 def Smarties Seniors Clovers 30 def Storm 18 Kavinators 20 def Story Tellers 13 Devils 27 def Strike 25 Sparkles 42 def BMW 16.
Ballan Brumbies Basketball
Results – Week ending Saturday 19 March U10 Boys cancelled U12 Boys Ballan Red - cancelled Ballan White -cancelled U12 Girls cancelled U14 Boys Ballan Red - cancelled Ballan Blue - cancelled Ballan White - cancelled U14 Girls cancelled U16 Boys Ballan Red 20 def Saints Magic 0 (forfeit) Ballan White 32 drew Wildcats Gold 32 Ballan Blue 41 def Sovereign Knights 33 Ballan A 60 def U16 Boys A 38 U16 Girls Ballan 20 lost Wild Cats Blue 35 U19 Boys Ballan Red 46 def Drummo Dragons Green 41 Ballan White 0 (forfeit) lost Drummo Dragons Black 20 U19 Girls Ballan 29 def Drummo Dragons 19
Ballan Golf Club
Results - Week ending Saturday 19 March Wednesday 16 March Winner - Jimmy Walsh (19) 40 points. R/up - Les Martin (17) 39 points. Magpie - 14th Jimmy Walsh. NTPs - 12th John Costello, 15th Vic Buttigieg. Saturday – Stroke (3rd Round Club Championships) A GRADE Winner - Andrew Moore 69-7-62 R/up - Rick Roden 75-13-62. B GRADE Winner - Bill Pickering 81-18-63. R/up - Les Martin 81-16-65. C GRADE Winner - Greg McAloon 89-29-60. R/up - Barry Lenaghan 85-20-65. NTPs - 2nd Barry Lenaghan, 12th Greg McAloon, 15th Rick Roden. Magpie - 14th Ben Gilbert (Birdie). Balls 5, Cut-off 65 on c/b: Greg McAloon, Andrew Moore, Rick Roden, Bill Pickering, Les Martin. Current Stroke Leaders of Championship A GRADE Andrew Moore 213 B GRADE Andrew Carton & Peter Clifford (247) C GRADE Barry Lenaghan 254 Current Net Leaders of Championship A GRADE Andrew Moore & Rick Roden 189 B GRADE Andrew Carton 196 C Grade Barry Lenaghan 194
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Juniors the pride of Darley The Ballarat Cricket Association held its Junior Presentation last Wednesday, and the Darley Cricket Club has batted above its average, with promising young talents award-ed. The Junior Presentation was held at the Wendouree Cricket Club at 6.30 pm, with four Lions featuring prominently in the awards ceremony. Rockey Hoey won the U17 2nd XI Best Player Award, with 9 votes compared to 8 for Coronet City’s Jake Roberts, and 6 votes for both Charlie Walton from Buninyong and Noah Davies from Coronet City. Hoey also took out the Batting Award, with 221 runs at an average of 73.67. Fellow U17 2nd XI player Axel Morton came third in the Best Player Award with 4 votes, and third in the batting with 157 runs at an average of 52.33. George Martindale won Player of the Series for his efforts in the BCA U13 Representa-tive Team, and was also second in his grade’s bowling, with 8 wickets at a strike rate of 14.13. U17 2nd XI player Patrick Jarvinen finished third in the bowling tally, with 7 wickets at a strike rate of 16.43. The awards were no doubt a confidence boost for the Lions’ Under 17s, as they pre-pared to face Golden Point in a semi-final at Brown Hill last Saturday and Sunday 19 – 20 March.
George Martindale (U13) with his Player of the Series Award.
Filly pays the bills, and then some By Michael Howard (HRV) A precision performance and a beauty for the battlers made for many smiles at Tab-corp Park Melton on Saturday night, as Group 1 glory was grabbed by stables big and small. The Aldebaran Park Vicbred Home Grown Classic finals have again delivered a magic moment, with fatherand-son training team David and Brad Barnes capturing their first Group 1 with Mumpaysthebills winning the three-year-old trotting fillies' final. Winning reinsman Craig Demmler lauded winners as “terrific people”, telling TrotsVision “I get more of a kick out of driving a winner for these sort of people, be-cause they are (hobbyists) and they just enjoy it and their horses are going really good at the moment.” Opportunity knocked for Mumpaysthebills when short-priced pair Atego Dawn and Be My Star both galloped out of contention, with the latter - the race favourite - rob-bing reinsman Josh Dickie of a potential clean sweep of the night’s finals. Dickie and his steer Hes A Hammer put in a flawless performance in the preceding three-year-old colts and geldings final, when he sat quietly on leader’s back and then struck late for trainer David Aiken and owner Domenic Martello. “Just pleased to get an opportunity like this tonight – to drive for a very good trainer like David Aiken and his client Domenic Martello, who’s actually a client of ours as well,” said Dickie, who’s recently established in Victoria after an outstanding New Zealand career. “Dom’s been a great supporter of ours for a couple of years, so to be asked to drive this horse tonight, I was very honoured, and the way the horse got the job done, winning a Group 1 for us, doesn’t get much better.” From gate one Hes A Hammer took the back of leader Hephaestus Phoenix, who was kept honest by Sir Eros on his outside with a 28.8sec first quarter and then a series of even quarters. “It just worked out perfectly,” Dickie said. “One of those races where you
Home Grown Classic final winner: Mumpaysthebills trained by D & B Barnes, driven by Craig Demmler. Photo: Stuart McCormick couldn’t script it any better. They ran even enough time, when I was turning around the (last) corner he was just travelling so well. You could just tell he was going to pick them up pretty quick.” And he did, winning by 2.8 metres from Chris Svanosio’s Hephaestus Phoenix, with a gap back to Sir Eros in third. “He’s a lovely gaited trotter, he’s got lovely cruising speed when you ask him to run,” Dickie said of the winner. “Tonight it was just beautiful, he’s lovely to drive, he sits off the bit, you only have to put the stick on his tail and he responds to you. “In 12 months’ time he’s the sort of trotter you’d like to see how he’s getting on, be-cause he’s a very well put together horse. Potentially in the future this horse could be one of our Grand Circuit trotters.” *** David and Brad Barnes will also be daring to dream big after capturing a career best crown with Mumpaysthebills, who like Hes A Hammer benefitted from a gate one draw and enjoyed a quite ride on the pegs in the fillies' final. Atego Dawn galloped while battling Boutika for the lead and then Be My Star broke on the peg line, enabling Demmler to cruise to the back of Boutika, who would take him to the final turn.
He emerged early on the leader’s outside and then clung on for a 1.2-metre win from Illawong Larajay and Gardena Ronda, who filled the placings for trainers Jess Tubbs (Myrniong) and Blake Fitzpatrick respectively. “My main aim was to get her out there and keep her settled,” Demmler told TrotsVision. “I knew the one in front (Boutika) would run along a bit but may get a little tired. “I was probably lucky enough the one on my outside (Illawong Larajay) was not get-ting around the bends well, so I was able to come out and then make my run.” It helped set up the win and the special result for the trainers, who also own (with Barclay Barnes) and bred the Skyvalley filly out of Gavlenn Jo Al. “Dave’s the father, Brad’s the son and they do it as a duo,” Demmler said. “Brad spent his time with Clayton (Tonkin) and (Alan Tubbs) and they used to say that he was Tubbsy’s son that he never had. “It’s fabulous, he looked up to Alan, he was a good mentor for Brad. They have jobs during the day and do work on the night or later in the afternoon. They are terrific people and they just enjoy it, love a beer and having a good time and I just enjoy working for them. “It’s great for them, it’s their first Group 1, which is fantastic. That’s what brings peo-ple into the sport, to see people like this win these sort of races."