Seymour Sport

Shepparton Netball Association cancels 2020 winter season

The Shepparton Netball Association has cancelled its 2020 winter season due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Last week the Goulburn Valley association signalled the cancellation of the Saturday winter season by posting the difficult news on its...

Aydin Payne

Junior football sets target for restart

Junior football action could be seen in the Goulburn Valley as early as mid-July if all goes to plan for a district league. Shepparton District Junior Football League has released a blueprint for the return to matches following the COVID-19...

Tyler Maher

Best Battles - Lions escape by skin of their teeth

Best Battles is back for another edition, and a whirlwind affair between Mooroopna and Seymour headlines the action. Mooroopna v Seymour Round six, 2019, at Mooroopna Recreation Reserve Mooroopna 12.9 (81) lt Seymour 11.16 (82) Seymour used plenty...

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Best Battles - Lions escape by skin of their teeth

Best Battles is back for another edition, and a whirlwind affair between Mooroopna and Seymour headlines the action. Mooroopna v Seymour Round six, 2019, at Mooroopna Recreation Reserve Mooroopna 12.9 (81) lt Seymour 11.16 (82) Seymour used plenty...

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Seymour race meetings moved

Along with Racing Victoria, the club agreed the track would hold one meeting a month through winter to keep it heading in the right direction after recent major works

Alex Mitchell

Seymour Telegraph recognised at Basketball Victoria Country awards

Seymour Telegraph sports reporter Meg Saultry has been acknowledged for her coverage of local basketball. Saultry received the outstanding promotion of basketball award at this year’s Basketball Victoria Country Awards last week, capping off...

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Gibbon breaks drought at Ballarat

The Barry Goodwin-trained Gibbon paid off big time for punters after winning the $31 500 Hygain Winners Choice over 1000 m at Ballarat on Sunday. Quoted at 20/1 in early betting, the seven-year-old gelding from Goodwin’s Seymour stable...

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VFL restructure floated by former club president

“You could do much more better work for football, for aspiring players and local communities and grassroots football by streamlining the administrations and creating a better and more defined pathway to the AFL system,” Ryan told The...

Alex Mitchell

Easing of restrictions a positive sign for swimming pools and indoor sports

A host of sports are set to awaken from COVID-19 lockdown in the coming weeks, after the Victorian Government announced further easing of restrictions next month. The government said recently that from June 1, up to 20 people will be able to use...

Aydin Payne

WorkSafe Club Safety Fund opens up for country football clubs

Whether you are playing or cheering from the side of the ground, everybody deserves to feel safe at football matches. Although there may not be a chance for that to happen at the moment, AFL Victoria and WorkSafe Victoria have announced the Club...

Aydin Payne

What’s next for Red Impulse?

Trainer Russell Osborne has got a problem – a problem with too many solutions. After his three-year-old filly Red Impulse blitzed the field in the $20 000 Vale John Cossor Handicap at Wodonga on Saturday, he found himself lost as...

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Best Battles - Looking back

Avenel v Shepparton East Round 12, 2019, at Central Park Recreation Reserve Shepparton East 4.12 (36) lt Avenel 10.18 (78) Avenel and Shepparton East have gone to battle only once - with the Eagles joining the league last season - but last...

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Clubs, council opt against return to training

AFL Victoria’s return to training protocols allowed clubs to hit the fields from Monday this week — but few, if any, clubs will be doing so. Many clubs voted to postpone the small group training that is allowed under the protocols, but the...

Alex Mitchell

Country NAB League footballers facing tough Draft ask

Local NAB League players could potentially face serious disadvantage heading to this year’s AFL Draft, with the talent-pathway competition still in some doubt of taking place. While youngsters from South Australia and Western Australia look set to...

Alex Mitchell

A successful Monday raid to Echuca for Seymour trainers

Seymour trainers rolled into Echuca on a mission this week after a Kilmore meeting was transferred to the river town – turning a 30-minute jaunt down the road to a one-hour-and-33-minute trek north. And it only took until the second race on the...

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Australian Sports Foundation launches national campaign for community sport

Community sport is heading into a crisis, the Australian Sports Foundation has warned. The sports charity has launched a national campaign to help determine the impact the coronavirus pandemic will have on community sports clubs. The campaign is...

Aydin Payne

Basketball hopes for mid-July return

“We will be directed by governments and medical advice like everyone will, but we think that the start of term three would be a fantastic natural break to begin community sport again,” Honey told The Age

Brayden May

Avenel locks in leaders for new season

Local football has yet to receive a green light to return to competition this year amid COVID-19 restrictions, but that doesn’t mean Avenel isn’t looking towards the future, with the Swans recently announcing their new leadership group.

Meg Saultry

Nagambie golf notes

We’re back. After a long, forced break due to the COVID-19 isolation restrictions, golf is back on the agenda. First of all this would not be possible if it wasn’t for all the volunteers who diligently kept working on the course, while strictly...

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