1975
Bill Fry led the Bendigo Country Week batting averages for the Kyabram District Cricket Association team. He made 127 runs at 42.3, while David Lanyon, Peter Watson, Rob Hunter and Trevor Hawking also performed strongly.
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Hawking and captain Rob Ferguson both took nine wickets for the tournament, each averaging under 10 runs for each of those wickets. John Raglus took seven wickets.
· Kyabram won section one of the Junior Country Week competition with a team that included some of the future stars of football and cricket in the region.
Mick Souter, who ended up playing 333 senior GVL games and kicked more than 1000 goals, was in the team along with Russell Morgan, captain Laurie Casey and Greg Bowers.
· Alf Parkinson won a marathon Kyabram Bowling Club singles championship in a two and a half hour match with Ron Lusty.
It was Alf’s second club championship and it took him until the 38th end to secure the victory.
Fred Radford won the B-grade championship from his more youthful opponent Lionel Edwards.
· Lancaster snapped up two Kyabram players to fill its senior coaching roles, Ron Morley taking on the coaching role vacated by Paddy Meehan, while Joe White was appointed his assistant coach.
Meehan returned to Kyabram and, although plagued by injuries, Morley was expected to have a big impact on Lancaster with 125 senior GVL games in the bank.
White, a ruckman, had played the entire season previous to him joining Lancaster in the reserves.
It was, however, his first season back from a serious knee injury.
Colin Dixon resigned from his post and Keith Whitford took on the role, a year after coaching the team’s under age team to a premiership.
At Stanhope, newly appointed coach Tony Payne had resigned and had left five GVL teams without coaches.
· Lorraine Gemmill shot the lowest score ever by an associate at Valley View golf course when she shot a four under par 70 from a handicap of eight.
Because of a Victorian Ladies Golf Union rule she could not claim the course record because of a dry conditions rule.
Lorraine was the current Victorian country champion and had previously had rounds of 73 and 75.
She had six birdies, 10 pars and two bogeys, which cost her a score in the 60s.
1985
Kyabram had its first international soccer player when 13-year-old Kyabram High School student Cameron Price was chosen in the Victorian Country Regional under-13 squad to tour Europe.
The son of Peter and Anne Price, a goalkeeper in the Shepparton Junior Association, was one of three GV players to be named in the team.
He had games scheduled for Scotland, England and Germany.
· Stense Vagg outlasted Jack Lilford to win the Merrigum Bowling Club championship, with Jack taking an early lead in the game.
After 13 ends he led 13-2, but by the 26th end Stense was a 22-21 leader. The pair was even on the 29th end, before Stense finished with a 25-23 win.
1995
Undera’s heavy off-season recruiting prorgam resulted in a new coach, Joe Minutoli, and several new players, including Tongala ruckman Matt Walker, Kyabram star Mark Dillon and Lancaster’s Scott Lothian.
Peter and Robbie McCormick, also from Kyabram, were other recruits along with John Brian.
Undera had underperformed in the 1994 season, but the recruits gave it major hope of improvement.
· John Stokes claimed the Goulburn Valley Bowls Association singles championship for the second successive season.
The Bonlac laboratory supervisor won the title 25-18 on the 32nd end of the final, beating the reigning champion Roy Rowan.
Stokes, 32, was playing his sixth season of bowls after retiring from tennis and cricket because of a back injury.
· Kyabram’s Max Crilly was preparing to maintain his ranking as the number one darts player for the region, after dominating the previous season of Echuca-Moama Darts Association.
He led Kyabram’s Commercial Hotel team to the premiership, had the most pegs, most tons, highest peg and most 180s for the competition.
He also won the open championship, beating his brother Brian to complete back to back titles. He started in the sport about 12 years ago at Stanhope Hotel and had not looked back.
· Lancaster’s bid to field a third side got a shot in the arm with the appointment of Merrigum brothers Grant and Darren (Paddy) Andrews as coaches of the team.
Grant had returned from Coffs Harbour and Paddy was back in the KDL after playing with Kyabram and Merrigum in the previous season.
Club president Ross Meeking said the pair had already recruited 12 players.
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