Yarrawonga Sport

Local swimmers brave elements

Local swimmers, Greg Bye, Sarah Kaye and Lyndon Hart (pictured) will only have to brave the early morning elements for just another week as restrictions associated with the COVD-19 pandemic start to ease. With heated pools closed until June 1, these...

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Glenn beat his age

It was vintage Glenn McCully, winning a golf competition with a superb round of golf last Wednesday. Playing on the championship Black Bull Golf Course, he fired a 69 off the stick for 41 stableford points to win the monthly medal. Proud son Philip...

Robert Muir

$100m in grants to help support clubs

As training starts back for many local sporting clubs this week further good news arrived with the announcement of more than $100 million in Victorian Government grants dedicated to supporting grassroots players and volunteers. From this week...

Yarrawonga Chronicle

$100m in grants to help support clubs

As training starts back for many local sporting clubs this week further good news arrived with the announcement of more than $100 million in Victorian Government grants dedicated to supporting grassroots players and volunteers. From this week...

Yarrawonga Chronicle

Mulwala’s foot-running marvels

Yarrawonga Mulwala has produced some brilliant foot runners over the decades but did you know that Mulwala actually boasts two Stawell Gift winners – Lynch Cooper in 1928 and Tom Roberts in 1934. Lynch Cooper moved to Mulwala from Moira Lakes near...

Jared Loughnan

Yarrawonga Bowls Club now open

Yarrawonga Bowls Club has reopened their greens on Wednesday, Saturday and Mondays for Roll Ups. They will be open from 10am to noon and 2pm to 4pm for Yarrawonga Bowls Club full members. These days will be run under very strict conditions due to...

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Golf’s back, at Black Bull!

Golf returned to the Black Bull championship golf course last Wednesday.

Robert Muir

Training set to begin

With the announcement AFL’s roadmap to return to play last week community football clubs preparing to get back to training this Monday, May 25. Head of Community Football Victoria Stephen O’Donohue said they are now in a position to be able to...

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‘We’ll bring team up’ – Storm Football Director

Melbourne Storm’s Football Director Frank Possini said he wanted to be “on the record” that the Storm will be in Yarrawonga Mulwala within the next 12 months to show their appreciation to the community who provided an “impressive option”...

Jared Loughnan

Yarra ‘local’ from Katty!

By Jared Loughnan and Arthur German The small town of Katamatite has spawned its share of sporting heroes over many years, including VFL/AFL footballers and even a Stawell Gift winner. But many believe the best sporting legend hands down would be...

Jared Loughnan

Community football-netball wait on AFL

Local club will wait on AFL Victoria to seek clarity from the State Government around what the announcement means for community football this week. In statement release by AFL Victoria is said that on the back of Monday’s State Government...

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Bowling returns at golf club

YMGCR Bowls Club greens reopened for roll ups from last Saturday, May 9 with various rules and conditions. The bowls greens are only available to YMGCR Bowls Club Members in one hourly slots on a first in best dressed basis. Bookings can be greater...

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Footy, tennis and fast cars

An eight-time club champion tennis player, a much decorated 500 plus-game footballer and a formidable drag car-racer sum up Johnny Brunner’s performances in his three most loved sporting passions. And not even two partial knee reconstructions can...

Robert Muir

Selection locked and loaded

It was only a formality but Shotgun trap shooter James Willett was formally advised last Friday of his selection for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, now to be held in July 2021.

Robert Muir

Our local team’s toughest battles

Although football is – like almost all other sports – on a long hiatus, the Chronicle team has decided there is no reason we cannot still report on the matches which were scheduled to happen, but with a twist of course.

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Exciting 14th green makeover

An enlarged 14th green totalling about 38m long x 20m wide and bunker complex change on Yarrawonga Mulwala Golf Course’s Murray Course are highlights of major works nearing completion. The extra 150sqm of green with its front extended by some 12...

Robert Muir

Three Peaks a challenge

The Falls Creek Three Peaks Challenge which took place on March 8 is touted as one of the toughest and most picturesque cycling events in the world. The “double black” 235km course had riders enduring over 4000mts of elevation, with the three...

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One kilometre a day for Declan in active April

Young local runner 11 year old Declan Wood has committed to running or walking one kilometre a day, every day for the month of April.

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Success for junior kayakers

The Yarrawonga Mulwala Canoe Club has a proud history of producing top-level paddlers and this was set to continue this weekend at the now cancelled National Canoe Marathon Championships in Geelong.

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