Articles by Alex Baird

  • CDFNL boss questions how to police new rule

    CDFNL chairman Peter Hickey has slammed footy’s hierarchy in response to new concussion protocols implemented at community level, asking how they expect it to be policed at local level?

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  • LIFE AS A VIXEN: Walters shares her first summer as an elite netballer

    Rooming with Jo Weston and bumping into the Aussie cricket team on a night out during a tour to New Zealand, it has been one crazy start to life as a Melbourne Vixens netballer for Colac’s Zara Walters.

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  • Life membership for Irrewarra icon

    Local identity and Irrewarra icon Nick Hay says plenty has changed on and off the cricket field since his early days on the CDCA board in Jim Ryan’s office and during battle for the Redbacks.

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  • Cricket rising star reflects on journey

    Teenager Aanlin Cheeran hasn’t lost sight of the opportunities cricket has given both he and his sister Aanliya in Australia through their parents and the people at City United.

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  • Cricket bonds Creek families

    Cricket grand finals will be a hot topic of conversation between father and daughter combinations associated with Tomahawk Creek this week.

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  • Hectic season for impressive Bulls all-rounder

    Budding leg-spinner and CDCA under-14 Player of the Year Josh Reynolds has played as many games of cricket as some do in a lifetime during his hectic schedule for Pomborneit in 2023-24.

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  • Big weekend for Colac bowlers

    Colac bowls leader Jeff Turner says grand final week will be huge for the lakeside club after it booked a spot in three Weekend Pennant deciders.

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  • Colac golfer sets new course record

    A round of a lifetime has seen Nick Welsh, pictured, write his name in the Colac Golf Club history books on the weekend after shooting the course record.

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