Articles by Alex Baird

  • Cricketers set for state championships

    EIGHT promising Colac district cricketers are gearing up for state championship tournaments this month after earning selection in Barwon Rockets squads.

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  • Champions to return for ocean swim

    PIER TO PUB organisers have finalised the entry list for this weekend’s race, with 5000 swimmers set to battle the ocean swim at Lorne.

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  • Weather ‘too hot’ for cricket

    HEAT forced the cancellation of Colac district cricket for the first time this season after temperatures reached 38.7 degrees.

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  • Country Week teams doubled

    THE COLAC district will have six junior cricket sides representing the region at Country Week tournaments across the state’s south-west next week.

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  • Colac export excited by World Cup chance

    COLAC’S Aaron Finch admits the thought of representing Australia on home soil at next month’s cricket World Cup is an exciting prospect.

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  • Colac cricketer’s toughest test for national spot

    COLAC cricket export Aaron Finch’s Melbourne Renegades coach Simon Helmot says the star batsman has the ability to succeed in cricket’s longer format.

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  • Swans AFL recruit reflects at home

    COLAC DISTRICT’S newest AFL recruit Lewis Melican is at his Birregurra home still coming to terms with life as a Sydney Swan.

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  • State call-up spurs netballer to return to sport

    LORNE export Zoe Donne says she contemplated having a season off netball before selection for Victoria turned her 2015 plans upside down.

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