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3 - 16 MAY, 2024
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Golf ball bonanza for Grubbers More than 1000 golf balls were dropped from a helicopter above Steeline Ray Menzies Oval for Ocean Grove Football Netball Club’s major fundraiser. In a closest to the pin competition, more than $10,000 in prizes were on offer with Waz and Pip Jankiwski’s number 259 golf ball taking out first prize. The chopper dropped 1137 golf balls on Saturday April 27 at the Ocean Grove vs Modewarre footy and netball games. Ocean Grove Cobras (pictured) players immediately set about retrieving the golf balls so the senior footy match could begin. Modda won the footy, but the Grubbers won the netball. ■ See Sport for the details.
Team Grove stars at Aussies Ocean Grove’s small, but talented, surf lifesaving team achieved superb results at the Australian Surf Life Saving titles recently on the Sunshine Coast. Coach Sonia Kinsey said large challenging surf conditions suited her young team. The first part of the competition saw the under 13 to 15 age group race in individuals on the Saturday and teams events on the Sunday.
Georgie McIntyre was a stand out with a bronze medal in the under 15 girls board race. “She was up the front of the field for the majority of the race and worked extremely hard to get third,” Kinsey said. “Just making a final at national level is an excellent achievement but racing for a medal in an event such as the board race is right up there. It is very hard to win a medal in
a board race as the event is so popular, with large numbers of competitors and quite a few races just to make the final.” Under 13 male athlete Grayson Hyde made the surf race final in what was his first ‘Aussies’ coming 17th, along with under 15 girl Chelsea Hanks coming 18th. McIntyre’s younger sister Indigo also made the under 13 board final in her last year on the smaller nipper boards.
“It was great to see a number of under 13 kids come up and race at their first Aussies against the best in the sport,” Kinsey said. “It will give them all something to work towards for next season if they choose to come up again.” A number of other team members made semi-finals, just falling short on making a final a number of times. ■ Continued: Page 6.
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