The fierce and fast were recognised last month at the Mackay Road Runners Annual Awards for 2022.

Major award recipients

Junior Female  & Male Club Champions Lily Leven and Damian Rutland

Open Female & Male Club Champions Glynis Forse and Joe Grech

Junior Female & Male Eungella Queen and King of the Mountain Lily Leven & Damian Rutland

Open Female & Male Eungella Queen and King of the Mountain Demi Caldwell & Cristian Smith

Junior Monthly Medals Luke Leven, Alex Couldrey; Toby Rule, Oliver Rule

Open Monthly Medals Mick Vivian, Paul Mackenzie, Shane Donnollan, Andrew Short, Alan Zamparutti, Michael Feenaghty

Lost Bunyips Open Female and Male Trail Series Champions Carmel Mahon & Joe Grech

Andergrove 10km Handicap Champion Heli Talinurm

Shawn Claydon Memorial 10km Shield Tahnie Malagueno & Angus Jacobs

Benita Willis 10km Handicap Trophy Martin Lambert

Most Improved Andrew Wallace

Encouragement Award Luke Leven

Most Supportive Alan Zamparutti

Most Consistent Carmel Mahon

Col & Rhonda Meng Club Person of the Year Jo Hughes

Overall Handicap Points Champion Joe Grech

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Pioneer Valley Charity Fun Run

The date was March 27, 2020.

Kay Nyenuh’s two Muscle Garden gyms in Mackay and Marian were about to be shut down due to COVID restrictions.

He was at his newly opened Marian gym for a lengthy telecommunications appointment when he took his daughter, Rosa, for a walk.

It was then, he came up with an idea to host a charity fun run along the Pioneer River in Marian.

Thought is one thing, but action is another. However, when Kay has his mind set, there’s no turning back. In the face of adversity and great personal sacrifice through lost income during COVID restrictions, Kay has triumphantly hosted the fun run for the past three years, successfully raising more than $70,000 for the Mackay Hospital Foundation. The third event was held last weekend.

The 2.5km loop course provided the perfect supportive atmosphere for friends and family to cheer on competitors, and the event appeals to all fitness levels, with 1km, 5km, 7.5km and 10km options.

Now with a third gym opened in Andergrove, Kay is optimistic about the future and thanked the support he received to make the fun run a reality.

“Thank you to everyone who has been a part of this event the past three years,” Kay said.

“All the businesses, the participants, my team, I can’t thank you enough.

“In the three years we’ve held this event it’s only gotten bigger and bigger and I can’t wait for next year already!”

This week Kay is flying to New York to fulfill a personal goal, to run the New York Marathon.

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Mackay City Rollers will play host to the first ever RADfest. A bootcamp and scrimmage weekend for junior roller derby players from Regional Queensland.

RADfest takes its name from Regional Alliance Derby and sees skaters between the ages of 8 and 18 from Rockhampton and Townsville converge on Mackay.

Mackay City Rollers has secured a lineup of experienced coaches from Southeast Queensland including Squeals on Wheels, Rumpofsteelskin, and Vaxter.

Squeals on Wheels is a returning Mackay skater who is a two-time silver medalist for Australia playing for Skate Australia Women’s Roller Derby Team at the World Roller Games in China and Spain and Queensland representative in the Australia National Roller Derby Championships; a tournament which Queensland won. Most recently this year, Squeals earned a position on the Skate Australia Women’s Roller Derby Team for the third time and was also successfully appointed as the Coach for the Skate Australia Men’s Roller Derby Team.

Mackay City Rollers President Splitz says, “We are really excited to have such an array of experienced coaches attending this weekend to impart their many years of skating and roller derby knowledge to our juniors.

“Regional events like this are so critical in rebuilding regional roller derby after memberships took a big hit during covid.

“We are trying to breathe life back into derby across the region while building strong connections with our neighbouring leagues in both Junior and Senior derby.

“Roller Derby in regional areas isn’t like other sports where kids compete in a regular weekly competition or season. Our skaters have to travel for opportunities to play competitively or bring skaters here to Mackay.”

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What a week!

Terrence Sheedy won the Presidents Shield Trophy after three weeks of play with three different partners. Terrence’s consistency had him in the lead over all three weeks, ultimately leading to his win.

After three weeks of hotly contested play and three different winners over the three weeks of play, Ian and Carol Gaskell won the Mackay Novice Pairs.

Meanwhile, Jan Harris and Richard Wix took out the Australian Wide (Mackay) Restricted Pairs <300pts.

RESULTS

Mackay Presidents Shield

1st Terrence Sheedy – Partners -Noel Bugeia, Janelle Conroy, Geoff Taylor

2nd Monica Darley – Partners – Richard Wix, Nancy Martin, Tere Wotherspoon

3rd Janelle Conroy – Partners – Robert Carless, Terrence Sheedy, Alan Brown

Saturday 29 October  – Presidents Shield Week 3 of 3 Green Points

N/S

1st Doone Mitchell / Marilin Robins

2nd Diane Stokes / Joy Brunette

3rd Jan Harris / Geoffrey Patterson

4th Nancy Wix / Griffin Bancroft

E/W

1st Monica Darley / Tere Wotherspoon

2nd Debra Goodchild / Eric Goodchild

3rd Ian Cruickshank / Noel Saunders

4th Ken Seaniger / Robert Carless

Sunday 30 October – Novice Pairs Week 3 of 3

1st Mary Cruickshank / Noel Saunders

2nd Carol Gaskell / Ian Gaskell

3rd Anne Lutz / Diane Stokes

Mackay Novice Championship Pairs Winners

1st Carol Gaskell / Ian Gaskell

2nd Anne Lutz / Diane Stokes

3rd Annie Lynch / Sandra Morris

Tuesday 24 October – Australian Wide Pairs <300 Pts - Mackay

1st Jan Harris / Richard Wix

2nd Mary Cruickshank / Ian Cruickshank

3rd Carol Gaskell / Ian Gaskell

4th Sandra Morris / Patricia Garner

5th Griffin Bancroft / Marilyn Wilson-Nicholl

6th Susan Ross / Vicki Howard

Weekly Social Results

Monday 24 October – 6 Table One Winner

1st Joy Robinson / Thelma Caruana

2nd Edward Kliese / Diane Stokes

3rd Jan Harris / Richard Wix

Tuesday Evening 25 October – 4 Table One Winner

1st Richard Wix / Eric Goodchild

2nd Eric Leivesley / Diane Stokes

3rd Janine Rodgers / Nancy Wix

Wednesday 26 October – 9 Table Mitchell Green Points

1st Robert Carless / Joy Robinson

2nd Geoff Taylor / Ted Cullinan

3rd Anne Lutz / Gwen Liddell

1st Diane Holewa / Max Holewa

2nd Ian Cruickshank / Antonia Tarradas

3rd Frances Brown / Janet Hansen

Thursday Evening 27 October – 4 Table One Winner

1st Janelle Conroy / Pamela Finger

2nd Frances Brown / Ann Whitmore

3rd Terrence Sheedy / Noel Bugeia

Friday 28 October – 7 Table One Winner

1st Tere Wotherspoon / Monica Darley

2nd Joy Robinson / Geoff Taylor

3rd Max Holewa / Diane Holewa

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After a bye last week, the Proserpine Pitbulls’ Under 11 side hosted their first ever home game against the Sarina Spartans.

Captain Laura’s bat flip went to the Spartans, and the Pitbull pups were sent in to bat.

Bradley (4) and Sean (3) led the way with some great shots, unfortunately picking out the fielders before Aiden (9) followed up with some quick running between the wickets.

Aiden’s brother Jaxson (9) came in and they kept the scoreboard ticking over nicely. Laura (7) was hitting the ball as clean as can be and teamed up well with Ellen (5), who played some excellent shots.

Tyrone (5) came out swinging and Zahra (5) was excellent with her calling and running between the wickets. Kobi (5) came in last to face the remaining deliveries and played a couple of great pull shots, with 8/72 the scenario at the end of the first innings.

A quick slushy break and the pups were back out to defend their total.

Bradley (1/8 off 3) was very accurate and got a spectacular direct hit for a runout. Sean 0/12 off 1) found the middle of the batter’s bat, and decided to give wicket keeping a go, to which he did some great stops and got a caught behind.

Aiden (1/12 off 2) got a beauty on line to take out middle stump. Jaxson (0/9 off 2) came close a couple of times, but missed out on a wicket. Zahra (0/8 off 2) bowled excellently. Laura (2/6 off 3) bamboozled the batters with her 2 step run up taking out the stumps twice.

Kobi (1/8 off 3) was accurate, with some great change of pace. Ellen (1/8 off 2) bowled an unplayable delivery! Tyrone (2/6 off 2) bowled a couple of beauties to take out the stumps.

Despite having an excellent bowling and fielding effort the Pitbull pups were unable to restrict the Spartans ending up with 11/77 pipping the Proserpine side by five runs, with the team closing in on their first ever wind.

Player of the day went to Captain Laura.

Contributed with thanks to Michael Hope

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Proserpine’s junior cricketers played in an exceptionally close match against the Sarina Spartans on the weekend

With the Premier League not too far back in the rear view mirror, the 2022 Xmas Open for Airlie Beach Darts club got underway at Mika on Sunday morning with groups A and B.

Group A featured the runner up of this year’s Premier League: Jamie Maher. Joining him was Jayden Lloyd, Lorraine Woods, and Adrian Wickham.

Jamie advances to the quarterfinals after topping group A unbeaten, with both Jayden and Lorraine going through to the qualifiers after finishing in second and third place, respectively.

Group B had a Premier League champion in the group: Andy Peel. He was joined by the father son combo of Dick and Nathan O’Hara, as well as Seumas Rose.

Seumas topped the group unbeaten on nine points, with the remaining three players all finishing level on three apiece.

Nathan was the unlucky player to miss out on advancing to the next stage of the comp with Andy claiming second and Dick claiming third place in group B, courtesy of better leg difference.

Both Jamie and Seumas hit 180s during their victories on Sunday.

Thank you to Master Butchers Whitsunday for donating a meat tray for us to raffle off. And thank you to our sponsor Dyson Automotive, your support is greatly appreciated.

Contributed with thanks to Jamie Maher

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Jamie Maher in action in the Xmas Open at Mika Airlie Beach

Unfortunately, the Cannonvale Cannons’ Club Night was cancelled on Wednesday last week due to stormy weather but were back in the pool this week.

Over the weekend, Indigo, Ruby, and Koa Harland travelled to Charters Towers to compete at the Charters Towers Swimming Carnival, with the girls very excited to catch up with their brothers Tate and Mason, and sister, Ella.  

Indigo, “Indi” Harland aged six, swam very well in her 25-metre Backstroke and Freestyle races.  Her best swim was her Backstroke in a time of 48.01 (a 1.21 second personal best).

Koa Harland, aged eight years had a very successful carnival.  She swam three personal bests and came second place in her 50-metre Breaststroke in a time of 1.05.18. She swam a super 50-metre Butterfly in 1.11.98, a 1.83 second personal best and was fourth in her age group.  

Ruby Harland, aged 10, swam in four events, coming first in her 100-metre Backstroke and second in her 100-metre Freestyle.  

Mason and Tate Harland swim for Charters Towers Swimming Club, with Mason, aged 12, swam extremely well in all his Backstroke races. Tate, aged 14, swam a fantastic 200-metre Breaststroke in a time of 3.50.74 which was a 21.34 second personal best.  

The Cannons would like to thank all the wonderful families who assisted with the Bunnings barbecue fundraiser on Saturday.

Swimmers continue to train for upcoming carnivals: Gardens (Townsville), Whitsunday (Proserpine), and Bowen.  Some Cannons have also nominated for the Hamilton Island Ocean Swim.  

Contributed with thanks to Raylene Rasmussen

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Ben and Nelson Malady

Celeste and Don helping at the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle

Ruby Indi and Koa Harland at Charters Towers

Airlie Beach Bowls Club players did their club, the district, and zone seven proud at the State Champion of Club Champions at South Suburban in Mackay.

The pair of Betty Nicole and Carol Crosbie played outstanding bowls during the sectional rounds and were undefeated in their three games, beating Kawana Bowls Club 18-8, Suburban Townsville 19-16, and Boonooroo Bowls Club 20-16 to progress to the State Final.

They came up against the pair of 419 Australian-capped veteran Lynsey Clarke and Claire Turley, who has 66 caps for the country.

Betty and Carol started nervously, tied at seven all against their more fancied opponents throughout the early ends of the game.

Lynsey and Claire found their form and pushed ahead to a comfortable lead until Betty and Carol staged a late comeback but unfortunately ran out of ends and went down 27-20 in front of a very large crowd, becoming the states silver medallist’s.

Carol, who is undergoing intensive Chemotherapy, was drained substantially during the game, but, lived by our club’s motto: “Never Give Up, Never Give In, and Never Say Die.”

Also competing were our Mens Pairs whom finished 4th overall, missing out on the finals by one point only.

Armando Isgro also was selected as skipper for North Queensland versus South Queensland in Townsville played on the weekend.

Tuesday and Wednesday bowls and Business House Bowls were cancelled this week due to inclement weather.

Saturday morning Scroungers saw first round winners Merve Stewart, Maureen Barnard, Rick Galea, Gary Kiff, and Mark Mawson play off.

The final was played between Maureen Barnard and Mark Mawson, who overcame his tenacious opponent for the victory.

John Brown was the Group B winner of the day beating a star-studded field.

Sunday afternoon Social bowls had Tony Whitehorn with Mario De Martini at lead, Lu Rogan at second, and Rex Muller beat John Trembath’s team in a nail-biter.

Contributed with thanks to Mark Mawson

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Airlie Beach Bowls Club members Carol Crosbie and Betty Nicole claimed silver at this year’s Queensland state finals

On Wednesday, there were no Social Bowls played at Proserpine Bowls Club when a thunderstorm cruised over Airlie Beach.

The weekend’s Mackay District Champion of Champion 2 Bowl Triples still went ahead, however, with the first match on Saturday morning seeing Wests Tigers defeat Souths Suburban.

Following on, Northern Beaches defeated RSL, Airlie Beach defeated Seaforth, Mackay defeated North Mackay, and in the afternoon, Proserpine defeated Sarina.

Through all games you could see the quality of shot delivery and decision making with so many of them being edge of your seat matches.

Sunday morning were the two Semi Finals, one where Proserpine defeated Northern Beaches and Marian defeated Mackay.

The Final between Proserpine and Marian started off being neck and neck with neither team getting to control the action.  It is at this halfway point that things started to shift with Proserpine taking the upper hand.

Congratulations to Shane Kinnear (subbing for Nathan Dodds), Scott Hamilton, and Wayne Handley for taking out the MMDBA Champion of Champions 2 Bowl Triples for 2022.

Acknowledgment must be made those who worked behind the scene in green preparation, providing of lunches, serving behind the bar, doing the welcomes and green introductions and umpiring.

Spectators support was exceptional, and thanks must also be extended to Vince McSherry from Mackay Men’s District Bowls Association who drove up on Sunday with the Livestreaming equipment.

On Sunday afternoon the club had six for social bowls, with Sandy Daffara, Warren Wilson, and Peter Lawton defeating John Anderson, Bruce Uhe, and Mike Harrison, 23-16.

Contributed with thanks to Heather Brown

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Champion of Champion Two Bowl Triples winners Proserpine with MMDBA Match Chair: Wayne Handley, Scott Hamilton, Vince McSherry, and Shane Kinnear

There were only a few players on Tuesday afternoon, however it did not lessen the quality of the bowls, with the winner’s circle comprised of Bron Tolcher, Irene Laird, and Penny Warren.

Their reward: a bottle of Mark Drummond’s homemade Tomato relish.

On Sunday, although a warm afternoon, bowlers still came out to play in the much-needed shade, with winners for the afternoon Bill Myers, Penny Warren, and Pat Tracey, defeating Deb Beel, Sue Shearing, Linda Scells, and Sugar Brunker.

Other winners were Irene Laird, Isobel Wheeler, and Kennedy Whitton who defeated Bron Tolcher, Graeme Read, and Geoff Danvers. Robyn Stitt, Marg Wilson, and Allan Rolfe also won, defeating Mark Drummond, Greg Colquhoun, and Barry Beel.

Competition games results: The final of the B Grade singles was played this week with congratulations to Laurie Land in her win, defeating Kevin Baxter.

Competition is almost finished for the year, with the final of the Mixed Pairs between Lyn and Geoff Danvers, and Penny Warren and Allan Rolfe to be played at 9am on Thursday, November 10.

It is almost time again for the club’s AGM which will be on Sunday, November 27.

All positions will be declared vacant, with nomination forms available for positions on the board. High Tea and presentation of trophies will be on the same day. Attendees for the lunch, please put your name on the board for catering purposes.  

Contributed with thanks to Penny Warren

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The Sunday winners at Wangaratta Bowls Club, alongside club President Mark Drummond: Bill Myers, Penny Warren, and Pat Tracey

Wednesday’s competition at Bowen Golf Club was a single stableford for the men and single Bogie for the ladies sponsored by the club.

Ladies’ winner was Claire Garrod, plus 1, runner up Janice Bates, 0, while Men’s winner was Perry Layton, 41 points, with runner up on a countback Mark Tilbrook.

Saturday’s competition was a single stableford sponsored by Bowen Home Hardware, with thanks to the local business for their continued support, which has been a constant for the past 25 years.  

Men's Winner was Brian Martin, 39 points, runner up Brenden Wells, 38, with pin shots to Akeam Power, Daryl O'Connell, James Miller, and Rod Wells.  

Ladies' Winner Meg Garrod, 35 points, and runner up Janice Bates, 34. Pin Shots to Julie May - who had her first official Hole in One - Janice Bates, Elona Lynch, and Julie Mawson.  

Janice Bates also won the Car Wash Voucher.

This weekend’s competition at Bowen Golf Club is a single stroke event for the November Monthly Medals sponsored by Bowen Meat Supply and the club.  Don’t forget to check the club’s Facebook page for this week’s dinner menu.  

Contributed with thanks to Grace Nott

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The Home Hardware Single Stableford ladies’ second place getter, Janice Bates, alongside men’s winner Brian Martin and  sponsor John McEniery from Home Hardware

Julie May sunk a hole in one during Saturday’s competition

Rain affected numbers this week at Proserpine Golf Club, but all comps were completed even though some competitors pulled out because of the rain.

The men’s winner of Saturday’s MBW stableford was Aaron Watts, on a count back from Brett Norris on 39. They were followed by Ross McNeill on 38.

The ladies’ winner was Heather Luvis on a count back from Ann Gardel and Tiina Randmae all on 32 points.

The men’s run down went to 15th place, while the ladies place getters were Diane Chard, 30, Elspeth Scotford, Peta Thomas and Rehab Hull on 29.

The pin shots went to Andrew Mau, Luchie Gardel, Levi Holmes, Trish McNeill and Penny Wardroper.

Only forty ventured out on Thursday, with Michael Leo winning the shirt with 41 points from Andrew Albergo 38, in division one.

Division two winner was Fraser Simpson 47 points, from Vic Feldman on 37.

The place getters were Steve Kelly 38, Chris Brett, Peter Fox, Elliot Woo and Aaron Watts 37, and Michael Cragg bring up the rear on 35.

Allen Roberts and Aaron Watts on 13 and 16 took out the pin shots.

Tuesday’s stableford winner was Karl Kirkwood, from Michael Cragg and John Grosskreutz.

On Wednesday the ladies played a four-ball multiplier. The winners were Brenda Cowan and Jenny Hounsell with 71 points.

They were followed by Pam Casey and Dianne Chard, 69 and Lyn Muller and Rehab Hull with 61.

The pin shots went to Pam Casey, Brenda Cowan, Elspeth Scotford and Paula McQuat.

Sunday’s stroke winners were Nathan Sothmann, 69 on a count back from Brian Allen, and Jason Whitney 70 in third place for the men.

The ladies’ winners were Jacqui Wall, 68, from Penny Wardroper and Peta Thomas both on 70 nett.

Contributed with thanks to Peter Lewis

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The second round of Club Championships at Whitsunday Social Golf combined with a stroke event on Monday, attended by 27 members.

The winners were Men’s A grade Jason Bourke, with runner up Darren Reynolds, best gross Geoff Harrison.

Men’s B grade winner Scott Wardroper and runner up Gerald Lovell.

Ladies with best gross to Ron Jamieson, Ladies A grade was claimed by Jacqueline Wall runner up Penny Wardroper, best gross Anna Winterbourn.

Ladies’ B Elise Hodgsen, runner up Karen Rix, best gross Jo Moynihan.

Pin shots were claimed by Penny Wardroper, Linda Wardroper, Scott Wardroper, Tiina Randmae, Aaron Watts, and George Meharry.

Congratulations to all winners, Club Champion will be announced at the end of year presentation. Nest Sunday will be the November Monthly Medal.

Contributed with thanks to Joanne Moynihan

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Another great day of golf yesterday at Proserpine Veteran’s Golf with 30 players braving the hot and windy conditions.

It was a stroke event and the ladies’ winner, on count back, with a fantastic score of 68 was Elspeth Scotford. Second, also on 68, was Helen Deighton.  

The men’s winner with a fantastic 67 was Phil Luckett followed by John Strelec (72 on countback). Nearest the pin winners for the ladies’ were Lyn Muller (9th), Kathryn Borer (9th and 13th), Heather Luvis (13th), Elspeth Scotford (18th), and Jacqui Wall (18th).  

The men’s nearest the pin winners were Neil Cawthorne (9th), Wilf Herweg (13th), John Roser (18th) and Steve Mitchell (18th).  There were four chip-ins: John Strelec, Neil, Heather, and Lyn.

Next week will be a big day, starting at 8:30am is the club’s Monthly Medal with all welcome. There will be an afternoon lunch and sweeps ($2 and $5), and players in the Club's normal Tuesday Comp are welcome to join us for the $10 lunch.  

Contributed with thanks to Paula McQuat
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Stroke event winners for women’s and men’s Elspeth Scotford and Phill Luckett

The winner of Fridays 9-hole stableford competition this week at Whitsunday Green Golf Club was Neil Boland with 19 points.

Second and third place was a countback decider with James ‘Jimmy’ Millar taking second and Mark Winter third, both with 17 points.

Sunday was the Monthly Medal and again Jimmy Millar was in form to take the win with a great 50 nett.

Second was Marc Belke with 52 nett and Tyson Flavel in third. Tyson was also best off the stick on the day with 58 strokes.

Nearest the Pins were won by Wayne Singleton and Rod Lodders. This Sunday will be a ‘play anytime’ 18-hole stableford.

Contributed with thanks to Kate Cross

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James ‘Jimmy’ Millar enjoying a day out at Whitsunday Green Golf Club