SOCCER By Craig MacKenzie Despite being undermanned and facing off-field disruption leading into the match Peninsula Strikers battled to a gallant 2-2 draw against title contender Doveton at Waratah Reserve on Saturday. Former Strikers player and ex-English pro Willie Raynes was appointed senior coach last Tuesday, a move that shocked interim senior coach Billy Buchanan and assistant Graham Watson who thought that they had been appointed to the end of the season. No doubt Raynes turned up to Waratah Reserve expecting a baptism of fire against the State 2 South-East leader given that he’d lost Swiss import Raphael Stulz and…
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By Ben Triandafillou RED Hill Mountain Bike Riders have a world beater in their ranks. Member Kevin Skidmore rode to victory in the World Endurance Mountain Bike Organization (WEMBO) 24-hour solo world championships. Skidmore, 41, took out the 40-44-year-old male category and finished 10th overall in the grueling endurance event at Finale Ligure, Italy, on Saturday 3 June. He rode 24 hours straight, clocking up 320km over 34 laps of the track which included almost 8000 metres of climbing. “It’s nothing short of insane,” Red Hill Mountain Bike Riders president Mark Gardner said. “There’s never a moment where he can…
KHIA Wishart has scooped the main prize in a nationwide competition to create a new ice cream flavour combo. The 27-year-old Frankston resident’s creativity in designing an ice cream combo including raspberries, caramel and dried fig pieces, aptly named ‘Unfigetable Summer Delight’ won her a new Fiat car worth $17,000. “It was a bit of a random thing. I don’t usually enter competitions but heard they were having a competition to win a car,” she said. “Years ago I gave the only car I had to my grandma.” The contest was held by Cold Rock. When told she had won…
THE Proudly Frankston Campaign is sowing the seeds for a regional committee to work on improved economic, social, cultural and environmental outcomes. The business-funded Committee for Frankston would function like established advocacy groups throughout Australia, including Victorian regional committees at Geelong and Ballarat. The role of the committee would be thought leadership, advocacy, intervention and influencing outcomes that deliver increased economic activity and employment opportunities in the region. Proudly Frankston president Alan Wickes said a steering committee now had the task of taking to the community a clear message about how a Committee for Frankston’s would operate. “It needs a…
STEVE Blackley was supervising school holiday clinics at the Frankston basketball stadium last week when news came through of his appointment as development and high performance manager. Previously academy director, Blackley will now oversee all the programs conducted by Frankston Basketball Association, including the men’s and women’s South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) and youth teams. No stranger to Frankston, Blackely has played more than 300 Victorian Basketball Association and SEABL games for the Frankston Bayside Blues including being captain for three years. A brilliant point guard he also led the SEABL in assists and was a winner of the…