General News
18 April, 2025
Orienteering, tennis, bowls - our big weekend is underway
TENNIS BOORT’S 71st annual Easter tennis tournament will feature more than 200 players, with an encouraging boost in female numbers. The four-day carnival begins on Good Friday, with a host of categories for players of all ages and skills. There...
TENNIS BOORT’S 71st annual Easter tennis tournament will feature more than 200 players, with an encouraging boost in female numbers.
The four-day carnival begins on Good Friday, with a host of categories for players of all ages and skills.
There are singles, doubles, mixed doubles, veterans’ events and Fast 4 Tennis doubles, as well as family doubles contests.
There are also boys’ and girls’ singles and doubles matches. Tournament director Alister McDougal said competitors could still sign up to take part.
“Sometimes we have added 10 to 15 people late, and we’ve got enough courts for everyone,” he said.
In 2024 there were only two entrants in the ladies’ singles, but this year six have registered to play, along with 18 for the men’s event. The all-time legend of the tournament is Jarrod Savage, who won 14 men’s singles championships between 2006 and 2022, when he called it quits to give someone else a crack.
Another Jarrod – Jarrod Rodda – has won the past two men’s singles, while Allison Whitbread took out the ladies’ title last year.
As well as the tennis, the tournament features the famous Saturday night ferret races, while local music star Elias Lanyon and Last One Standing will perform on Easter Sunday night.
ORIENTEERING MORE than 800 competitors are set to take part in this long weekend’s National Easter Orienteering Carnival in Loddon Shire.
The event will showcase the varied terrain of Tarnagulla, Inglewood and The Granites (Mt Egbert) at events to be held between Good Friday and Easter Monday.
Competitors are coming from all states and territories of Australia, with a small number of international visitors participating.
Elite-level orienteers are competing in world ranking events during the carnival, but there are courses designed for all age classes, which range from 10 to 90 years of age. When competing participants visit control points while navigating on a course with a map, a compass and an e-tag timing device for recording each point visited.
The aim is to complete the course as quickly as possible, with the winner being the person with the shortest time. At a competitive level the sport requires a good level of fitness and concentration to read the map detail and know your location while moving as fast as possible on uneven ground and sometimes through complex areas.
LAWN BOWLS WEDDERBURN’S traditional Easter bowls tournament is on this weekend, with all rinks filled on all three days.
Organiser Lance Standfield said just under 200 players from all over Victoria would take part.
“Some come from strange places,” he said.
One entrant from a familiar place is Neil Dalrymple, the CEO of World Bowls, who played last year and declared it was one of the best tournaments in which he had taken part.
The club has a standby list of players who registered for the contest too late but can be called in at the last minute should there be any withdrawals.
Thursday’s pairs will see 44 players on 11 rinks and 60 players on 10 rinks will play in Friday’s triples event.
The Gold Letter Fours on Saturday will feature 80 players on 10 rinks.