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Game On Summer - Episode 17

This week on Game On Summer, River Land became Tigerland as the Richmond Football Club joined us in Echuca, and they spent a bit of time with the AFLGV academy prospects.. And of course, all the news from this year’s Southern 80.. That’s

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Riverine Herald
Feb 15 2018
Lifestyle

Police catch taxi drink-driver

A TAXI driver was caught drink-driving with a passenger in his vehicle in Echuca on Saturday night as police worked hard to ensure a safe weekend for road users.. As part of the Echuca police’s well-advertised road safety blitz over the

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Riverine Herald
Feb 13 2018
Lifestyle

Definitely not angry about second super win

BAD Temper has done it again.. And wiped more than two minutes off its previous time.. In its second Super Social victory in as many years, the team produced a time of 37.43.. The first boat to hit the Murray on Sunday morning was one of the fastest

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Riverine Herald
Feb 13 2018
Lifestyle

Chief rules the young experts

CHIEF lived up to its name in the Junior Boys Expert class, winning by 23 seconds.. Coming all the way from Rowville, Melbourne for the Southern 80, the team of Darren Laub (driver), Robert Bertram (observer), Tate Laub and Jake Rawe (skiers)

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Riverine Herald
Feb 13 2018
Breaking News

SPECTACULAR BACK-TO-BACK WIN FOR MERC FORCE

MERC Force has gone back-to-back in the Southern 80.. And managed to finish the course in the second fastest time in S80 history (30.08).. The faces of the crew as they crossed the line delivered one message loud and clear: mission accomplished

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Riverine Herald
Feb 11 2018
Lifestyle

Back-to-back despite ‘tough conditions’

GOING back-to-back is a great feeling, especially if you break a record as you cross the line.. Temper 2 won last year’s 16-19 Boys Expert class, only to go on and break the race record at this year’s Southern 80.. Coming from Rowville

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Riverine Herald
Feb 13 2018
Lifestyle

Youngsters take home excellent times in this year’s S80

SKI racing is a sport for all ages.. Despite the perceived dangers of the sport, it attracts a number of younger racers to take part.. Some of these competitors are incredibly young.. One of the youngest competitors at the 2018 Southern 80 was Max

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Riverine Herald
Feb 13 2018
Lifestyle

‘Don’t be the person who stops the 80’

THE Southern 80 runs the risk of being stopped if spectators swim during the race.. Moama Water Sports Club issued an urgent warning on Saturday after people were spotted swimming at the end of Winbi Rd on both sides of the river.. There was also

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Riverine Herald
Feb 12 2018
Lifestyle

Break downs and confusion leave fans scratching heads

TWO of the biggest stories of the day did not happen on the finish line.. And they involved two of the biggest names in ski racing.. The first was Arkham Asylum.. The winner of the 2017 Barrie Beehag entered the weekend as the dark horse of many

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Riverine Herald
Feb 13 2018
Lifestyle

And some pigs can almost fly

IT WAS headline news during the week.. On Wednesday, the new livery on the former champion Hellrazor was finally released.. It carried a new name.. Hells Arsenal.. It was now the centrepiece of the Pigs Arsenal team.. When it was revealed, driver

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Riverine Herald
Feb 13 2018
Lifestyle

Perfect conditions for ‘awesome’ race

THE Moama Water Sports Club president has a message to everyone who attended this year’s Southern 80 — thank you.. Club president John Lomas said he could not have been more happy with the running of this year’s event, and the

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Riverine Herald
Feb 13 2018
Lifestyle

Kiwis at home in the water

MURRUMBIDGEE Madness is a boat full of New Zealanders.. It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but it is not.. Competing in the MOC Expert class, the crew was the only competing in this year’s edition of the Southern 80 made up entirely of

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Riverine Herald
Feb 12 2018
Lifestyle

Race unites a nation

THE Southern 80 is all about the coming together of people from all corners of the country to compete for skiing glory.. So it is fitting then, that the crew of Pumped Up is exactly that — an amalgamation of people from all over Australi

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Riverine Herald
Feb 12 2018
Lifestyle

Nailed rebuilds self esteem

LEIGH Thomas is a relieved man.. ‘‘Finishing the race was winning for us,’’ he said.. Nailed has become even more of a crowd favourite this year.. By most estimations, it should never have raced.. When it was nose up in the

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Andrew Johnston
Feb 12 2018
Lifestyle

Final trip the the Murray for a local waterskiing pioneer

THE ashes of Doug Macintire, a winner of the Shell Murray Marathon 54 years ago, were scattered on the Murray River at the weekend.. In the 17’6" clinker Commodore, skiing crew Macintire, Col Healey and Roy Reid and driver Bob Partington

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Riverine Herald
Feb 12 2018
Lifestyle

Failure to launch a problem for skiers

TWO is company, three is a crowd.. That is what the skiers behind three consecutive boats would have thought when they all failed to stick the launch.. Just under an hour into Saturday morning’s racing, where no two skiers had fallen back to

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Riverine Herald
Feb 12 2018
Lifestyle

Southern 80 feels Merc’s mighty force

HOW do you improve your game after winning the Southern 80?. Not only do you smash your previous time, you race the second fastest time in the S80 history.. And you become just the fifth team to go back-to-back.. That was Merc Force.. In a time of

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Riverine Herald
Feb 12 2018
Lifestyle

Finish is a win for believers

SOMETIMES winning isn’t everything.. For two crowd favourites, finishing was the goal.. Ben Pettingill finished ninth skiing behind 99PC in the 60mh Expert.. Luke Johnson was sixth in the disabled class behind Floor-It.. What matters is that

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Andrew Johnston
Feb 12 2018
Lifestyle

Record is blown out of water

‘‘IF WE are ever going to do it, it’s going to be this year.’’. That’s what the Merc Force F1 team said to each other before going on to smash the Open Women’s Expert class course record by more than

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Riverine Herald
Feb 12 2018
Breaking News

A (Merc) Force to be reckoned with

MERC Force has proved it’s a force to be reckoned with after winning the Bakers Blitz this afternoon with a time of 6.31.. It's 13 seconds ahead of its time last year and seven seconds behind the record.. The Mistress came in second

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Riverine Herald
Feb 10 2018
Sport

RACING LEGEND’S LAST VISIT TO THE MURRAY

THE ashes of Doug Macintire, a winner of the Shell Murray Marathon 54 years ago, were scattered on the Murray River this weekend.. In the 17'6" clinker Commodore, skiing crew Macintire, Col Healey and Roy Reid and driver Bob Partington were

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Riverine Herald
Feb 10 2018
Sport

SWIMMERS AT RISK SAY S80 ORGANISERS

SOUTHERN 80 organisers are pleading with swimmers to keep out of the river during race times.. They are concerned today's forecast sunny conditions might tempt more of them into the water.. “Numbers were already causing alarm during

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Riverine Herald
Feb 11 2018
Sport

First boat home in day two of racing

BAD Temper - the first boat home in day two of S80 racing - has managed two cut two minutes off its time last year.. Provisional times show Bad Temper sitting on top of the leader board in the Super Social class with a time of 37.43, followed by

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Riverine Herald
Feb 11 2018
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