Sport

In Brief

Carlton wins twice CARLTON had double victories in the opening weekend of Victorian Premier cricket earlier this month. The Blues had a four- wicket win over on the Saturday, following up with a six- wicket win over Hawthorn- Monash University. But North Melbourne lost its opening two rounds, to Northcote by eight wickets, and Ringwood by 119 runs. Melbourne University lost to Frankston-Peninsula by 91 runs and Northcote by seven wickets, while Richmond fell to St Kilda and Prahran. Round 3 was played K at the weekend, after deadline. Y M Turf cricket back on C THE Victorian Turf Cricket Association was hoping for blue skies and sun on Saturday, after its season’s first round was cancelled due to wet weather and COLOUR: unprepared grounds. In senior division, Royal Park-Brunswick The Melbourne University men’s cycling team won gold at the Australian University Games in Perth after losing the crown last year following a six-year champions patch. was due to meet St Bernard’s in at 33 Murphy Oval on Saturday and Sunday, with the result unavailable at deadline. In south

division, Youlden-Parkville was PAGE: due to meet Chelsea. Round 2 matches will continue this From silver to gold weekend. Start for soccer CENTRAL City starts its soccer After falling short in 2009, Melbourne wins titles Summer League season off against Eastern at Darebin Indoor Uni Games | Patrick O’Meara relay, comprising D’Alfonso, Sports Centre next Sunday. City Yasuhito Nakajim, Darcy and will field teams in under-13 to THREE Melbourne University Dominic Sutton. under-20 in boys competition and teams have avenged their disap- From 28 sports, 23 of Melbourne’s under-13 to under-17 in girls. pointment last year to win gold at teams finished in the top-six of Their players come from clubs in the 2010 Australian University their respective sporting compe- Port Phillip, Yarra, Stonnington, 22/7/09 Games. titions. Melbourne and Maribyrnong. The men’s basketball and cycling More than 5000 students from 41 and women’s netball teams all tri- Australian universities competed

Victory seeks upturn DATE: umphed at the week-long games in in 31 events at this year’s games. Perth from September 26 to Melbourne University finished MELBOURNE Victory were looking October 1 after having to settle for fourth overall, behind winners to redeem themselves when they silver at the 2009 games on the Gold University of Western , faced arch-rival FC in Coast. Monash University in second and A-League on Saturday night. They MEV The basketball team posted third-placed Sydney University. were beaten 2-1 in the hometown comfortable wins in its prelimi- In the Doug Ellis Trophy, which derby against Melbourne Heart nary games, and came up from four measures success on a per capita on October 8. The Heart faced PUB: points behind with just 40 seconds Melbourne University women’s netball team celebrate winning gold. basis, Melbourne was ninth with Wellington Phoenix on Sunday. left on the clock in a semi-final the multi-state University of Notre ME against the University of Western Caledonia, and Victorian Institute The university’s new-look netball Dame the victor. Tigers hunt for points Australia to win by three. of Sport cyclist Eric Sheppard team faced its 2009 conqueror Mon- Melbourne University sport de- ED: Melbourne University trounced dominated the road race to claim ash in the semi-final, winning 36-30 velopment manager Rod Warnecke MELBOURNE Tigers started their Griffith by 29 points in the grand gold and silver respectively, before victory to make the grand final. said he was pleased with the uni- 2010-11 National Basketball final. teaming to comfortably win the Melbourne beat La Trobe, its first versity’s overall results. ‘‘It was a League season against Sydney Melbourne’s cycling team was team time trial. Division 1 final, by 42-32. points-based participation struc- Kings at the State Netball and hell-bent on regaining its crown Their results, coupled with top- Individual golds were also won by ture, so the University of WA had Hockey Centre last Friday night. after losing the title in 2009 for the eight finishes from the squad in the Melbourne women’s team captain 500 kids, Monash had 450, Sydney The Tigers will then host Perth in first time in seven years. individual time trial and the and 2008 Olympian Angela Darby had 400 and we had 350. So being Round 2 at the centre on Sunday Lachlan Norris, fresh from com- criterium, regained Melbourne the in fencing, James D’Alfonso in the fourth-biggest you would ex- from 6pm. peting in the Tour of New overall cycling title. 400m and the men’s four-by-400m pect us to be fourth-ranked.’’ University athletics club men win first round at Aberfeldie

MELBOURNE University Ath- Individual brilliance was on dis- 4:14.73. The 4x100m women’s relay , the half-marathon and marathon in 3:14.05 and was part of letics Club started the Athletics play as well, as Anthony Hanna team was also victorious. the 10km. Three MUAC athletes the winning Victorian side which Victoria track and field season in won the men’s pole vault with a MELBOURNE University’s ath- finished in the top 25 of the mara- claimed the national team title. fine style earlier this month, in- jump of 4.25m while Cath Macrae letics team also claimed excep- thon, with Nic Browne (2:28.56) fin- Harry Smithers put in a withering spired by the success of the Aust- completed the pole vault double, tional results at the Melbourne ishing 13th, Andrew Selby Smith surge as he arrived at the MCG to ralian Flames at the Delhi Com- winning the women’s event, clear- Marathon on October 10. The (2:32.03) 21st, and David Paroissien take second place in the 10km race, monwealth Games. ing 3.15m. Jo Bromfield won the marathon incorporated the Aust- (2:33.34) 23rd. The results put the finishing behind Australian rep- The club’s men’s Division 1 team women’s triple jump, hopping, ralian Marathon Championship, club in a strong position to claim resentative Liam Adams, who won the first round of competition stepping and jumping 11.05m. Paul the Victorian Marathon Cham- the Victorian Men’s Marathon earnt silver in the 10km event at at the start of the AV Shield compe- Kennedy resumed where he left off pionship and the Australian Uni- Team Championship, with the re- the World University Cross tition on October 9 at Moonee Val- last track and field season, win- versity Road Champion- sult yet to be confirmed by Ath- Country Championships in ley Athletics Centre at Aberfeldie. ning the 2000m walk, while sum- ships. letics Victoria at deadline. Canada. The women’s top-flight team came mer team manager Hamish MUAC had more than 20 athletes Kate Scarlett, MUAC’s winter team Sophie Barker came fifth in the third. Beaumont won the 1500m in running in the three events – the manager, finished 46th in the Melbourne Marathon’s 10km.

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