The Zambia Polocrosse Association held their annual awards dinner and AGM on the 8th of January at Leopards Hill Polocrosse Club. The club house was decorated in black with silver stars and the evening featured a stunning musical horse light show. Zambia are getting ready for a couple of important years in the world of Read more…
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Preparations are well under way for the Australian National Championships in Ballarat in 2010 and they stepped up another gear this week as both Western Australia and Queensland announced their squads for the event. Queensland are competing in 11 divisions and Western Australia are competing in 7. As is to be expected, there are a Read more…
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Report by Jodi Tiver The Southern Zone Championships on October 24th & 25th proved a happy hunting ground for Midwest and slightly less happy for Centrals as Midwest claimed 4 titles while Centrals finished as runners up in 4, losing to Midwest on 3 occasions. The hosts, Kojonup, also had a good tournament, claiming two Read more…
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Report by Jodi Tiver Well what a fantastic weekend of polocrosse both on and off the field! With 47 teams arriving from all over the State on Friday this was one of the biggest tournaments held in WA for quite some time. The fields and facilities were once again immaculate and the Perth Club members Read more…
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Report by Jodi Tiver The first selection tournament for the 2010 Nationals and Northern Zone Championships was held by the Walkaway Polocrosse Club and with 44 teams nominated it was certainly shaping up as a big weekend. The sun shone down each day and was a bit of a shock to the system after all Read more…
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By Terrance Keith, Bombers Equestrian Equipment Things got off to a start on the Wednesday – well, actually preparations for the open got off to a start long before the Wednesday but proceedings for the annual Zim Open 2009 got underway on Wednesday the 9th of September with the meet and greet black tie ball, Read more…
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Report by Jodi Tiver 30 teams arrived to play on the river sand fields in Northam for the Twin Pines annual tournament. It was great to see that one team from Walkaway made the effort to travel south seeing that the majority of clubs from the Central Zone had been travelling north all year to Read more…
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The Irish Under 21’s defeated their UK counterparts in a two test match series held at Mollington in North West England on the 19th and 20th of September. The Irish looked the stronger of the two sides on paper and they didn’t disappoint as they won the first test 29-11 and then the second 30-14. Read more…
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The Zim Open, probably the most extravagant polocrosse event in the world, was won by the Koala Park team, a team packed with Australian and New Zealand talent. The Zim Open is held every year in Zimbabwe and attracts a great deal of corporate sponsorship. The sponsors this year included Millers, Renaissance Capital, Tanzi, Progroup, Read more…
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Report by Fleur Bartels On the weekend of the 12th and 13th of September, the 4th Dutch Open tournament took place in Exloërveen (North-East Holland). There were 11 teams playing from Germany and Holland in 3 different categories: A, B and C. The A final on Sunday afternoon was between the teams Holland 3, with Read more…
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