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Li le Sellers Art Prize

Compe on opened Monday 7 March. The Li le Sellers Art Prize is open to aspiring local ar sts in school years 1 to 12. Par cipants are encouraged to interpret a theme crea vely in a way that is meaningful to them. This years theme is Greet the sun. Face the moon. We are very excited to announce the Li le Sellers scholarship program. 2022 is the first year for the scholarship program and it has been created as part of the art prize. The scholarship is to assist Eurobodalla visual art students in years 11 or 12 to further their studies and support a career path in the arts.

Entry forms and details about the scholarship program will be available on the Bas website, Entries close Friday 24 June 2022, 4pm.

Artwork by Alexys Hunter tled self portrait. 2021 Li le Seller Art Prize winner

It was a great day for sailing last Saturday when Batemans Bay Sailing Club held the annual Waverider Mark race. This course went from a start in the middle of the Bay upwind to the Toll Gates mark and hence out to the Waverider Mark 3 nau cal miles off North Head.

It was a rare sunny day with a gentle sea breeze.

An ebbing de made the Clyde River bar crossing a li le tricky. A couple of the boats engaged in some keel polishing on the way out. Race officer Terry Paton and his trusty sidekick Steve Masterton set an excellent start line. "Accolade" (Lachlan Brown) and "Hobo" (Peter Withington) started at the pin while the other 3 boats, "Moonmist" (Geoff Perrem), "Wishful Thinking" (Simon Dunlop) and "Xanthia" (James Gardiner) started at the boat end. "Accolade" led narrowly at the Tollgates mark then tacked on top of "Moonmist" to force her to tack away to the right hand side of the course. However, "Moonmist" was going faster upwind and was able to repay the favour close to the Waverider mark. "Wishful" took a good line into the top mark and assumed the lead, pulling away from "Moonmist" on the broad reach down to the Marine Park mark off Black Rock. "Moonmist" had set a rather small heavy weather spinnaker which also allowed "Accolade" past. The next leg was a fetch back around the seaward side of the Tollgate Islands before another broad reach back to the finish line off Caseys Beach. The "Xanthia" crew deployed her massive asymmetric spinnaker to good effect on the last leg to get past "Moonmist" and make up ground on "Accolade". "Wishful" had a clear win on line honours while on PHS it was the mighty "Xanthia" showing what a good light air boat she can be. In Division 2 "Hobo" scored a convincing victory. Full results are up on the BBSC website www.bbsc.org.au. The next BBSC keelboat race will be a Bay Cup race on March 26th.

A er weeks of rain mother nature honoured us with sunshine, warm water and great surf condi ons on Sunday the 13th of March for the second Dalmeny Boardriders compe on for 2022. There was excitement in the air with easing of COVID restric ons, as families waxed their boards and headed down to Kianga beach. There were bigger sets out wide for more experienced surfers and smaller running waves off the point for the enthusias c grommets. The highlight of the day was the Under 13 division. With 6 surfers in the water at once, a whopping total of 37 waves were caught in 20 minutes, with Asher Hoar catching wave of the day - a peeling right hander which he surfed with total commitment - comple ng over 5 manoeuvres from start to finish (with the hint of a sneaky barrel in the middle) - this wave scored a massive 9 points from the judging tent and many cheers from the onlookers! Winter Lange came a close second showing consistency and bucket loads of style on some of the bigger waves on offer. The Over 45 men had an entertaining final with Luke Waters naviga ng a few tricky waves to take out the win - a right hander which turned into a le hander and reformed into a right hander again had us all on the edge of our seats. FInal results: Under 13s - Asher Hoar Under 14 boys - Hamish White Under 18 boys - Ma Driscoll Over 45 men - Luke Waters Open men's - Ma Hoar Under 18 girls - Ali Guseli Open women - Alice Mood Longboards - Ma Hoar Out of the water we danced to some music, devoured some delicious homemade treats and a mouth-watering selec on of BBQ’d delights. If you're keen to see what we are all about and cheer on our athletes feel free to drop past and say hello! We usually hold compe ons on the first Sunday of every month (you can’t miss the banners and tents!) - if you like what you see you can become a social member or even a compe ve member of our vibrant and community oriented club! Ma Driscoll commi ng to the lip

The next genera on! Flinder Black, Asher Hoar, Abigail Black, Winter Lange, Ayla Hoar and Izzie Campbell in the under 13 division.

Ryan Smithers and Ric Guseli a er their ba le in the Over 45 men

sports Eurobodalla Tennis Ladies Competition

Another lovely day on the courts around the shire! The competition is going well and all divisions are experiencing great tennis. If you would like to get involved , either this comp or get your name down now for next comp, please give Kathie a call on 0466256228. In division 3 today Bay Breeze girls , Vicki , Jenny, Janine and reserve Cynthia just beat Moruya Swans Vicki, Pat, Roslyn and Pam by a few games! 4 sets 43 games to 4 sets 34 games. Broulee Brolgas Carmel, Kaeren, Sue and Mary had a real tussle against the Bay Seagirls Ellen, Liz , Mel and Marina. The final score was 7 sets 49 games to 1 set 33 games but, 3 of the sets had to go to 7 games!!!

In division 2 Flamingos Debbie, Cathy, Melissa and Jenny also had a very tight match against Tomakin’s Kath, Marlene, Janice and Rhonda. Flamingos won 4 sets 41 games to 4 sets 37 games. MORUYA Blues again showed their strength. Nicole, Bev Ange and Marilyn beat Tomkatz 7 sets 48 to 1 set 22 games. Bad luck Narelle, Jill, Kate and Lindy. When Blues are on fire they are pretty invincible. Narooma Gold and Bay Breakers rallied and rallied. 2 tie breaker sets. In the end , Gold’s Delma, Jenny, Paula and Robyn defeated Breakers Tanya, Vee, Lexie and Helen 5 sets 41 games to 3 sets 34 games.