Beaudesert ladies take home 2024 Ladies’ Pennant Award
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Beaudesert ladies take home 2024 Ladies’ Pennant Award

Beaudesert Bowls Club ladies have won the coveted 2024 Pennant Award against clubs from across the Gold Coast. Playing bowls at their home club and on the Gold Coast, each club competed with three teams of four players.  The Beaudesert ladies finished victorious after playing the runner up team from […]

Alfie Hughes
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Alfie’s Hole-in-One

ALFIE Hughes proved that age is just a number when he landed his first hole-in-one at eight years of age.  With six years of practice up his sleeve, Alfie is on his way to becoming a professional golfer.  On the afternoon of Saturday August 10, Alfie finished up his golf […]

Harrison Hine
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First-time minor premiers for U14 Kingies

Beaudesert Kingfishers U14 Division 1 boys have become first-time minor premiers after remaining top of the ladder, undefeated, throughout their whole season.  Coach Geoff Burr has moved on from Mustangs Brothers to coach his first season for Beaudesert Kingfishers and has since helped bring the U14s to the major finals.  […]

Tom Ferguson Tennis Shield Winners
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Locals ace the big guns

The Beaudesert Tennis Club has been competing in the inter-district Tom Ferguson Shield competition for more than 50 years and for the most part they have just made up the numbers only winning the shield twice. Now the engravers have been told to put the Beaudesert name once more on […]

Bdst vs Tam 13-14yrs
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PHOTOS: Beauy finishes carnival on top

BEAUDESERT was the overall winner of the annual Scenic Rim Netball Carnival which drew teams from Tamborine Mountain, Beechmont and Fassifern clubs to the Beaudesert home ground. Beaudesert and District Netball Association President, Susan Wynne said it was a great day. “It was so great to see all eight of […]

Marcus Heywood and Dylan Biggs. Image Scott and Chloe Davis Premier Boxing
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Biggs back in business

DYLAN Biggs is feeling stronger than ever after winning unanimously in what he described as his toughest battle yet against Marcus Heywood. The Beaudesert boxer won his July 20 comeback fight at Southport Sharks in front of a vocal crowd of family and friends, with plenty of locals also tuning […]

Jason Day
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Jason Day to tee off at Olympics

BEAUDESERT’S famous sporting son, Jason Day, will leave behind his regret from eight years ago when he turned down his chance to represent Australia at the Olympics when he tees off in the green and gold at the Paris Games. Day was ranked number one in 2016 when he decided […]

Madeline Frazer. Image supplied.
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Future footy star in the making

Madeline ‘Madi’ Frazer is kickstarting her rugby career at 15-years-old after being selected to play in the Titans Cup Grand Final for Keebra Park State High School. Keebra Park’s Year 9 /10 Division One girls team fought their way to the top of the ladder undefeated with an unfortunate ending […]

BDNA President Susan Wynne with volunteers repairing the netball grounds.
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Netball stomp

Over a dozen volunteers arrived with buckets, gloves and trowels for a Sunday soil stomp on the newly laid grass courts at the Beaudesert and Districts Netball Association.  The courts, financed by a $100,000 Gambling Community Benefit Fund grant, were still unused when a group of cows invaded, leaving the […]

Age champions from Rathdowney State School. Image supplied.
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Carnival brings schools together

The 68th annual Christmas Creek Valley Athletics Carnival saw students from Darlington, Hillview, Tamrookum and Rathdowney gather. The prestigious Christmas Creek Cup (awarded to the school with highest average number of points) went to Darlington State School, with the Dennis Shield (awarded to the school with the highest number of […]