Polocrosse season in full swing

17th Jun 2025

Guyra Polocrosse Club had members kicked off their season in January at the “Berragoon Anual Production Sale”. The week was full of polocrosse and campdrafting.
The 2025 Club season was to start with the Inverell carnival, unfortunately due to wet weather it was called off. The following weekend was Guyra’s home carnival which was also called off due to wet weather.
Walcha had more luck though with a great weekend to start the club season off. Guyra came away with A grade runners up and also B grade winners.
Guyra also had Sub juniors playing at Sydney show - Grace Schaeffer, Angus Falconer and Pat Bourke rode at Sydney Show in the Sub Junior exhibition competition. Pat and Grace’s team won three out of four games and Pat was awarded Best No. 1.
The weekend to follow was the Albury carnival. Guyra had members playing in the Silver Stirrup, Silver Spur and Bronze bit. Guyra had junior club members playing for NSW in the under 16 and under 12 competitions. Albury
results for Guyra Players:
• NSW Sub Junior 2 with Dion, Grace, Gus and Pat came 3rd overall, going down by 1 goal to WA in a semi-final.
• NSW 1 Juniors with Anna Benson unfortunately lost their semi-final. Anna was awarded player of the NSW/VIC game.
• NSW 3 Juniors with Josh Bourke won division 2. Josh was awarded Best ASH Male Rider.
• Carlie Grills team won the Silver Stirrup.
• Abbott Grills team won the Silver Spur with him winning best player.
• Steph Cochrane’s team won the Bronze Bit with her taking home Best no.3.
Warwick Polocrosse “Barastoc Series” was next up with plenty of NSW representation from the Guyra club.
• NSW Junior Girls (Anna Benson) - Runners-up
• NSW Junior Boys (Josh Bourke) - Winners
• NSW Under 26 Men’s (Tim Finlayson) Runners-Up
• NSW Open Women’s (Abby Finlayson) Winners
• NSW Open Men’s (Abbott Grills) Runners-Up
• NSW Masters (Matt Grills) Winners.
• Champion Player in Barastoc Series - Abbott Grills.
Guyra’s most recent carnival, Bunnan, held at Muswellbrook was a huge success for the club
• Sub juniors runners up, Dion best number 1, Angus Falconer best number 2, Dion Champion sub junior player.
• Guyra 2- E grade winners Best number 1 -Josh Bourke Best number 2- Will Schaefer Best number 3 - Max Schaefer
• A grade Women Winners Best number 1 Carlie Grills, Best number 3 Steph Cochrane,
• Abbott won A grade open - best number 3.
• Matt Grills played in the Masters competition and his team won their division. We are just over half way through the season with plenty more polocrosse ahead of us.
Ella Waugh

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