Sports reports: Aaron Zrim takes home golf club championship title
Plus the latest scores in rifle shooting, soccer, and River Murray netball and football
This post includes contributions from Michael Potts and Daniel Irvine.
Aaron Zrim lands second Club Championship title
Local golfer Aaron Zrim scored a crushing 11 and 9 victory over last years winner Mark Bolton in a one sided play off final on Sunday.
It gave Zrim his second title after his 2022 triumph.
The monstrous hitting electrician flew out of the blocks to be three under the card and five holes up after just seven holes.
Slipping further behind though the ex club president showed plenty of fight by winning the 16th.
Bolton almost aced the par three 17th for a gimme birdie that saw the margin cut back to five again providing a glimmer of hope.
Zrim, however, won the 18th and enjoyed the lunch break at an imposing 6 up before then giving nothing away on the second round.
Hitting long and straight, he finally triumphed on the 9th hole, fittingly, with a birdie to claim the cup.
Jones outlasts Schmidt for B grade honours
The sometimes misunderstood Conythe Jones got full value from his unusual hitting style to snare the B grade cup after taking out Greg Schmidt six and four.
A one handicapper back in his heyday the chatty Jones fought off recent injuries to use his classy short game to quell the bigger hitting Schmidt.
Six up at halfway was narrowed back to just two as the big left hander made his move on the second round.
Refusing to panic however the little maestro settled to slip away again and claim victory on the 14th hole.
C grade play off
Twelve months ago larger than life club legend Graham Edwards celebrated beating Deane Pannell five and four in the C grade play off final.
Fast forward one year and these same two golfers were matched up again.
That's unusual enough but for the result this time to be five and four to Pannell is downright spooky.
That's what happened though as the jovial former horse trainer won the first hole.
He didn't look back from there chipping in a couple of times and having a few slices of luck when out in the scrub which never goes astray.
Edwards just couldn't get his putter to do the right thing for most of the round and was forced to shake hands and concede defeat to the better player on the day on the 14th green.
Third stage commences for the No. 2 District Rifle Association Championship
Favourable conditions produced some good scores at the Murray Bridge Rifle Club this past Saturday.
Six possibles were shot on the day, four in Target Rifle and two in F-Class.
After the first round of TR, Rob Paech (50.08), Jazz Irvine (50.07), Graham Hancock (50.06), and Greg Traeger (50.05) were in tight competition.
Centres separated Rob (49.05) and Graham (49.03) in second round and consequently overall, with Rob winning 99.13 to 99.09.
Scores were not quite so close in F-Standard, where a possible 60.03 from Richard McInnes gave him an early lead.
Gordon Harrison (56.02) and Eddie Concannon (58.04) made a valiant attempt to catch up in the second round.
It was not enough to catch Mr McInnes who won (118.06), climbing 4 points clear of Darryl Pink in the F-Standard overall standings.
In F-Open, John Cranwell also started strongly with a 60.07.
He followed this with 58.03 in the second round to finish on 118.10, two points clear of next best Adrian Conlon (116.10).
John also secured top spot in the standings by 4 points.
The vital final stage of competition will be held at the Mount Barker range in August.
Murray Bridge United suffers massive defeat
One Tree Hill 7 beat Murray Bridge United 1
Mannum just get tip over Mypo in round seven
Southern Suns 84 defeated ramblers 29
Coorong Cats 37 lost to Mallee Storm 59
Mannum 48 defeated Mypolonga 47
Tailem Bend 41 lost to Jervois 47
Coorong Cats League 100 point win
Southern Mallee 18.18 (126) defeated Ramblers 8.7 (55)
- Suns best: Rory O’Driscoll, Josh Smithson, Thomas Keough, Nick Hyde, Declan Gladigau
- Ramblers best: Oscar Merrett, Malakai Kartinyeri, Kye Roberts, Jack Lewis, Malik Edwards, Alex Pfeiffer
Coorong Cats 18.20 (128) defeated Mallee Storm 4.4 (28)
- Cats best: James Hargreaves, Alexander Stidiford, Brodie Martin, Henry Turner, Darcy Connor, Brad Thompson
- Storm best: Tom Jones, Elliott Wegner, Moxon Kelly, Jack Clements, Harry Snodgrass, Matthew Perkins
Mannum 8.10 (58) lost to Mypolonga 9.10 (64)
Mannum best: Patrick Fahey, Levi Krause, Michael O’Malley, Jake Keller, Kobee Dabinett
Mypo best: Clark Stegmeyer, Bodi Stewart, Riley Robinson, Jack Wilkins, Lochlan Gotch
Tailem Bend 12.7 (79) lost to Jervois 13.11 (89)
- Tailem best: Thomas Mickan, Nick Westhoff, Jaden Ward, Cooper Lambert, Jacob Wilson
- Jervois best: Luke Kluske, Bienfait Bigazi, Noah Attrill-Podirsky, Ryan Mckaye, Bradley Gabell
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