There may be no senior women’s teams bearing the Maitland name in the top grade of major sporting codes next year.
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The departure of the Maitland Mustangs from the Waratah Championship League basketball court was the latest blow.
It will be the fourth time in seven seasons that Maitland haven’t fielded a team in the statewide competition.
The Maitland Blacks, Maitland Magpies and Maitland Strikers have been out of action for some time in terms of top grade teams in rugby union, football and hockey respectively.
This leaves the Maitland Pickers, but their fourth season in the Sydney Women’s Competition might be without founders Bec and Mick Young as captain and coach.
The remaining top flight options in the representative ranks are either Maitland Redbacks touch football or Maitland netball.
Outside of that are local competitions or across town with the Thornton Redbacks in the Women’s Premier League.
It was a double blow for Central North at the NSW Country Championships held at Ballina over the weekend.
Maitland all-rounder Lincoln Mills went down with a side strain after bowling just 3.3 overs on the opening day.
Mills was then joined by Hunter Valley teammate Joe Leighton, of Singleton, who suffered the same injury less than 10 minutes later.
Still on cricket and Western Suburbs first grade captain Tom Irwin may be seeking higher office and not necessarily in cricket circles.
Irwin has been down in Canberra completing the practical component of his teaching degree and was making the most of his time in the nation’s capital with a tourist visit to Parliament House.
There must be something in the water at Lorn.
Renowned more for its leafy streets than its beach culture, the suburb has produced an impressive surf lifesaving crew in recent times.
Lorn pair Claudia Yates and Georgia Holden will be part of the Hunter under-13 girls team at the NSW Interbranch Championships being held at Catherine Hill Bay next weekend.
Around the corner Andrew Lange has been a recipient of the state junior lifesaver of the year award.
Which Maitland couple turned Gary Harley from sports commentator to taxi driver at the Newcastle races on Saturday?
Numbers Game: 17 – the pick Black Hill’s Isaac Heeney will be for the Sydney Swans in the AFL draft at the Gold Coast on Thursday.
Moment That Mattered: East Maitland 16-year-old Newcastle Knights junior Daniel Ott, son of 2011 Pickers premiership-winning coach Trevor, scoring a prestigious scholarship with Opera Australia (check out the video on the Mercury website).
Quote: “It is more about the community than it is about the triathlon, this is about a good group of people,” Olympian Brendan Sexton about yesterday’s fund-raiser put on by Maitland Triathlon Club for his younger sister Mel, who is recovering from a bone marrow transplant after a five-month battle with leukaemia.