Olympic Games hockey may be flooding our television screens, but Mooroopna is still the Goulburn Valley’s premier hockey team.
In round 15 of the Women’s Vic League Two hockey, Mooroopna battled North West Lightning at Shepparton Regional Hockey Complex on Sunday.
The match was as tight as it could be, with neither North East nor Mooroopna able to break away from the other.
For Mooroopna, Alicia Cornelius and Kirrilly Gollan scored for the home side.
In the end, the two sides could not be split, and the match ended in a 2-2 draw.
The two teams have played each other three times this season and their records are now evenly split: each team has registered one win, one loss and one draw.
Three rounds remain in the Women’s Vic League Two season, with Mooroopna currently in fourth place on the ladder — four wins ahead of fifth-placed Gippsland and three wins behind third-placed North West.
Mooroopna’s Kim Starkey leads her side for scoring in 2024 and ranks ninth in the league with 10 goals for the season.
The Goulburn Valley side’s three remaining matches are against Gippsland, sixth-placed Melton and second-placed Werribee.
In the Goulburn Valley Hockey Association’s A-grade women’s competition, Shepparton Youth Club defeated Benalla 3-1 on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Echuca-Moama beat Euroa 3-0 at home.
Strikers had a bye.
Echuca-Moama comfortably sits on top of the ladder with 10 wins from 10 games.
Strikers are second with seven wins, while Euroa, Shepparton Youth Club and Benalla all have two wins for the season.
In the A-grade men’s competition, four rounds remain before finals.
Shepparton Youth Club sits in first place with six wins, closely followed by Strikers (five wins) and Echuca-Moama (four).
Mooroopna rounds out the bottom of the ladder in fourth.