The Goulburn Valley Playing Area\u2019s division one contenders will head into this weekend\u2019s showdown unbeaten, and based on the glittering form lines of each side, another memorable encounter could be on the cards.<\/p>\n
In round three, the Golfers came into Saturday\u2019s clash against East Shepparton with back-to-back 40-shot wins behind it, but East had more resistance up its sleeve.<\/p>\n
Golf\u2019s Brad Orr split the first rink with East Shepparton\u2019s Shane Holmes 21 apiece after a final-end three, but the ladder leaders had more luck on the other three with John Gribble (20-14), Alan Dove (22-16), and Kris Ferguson (19-18) conjuring another strong result for the blue and gold.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the latest in a string of early dominance for Shepparton Golf, and as a result they\u2019ll spend another week on top of the Matheson Shield ladder.<\/p>\n
But that billing will go on the line in round four against a Tallygaroopna squad hell-bent on keeping the pressure on.<\/p>\n
The reigning premiers had Shepparton Golf’s measure in the 2025-26 grand final and are once again among the division’s strongest contenders, also remaining undefeated after accounting for Euroa.<\/p>\n
Euroa skip Tony Kingma delivered a first-rink victory but the visitors were overpowered elsewhere around the greens, Geoff Franze\u2019s quartet delivering the Redleg\u2019s biggest win of the day in 16-shot result against Shane Drysdale.<\/p>\n
Mitch Sidebottom earned a two-shot win over Ken Sutcliffe on his return from Australian Championship duties, while Leigh Clark\u2019s four (24-15) rounded out a measured Tallygaroopna performance.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Shepparton Park made no mistake against Mooroopna, sweeping all rinks to record a commanding 30-shot victory.<\/p>\n
Ray Hill\u2019s four earned a 13-shot win while Ross Higgins (19-10), Shane Edwards (22-20), and Paul Nichols (25-19) sealed the 18-89 to 0-59 result.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Tatura Hill Top edged their way into the top four with a hard-fought five-shot victory over Seymour VRI.<\/p>\n
Brendan Challis (22-14) claimed Seymour\u2019s sole rink win but Bulldog skips Josh Warren (26-16), Brendan Boyd (21-20) and Jason Carter (22-20) were up for the challenge of spurring the side to a second win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Goulburn Valley Playing Area\u2019s division one contenders will head into this weekend\u2019s showdown unbeaten, and based on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-941133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}