Filthy Fifths in High Spirit

Brisbane-based cricket team, The Filthy Fifths, don’t have a 2012 Pan Pacific Masters Games (3 – 11 November) victory under their belts yet, but they are a colourful team of characters. Their captain, Antone Sanders or ‘The Colonel’, was labeled …


16,000 kilometres for a piece of gold

Before Mike Forder sat on his ergo at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre today in the indoor rowing competition he had already won the title for being the participant who had travelled the furthest distance to take part …


Cricket Connoisseurs at the Pan Pacific Masters Games

It’s said that behind every great man there’s a great woman and Amanda Russell is the prized possession of the Border Bushrangers Cricket team at the Pan Pacific Masters Games (3 – 11 November). The team from Warwick is made …


Forces clash on the hockey field

Rock solid defence was everywhere at the Labrador hockey fields when police officers and players from the Australian Defence Force met at the Pan Pacific Masters Games (3 – 11 November) on Wednesday. Denis Paice, 45, was preparing for the …


Former softballers bowled over by name change

Geelong’s Soft Bowlers have been renamed The Virgins by their fellow competitors at the Pan Pacific Masters Games lawn bowls competition at the Southport Bowls Club. Former Masters softball teammates Jan Crotty, Wendy Gray, Sheryl Gray (no relation) and Kaye …


Big Feat full of the Wright stuff

“Sometimes you play with your brain, sometimes you play with your body. Sometimes you play with both.” That was how former NBL coach Joey Wright breathlessly explained the sport of basketball after starring for his 40-45 division team Big Feat …


No lack of cheer for indoor netball’s Kerr

Gold Coast Redbacks indoor netball player Gabby Kerr, 34, has her own cheer squad at the 2012 Pan Pacific Masters Games. Her daughters, Summer, 2, and Reese, 5, have been ever-present at this week’s matches, proudly decked out in Redbacks …


Guam baseballer shows off his lethal arm

Despite living more than 4,000 kilometres from Australia, John Halloran from the small island of Guam has not missed a Pan Pacific Masters Games (3 – 11 November) and was once again pitching at the Surfers Paradise Baseball Club today. …


Who’s on first? Commonwealth Games boss!

After hitting the Gold Coast’s 2018 Commonwealth Games bid for a home-run last year, the CEO of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation Mark Peters has focused his attention on hitting his own on the Surfers Paradise Baseball Club …


Queen Bees buzzing in softball

About 200 softball players and coaches were recognised for participating in their fifth consecutive Pan Pacific Masters Games (from 2004-2012) today at Pizzey Park on the Gold Coast. Amongst these players were softball’s latest buzz, The Queen Bees of Sydney …