Pioneer leaves club with top honour
August 18, 2010
Andrew Rice will depart from the Castec Rural Mount Gambier Pioneers on a high, named the Allan Scott Medallist at the basketball club’s medal count on Friday night.
Just under 100 guests packed in to the Commodore on the Park function room to witness the count which saw Rice’s dominant season rewarded with the club’s most valuable player award. Read more
Rice signs off
August 12, 2010
RETIRING Pioneer basket-baller Andrew Rice, will carry the weight of favouritism in this Friday’s vote count for the Allan Scott Memorial Best and Fairest Medal.
Rice has announced his intentions of returning to Canberra over the 2010-11 off season in the South East Australian Basketball League. Read more
Russell bows out as Pioneers go down
August 5, 2010
Kurt Russell’s decorated South East Australian Basketball League career failed to produce a fairytale finish as the Castec Rural Mount Gambier Pioneers went down to competition heavy-weight Bendigo by eight points on Friday night.
An appreciative crowd filled the Icehouse to witness Russell’s final game and were treated to a promising opening quarter from the Pioneers who no doubt wanted to make the night a special one for their friend and teammate. Read more
Pioneers stalwart lines up for final game
July 29, 2010
The Castec Rural Mount Gambier Pioneers will farewell a club stalwart on Friday night as Kurt Russell plays his final South East Australian Basketball League game, but his absence from the club will be short lived.
The 203 game veteran will take a step back from the sport in 2011 before returning to the Pioneers in 2012 where he will begin his coaching off-court career as an assistant to head coach Andrew Summerville, who will by then be in his third year at the Pioneers. Read more
Pioneers overrun Brisbane
July 21, 2010
A DETERMINED Castec Rural Mount Gambier Pioneers squad has defeated Brisbane for the first time in its South East Australian Basketball League history in a thriller at the Icehouse on Friday. Read more
Pioneers come out strongly
July 1, 2010
A collective sigh of relief would have left the Castec Rural Mount Gambier Pioneers camp on Friday night after an 11 point win over the Ballarat Miners in round 15 of the South East Australian Basketball League 2010 season.
Having spent the past four weeks enduring loss after loss, the win will give the Pioneers the chance to build its confidence and finish the season strongly despite having little chance of making the playoffs. Read more
Pioneers face tough run to finals
June 17, 2010
It was always going to be a tough ask for the Castec Rural Mount Gambier Pioneers in the second half of the 2010 South East Australian Basketball League season, but last weekend has really hit home just how hard the run to the playoffs is going to be.
The Pioneers registered its third and fourth consecutive losses over the weekend, going down to Nunawading and Kilsyth in away matches.
Destiny in Pioneers’ hands
June 3, 2010
The charge to the South East Australian Basketball League finals by the Castec Rural Mount Gambier Pioneers has lifted in tempo in recent weeks, despite last Sunday’s away loss to Dandenong.
Prior to that, the Pioneers had stretched a five game winning streak together, dating back to a double road trip to Tasmania on May 7 – 8 when in sucecssive nights they beat Hobart and the North-West Thunder. Read more
Three on the trot for Pioneers
May 19, 2010
A FORTNIGHT is a long time in basketball – well at least it is for the Castec Rural Mount Gambier Pioneers.
Three wins over the past two weekends, including a four point win over the Australian Institute of Sport last Friday night at the Icehouse, has put the Pioneers on a potential season changing streak. Read more
Pioneers claim Tasmanian double
May 13, 2010
The Castec Rural Mount Gambier Pioneers have returned across Bass Strait after doing the unthinkable, registering two wins against its Tasmanian rivals.
Opening the weekend with a 10 point victory over Hobart on Friday night, the Pioneers backed up its performance with a six point win over North West Tasmania the following. Read more
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