Stars vie for Sports Star award

SEVERAL previous monthly winners are among the November contenders for the Bendigo Advertiser-WIN Television Sports Star of the Year award.The judging panel for the mecu credit union-sponsored awards will meet today at WIN Television.Previous winners who starred throughout November included boxer Jared Kum Too, BMX ace Jaclyn Wilson and top jockey Brad Rawiller.A Cyril Michelsen Trust Fund recipient in Sports Star, Jared Kum Too capped his comeback to boxing by winning the 63kg senior final at the Australian Boxing League national titles in Tasmania.Now based in Broome, Kum Too returned to his old hometown to prepare for the showdown in sessions with trainer Frank Pianto and Rochester boxer Xavier Leahy.Kum Too scored a unaminous points decision in the title fight.A Victorian junior champion in the 67kg class, Leahy stepped up to seniors and earned a silver medal after a second-round TKO in the semi-final.Wedderburn rally ace Brendan Reeves is warming up for his first year in the World Rally Championship.Reeves will team with his older sister Rhiannon Smyth to contest the newly developed World Rally Championship Academy Series.Reeves is one of six Pirelli Star Drivers selected from around the world in a field of 24 drivers aged under 25 in the academy vying for the top of the podium. On the BMX track, Jaclyn Wilson won the 30-34 years division at the Victorian titles in Frankston.Wilson was champion of the 30-34 women’s cruiser division, second in the elite women and third in the Pro women’s division at Frankston.Bendigo Bank Spirit guard Tess Madgen earned her second Player of the Week award after starring in the Women’s National Basketball League wins against West Coast Waves and Adelaide Lightning.Peta Mullens won the women’s criterium at the Noosa Cycling Grand Prix ahead of Commonwealth Games gold medallist Rochelle Gilmore.Baseball ace Josh Davies took to the diamond for Melbourne Aces in the Australian Baseball League.A star on the pitching and batting front for Strathfieldsaye Dodgers, Davies and his Aces teammates began the national league campaign against Adelaide Bite.Bendigo long-range shooter Bill Siegloff won the F-Class at the Victorian Long Range Championships for the second year in a row. Siegloff has won five state titles in the past 12 months and is eyeing the national championships in January in Tasmania.The Bendigo BMX Club broke an 11-year drought by winning the relay event at the Victorian Interclub Challenge on Frankston’s track. Pro-rider Brock Tuckerman teamed with top juniors Matt White, 12, Jacob Jones, 16, and Jordan Dole, 15, to win the four-rider race.Top jockey Brad Rawiller added a Kyneton Cup to his long list of racing achievements as Red Buttons beat local hope Hawks Bay. Rawiller’s first Kyneton Cup win came after an impressive fifth-place in the Melbourne Cup aboard Harris Tweed. Golden Square won a hard-fought battle with KAFO to be the women’s division one champion at the Dragon City volleyball tournament in Bendigo.Bendigo kart driver Daniel Valentini achieved a first and second in the Junior Clubman and Junior National Heavy Classes at fourth round of the Golden City Power Series on Bendigo’s track.Philip Websdale won an unprecedented 15th A-grade singles title in the Eaglehawk-Bendigo Table Tennis Association championships.Websdale achieved a seven-set win against brilliant teenager Nathan Van der Heiden.Already in the running for the 2010-11 award, Hannah Every-Hall and Shayann Stuart starred at international meets.Every-Hall teamed with Alice McNamara to be fourth in the lightweight double sculls at the world rowing championships in New Zealand. Stuart won bronze in the senior women’s class at the Oceania World Cup judo showdown in Samoa.