Merimbula News journalist Denise Dion has secured a haul of medals at the Masters Games in Adelaide.
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Dion scored a silver medal in the mixed doubles tennis alongside Barossa Valley player Graham Smith, while going one better to secure a gold-medal finish in the ladies combined age doubles with Sally Bowes out of Hobart.
After some fantastic rounds of play where Dion said the two teams had "played out of our skin" it was only a tie-breaker that kept them from double gold.
"In the mixed we were pipped to gold by our only loss in a tie-breaker," Dion said.
However, the top finish in the ladies doubles came on the back of a dominant clean sweep of matches with the results 6-0, 6-0, 6-3 and 6-2.
The medals for the local extended beyond the tennis court as well with Dion serving as the team manager of a combined Southern Warriors dragon boating outfit.
"It's a combined team stretching from Illawarra to Merimbula where we managed just two combined training sessions at Moruya prior to the games," Dion said with a laugh.
"In total 22 paddlers were in the Southern Warriors [team] taking part in 11 races each."
There were three heats in each event with the dragon boating tested across short sprint distances of 200 metres with the results based on the best two times.
"The Senior B ladies produced a bronze winning performance against competition from all over the country," Dion beamed.
"It was particularly pleasing because of the 10 paddlers, the majority were racing in a younger category, which illustrated how the ladies from along the coast blended to become a cohesive team."
Dion said it was a real thrill given the strong competition with more than 20 teams entered from around the country.
Dion also praised organisers after being able to contest both the tennis and the dragon boating in a tightly packed schedule.
Officials said 51 individual sports were covered in the five-days of competition with almost 8000 entrants taking part across the week.
Organisers said there were enormous benefits to sport and, as such, the Games were made to be welcoming with the only limitation being that all competitors are over 30.
Much like the Commonwealth or Olympic Games, organisers said the week is just as social as it is about sporting achievements.
All the competitors were treated to an opening and closing ceremony and other social activities through the week with a major highlight being a mid-week party for the masses of competitors.