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Strong individual and team performances at the weekend has filled coaches and supporters of Mackay women’s basketball with excitement as the team looks ahead to its first home game on Friday.
The Mackay Meteorettes suffered a close loss to Townsville on Friday night, but bounced back on Saturday with a dominant 42-point display over Cairns.
Meteorettes coach Scott McKenzie said the team was only going to get better.
“In that first game, our lack of preseason showed, it was the first time the group played on the floor together,” he said.
“We started well but lost our way, which is understandable.”
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Subscriber only POLICE have revealed more details about what happened at the top of Windin Falls that led to the death of a woman at the weekend as specialist crews attempt a highly complex retrieval. At about 1pm on Sunday the alarm was raised when a 58-year-old woman got into trouble and fell 50m from the top of the popular attraction on the Atherton Tablelands in the Wooroonooran National Park. Officer in charge of Atherton police station Kyell Palmer said the woman hiked 6km to the falls in a family party of four.
Windin Falls death: Body recovered by rescue helicopter
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UPDATE: The body of a woman killed in a 50m plummet from the top of Windin Falls on the Atherton Tablelands has been recovered by the Rescue 510 helicopter. On Sunday rescue crews were called to the remote waterfall attraction in the Wooroonooran National Park after a 58-year-old woman lost her footing and was swept over the falls by fast flowing water. The body of a 58-year-old woman has been recovered from the bottom of Windin Falls. Picture: Brendan Radke The location of her body was pinpointed by the rescue helicopter late Sunday and about 12pm on Monday, in a complex mission lasting almost two hours, her body was flown back to Cairns on-board the Rescue 510 helicopter.
Coroner rules on fate of man who disappeared on road trip A coroner has ruled out foul play in the disappearance of a 22-year-old man who walked into the bush near Charters Towers.
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Subscriber only A CORONER has ruled out foul play in the disappearance of Jayden Penno-Tompsett and found he likely died due to exposure to the elements in remote bushland during a drug-fuelled road trip to Cairns. The 22-year-old was travelling from Newcastle with a friend Lucas Tattersall to celebrate New Year s Eve in December 2017 and the pair took drugs throughout the trip before Mr Penno-Tompsett was last seen early on December 31 near Charters Towers.