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Distance runner Lara Tamsett and Australian Sevens captain Bernard Foley were named female and male Blues of the Year at the annual Sydney University Blues presentation held in the Great Hall on Saturday night.

The Sydney University Athletics Club (SUAC) continues to lead the Athletics NSW Open Age Pennant Competition after the completion of last weekend’s round at Campbelltown, marking the half way point of the competition.

The Southern Design Sydney Uni Flames will be looking to halt a two-game losing streak as they embark on the tough Bulleen-Dandenong road double this weekend.

Former Southern Design Sydney Uni Flame, Suzy Batkovic, came back to haunt the National Women’s Basketball League leaders at Sydney University Sports and Fitness Centre on Friday night, with a basket nine seconds from time sealing a 77-74 win for Adelaide Lightning.

Sydney University Athletics Club (SUAC) had yet another successful weekend, bringing home eight medals from the NSW State Relay Championships.

Astute scoreboard scrutineers will have noted that former Australian leg-spinner Stuart MacGill returned unannounced to the Sydney University Twenty20 ranks for their win over Fairfield-Liverpool on November 13.

Scoreboard is a wrap-up of the efforts of Sydney University athletes and teams through the past week, compiled by Graham Croker. Stories on some of the performances also appear in the News section.

The Southern Design Sydney Uni Flames suffered their first defeat of the 2011-12 Women’s National Basketball League season when they went down 74-72 to Logan Thunder in a thriller at the Sydney University Sports & Aquatic Centre on Friday night.

Not since John Langford (BE Civil, Honours, 1991) has there been a University of Sydney engineer representing the Wallabies, but Tom Kingston might soon change that.

The Sydney Uni Men’s handball team has qualified to be the Oceania representatives at the 2012 Superglobe tournament after winning the Region’s Club Championships in Tahiti last week.