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

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.

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.

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.

Sydney Uni Wheelchair Flames star and Sydney University Elite Athlete Program (EAP) scholarship holder Sarah Stewart has helped the Australian women’s wheelchair team, the Gliders, to be crowned 2011 Asia Oceania champions, after winning their gold medal match in Goyang, South Korea last week.

Sydney University Elite Athlete Program (EAP) scholarship holder Phil Grenfell will join American continental team Competitive Cyclist Racing Team in 2012, with the 22-year-old doing enough to impress team manager Gordon Fraser in this year’s Australian National Road Series to seal the move to the professional ranks.

Karen Dalton of the Southern Design Sydney Uni Flames and Chris Lucas of the Townsville Fire have been named joint WNBL Coach of the Month Award winners for October, with voters unable to split the head coaches of the league’s only two undefeated sides of the first four rounds.

After starring in her side’s undefeated opening month of the season, Southern Design Sydney Uni Flames import Amy Denson has been awarded the WNBL Player of the Month for October.