While Upper Murray league football seems to be slowly declining, the netball competition appears to be a different story.
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All six clubs in the league have filled A, B, and C grade with teams, while Border Walwa is without D grade representation.
It's Cudgewa's A-grade side that has bolted out of the blocks strong this season after taking out the premiership last year, while Federal sits just behind.
Blues goal shooter Sophie Greenhill has been involved with Upper Murray league netball since her junior playing days, starting out at Walwa.
After a stint over in the Ovens and Murray, Greenhill was lured back to the league seeking the country feel that it provides.
Greenhill said Upper Murray netball is still remaining competitive despite the situation some of the clubs are facing out on the footy field.
"With the footy slowly going downhill, with reserve teams not being filled and senior teams losing by big margins, I think the netball definitely doesn't have that big of a gap," Greenhill said.
"I know that it does have a massive impact when there's a good football team as to whether you can fill netball teams, because it makes clubs more attractive.
"But at the same time, we have some really successful netball teams.
"It's the whole country footy and netball thing that everyone talks about, it's a different feel to anything else."
Cudgewa have produced two wins this season with their final score sitting at 80 goals or more.
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They achieved this is in their clashes against Walwa and Corryong.
The Blues have maintained majority of the same players this season as last, with a couple of new faces also around the team.
"We've had a bit of a surprising start to the season," Greenhill said.
"It definitely helps that we've got most of last year's team to keep it flowing from the year before.
"I think we were quite surprised that we beat Bullioh by as much as we did because they were really competitive last year."
Border Walwa's A-grade side is still searching for their first win this season, while the trend seems to be stemming down through the grades.
Their B-grade side is the only team to rack up a win so far.
But there looks to be promising signs stemming from the clubs juniors for the future, with their under-15's sitting on top of the ladder after five wins from five rounds.
"When I played there (Walwa) in 2014, we won the premiership and since then it's been dropping off a bit," Greenhill said.
"But it's still a fairly competitive competition."
Round six of the Upper Murray competition this weekend will see Border Walwa take on Federal, Corryong face Tumbarumba, while Cudgewa are set to play Bullioh.
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