City of Whitehorse takes Grade 2 at Victorian Champs

Geelong, Australia – March 1, 2015 – Only seven months after its first practice, the Grade 2 City of Whitehorse Pipe Band of Melbourne, Australia, won its third straight contest, the Victorian Championships at the Waurn Ponds Campus at Deakin University. The band competed against the far more established Hawthorn Pipe Band, also of Melbourne, which won the event in 2014. Built from the remains of the dormant Grade 1 Nunawading / Australia Highlanders Pipe Band, Whitehorse plans to compete in Grade 2 at the 2016 World Pipe Band Championships.

Grade 1 (one played)
1st Moorabin

Grade 2 (two competed)
1st City of Whitehorse
2nd Hawthorn

Grade 3 (four competed)
1st Scotch College Melbourne
2nd Victoria Scottish
3rd Melbourne #1
4th Warrnambool & District

Grade 4 (eight competed)
1st Haileybury
2nd Scots School Albury
3rd Golden City Bendigo

Juvenile (four competed)
1st Scotch College Melbourne
2nd Haileybury
3rd Scots School Albury