Apart from Ashley Noffke, it has been a month of positive news for the Sunshine Coast’s highest-profile sporting names.

I’ll get to Noffke, and his bizarre treatment by the Australian cricket selectors, after dosing up on the good stuff.

Katherine Hull started a wave of success by beating one of the best fields in women’s golf, including world No.1 Lorena Ochoa, to claim her first win on the US LPGA Tour at the Canadian Open – the best victory by a Coast golfer since Ian Baker-Finch’s British Open triumph.

She followed up with a tie for fourth in her next event and, heading into the final round this morning, was second in the Bell Micro Classic in Alabama.

The only down side – somehow her victory in Canada didn’t earn her even a share of the August Sunshine Coast Sports Star of the Year award which went to Olympic medalist Melanie Schlanger.

Sarah-Jane Kenyon last week clinched the end-of-season event on the secondary Futures Tour to earn full-time status on the LPGA Tour, making the Coast, by my reckoning, the only city in the country to boast two players on the No.1 tour.

In rugby league, Chris Flannery won the Challenge Cup with St Helens in England, while Ben Ross (Cronulla) and Joel Moon (Brisbane) have had wins to start the NRL finals series.

Warriors-bound Moon is enjoying his best run of form for the Broncos and maybe it’s because Wayne Bennett has named him in the same position for six games in a row.

He’s scored three tries in the centres during that run to give him seven tries in 18 games for the season, showing that he really is an NRL calibre player.

Ross, who has only missed one match since returning from suspension in round 11, was outstanding in the first 20 minutes for the Sharks against the Raiders on Saturday night (a season-high 20 hit-ups for 202 metres) and could yet feature in another NRL grand final.

Throw in AFL debuts for Rhys Magin (Essendon) and Sam Reid (Western Bulldogs) and MotoGP rider Chris Vermeulen signing on for another year with Suzuki, and that’s a very good month for a city of 250,000 or so.

And so to Noffke, who again seems to have fallen down the pecking order of Australian fast bowlers after missing out on being selected in the squad for the tour of India.

Last summer, when the Sunshine Coast Scorcher was in brilliant form with bat and ball for Queensland, Bulls captain Jimmy Maher said it was inevitable his teammate would play Test cricket.

I wonder if Maher feels the same way now.

In April, after being a runaway winner of the State Cricketer of the Year Award, Noffke regained his Cricket Australia contract – there’s 25 of them given out – and was named in the squad to tour the West Indies.

Although he didn’t want to be in the Caribbean just to make up the numbers, Noffke didn’t get to bowl a delivery in a competitive match before his tour ended.

The all-rounder’s been on Australia A’s tour of India this month and took 1-67 in the one innings when he had a chance to impress in the two three-day matches.

On Friday, the Australian selectors went for Doug Bollinger and Peter Siddle, who five months ago wasn’t included on the contracted players list, to play against India in the upcoming four-match series.

Maybe the only chance “Noffers” has of playing a Test this summer is if the Aussies get towelled up in India, or the pacemen cop a string of injuries.

It shouldn’t be that way.