That said, organiser Janine Ricketts said she was aware that former Harden High student Mikayla Johnston was lining up again this year with a team, the Beach Bogans.

An estimated 600 visitors from throughout NSW and the ACT have already booked out most accommodation, while a further 800 locals will be participating as players or spectators.

Yesterday Cootamundra-Gundagai council was trucking in around 700 tonnes of sand - a special kind of sand similar to brickies loam - to be spread over the road way for the events.

As in last year, there will be eight courts in use, consisting of two permanent courts next to the swimming pool and six temporary courts in the sand along the street, with council workers putting up the grandstands along one side.

Registrations have fallen just short of last year's record of 128 teams, each of six players on court plus reserves.

It's very much a mixed event, with each team of six required to have no more than three males on court at any given time.

Every team will play three games on Saturday, and will also have umpiring duties.

All players must play at least three games on the Saturday to qualify to play on Sunday.

This will be the event's 20^th year. Over the two decades during it has grown to become one of the premier events in the Riverina.

The council trucked in sand from a storage location near the racecourse, while further sand was trucked in by James Graham from a quarry near Jugiong to make up for the sand that got lost in transition from last year.

The spreading of the sand and preparation of the courts was done by Fallon's Excavations.

The company uses two large earthmoving machines, a Caterpillar front end loader and a John Deer loader with a land leveller, to create the "beach".