THE only local game of the Western Victoria Female Football League will be played at Hanlon Park on Sunday with Portland’s under-18 youth girls team taking the field against South Warrnambool.

MANY older readers will have memories (either fond or otherwise) of a hit song from 1988 by UK artist Yazz, ‘The only way is up’, which may well be the theme song for the Hamilton Kangaroos as they battle ladder leaders South Warrnambool at Melville Oval today.

THE Cats had a tough day out on the courts on Saturday, South Gambier throwing up some tough challenges and the heavens opening regularly.

PENSHURST travels to Mininera Recreation Reserve, knowing that it must defeat SMW Rovers to stay within touching distance of the top five today.

ROUND five of the South West District Football League’s 2023 season will be played tomorrow, and this year’s campaign is beginning to take shape.

WITH the Melville Oval redevelopment still yet to get underway, safety concerns have forced the Hamilton Kangaroos to move netball fixtures to Pedrina Park immediately.

COMING off a good win over East and playing at home on Island Park, the Casterton Sandford Cats would have been brimming with confidence.

IN a move which is set to have major implications at Portland Football Netball Club, senior football coach Jarrod Holt and club president Troy Bannam have both announced their decisions to step down from their positions at the end of the 2023 Hampden League season.

HAWKESDALE-MACARTHUR has come from behind to defeat Woorndoo-Mortlake at Woorndoo Recreation Reserve, 35-31, keeping its undefeated start to the Mininera and District Netball Association season intact on Saturday

IT was a bottom two battle that went right down to the wire, as the Hamilton Kangaroos hosted Port Fairy at Melville in a Hampden Football Netball League game which delivered for the crowd.