HAMILTON KANGAROOS Open netball team fell at the first hurdle of the Hampden Football Netball League finals, going down to Warrnambool in the elimination final at Hanlon Park on Sunday.

AS the AFL enters its pre-finals bye and community hits finals head on, the AFLW season gets started this weekend with Cavendish export, Emma Kearney, and Branxholme’s Georgia Clarke set to take to the field once again.

HAWKESDALE-MACARTHUR will have the entire off-season to think about what might have been after being defeated in a shock loss to Woorndoo-Mortlake in the Mininera and District Netball Association A grade elimination final at Derrinallum Recreation Reserve on Sunday, 31-35.

GLENTHOMPSON-DUNKELD has let its finals opportunity slip away against Woorndoo-Mortlake through poor kicking for goal, as the Tigers advanced to the Mininera and District Football League preliminary final with a 9.15 (69) – 5.12 (42) victory.

HAMILTON Kangaroos bounced into the Hampden Football Netball League Open grade finals with a commanding 65-47 defeat of Terang-Mortlake at Terang Recreation Reserve on Saturday.

HARROW-BALMORAL Football Netball Club (HBFNC) has announced it has re-signed Jai Thompson as senior football coach for the 2024 Horsham and District Football Netball League season after a successful first year in charge of the Southern Roos in 2023.

WITH the first round of finals action in the books for the South West District Football League, attention now turns to semi-finals action tomorrow and Sunday, and with a grand final spot up for grabs it’s sure to be a hotly contested weekend of football.

HAMILTON Kangaroos sit just outside the top five on the Hampden Football Netball League Open premiership ladder in sixth place, with the Roos on the road to Terang Recreation Reserve to try and grab fifth position today.

GLENTHOMPSON-DUNKELD must carry belief into the Mininera and District Football League first semi-final against Woorndoo-Mortlake at Derrinallum Recreation Reserve tomorrow, otherwise the Rams will suffer a mauling at the hands of the Tigers.

GLENTHOMPSON-DUNKELD has ended Penshurst’s season with an emphatic victory in the Mininera and District Football League (MDFL) elimination final at Lake Bolac Recreation Reserve on Sunday, 11.13 (79) – 5.9 (39).