HAMILTON Kangaroos enter the 2023 Hampden Football Netball League finals series with the aim of winning the club’s first Open netball grade premiership.

PLAYERS are making a welcome return to the Hamilton Golf Club course after what has been another wet winter.

POPPY Austin has joined the ranks of the district’s elite champion sports people, winning the Australian Under-20 Female Cross Country Championship at Stromlo Forrest Park in the ACT last weekend.

PORTLAND’S division one and two netballers are the only sides remaining to represent the club with Hampden finals now upon us, with both teams in with a great chance of victory on the weekend.

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.

SATURDAY’S 18-hole stableford event held a new challenge for members, playing the new reversal holes seven and eight, which caused some frustration among some golfers.

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.

HAMILTON has a new national champion in its midst, with Emily Iredell grabbing a gold medal as part of the School Sports Victoria Under-12 basketball team at the national championships in Perth last week

CAVENDISH has kept its season alive after defeating Coleraine on Sunday in the South West District Netball League’s first semi-final, 45-38.