CLUBS have crowned their award seasons following the 2024 season.

NINE local athletes will be showcasing their skills this week in Ballarat at the annual Basketball Victoria Gold Nugget camp, where the best 240 Under-14 players from across the state all converge on the gold mining town hoping to be ‘found’.

WARRNAMBOOL trainer, Symon Wilde, added another country cup to his bulging resume, courtesy of a narrow win by Spare Coin in Friday’s $50,000 Coleraine Cup.

CASTERTON DISTRICT enters the 2024-25 Hamilton and District Cricket Association A grade season knowing that it let a huge opportunity to win its first Dundas Cup last summer slip by.

IT was four years ago that Hamilton’s Abbey Sutherland made the move to America to attend and play college basketball with Houston Christian University, but the talented athlete is now back on Australian soil and loved her time playing with Melbourne Tigers in the NBL1 South competition.

THE Greater Western Victoria Rebels fell just short of the ultimate prize in the V/Line Cup, falling to Geelong Falcons by 12 points in the Under-15 Boys Division 2 grand final on Wednesday.

IT is a sacrifice Michael Close is willing to make, leaving Harrow-Balmoral’s end of season footy trip to Brisbane a day early to support former teammates in today’s AFL Grand Final.

THE Hamilton Hurricanes are gearing up for another Country Basketball League (CBL) campaign in the South West Men’s conference, which gets underway next weekend.

THE men played the first round of the Rountree Hyslop Cup 4BBB par and it was great to see two father and son combinations winning and finishing runner-up on Saturday.

Hamilton Kangaroos hosted their award winners for the 2024 Hampden Football Netball League season at the annual presentation dinner last night.