HAWKESDALE-MACARTHUR’s A grade netball squad will fly in a new direction under new co-coaches next season, as Sarah Jacobs and Josie Barker look to help the Eagles look to hunt down a premiership in the Mininera and District Netball Association.

HAMILTON Basketball Association (HBA) will stage its annual junior tournament this weekend with a record 87 teams descending on Hamilton to get the squad season underway for 2022-23.

IT is set to be the biggest night of Jayden Riddle’s professional boxing career, getting in the ring as part of tonight’s event in Newcastle.

ONE of the smallest fields in recent history will contest today’s Hamilton Cup at the Hamilton race course.

GLENELG Region Hockey Association (GRHA) will conduct the new sport of Hockey 5s at its Pedrina Park home base this summer with competition starting on this afternoon.

PORTLAND is off to a strong start in the men’s 2022-23 Country Basketball League’s South West division, earning a strong 75-66 win over Colac Kookas at Bluewater Leisure Centre on Sunday.

HAMILTON Rifle Club welcomed some international visitors with the Great Britain match rifle team visiting the club in the lead-up to its shoot against Australia in Stawell later this month.

COLLEGE has failed at the first hurdle in its defence of the Dundas Cup as Hamilton and District Cricket Association (HDCA) A grade reigning premier, after Grampians eased into the new season with a commanding 74-run bonus point victory at Mitchell Park on Saturday. PIGEON Ponds has handed Hamilton a case of the blues with a first-up come-from-behind victory to open the Hamilton and District Cricket Association (HDCA) A Grade season under cloudless skies at Casterton on Saturday.

WESTERNS has locked in one of the biggest names in local coaching for the 2023 South West District Football League campaign, signing Winis Imbi as their senior football coach.

THERE are many community groups and organisations whose existence and success are wholly dependent on the efforts of small groups of volunteers.