WITH football in the south-west encountering forfeits semi-regularly this season, COVID continues to have an impact both directly on games, along with contributing to a depreciation in participation which started pre-pandemic.

ST Andrew’s Cricket Club has a new man at the helm to guide the A grade team through the Hamilton and District Cricket Association (HDCA) 2022-23 season.

IT was a dominant performance from St Mary’s, thumping the winless Tigers in their Hamilton Basketball Association Men’s Division 1 clash by 37 points on Wednesday night.

CRAIG Thornton has set up his base in Hamilton in a big boost for the local racing industry.

THE Hamilton Kangaroos will travel to Leura Oval to take on the Magpies in Hampden Football Netball League action today.

DARTS started back last Wednesday night after 10 months off with a new format and plenty of old faces as well as some new ones.

ON a wintry day that fully tested all participants, it was the Steven Pateman-trained Historic that handled the heavy track best to take out the iconic $50,000 Eulong Steeplechase feature at Hamilton on Tuesday.

WHEN Shane Dempsey ran onto Melville Oval on Saturday for the Hamilton Kangaroos and Cobden senior Hampden Football Netball League (HFNL) game, he notched up game number 1000 with the whistle in hand.

A SLOW start cost the Hamilton Kangaroos in their Hampden Football Netball League Open netball clash against Cobden on Saturday.

AFTER more than three years of work and research, Mighty Mininera League is finally on bookshelves after it was launched at the MCG – no, not THAT one, the one in Mininera.