A THREE-HOUR trip was on the agenda for five local basketball teams, travelling to participate at Bendigo’s Champions League Basketball (CLB) 3X3 event on Saturday.

AFTER playing in the club’s first Hamilton and District Cricket Association A grade final last season, Pigeon Ponds has taken its play to the next level and currently sits on top of the ladder.

THE Portland Coasters men’s team had a difficult start to the Country Basketball League season on Saturday, going down to the Ararat Redbacks 84-72. Host team Portland went behind after an inefficient start to the game and never quite recovered. To their credit, however, the Coasters fought until the bitter end, and rallying periods in […]

PORTLAND Colts are the Portland and District Cricket Association’s top Twenty20 side for the 2020-21 season after defeating Tyrendarra in a grand final match up on Friday. After finishing in first and second during the five-round regular series through November and December, Colts and Tyrendarra met on the turf wicket at Henty Park on Friday […]

IT has been a tough couple of years for Dunkeld’s Ryan Burgess who has been burdened by a tumour on his spine which forced him to step away from his sporting community and turned his world upside down.

GRAMPIANS cricketer, Josh Gordon, made the most of his final junior country week campaign, topping the runs tally during Hamilton’s Under-17 campaign in Warrnambool last week.

THE second ever Western District Girls Shield started yesterday with the Hamilton and District Cricket Association (HDCA) once again hosting the now annual event.

THE Hamilton and District Cricket Association (HDCA) Under-17 Warrnambool Country Week team had a mixed end to its campaign, losing to Mount Gambier on Wednesday before winning both Twenty-20 games on Thursday.

“JUST pure elation” is how a proud grandfather described Will Pucovski’s Test cricket debut on Thursday.

THE Portland Yacht Club’s Tackers program has once again proved a hit on the foreshore. This year, an increased number of participants has allowed the program to flourish, with the creation of a new, slightly separate program called ‘Out There Sailing’, for teenagers aged 12-17. This new initiative allows the teenagers independence from the more […]