BYADUK’S Zoe Addinsall made it five consecutive Pony Club Victoria Tetrathlon State Title wins when she took out the Junior Female section at Geelong.

WE have wonderful volunteers at our club including Ruben Ross who has painted the bar area after our renovations.

AFTER multiple Western Victoria Female Football League best and fairests (including one with Portland in 2022), a broken leg and thousands of kilometres of travel, Penshurst’s Jess Rentsch is set for the big time after the midfielder was drafted by the West Coast Eagles with pick two in Monday night’s AFLW Draft.

THE Hamilton and District Cricket Association (HDCA) A grade season has been one of new beginnings so far, with the 2023-24 season the first of the new amalgamated Hamilton and Portland competitions.

UP and coming local footballer Chad Finck is ready to take his game to the next level, as the 16-year-old has recently been selected to Greater Western Victoria Rebels’ under-18 squad for the 2024 season.  

HAMILTON Kangaroos and Port Fairy have combined to offer junior footballers a chance to develop during the off-season with a skills clinic at Gardens Oval next Wednesday.

EARLIER in the month, Penshurst’s St Joseph’s Primary School basketball team ventured off on a road trip to Dandenong Basketball Stadium to represent our diocese in the Future Allstars Hooptime State Finals.

WITH 2023 coming to an end, the Hamilton Golf Club held its annual Christmas Ambrose event, a great field of 88 players took part, with handicap and non-handicap players having a go on Sunday.

FOUR local cricketers have enjoyed some time on the representative field, involved in the Cricket Victoria Country Cup, which was played at Monivae College Turf over the past two weeks.

SATURDAY’S Portland Swimming Club meet, the first hosted in town since 2019, was a homecoming of sorts for one former resident, but one which meant even more than that.