Sport

PORTLAND Coasters have retained the services of Rebel Noter for the upcoming 2023-24 Country Basketball League season, albeit in a different capacity.

PORTLAND has unveiled its newest kits that it will be wearing for the remainder of the South West Victoria Football Association season and into the future, with their first appearance to be in a home fixture against Corangamite on Sunday.

PORTLAND’S under-18.5 Hampden Football League side has taken major steps forward over the course of the 2023 season and will be looking to capitalise on those with a win against a struggling Terang-Mortlake outfit tomorrow at Hanlon Park.

THE Portland Kyokushin Karate Club hosted its 10th annual Portland Open Border Challenge over the weekend, with contestants travelling from far and wide to take part in a day with plenty of action.

COLERAINE claimed a strong victory over Dartmoor off the back of a big first half, taking it out 9.8 (62) to 4.5 (29), in round 11 of the South West District Football League.

PORTLAND was unable to earn a repeat of their Hampden Football League Anzac Day heroics on Saturday, going down to rivals Hamilton Kangaroos 13.14 (92) to 5.10 (40).

DARTMOOR has demonstrated they are once again top contenders for the flag in the South West District Netball League A grade competition, taking care of Coleraine in trying conditions on Saturday, 40-31.

PORTLAND’S Zavier Payne has only been umpiring for a couple of years but that isn’t stopping the young boundary umpire from reaching new heights after he was selected to officiate the under-17 interleague game last weekend between the Hampden FNL and Ballarat FNL.

THE Portland Kyokushin Karate Club will host the 10th iteration of the Portland Open Border Challenge at the Portland Secondary College gym tomorrow, in what is expected to be an exciting day of action.

PORTLAND Football Netball Club has unveiled its new Indigenous design football jumpers and netball dresses ahead of Hampden’s Indigenous round which kicks off tomorrow as a part of NAIDOC week.

WITH the Portland and Hamilton District Cricket Association amalgamation given the green light in the past month, there’s been plenty of discussion around how each Portland club, along with the association as a whole, will be affected by the change.

COMMITTING to sport across the winter is sometimes a tough ask in south west Victoria but two local cross-code players are enjoying the challenge of backing up a game of netball every Saturday with a game of football on Sunday.