Sport

PORTLAND’S under-17 soccer team has wrapped up its place in the upcoming South West Victoria Football Association finals series, after a dominant performance against Stawell saw them claim victory 8-1.

WITH the first round of finals action in the books for the South West District Football League, attention now turns to semi-finals action tomorrow and Sunday, and with a grand final spot up for grabs it’s sure to be a hotly contested weekend of football.

SOUTH West District Netball League finals are in full swing with tomorrow’s clash determining the first grand finalist while Sunday’s match up is expected to go down to the wire.

AFTER a decade of advocacy, lobbying, planning and construction, the long-awaited Alexandra Park pavilion and facilities have finally been unveiled in an event which was hosted yesterday.

LOCAL basketballer Tyleah Barr was a part of Big V basketball history on Saturday night when her Warrnambool Mermaids team won back-to-back division one titles in the grand final clash against Bellarine.

DARTMOOR has opened their South West District Netball League finals account with a one-goal victory against Cavendish on Saturday, 51-50.

HEYWOOD has kept their season alive in the most dramatic of circumstances, claiming a South West District Football League elimination final victory over Dartmoor 9.12 (66) to 9.11 (65) on Sunday at Cavendish.

ELLA Matters has continued her dominant displays in the pool, smashing a majority of her personal best times at the Victorian Country Short Course Championships in Wangaratta on the weekend.

PORTLAND Kyokushin Karate Club now boasts having a national champion among its ranks, as young practitioner Elijah Reid claimed victory in the 8-9-year-old non-contact division of the Australian Kyokushin Karate Association (AKKA) national championships on the weekend.

A NUMBER of Portland Little Athletics participants recently competed in Melbourne as part of the State Cross-Country Championships with some strong results across the board.

THE Portland Gymnastics Club hosted their biggest event of the year across the weekend with an impressive turnout at their Yarraman Park facility.

WHILE the Matildas may not have gone all the way in their World Cup bid after losing in the semi-final to England 3-1, they certainly inspired another generation of players to take on ‘the beautiful game’.