Sport

PORTLAND Football Netball Club is getting in early with its line-up of coaches for the 2024 Hampden Netball League season, with the leader of their junior and senior teams locked in.

THE Portland Squash and Racquetball Club played out its championship games last week with Chris ‘Toff’ Thomas claiming both the squash and racquetball titles in the men’s competition while Leanne Pitman was the women’s squash winner and Kerri-Anne O’Keefe took out the racquetball crown.

THE Surry District Tennis Association hit the court for its second round of play on Saturday with some mixed results throughout the A grade competition.

CRICKET season may have only just gotten started, but football is a year-round commitment for local teams in this day and age, and this is no different for Portland who are looking to rebuild towards a more positive 2024 Hampden Football League season.

PORTLAND’S Harry Kerr and Dylan Barr’s football trip to the United States went about as well as they could have hoped for, with the pair of Aussies helping the Austin Crows’ senior and reserves sides to premierships in division one and division four of the USAFL Nationals in Florida earlier this month.

AN unusual team of Portland residents will be taking on next Sunday’s 3 Bays marathon, with four walkers with a combined age of 305 set to hit the track as part of the Portland Runners Club Running Festival.

THE Portland and District Cricket Association’s under-16 competition got underway on Tuesday evening with the first half of round one.

PORTLAND Tigers have captured their first win of the 2023-24 Hamilton and District Cricket Association with a 57-run victory over College in wet conditions at Hanlon Park on Saturday.

THE Surry District Tennis Association kicked off its season on Saturday with some tough hit outs to open the 2023-24 account.

PORTLAND cricketer Macey Williamson has been making a big impression on the country cricket scene this season, having recently made the Western Waves’ under-15 side while also making the Geelong Pumas team which will play in the upcoming Marg Jennings Cup early next year.

FOR the second year in a row, local swimmer Matilda Andrews has completed Youth Live4Life’s annual Lap It Up charity program, swimming 1500 laps for youth mental health.

THE Street Machine Drag Challenge came and went for the South Coast Raceway last Friday, as wet conditions caused by overnight showers forced organisers to call off their leg of the competition.