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PORTLAND’S women’s basketballers couldn’t have asked for a better lead in to their Country Basketball League finals campaign, after defeating one of the premiership favourites for the season in Mount Gambier on Sunday, 54-51.

THE Hampden Football Netball League is well underway in its preparations for the 2023 season, with clubs digging into their preseason training in hopes of getting an edge on the competition.

PORTLAND’S basketball community continues to go from strength to strength, and a big part of that ongoing success has been due to the involvement of the Morrissey family.

THE Surry District Tennis Association is returning to the court to resume the second part of their season after a month off play.

JUST a fortnight after the South Coast Raceway roared to life for the first time this summer, the track will once again be back in action, with tomorrow seeing the Wild Bunch Wars hit the tarmac.

IT was a great weekend of cricket for Tyrendarra. After Friday night’s Twenty20 grand final victory, they came out on Saturday and produced a mammoth total of 9-336 in their Portland and District Cricket Association clash with Gorae-Portland at Tyrendarra Recreation Reserve.

IT was a hard-fought win for Portland’s Country Basketball League women’s side on Sunday, with the young line up securing an 83-75 victory against Horsham.

TYRENDARRA claimed the Portland and District Cricket Association’s Twenty20 grand final by the narrowest of margins on Friday evening, defeating Portland Tigers by just a solitary run at Henty Park.

WITH the 2023 South West District Football Netball League season fast approaching, teams are starting to lock-in in their coaching ranks for the year ahead, with some fresh and familiar faces among them.

THE Portland and District Cricket Association has welcomed under-13 representative sides from across the region to a country week tournament from Monday to Wednesday this week, with the aim of developing the next generation of young cricketers.

THE senior Portland Coasters teams are back in action this weekend as they head into a crucial two weekends of play in the Country Basketball League’s south west conference.

AT long last, the South Coast Raceway roared to life last weekend, with contestants from across the country descending on Portland for the South Coast 660.