Sport

PLAYERS are making a welcome return to the Hamilton Golf Club course after what has been another wet winter.

POPPY Austin has joined the ranks of the district’s elite champion sports people, winning the Australian Under-20 Female Cross Country Championship at Stromlo Forrest Park in the ACT last weekend.

HAWKESDALE-MACARTHUR will have the entire off-season to think about what might have been after being defeated in a shock loss to Woorndoo-Mortlake in the Mininera and District Netball Association A grade elimination final at Derrinallum Recreation Reserve on Sunday, 31-35.

SATURDAY’S 18-hole stableford event held a new challenge for members, playing the new reversal holes seven and eight, which caused some frustration among some golfers.

GLENTHOMPSON-DUNKELD has let its finals opportunity slip away against Woorndoo-Mortlake through poor kicking for goal, as the Tigers advanced to the Mininera and District Football League preliminary final with a 9.15 (69) – 5.12 (42) victory.

HAMILTON Kangaroos bounced into the Hampden Football Netball League Open grade finals with a commanding 65-47 defeat of Terang-Mortlake at Terang Recreation Reserve on Saturday.

HAMILTON has a new national champion in its midst, with Emily Iredell grabbing a gold medal as part of the School Sports Victoria Under-12 basketball team at the national championships in Perth last week

RAMS has claimed the minor premiership of the 2023 Glenelg Region Hockey Association division one men’s competition, with a 5-1 victory over Jakabytes in the final regular season round at Brian Roberts Field on Sunday.

HARROW-BALMORAL Football Netball Club (HBFNC) has announced it has re-signed Jai Thompson as senior football coach for the 2024 Horsham and District Football Netball League season after a successful first year in charge of the Southern Roos in 2023.

BARBER Babes has finished its Hamilton Basketball Association (HBA) women’s division one winter season on Tuesday with a huge upset of Minders in the final round of the season, 36-30.

HAMILTON Kangaroos sit just outside the top five on the Hampden Football Netball League Open premiership ladder in sixth place, with the Roos on the road to Terang Recreation Reserve to try and grab fifth position today.

GLENTHOMPSON-DUNKELD must carry belief into the Mininera and District Football League first semi-final against Woorndoo-Mortlake at Derrinallum Recreation Reserve tomorrow, otherwise the Rams will suffer a mauling at the hands of the Tigers.