TWO titles at the 2013 Australian Junior Athletics Championships last week has given Leongatha’s Eleanor Patterson automatic selection in the Australian team for the World Youth Athletics Championships. With six qualifying performances under her belt already, the win in the Under 18 Women’s High Jump gave the 16 year old the spot. The competition was [...]
THE Phillip Island surfing community celebrated the formal declaration of Victoria’s first National Surfing Reserve at a ceremony at Cape Woolamai Beach on Saturday. Surfing legend Layne Beachley hosted the event and the Minister for Environment and Climate Change and Youth Affairs, Ryan Smith, formally opened the reserve, made up of four sites along Phillip Island’s [...]
THE top Alberton Football League players are netting more than $30,000 a season, with payments of up to $1500 a game and sign on fees of up to $5000. One high-profile player recently reneged on such a deal, accepting an even better offer from a Melbourne club. The AFL club has denied his initial attempts [...]
THOMAS McFarlane of Leongatha has returned home from the 2013 Cycling Australia Junior Track National Championships with a gold medal in his back pocket. McFarlane collected gold in the final of the Under 17 team sprint race on Friday night by crossing the line for Victoria just three hundredths of a second ahead of the [...]
LEONGATHA’S Tom McFarlane is making himself a regular in the elite junior cycling scene. He will gain even more experience against some of the best junior riders in the country, starting tomorrow (Wednesday) at the Cycling Australia Junior Track National Championships. The 14 year old will be competing in the Under 17 division, racing at [...]
ONLY one win out of four matches at Provisional Country Week has left the Leongatha and District Cricket Association side scratching their heads. Team manager Kristian Gray said the team was ready for a much better result than gained. “We didn’t get off to the best start, the loss early on put us on the [...]
IMPORTED cricketers are becoming a common occurrence in the Leongatha and District Cricket Association, much to the delight of fellow players. Cricketers from all over the globe can be seen on the field at your average LDCA A Grade match. Sri Lankan Udura Weerasinghe hits big and bowls true for the Korumburra Cobras, while his [...]
KORUMBURRA’S Marty Snooks bowed out early in his Australian Boxing Title campaign in Adelaide but not without making an impression. In his first fight of the tournament the 14-year-old faced up against the tournament favourite Queenslander Jason Beasley but did not let that deter him. Although Snooks was put on the back foot early he [...]
MATILDA Longbottom from Cape Liptrap rode her pony, Helden Park Centre Stage or Teddy, to great success at this year’s Royal Melbourne Horse Show, held recently at the Werribee Park National Equestrian Centre. “This Year at the RMHS Teddy and I placed sixth in the led riding pony show hunter 14 to 14.2hh and sixth [...]
LEONGATHA Football Club has secured funding for new netting behind the goal square at the town end of the ground. The South Gippsland Shire Council has come to the party and will be paying for new netting and installation of protective nets. The current nets have been in tatters and let numerous footballs through on [...]