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THE Churchill Braves continued their tense feud with Moe/Newborough Dodgers in round 16 of the GDF SUEZ Loy Yang B Latrobe Valley Baseball A grade competition, in a prelude to the preliminary final next fortnight.

Horton honoured

MOE Lions Junior Football Club held its annual Grahame Horton Memorial game during round 12 of the Central Gippsland Junior Football League.

Player payments addressed

ONGOING concerns over escalating player payments in country football will be addressed with a trial system to stymie the tide in development for next season.

Steve achieves eight ball Graywash

PLUCKY newcomer Chris Webster almost stole the show at the Latrobe Valley Eight Ball Association open singles championship on Sunday, pushing eventual winner Steve Gray to the precipice at Turks Bar, Traralgon.

Roberts out of Energy

LATROBE City Energy president David Roberts has stepped down from the executive role on the eve of the franchise's first BigV division one grand final series.

Marauding Maroons bow out

MORWELL dashed Gippsland League rival Traralgon's finals hopes once and for all at Traralgon Recreation Reserve yesterday.

Woodside digs in to snare fifth

NEITHER side battling for fifth was able to conjure a win over North Gippsland's top two, but Woodside's dogged display against Heyfield saw it through to the finals series on percentage over Yarram, which was run over by Churchill in the last round of the season.

Mirboo North’s miraculous reversal

MIRBOO North advanced another week closer to the grand final by defeating Yinnar in Saturday's Mid Gippsland Football League qualifying final.

Kiwi Hutton’s hyperspace hobby

LIKELY the closest thing to Star Wars' pod-racing in this galaxy is the wet and wild world of jet sprinting, the chosen sport of New Zealand born Traralgon resident Daryl Hutton.

Mid Gippsland finals in full swing

The first week of Mif Gippsland finals pits Yinnar against Mirboo North and Trafalgar against Boolarra in the elimination bout.

Morwell’s triple incentive

MORWELL can extinguish Traralgon's faint flicker of finals hope and keep its own minor premiership ambitions alive with victory at Traralgon Recreation Reserve on Sunday.

NBL on the way to Traralgon

MELBOURNE United will be spreading the National Basketball League gospel far and wide during the pre-season, including a visit to Traralgon.

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