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Energy charged for finals

LATROBE City Energy is one win away from a breakout BigV division one title after a final quarter shutout secured game one of the grand final series away to Southern Peninsula Sharks, 71-61 on Saturday night.

Beanstalk Jack almost grabs golden egg

IT literally took a seven-nation army to hold Traralgon's Jack White and the Australian under 17 basketball team back at the world championships this month.

Fierce round one rivalry reignites

SET to embark on its first finals campaign under coach Allan Chandler, Churchill faces Rosedale in the first week of North Gippsland playoffs for the second year running in Saturday's qualifying final.

Preliminary preview

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.

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.

Neighbours feud for final five spot

AS the North Gippsland football season draws to an end, six clubs will bow out of the 2014 premiership this week.

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.

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New Traralgon sports pavilion officially unveiled

SPORT By LIAM DURKIN   ALMOST five years of frustration was finally put to rest last week, when the new Traralgon Recreation Reserve pavilion was officially opened. The...