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GIPPSLAND Power faces its toughest stretch of the TAC Cup season with 10 of its stars to miss up to six matches with Victoria Country commitments.

Latrobe Valley secured its sixth consecutive Country Cup in Traralgon.

MID Gippsland Football League celebrated a victory at Visy Park, Melbourne on Sunday defeating Picola and District Football League 15.18 (108) to 5.7 (37) in its Worksafe Victoria Country Championship match.

THE Gippsland League moved to eighth in the Victoria Worksafe Country Championship rankings after a big win over the Yarra Valley Mountain District Football League.

MORWELL Latrobe Valley is determined to bring a trophy home from the Australian Bocce Championships in Queensland next month with nine players set to make the journey north.

WITH several key players on Victoria Country duty, the depth of the Loy Yang B Gippsland Power squad was severely tested, and found lacking, in its match against the Murray Bushrangers.

THE contest between the would-be challengers of 2013, Traralgon Tyers United, and reigning premier Heyfield saw the result decided in the closing minutes of the match when the Kangaroos snatched victory from the Bombers' grasp by just one point on Saturday in North Gippsland football.

THE sharks will be circling the felt this weekend when the Latrobe Valley Eight Ball Association hosts the 18th Victorian South Eastern Country Cup, with local legends Paul Pike and Steve Gray set to defend home turf.

AN impenetrable Northern Raiders defensive line thwarted a valiant Gippsland Gladiators in Gridiron Victoria division two action in Reservoir on Saturday.

REGARDLESS of the final result in Mid Gippsland's Worksafe Country Championships clash against Picola North West, one thing will live long in the memory of each and every player who takes the field.

HISTORY dictates when Morwell and Sale start the year on the right note, they make it count come September.

LOY Yang B Gippsland Power exhibited two vastly different brands of football on either side of half-time against Eastern Ranges at the weekend, when a meek first half cost it the match.