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Starting on the right note

CGCA - Morwell started its season on a positive note with a 30-run win over last year’s premiers Moe in Central Gippsland Cricket Association’s first full round of play.

Sharks feast on Centrals

TDCA - THE third round of Traralgon and District Cricket Association competition finally saw a full day’s play, in which some outstanding individual performances dictated results.

Making waves

Tumultuous weather did little to stop Mark Allen and Brian Ford's fundraising crusade on Saturday at the first day of the Victorian Open Water Championships, held at Hazelwood Pondage.

Carnival fever sets in

LATROBE Valley Racing Club's second annual Caulfield Cup day will bolt out of the gates on Saturday at Traralgon Racecourse with a blockbuster six race meet scheduled.

Kicking a clear pathway

A GROUP of talented Gippsland soccer players will travel to Alice Springs next month for the National Indigenous Football Festival after winning the State Youth Indigenous Football Tournament earlier this month.

Family feud in state final

GIPPSLAND martial artists put the Shin Bu Kai discipline in the spotlight at the National All Styles Victorian Championships earlier this month with 10 fighters qualifying for the national championship.

Explosive performance

FOR casual participants, bocce may seem a sedate sport.

Thirty years of dedicated service

IF it takes 10,000 hours to become an expert, then three decades of coaching should be enough to class Traralgon Tennis Club's Graham 'Woofa' Charlton as a tennis guru.

International fever coming to T’gon

A HOST of up and coming stars are set to follow in the footsteps of former Latrobe City MSS Security Tennis International competitors Roger Federer, Andy Roddick and Lleyton Hewitt when the sixth edition of the tournament returns to Traralgon from 20 October.

McKinley’s mission

LATROBE'S Rob McKinley may have brought the Irish weather with him to the Latrobe Valley, leading to consecutive Central Gippsland Cricket washouts, but the 18 year-old is planning to take the league by storm this summer.

Community farewells Jumbo

CRICKET has mourned the passing of John "Jumbo" James who was regarded as one of the greatest Gippsland cricketers to have ever donned the whites.

Sport is ‘saving grace’

FOR Rhee International Tae Kwon Do instructor Kevin Johnston, martial arts is more than just a means of self defence, it is a vessel to fight his demons.

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