WRFL
The Western Region Football League women’s division 1 competition will again be six teams this season. The league released the fixture for the first two rounds for both divisions. The season will start on April 15. VU Western Spurs, who have joined the competition this season and Point Cook Centrals, which won the division 2 premiership last season, join the division 1 competition, while division 2 will have seven teams with Caroline Springs again having two teams. Manor Lakes and Hoppers Crossing which both fielded teams in division 1 last season aren’t fielding teams this season.
Coates Talent League
Some of Melton and Moorabool’s best young footballers have been named in Coates Talent League squads for this year. Caroline Springs’ Oliver Murray, Hillside’s Noah Asciak, Keighton Matofai-Forbes, Jackson McMenamin and Alex Tsia, Bacchus Marsh’s Joel Freeman, Lucca Grego, Jack Kovacevic, William Lalor and Isaac Nixon, Darley’s Mitchell Gardiner and Melton’s Zach Russell and Lucas Impey have all been named in the Western Jets squad. Darley’s Nick Cadman and Brady Wright and Bacchus Marsh’s Joshua Huxtable and Ethan McKercher have been named in the Greater Western Victoria Rebels squad.
Ballarat FL
Riley Matricardi is the latest player to join Darley for the upcoming Ballarat Football League season. Matricardi joins the Devils from Trentham in the Maryborough Castlemaine District Football League. Last season he played 17 games and was named in the best eight times. Dimitri Lambris has returned to the Devils having played with Bacchus Marsh more recently.
