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Bacchus Marsh cement berth with solid win over Carisbrook

Bacchus Marsh is the first team through to the AFL Goldfields Women’s Football League division 2 grand final. The Cobras, who finished the regular season...

Diggers Rest win a chilly fight

Diggers Rest handed Sunbury Kangaroos a footballing lesson and made other teams take notice in their Riddell District Football League elimination final. In rain, wind...

Sunbury Lions ready for finals

Sunbury Lions aren't planning on just making up the numbers in the Ballarat Football League finals. The Lions finished the season fifth, but there was gap...

Narrow defeat ejects Sunshine Heights

Sunshine Heights has bowed out of the Western Region Football League division 3 title race after a three-point loss to Tarneit Titans in the...

Young Hillside stumble in first finals showdown

Hillside’s first Essendon District Football League division 1 finals experience didn’t go to plan for the club, with the Sharks smashed by Glenroy on...

Failure to fire cripples Werribee Tigers’ chances

Even the best laid out plans on a football field can count for nothing if the forwards fail to covert. Werribee Tigers learnt that lesson...

Season over for Melton Centrals

Melton Centrals will look back on the 2017 AFL Goldfields’ Women’s Football League season as a learning experience. After being one of the stronger teams...

Diggers Rest take foot off the pedal

Diggers Rest enters the Riddell District Football League finals on the back of its lowest score in a number of years. With third spot already...

First up finals win for Bacchus Marsh

Bacchus Marsh is finding form at the right time of the season and is just a win away from a grand final appearance in...

Melton South beat Melton in thriller

Melton South remains in the race for a Ballarat Football League finals’ spot, but arch rivals Melton weren’t so lucky. With the four teams fighting...

Perfect season for Keilor

Keilor has completed a perfect season by claiming the inaugural Western District and Essendon District Women’s Football League premiership. The Blues, in their debut season,...

RDFNL to keep the status quo

The format of the Riddell District Football Netball League is set to stay the same for now, after a review into football and netball...

China takes the points

China put on a dominant display against Indonesia in the AFL International Cup match at Diggers Rest on Saturday. After an even first quarter on...

Diggers Rest wobble, then win

Diggers Rest’s experience showed when it counted most, getting the Burras over the line against a determined Romsey side. For much of the Riddell District...

Melton South lock in Fevola, knuckle down for finals grab

Brendan Fevola is returning to Melton South Football Club next season – but he’ll have a new assistant coach by his side. The Panthers have...

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Open mic event a celebration of poetry

Experience poets and those new to the art of spoken word are being encouraged to sign up for an open mic event in Bacchus...

Jazz to go west