The Gippsland Bowls Region (GBR) eastern conference resumes after the Christmas break this weekend with four rounds remaining as sides look to ensure their participation in the 2022/2023 final series. The two Lakes Entrance sides will clash, with a victory by Lakes Entrance 1 making  a finals birth for Lakes Entrance 2 mathematically impossible. Lakes Entrance 1 has been building as the...

Local sprintcar driver Shane Steenholdt scorched around Nyora last Saturday night to take victory in the 17-lap sprintcar feature event on the evening. The sprintcar race was a fast and furious affair from start to finish, Steenholdt recording a slick 13.5-second lap on the way to victory, proving too good for Steven Horton, Alistair Bastian, Adam Greenwood and Peter Laity. Earlier in the day...

The Bairnsdale Rowing Club (BRC) mixed masters double scull crew, Ivan Knight and Louise Avery, came home with a silver medal from the recent Rowing ACT Daramalan/Black Mountain Rowing Club Regatta. The regatta held on Saturday, December 3, on picturesque Lake Burley Griffin, saw the members of BRC pit their skills against some skilled rowers from across Australia. Knight and Avery were joined...

Exciting local footballer, Melbourne excitement machine, Megan Fitzsimon, is now an AFL premiership player, her Demons defeating Brisbane by four points in an epic contest at Springfield on Sunday. The Demons, one of the powerhouses and most consistent sides in the AFLW since its inception, finally broke through for their maiden premiership, upsetting the Lions in front of 7412 spectators 2.7-19...

Prodigious local football talent, Melbourne livewire, Megan Fitzsimon, will play in her second AFL woman’s grand final this Sunday in the space of nine months. With the AFL changing the woman’s football landscape, from summer/autumn to winter/spring, it will be a rare occurrence where two grand finals are being played in the one calendar year. For Megan and her Demons teammates, it will give...