Category Archives: Sport

History for Heart, titles for Mornington, Skye

September 12, 2016
SOCCER By Craig MacKenzie THREE local champions and four local clubs promoted – it doesn’t get much better than that. The relegation of Frankston Pines was the only disappointing aspect to a spectacu...

Steelers’ fiery road to pennant win

September 6, 2016
By Jarrod Potter FIRE may have taken their basketball home in May, but 126 days later the Western Port Steelers have brought victory back to Somerville. Despite the loss of the Somerville Recreation ...

Putting the grand into finals

September 5, 2016
SPECTATORS were entertained by 12 thrilling Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League grand finals on Sunday 28 August. Matches were played from under-11s to under-17s with three separate age group...

61 to become 22

September 5, 2016
There were a total of 61 players nominated for the MPNFL Peninsula Division Team of the Year, to be announced at presentation night on Wednesday, September 7 at Mornington Racecourse. All Peninsula D...

Blues and Bombers to square off in Granny

September 5, 2016
NEPEAN LEAGUE HASTINGS will play Frankston Bombers in the 2016 Nepean Division Grand Final this Saturday at Frankston Park after hanging on to win a thriller against Rosebud. The Blues have beaten Re...

Stonecats hang on in epic

September 5, 2016
PENINSULA LEAGUE IF it bleeds, you can kill it! That was a famous line used by arguably the greatest ever AFL footballer Leigh Matthews in 2001 when he was referring to his great Brisbane Lions side ...

Hastings overrun Somerville for inspiring victory

August 30, 2016
HASTINGS FNC SATURDAY saw Hastings Football/Netball Club take on Western Port rival Somerville Football/Netball Club in the first semi-final played at Devon Meadows. With a real sense of finals footb...

Bowlers get season started

August 29, 2016
AN Aboriginal campsite on the clifftop overlooking Port Phillip Bay was the perfect place for the introduction of lawn bowls to the Mornington Peninsula on 1 June 1917. Mornington Bowling Club was es...

Pines look doomed, Langy helps Mornington

August 29, 2016
SOCCER By Craig MacKenzie FRANKSTON Pines looks doomed to relegation from State 1 South-East while Langwarrin dented Malvern City’s championship aspirations in last weekend’s catch-up round. Pines sl...

Bombers in the big dance

August 29, 2016
NEPEAN LEAGUE FRANKSTON Bombers went straight through to the 2016 Nepean Division Grand Final on Saturday after dishing out a football lesson to reigning premier Rosebud at Rye’s RJ Rowley Reserve. T...