The Burners’ Premier Division season is off to a flyer, weathering a final-quarter fightback to upset the reigning premier in front of a bumper crowd at a sun-drenched Morton Park on Good Friday.
Two of Doncaster East’s prized recruits turned heads on Saturday – one fresh out of the AFL, another as a last-minute gift from a rival league.
Josh Tovey – if you don’t know it already, remember the name. The 19-year-old had a day out for East Ringwood on Saturday in his side’s 103-point annihilation of its cross-town rival.
Ex-AFL forward Sam Weideman quickly rediscovered an unbridled enjoyment of Aussie rules on Sunday in his return to the grassroots game for childhood club Vermont. The added bonus? A bag of seven.
Five years ago, David King accepted Victorian Premier Cricket’s highest individual accolade from his living room in the middle of the day. A far cry from his second gong on Friday night, as the champion opens up on the honour.
“Young and enthusiastic” and with some handy inclusions, Berwick coach Andrew Williams isn’t setting a limit on what his group could achieve this season in Eastern’s Premier Division.
On the ropes ticking into time-on, the Waverley Blues — led by a new coach — “found a way” amid the deja vu of last September, saluting in an opening-round Division 2 nail-biter on Saturday.
Don’t let age fool you – the plucky, young Mustangs, aided by experience, fired to an 11-goal masterclass on Saturday in its Division 1 season-opener under a new coach. Here’s who starred.
Promoted outfit Surrey Park found plenty out about Eastern’s Division 2 on Saturday as it survived a late opposition charge – with one of the league’s brightest young talents kicking a bag.
The enormity of the occasion didn’t faze the Magpies on Saturday, pitted against new-look Ferntree Gully flush with recruit Jaidyn Stephenson on a night two premiership flags were unfurled.