Rising Albany-raised footballer and AFL mid-season draft hopeful Jacob Blight relished the opportunity to play his first State match for WA, producing a sturdy performance against a polished SANFL outfit.
Harry Grigson
Albany overcame goal-kicking woes and a defiant Railways to notch a 32-point win at Retravision Stadium on Saturday night, marking their fourth straight win of the 2024 Great Southern Football League campaign.
Mt Barker full forward Sam Lehmann insisted he was the beneficiary of his teammates’ work up the field after booting a career-high nine goals in his side’s 33-point win over North Albany on Sunday.
An overjoyed Samantha Faithfull celebrated her most successful day as a trainer with four winners at Percy Spencer Racecourse on Friday.
Gnowangerup have firmed as premiership fancies after overcoming a three-quarter-time deficit against reigning premiers Newdegate to notch a stellar 16-point win at home on Saturday.
A highly efficient Royals side has chalked up their third win of the season, getting the better of Denmark-Walpole in warm conditions at McLean Park on Saturday.
Cameron Newbold
A wrap of all the the weekend’s action in round four of the Great Southern Football League.
Harry Grigson and Cameron Newbold
Around The Leagues: Another Brookton-Pingelly product to make his AFL debut, Mt Barker young gun proudly displays Bulldogs’ Indigenous guernsey and a State game opportunity for a Great Southern star defender.
Railways product and Peel Thunder star Jacob Blight has been rewarded for his stellar start to the 2024 WAFL season, making the final squad for the WA team ahead of their clash with South Australia on Sunday.
Passionate surfers from all corners of the State converged on Parry’s Beach, west of Denmark, last weekend for the hotly contested WA Longboard Championships.
Only three division two yachts competed in heat one of the six-leg winter series in a flying start harbour course event last Saturday.
Des Beeck
Albany will have a chance to widen the gap to their rivals this weekend when they square off with Railways for the first time since last year’s decider in Belt-Up Round of the Great Southern Football League.
A swag of talented local drivers garnered impressive results at the Southern Sprint meeting at Albany City Kart Club at the weekend.
Hundreds of competitors hit the track at Albany City Kart Club for its annual Southern Sprint showdown at the weekend.
Albany speedway star Sam Jewell said his recent Formula 125 State Title success was a genuine family celebration underpinned by their deep-rooted connection with the sport after claiming his sixth WA crown.
Two people involved in Saturday night’s ugly post-match brawl between spectators have been sanctioned by the Great Southern Football League.
Albany Roller Derby League is padding up and strapping in for its inaugural Regional Rumble when rural counterparts from Margaret River and Geraldton suit up for their fearsome clash on Saturday.
Phoenix held off a determined Bayswater side on Saturday to remain at the top of the Great Southern Soccer Association men’s division two competition.
Reigning premiers Katanning Wanderers slipped to a third straight defeat in 2024, mauled at home by a powerful Boddington outfit in round three of the Upper Great Southern Football League season on Sunday.
North Albany’s glowing start to the Lower Great Southern Hockey Association Retravision women’s A-grade competition kept rolling after comfortably defeating a travelling Mt Barker side on Saturday.
The Great Southern Football League will hold an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday night as they investigate a brawl that broke out on the stadium stands on Saturday night.
Gnowangerup staged an impressive comeback, erasing an 11-point three-quarter time deficit by booting eight last-quarter goals to power to a 29-point win over Lake Grace-Pingrup last Saturday.
A change in personnel and structure helped North Albany claim their first win of the 2024 Great Southern Football League season according to coach Brad Bootsma.
Railways player-coach Bodhi Stubber praised his undermanned side after they walked away 21-point victors against Mt Barker at Sounness Park on Saturday.