Behind-the-scenes Warrion cricket stalwarts have urged the club’s Division One team to seize the opportunity it has fought so hard to earn. The Panthers will finally break their finals drought tomorrow after spending eight seasons re-building a club that was once Colac district cricket’s most powerful force. Excitement at [...]

Demons Lakers have defeated top seed Hawks Magic and won a chance to play off for their third Colac men’s basketball championship in as many years. After downing the Magic by 31 points in round 12, a recharged Magic unit hit back against the Lakers in the A Grade preliminary final. [...]

A former Camperdown man who lost a leg to cancer is a favourite to win gold at the 2010 Winter Paralympics in Canada. Cameron Rahles-Rahbula, who grew up at Leslie Manor, just outside Camperdown, carries the title of world slalom champion into his third Olympics campaign. Rahles-Rahbula will compete [...]

Colac’s Will Collihole is happy to be the odd one out among his peers on the bowling green. The 15-year-old cuts a contrasting figure as a teenager among veterans playing for Colac in the Corangamite Bowling Association. But Collihole is okay with breaking the mould of the typical lawn [...]

Colac bowling fans will have to travel almost 50 kilometres to see two of the city’s teams clash in the most anticipated game of the season. A Corangamite Bowling Association match committee has scheduled the preliminary final between Colac-based rivals City and Colac at Cobden. The neutral synthetic turf is [...]

Division One’s key figures have thrown their weight behind a push to change Colac district cricket’s time-honoured bad weather policy. Four top-grade captains this week voiced their support for Rob Oborne’s challenge to Colac District Cricket Association to bring its bad weather policy into line with international cricket.  Oborne, Colac [...]

Apollo Bay captain Jake Gillam has rejected suggestions his team’s lack of turf-wicket preparation could come back to haunt the Sharks this weekend. Underdog Bay travels to Warrion Recreation Reserve this week having missed out on a valuable final-round turf wicket hit-out against Colac last week. [...]

Alvie captain Michael Groves hopes the energy his band of young guns generates in the field will be the driving force behind the club’s title defence during the next fortnight. Groves said the ability of his players to take half-chances and their willingness to throw themselves on the ground to save [...]

WINNERS: Colac District Ladies Bowling Association Division One winners Colac Pink yesterday.
THIS MUCH ROOM: Colac’s Carmel Watson instructs team-mates yesterday.
STEADY: City Gold’s Roxanne Donovan plays a shot in yesterday’s grand final against Colac.

JUBILATION: Colac premiership players, from left, Dianne Hynes, Leona Pekin and Jan Jones celebrate their win against City Gold.
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The sharp-shooters from Colac’s two Western Region State League teams will have their final chance to earn votes for the competition’s three top individual awards. Colac Tigers teenage tower Rebecca Scott and Colac District’s goal machine Errin Schaeffer are both in contention for the league’s Most Valuable Player, Emma McVilly Coaches Most [...]