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. [...]

Colac women’s basketball team has gone within six points of winning its first representative title in 15 years. Colac, playing in its second successive senior competition at Ballarat after a long hiatus from the basketball landscape, fell just short of a memorable long-weekend tournament but renewed hope about the state of [...]

A dying seconds lay-up from Sheryl Donne helped Rebels Rock Lobster upset league powerhouse Saints Tigers in Colac Basketball’s A Grade competition. In the final round of the season, the 33-31 win will boost the Lobsters’confidence ahead of next week’s elimination final against Demons. Rock Lobster [...]

Colac’s A Grade basketballers have proven themselves as some of the best in the region. Colac men’s and women’s senior representative sides came away undefeated after competing in a regional round robin tournament at Colac’s Bluewater Fitness Centre on Sunday. The women’s squad, made up predominantly of the [...]

Port Campbell basketball export Liam McInerney will be on strict instructions from his mum and dad to “do nothing” when he returns from the United States in May. The 19-year-old giant has been flat out for the past two years enjoying the ride of a lifetime. [...]

Colac’s top senior basketballers will hit the courts this weekend for a regional basketball round robin. The men’s and women’s teams, made up of the district’s top A Grade players, will take on rival teams from Timboon and Terang at Colac’s Bluewater Fitness Centre this Sunday. [...]

A Colac junior basketball coach says fresh legs are the key to success. Colac’s under-12 representative boys team won their second regional basketball tournament at the weekend after a six-week break from the sport. Coach Darren Rosevear said the break helped [...]

Lorne teenage tower Zoe Donne says she’s ready to bump and bang her way into a state basketball team. The 15-year-old will continue her Mission Impossible quest to secure a spot as an under-age player in Country Victoria’s under-18 team. Donne will be one of 20 players representing Country [...]

One vote is all that kept Colac’s hopes for a new basketball stadium alive. Colac Otway Shire councillors almost voted this week to drop a plan to build a new showcourt at Bluewater Fitness Centre. The council and sports groups are applying for Federal Government funding for a $7-million upgrade, [...]