By Ben Triandafillou A MORNINGTON Peninsula-based Gridiron club is looking to provide the area with the first and only Gridiron club on the Peninsula since 2009. Currently based in Carrum Downs, the Peninsula Sharks was formed in early-January and is currently in a recruitment phase. The Peninsula Sharks are hoping to have teams entered in the 2018 Gridiron Victoria league, but co-founder Garry Smith said, that the club will have a different ‘feel’. “We want to start fresh and put new games in place because some teams have the stigma that it’s just a boys club but being a young…
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SOCCER By Craig MacKenzie TWO goals in the final two minutes gave Langwarrin a stunning 2-1 win over Mornington in Saturday’s derby at Dallas Brooks Park. Connor Belger’s 91st minute strike was a goal for the ages and left Mornington players and fans gobsmacked. Langwarrin had equalised in the 90th minute after Alex Metcalfe’s curled strike from the left. The ball eluded Liam Baxter’s attempted header and deflected off Mornington stopper Steve Elliott before sneaking inside the far post. A minute later Langy keeper Robbie Acs gathered then launched a long kick downfield. Belger trapped the ball inside his attacking…
By Ben Triandafillou IT’S been a year since the Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League announced their smoke-free initiative and now local football clubs along the Mornington Peninsula will be following in their footsteps. Football clubs along the Peninsula will stand together to remove smoking at both junior and senior levels ahead of the ‘World No Tobacco Day’ on 31 May. Working towards becoming smoke free, AFL South East and its leagues, Frankston District Junior Football League (FDJFL) and Mornington Peninsula Football Netball League (MPNFL), have teamed up with Peninsula Health, St Kilda Football Club, Good Sports, Frankston City Council and…
ONE of the most exciting new events is set to hit the sand of Sorrento foreshore this June/July school holidays…SKATING AT SORRENTO 2017. In a first for the Mornington Peninsula, an ice skating rink rivalling that of Times Square and Paris will pop-up on Sorrento Foreshore from 23 June to 16 July 2017. The rink, measuring 25m x 9m, will be set by the picturesque bay between The Baths and Rotunda on Sorrento foreshore, with ice skaters able to enjoy the views whilst ice skating….day or evening, rain or shine! The Skating at Sorrento Ice Rink is a partnership between…
ONE of two men who bashed a Frankston woman in a savage home invasion two years ago was sentenced to six and a half years jail in the Melbourne Country Court on 9 May. Detective Senior Constable Flyn Loughlin, of Frankston CIU, said the 30-year-old, of Frankston, was convicted on charges of recklessly causing serious injury, false imprisonment and theft over the attack which occurred at 10pm, 29 July 2015. However, his co-offender in the crime – in which the Karingal woman, 50, received serious head and facial injuries – is still at large and police are determined to catch…