Sport

Sale Football-Netball Club senior games record holder and life member Chris Laverty has been appointed senior coach of the Magpies for season 2020.

As many games across Gippsland were either washed-out or rained-affected on Saturday, Boisdale-Briagolong made the most of the opportunity to get onto the park, and racked up a huge score of 6-337 against Longford to go into stumps on day one in round four of Sale-Maffra cricket in control.

Wintry conditions on Sunday took some of the enjoyment out of the first leg of the Gippsland Cricket League women's twenty20 double-header, as players, umpires and scorers had to contend with passing showers, freezing winds and frequent interruptions to play at Morwell.

Wet weather will hopefully clear for Sunday's Sale Cup at Greenwattle Racecourse.

Longford will fancy its chances when it travels to Briagolong, as the two-day fixtures get underway in Sale-Maffra cricket.

Maffra maintained its undefeated start to the Country Basketball League men's season with two away wins at the weekend.

Tennis Victoria chief executive Dr Ruth Holdaway was in the region earlier this week, catching up with local tennis clubs to see what the representative body could do for grassroots sport.

Two players from Sale were selected by clubs in the AFLW draft on Tuesday.

Four of Seaspray Surf Life Saving Club's finest raced alongside Australia's top ironmen and ironwomen, competing in the recent Coolangatta Gold Festival.

Stratford boxer Max Reeves scored a professional win on debut recently, in a dominant performance which announced his name as one to watch on the big stage.

The North Gippsland Bowls Division men's state over 60 pairs was played last week at Sale, after sectional rounds the semi-final line-ups were completed.

Sale remains the only undefeated team in Sale-Maffra cricket, after the Swans accounted for Collegians in the battle for top spot.