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Matt Turner is a sports reporter for The Advertiser and CODE Sports who covers mainly AFL and basketball. He has been with News Corp for more than a decade, starting at The Messenger, where he was sports editor for two years. Matt isn’t to be confused with Matt Turner, the award-winning Advertiser photographer, who also shares the same middle name (James).

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30.1.2015. East Torrens baseball veteran Glen Simmons is set to play his 600th A-grade game this weekend. Simmons, 39, has only gone through three gloves and a few hats in that period. Pictured at East Torrens baseball club. Photo Sam Wundke.

Baseballer’s glove affair built to last

YOU can tell East Torrens’ 600-gamer Glen Simmons has been playing baseball for a long time by looking at his glove.

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28/1/15 - St Paul's Old Scholars Football Club, led by Matthew Rowson and Jake Winters, is back in the amateur league - several years after the club rebadged itself as Mawson Lakes Football Club. Photo Naomi Jellicoe

Amateur football’s clash of the Saints

ST PAUL’S Old Scholars will wear black and gold guernseys and be known as the Saints on its return to amateur football this year — but so will fellow division six club Mawson Lakes.

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Amateur footy clubs face player deadline

FOUR amateur football clubs will need to register 50 players before the end of next week or else they will not be accepted into the league.

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22/1/2015 pic at East Torrens Cricket Club oval tonight is Michael Cranmer It has been a rollercoaster 12 months for Michael. Almost a year to the day, his twin brother Andy died in a train accident. Then his East Torrens Cricket Club teammate Phil Hughes died. This season he is in career-best form, averaging 120 with the bat which has stickers on it dedicated to his brother Andy and the Phil hughes....PHOTO DAVE CRONIN

Hughes, brother inspire East Torrens captain

AC and PJH 408 are written on the back of the East Torrens captain Michael Cranmer’s bat in honour of two fallen teammates.

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SFL season kicks off with split round

THE Southern Football League will again kick off with a split round that features last year’s bottom four teams in a stand-alone opening weekend.

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23/01/15 New Glenelg coach Matthew Lokan with his wife Rebecca and kids Jack and Millie Lokan at Brighton Oval. photo Calum Robertson

25 years, 13 coaches: Life after disgraced Stevens

THE man with the top job at Glenelg in the wake of the Nick Stevens’ fiasco is the footy club’s 13th coach in 25 years. Here’s who’s taken a turn on the Tigers’ merry-go-round.

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26/01/15 - Grade T20 final - Tea Tree Gully v Glenelg at Adelaide Oval. Glenelg players celebrating their win. Photo Tom Huntley

Seahorses end Gullies limited overs reign

TEA Tree Gully’s three-year reign of dominance in coloured clothing is officially over after a 14-run loss to Glenelg in Grade Cricket’s Twenty20 final at Adelaide Oval yesterday.

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15.1.2015.English cricketer Alex Davies is excelling in his first season playing for Northern Districts in Grade Cricket. The wicketkeeper-batsman is in Adelaide to train with the Darren Lehmann Cricket Academy.pic tait schmaal.

Englishman playing for keeps at the Blacks

ENGLISHMAN Ben Foakes is thankful for becoming Adelaide University’s first-choice wicketkeeper just months after a stint in the Sri Lankan first-class system did not turn out as planned.

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$9/1/15 Glenelg batsman Jake Winter was carried off the ground by teammates after fracturing his hip in his A-grade debut earlier this season. He is looking to re-establish himself at this month's national under-19 championships in Adelaide, where he is the team's vice-captain. Picture Roger Wyman$

Winter targets runs after debut pain

GLENELG batsman Jake Winter has runs on his mind at this week’s under-19 nationals as he aims to put a horror A-grade debut behind him.

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Charlee Hodges 17 of Henley Beach, with her father Scott Hodges (former AFL Football player) on the outside courts at Netball SA Stadium. Charlee Hodges - the daughter of Port Adelaide goalkicking great Scott Hodges and grand-daughter of John Cahill - has been named in SA's under-19 netball squad. Picture: Stephen Laffer

Rising netball star extends family tradition

STATE under-19 netballer Charlee Hodges’ family tree includes Port Adelaide Football Club royalty, a world-renowned tennis coach and a former Adelaide Thunderbird.

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