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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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SANFL

Bloods destroy Tigers by 98 points

ONLY shoddy goalkicking prevented West Adelaide from giving Glenelg a serious shellacking at Richmond on Saturday.

Local Footy

Shane Crawford travelling to Adelaide to save the Aldinga Sharks football club that are getting flogged each week by 200 points. Please mention Melbourne Aquarium. Picture: Alex Coppel.

Aldinga comes alive thanks to super Shane

THE pub has put on more beer, the bakery has made special Sharks doughnuts and Hawks fans have come from Victoria to catch a glimpse of their champion.

Local Sport

The Messenger Shield college football competition kicks off on Saturday, May 24. all six school captains from their School football teams. Luke Partington from Emmanuel College, Ben Wiblin from Rostrevor College, Bryce Woolard from Prince Alfred College, Cleve Westley from Sacred Heart College with the Messenger Shield, Patrick Quinn from St Michael's college, Joint captains James Duncan and Jake Stafford from St Peters College on the steps of Sacred Heart College at Somerton Park. Pic Campbell Brodie

Hearts primed for Shield defence

SACRED Heart College captain Cleve Westley knows his team will be hunted this year as it seeks to defend college football’s Messenger Shield.

Southern

29/04/14. Jenny Williams is very happy at news her father's (Fos Williams) stand at Alberton Oval will receive a much-needed renovation. Pic. Noelle Bobrige

Williams to help Lions focus for Sharks

ALDINGA Sharks’ next opponent has called on a famous Port Adelaide name to quell player nerves before Saturday’s highly-anticipated clash with the embattled club.

SANFL

21/05/2014 Glenelg's Darcy Bailey in the Glenelg change rooms - the son of former Crows assistant Dean Bailey who died in March - has been awarded the SANFL's Rising Star Award for this past round.

Dad’s with me every time I play, says Darcy Bailey

DARCY Bailey, son of late Crows assistant coach Dean Bailey, remembers his dad’s advice every time he runs out on the footy field.

West & Beaches

Basketballer Al Green will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Adelaide 36ers basketball team's NBL championship in 1986.

Green sacked after ‘personality clash’

SA BASKETBALL great Al Green is considering legal action against Woodville Warriors’ president after being sacked as coach for what he calls a “personality clash”.

Glenelg

Tigers triumph over Bulldogs in a thriller

GLENELG willed its way over the line against Central District at the Bay on Saturday to record its second win for the season.

South

Southern footy league recalls Clem, a true legend

A STICKLER for perfection who was as community-minded and honest as they come. A Noarlunga Shoes’ legend is remembered.

Local Footy

2/5/2014 pic today at his Aldinga home is Ross Harvey 92. He played for the embattled Aldinga Football Club from 1946-52 and used to go watch the team as a boy during its golden era in the 1920s and '30s with his dad. Harvey still has an original wool/cotton guernsey that he is wearing for the photo today the club wore these guernsey's during the 1940s/50s...PIXS DAVID CRONIN.

Sharks veteran recalls glory years

ROSS Harvey’s memories of Aldinga Football Club are not of thrashings or wooden spoons, but of lining the picket fence during the club’s golden era.

Adelaide FL

01/05/14 - Tom Evans, 24, from Rosslyn Park, booted 23 goals during Pembroke Old Scholars hammering of Kilburn on Saturday, pictured after his team's training at Haslam Oval, The Parade, Kensington Park Pictured Tom Huntley

Full forward boots 23 goals in a game

TOM Evans’ 23-goal game is a Pembroke Old Scholars record, but the full-forward’s return is 10 goals short of the amateur league’s all-time high.

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