State News - TAS

Essendon pushed but takes top spot

4:00 AM | SYDNEY - Essendon claimed top spot on the AFL ladder with a 66-point win over Greater Western Sydney last night, but it was nowhere as easy as the margin suggests.

Sport - Football - Australian Rules

Magpies put the pedal down

4:00 AM | ADELAIDE - Collingwood stunned Adelaide with a final quarter flurry to log a spirited 26-point away triumph in last night's AFL match.

Sport - Football - Australian Rules

VFL team too slick for locals

4:00 AM | TOO strong, too fast, too good. That sums up the VFL's performance in smashing the Tasmanian State League side by 106 points in their representative clash at Bellerive Oval yesterday.

Sport - Football - Australian Rules

This time Richmond delivers the knockout

4:00 AM | IT'S hard to believe there was ever a critical moment as late as the third quarter of a match won by 62 points, but if you're a Richmond supporter you'll know just what were talking about.

Sport - Football - Australian Rules

Longmire left to ponder the wreckage

4:00 AM | ST KILDA'S 28-point mauling of Sydney last night left Swans coach John Longmire stunned, as the Saints celebrated champion midfielder Lenny Hayes's 250th game in style.

Sport - Football - Australian Rules

Parrots turn it on to humble Saints

4:00 AM | BRIDGENORTH put in its best performance of the season and recorded its best win so far with a 65-point victory over George Town in their NTFA division 1 clash at Bridgenorth yesterday.

Sport - Football - Australian Rules

Suns switch off so Power flicks the switch

4:00 AM | If ever Gold Coast was to finally break its duck at its home ground - and this season - this surely would be the game.

Sport - Football - Australian Rules

Evandale maintains unbeaten record

4:00 AM | EVANDALE continued its unbeaten run after nine rounds of NTFA division 2 football with a 59-point victory over Fingal Valley at Fingal yesterday.

Sport - Football - Australian Rules

Gardner's goal enough to give Tamar victory

4:00 AM | TAMAR Churinga and Queechy Penguins had a close game in yesterday's round of the Women's Greater Northern Hockey League. Tamar won 1-0 after Grace

Sport - Hockey

Torns come off worse in `all out war'

4:00 AM | IT WAS a sour end to a ripping final half of SEABL basketball for the Launceston Tornadoes last night.

Sport - Basketball

Worsfold inspires new generation

4:00 AM | West Coast ruckman Nic Naitanui was too young to remember the playing days of premiership coach John Worsfold but still says his playing feats inspire the 2012 group.

Sport - Football - Australian Rules

Motton stays on top with big win

4:00 AM | COMPETITION pacesetter, Motton Preston, extended its unbeaten start to the season and cemented top spot on the North Western Football Association ladder, with a 57 point win over second-placed East Ulverstone, in yesterday's match of the round.

Sport - Football - Australian Rules