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Sorrento’s grand final ecstasy By Casey Franklin and Mike Hast SORRENTO Sharks confirmed their dominance as the peninsula’s team of the decade on Saturday when they won a nail-biting Nepean Division grand final by a solitary point. It was heartbreak for Hastings Blues and ecstasy for Sorrento, with the club’s fourth flag in seven seasons, won in front of a record crowd of more than 4500 at Frankston Park. Sorrento’s golden era has produced flags in 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2011. But Hastings is the team to break the dominance next year with club stalwart John Watson telling The News the Blues are confident of keeping all their players and bringing through some brilliant youngsters. The opening quarter was even with Sorrento kicking four goals to three; Andrew Kiely of Hastings was marking everything and winning clearances for his team. A highlight of the quarter was the Blues’ opening goal by spearhead Tim Churchin when he crumbed the pack and snapped from 35 metres out. The second quarter was all Sorrento. They dominated from the start, kicking four goals to one. Sorrento’s Simon Phillips had a scintillating term; he tackled well, kicked a goal and was involved in two score assists. Leap into history: Dolphins resident in Port Phillip have been identified as a distinct species, commonly known as Burrunan. This one leaps out of the water off Sorrento.
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Dolphins are different By Keith Platt THE dolphins never had any doubt about their difference, but now it’s official – the dolphins that call Port Phillip home are a specific species. They are now known as Tursiops australis, or the Burrunan dolphin,
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never again to be confused with Tursiops truncatus, Tursiops aduncas or Tursiops maugeanus. After eight years studying dolphins in Port Phillip, Western Port and the Gippsland Lakes, researcher Kate Charlton-Robb has proven they are of
a previously unidentified species. “I’ve spent a lot of time with dolphins in Port Phillip since 1998 and know a lot of them by sight. “I know their habits and they have personalities and are certainly charismatic when they choose to come over
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