For sports fans, it can be tough to see the team you support endure a title drought. On the other hand, a drought can make victory even sweeter when it finally comes around.

That was true for South Australian cricket fans over the weekend as the state’s Sheffield Shield side won the competition for the first time in 29 years.

Needing 270 runs to win, South Australia produced the highest successful run chase in a Shield final to beat Queensland by four wickets.

Of course, after a 29-year-wait, it was nothing but jubilation for the side and it’s patient fans when Jason Sangha hit the winning runs.

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Sprinter Lachlan Kennedy’s time in the 200m at the Maurie Plant Meet in Melbourne on Saturday. The 21-year-old beat national record holder Gout Gout by four hundredths of a second in front of a sell-out crowd at Lakeside Stadium. 1.21 million viewers tuned in to Channel 7 to watch the meet.

"Football Australia [has] concluded that Kerr’s professional and sincere acceptance of responsibility, as well as her acknowledgment of the far-reaching implications of on-and-off-field actions, warranted no further action."
Football Australia has released a statement declaring that Sam Kerr will retain her Matildas captaincy. Last month, the 31-year-old was found not guilty of racially abusing a London police officer.

The winner of the most women’s FIFA World Cups is the U.S. who have won the tournament four times. The women’s tournament was introduced in 1991 and has been held nine times.

Aryna Sabalenka claimed her first Miami Open title on Saturday (local time), beating world number four Jessica Pegula in straight sets. After having lost her two most recent finals - Indian Wells and the Australian Open - Sabalenka was not going to let a third opportunity slip away. She said: “I didn’t want to lose in the finals, it sucks.” In the men’s singles,19-year-old Jakub Menšík denied Novak Djokovic a 100th tour-level title, beating the Serbian in the final in straight sets. Both sets went to a tiebreak. Menšík is the first Czech player to win an ATP Masters 1000 event since Tomas Berdych in 2005 (the year Menšík was born). 

This story contains the name and image of a First Nations person who has died. 

Former AFL star Andrew Krakouer died of a suspected heart attack aged 42. Krakouer played 137 games in the AFL with Richmond and Collingwood. In 2011, he was awarded the Mark of the Year. After beginning his career with Richmond, Krakouer served one year in prison for an assault charge. He then successfully returned to the league with Collingwood before being delisted due to persistent injury. Former Collingwood player and coach Nathan Buckley told SEN: "He went through a bit in his life… he probably had the worst of it and the best of it and showed real grit to fight back and do what he did in his career."

The Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs remain the only undefeated team in the NRL after four rounds. The Bulldogs beat the Cronulla Sharks 20-6 on Saturday night to claim their spot at the top of the table. On the other side of the competition, the Parramatta Eels and the Redcliffe Dolphins are the only two teams yet to win a match. The Eels lost 26-12 to the Manly Sea Eagles on Sunday afternoon and the Dolphins were outplayed 20-12 by the Brisbane Broncos on Friday night.

Australian golfer Min Woo Lee has claimed his first tournament victory on the PGA Tour at the Houston Open. In the final round, Lee held off world number one Scottie Scheffler and 2019 U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland to win by just one shot.

Coming into the final nine holes, Lee was leading the field by five shots. Scheffler and Woodland both recorded very strong final rounds and closed in on Lee’s margin. On the 16th, the Aussie’s tee shot ended up in the water but he recovered to bogey the hole. On the final hole, Lee had a one-shot lead and had to hit par to win his first PGA Tour title. The 26-year-old closed out the tournament by hitting a putt within inches of the hole to almost certainly guarantee victory.

The first men’s golf major of the year, The Masters, begins in 11 days. Scheffler is the defending champion.

Lee said: "It's unbelievable. I mean, it was a big mental grind and I'm very proud. Looking around, the Houston crowd was awesome obviously, and Scotty was there, and it was nerve-wracking."

Scheffler said: “Just trying to put as much pressure on Min Woo as I could have. I was hoping to be able to do that on the front nine. I wasn’t able to get off to a good enough start.”

The FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships took place over the weekend in St Moritz, Switzerland. Australia came away from the event with four medals, and finished eighth on the medal table.

Australian snowboarder Scotty James claimed his fourth half-pipe World Title over the weekend. The four-time Olympian’s second run of the day was awarded a title-clinching score of 95 points.

When it comes to world championships, the 30-year-old is now the most decorated half-pipe snowboarder of all time. He is also the only Australian winter athlete to have won four world titles in their respective sport.

Following the event, James said: “Halfpipe is a scary sport, and it gets even scary when conditions are tough, I'm really pumped and felt like I had to be resilient today, so I’m stoked.”

James has now firmly cemented his status as one of Australia’s best medal hopes for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy.

Danielle Scott won her fourth world championship-level medal, taking home bronze in the women’s aerials. American Kaila Kuhn won gold and China’s Xu Mengtao took home the silver medal. After the event, Scott said: “So happy, I literally did everything I could, every jump today was on the money.”

Earlier in the weekend, Cam Bolton and Mia Clift won a silver medal in the snowboard cross mixed team final. The duo finished second behind France to each claim their first World Championship-level medal.

Last week, Matt Graham also claimed a bronze medal in the men’s dual moguls. The result marked Graham’s fifth World Championship medal. The 30-year-old said: “It was probably one of the hardest earned podiums of my career”.

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