On Wednesday 3rd July, an Under 16.5 representative team from the AFL Goldfields region took on a combined representative side from AFL Townsville and AFL Mackay at Townsville's Tony Ireland Stadium and recorded a comfortable 84 point win, 15.14.104 to 2.8.20
The side contained twelve players from the Red Onion Creative Ballarat Football Netball League, six from the Bendigo Bank Maryborough & Castlemaine District Football Netball League and six from the Melton Toyota Riddell District Football Netball League which, whilst not geographically in the AFL Goldfields catchment area, is administered by the AFL Goldfields Regional Administration Centre.
Whilst the boys started slowly in their match against AFL Cairns on Sunday, they had no such problems in Townsville, kicking the first five goals of the game to build the foundation for their victory. Mount Clear's Ben Lusby booted four goals to be amongst the team's better players, with Melton's Kayne Wilson and Navarre's Aaron Slorach both prominent.
Full results are listed below.
AFL Goldfields 5.3, 9.4, 11.10, 15.14 (104)
AFL Townsville/Mackay 0.2, 1.4, 1.5, 2.8 (20)
GOALS: Ben Lusby (Mount Clear) 4, Cody Grant (North Ballarat) 3, Jarrod Burman (Carisbrook) 2, Billy Fellowes (Sunbury Lions) 2, Daniel Foley 1 (Bacchus Marsh), Toby Hutt (Sebastopol) 1, Peter Smith (Redan) 1, Bailey Veale (Mount Clear) 1
BEST: Ben Simpson (East Ballarat), Cody Grant (North Ballarat), Ben Lusby (Mount Clear), Kayne Wilson (Melton), Aaron Slorach (Navarre), Bailey Veale (Mount Clear).
The team will travel back to Cairns tonight before returning back to Melbourne tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon.
Last Modified on 03/07/2013 14:43