By David Ball
Yarra Glen faced the Division 1 pacesetter in Seville on Saturday. The reserves started with a full team but after a competitive start fell away as their numbers dwindled. Luke Coulsen was in
everything early but sadly a broken arm ended his day. Alec Peterson in his first senior game was solid early before earning a promotion to the seniors when a last-minute replacement was needed. Heath
Chamberlain and Dayne Downard worked hard in the middle to be amongst the best. Matt Campbell kicked our only goal as we went down 19.16 to 1.4
The seniors got off to a good start and had more than our share of attacking moves but some poor kicking let us down. Dylan Flakemore and Sam Horsley gave our forwards good supply with Jason Godfrey and Callum Morison marking everything up forward. Despite having the same amount of scoring shots, Seville’s conversion saw us trailing by 20 points at quarter time. For the balance of the game Seville’s centre clearances and multiple forward options made it hard for our defence. Jayden Schille was great in defence and even moved forward for goal to be our best on the day. Sam Horsley, Richard Wyles, Ryan Smith (3 goals), Callum Morison (1 goal) and Jason Godfrey (3 goals) were our best players, with Brendan Davis and Sam Wood our other goalkickers.
Final scores were Yarra Glen 10.11 losing to Seville 19.11.
With some good players to come in we look forward to next week’s big Pride Cup game against Belgrave. Make sure you all get down to Yarra Glen to support diversity and inclusion in sport at the 8thPride Cup event on Saturday 30 April.
The highlight of the day was the women’s team’s win 9.16 to 7.2. With great credit to Seville we put out a reduced numbers encounter. This provided for an open game on the smallish Seville ground
with Yarra Glen doing all the attacking early. Seville fought back in the second half but Yarra Glen were convincing in winners, 9.16 to 7.2. Although officially recorded as a forfeit, it was good to have a game and we look forward to more players being available for our Pride Cup encounter with Belgrave.
Netball
Coming against the very strong Seville teams, Yarra Glen was beaten in all grades. A grade lsot 27-55, with Meaghan Carter, Lara Wandin-Collins and Jackie Hibberd our best players. B Grade were within a goal at quarter time but fell way to lose 27-62. Abby Page, Gemma Ryan and Kim Williams were our best. C Grade had the scores at 6 – 6 at quarter time but eventually lost 19-38, with Jacinda Fraser our best with Tiah Large and Nicole Kaal also being very good on the day. The D grade story was much the same, only a goal behind at quarter time (9-10) but being beaten 17-43. Rose Morris, Sarah Orlandi and Sam Chetcuti (10 goals) were our best players.
Next week we battle Belgrave with A Grade looking to win back the The Pride Cup.
