Western Border Football Netball Budget - The Western - Round 7 2023

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Western Western

2023OFFICIALPROGRAMME

ROUND7-JUNE3

another milestone for saint superstar

another milestone for saint superstar

Donna Denton can now add games record holder to her long list of achievements taking to the court for the 434th time last weekend against East Gambier

SENIORS

Millicent 7.2 13.4 21.9 27.12 (174)

East 4.0 6.1 6.3 7.4 (46)

Best - Millicent: S. Willis, C. Gallio, J. Werchon, Jed Haines, M. Reilly, J. Carger; East: F. Scanlon, S. Lock, N. Lock, J. Forster, P. Hatch, J. Mee.

Goals - Millicent: M. Reilly 6, J. Carger 4, S. Willis 4, C. Gallio 3, J. Verbena 2, F. Bradley 2, H. McRae 2, M. Withers, K. Varcoe, J. Cushion, Z. McGuinness; East: R. Flamank 2, C. Lile 2, S. Lock, J. Dowdy, J. Forster.

Best - Casterton Sandford: D. Cleary, M. Krieger, H. Mccrae, G. Parsons, J. Searle, D Ayton; West: J. Williams, J. Pfitzner, A. Stone, K. Giddings, A. Pearson, B. Newton.

Goals - Casterton Sandford: H. Mccrae 4, J Searle 2, M. Krieger 2, J. Carlin; West: D McElroy 6, J. Williams 5, M. Minuzzo, J. Ferguson-Lane, T. Holmes, C. Wagstaffe, B. Ousey

Best - North: N. Tana, D. Walsh, Z. Clark, S. Shepherd, M. Blanck, T. Harris; South: E. Fisher, C. Williams, J. Sneath, L. Gray, F. Calderwood, A. Keast.

Goals - North: M. Chapman 2, J. Paues, S. Buerfield, M. Blanck; South: E. Fisher 7, F Calderwood 2, J. Sneath, C. Williams, T. Vassallo, C. Denney-Allen, D. Pochec-Gordon.

Millicent won by East Gambier forfeit

UNDER 18'S

Best - North: D. Arthurson, D. Ilsley, Z. Young, M. Gold-Smiths, J. Spark; South: M. Harrold, H. Mitchell, A. Urquhart, N. Forbes, M. Whitehead, S. Domaschenz.

Goals - North: D. Ilsley, D. Arthurson, Z. Young, I. Phu; South: N. Forbes 5, A. Urquhart 4, M. Harrold 3, K. Bannon, C. Fielding, F. Lawson.

Best - Millicent: J. Werchon, K. Gibson, C. Damhuis, L. Cawood, S. Gronn, Z. Ash; East: T Grigg, J. Carey, R. Angelino, J. Picken, B. Versteegh, C. McCracken.

Goals - Millicent: K. Gibson 5, L. Tunkin 2, C. Hateley, M. Hunt; East: J. Carey 2, J. Picken 2, R. Lawrence 2, R. Mitchell, R. Angelino.

Best - Casterton Sandford: B. McKinnon, O Foster, J. Rhook, A. Lane, E. Geary; West: K. Harkness, K. Stratman, R. Newton, H. Croker, B. Szopory

- Casterton Sandford: E. Geary 4, J Rhook 3, B. McKinnon 3; West: O. Feetom

14'S

Best - North: E. Brook, C. Waters, J. Butler, C. Blanck, I. Richards; South: J. Harten, H. Higgins, C. Kilpatrick, O. McCracken, M. Ropini, T. Bryant.

Best - North: M. Kelton, T. McInerney, N. McInerney, D. Bachmann, J. Schutz, J. Jenner; South: J. Sims, A. Harknesss, M. Sims, R. Kuhl, S. Mctaggart.

Goals - North: S. Stafford 4, D. Bachmann 4, D. Ilsley 2, T. Christophersen, B. Shepherdson; South: B. Kain 4, M. Sims 2, A. Harknesss, J Domaschenz, E. Marks, E. Chuck.

RESERVES

Best - Casterton Sandford: J. Smith, K. Humphries, D. Murrell, B. Millard, T. Searle, B. Pevi; West: B. Say, D. Robbins, J. Carson, B. Virgo, J. Schapel, P. Rudd.

Goals - Casterton Sandford: B. Millard 2, F. Bright, T. Searle, C. Zippel, P. Player; West: J Schapel 6, B. Virgo 2, R. Wilson 2, T. Morale, D Robbins, J. Carson, J. Thomas, J. Hewe.

Best - Millicent: J. Werchon, J. Todd, A. Wesolowski, S. Snook, T. Dunn, B. Werchon; East: J. Lawrence, E. Straord, D. McDonald, T Dalton, K. Mee.

Goals - Millicent: A. Wesolowski 2, T. Dunn; East: E. Straord 6, W. Ellis 2, A. McKinnon, S. Couldrey, K. Mee.

UNDER 16'S

Best - North: J. Fle, C. Turner, I. Phu, K. Allen, E. Brook; South: A. Milich, C. Lockwood, H. Ellis, M. Hopgood, S. McBain, C. Medhurst.

Goals - North: J. Fle, C. Blanck, J. Driver; South: J. Maxwell 5, E. Forbes 3, S. McBain 3, H. Hicks 2, M. Bentley, L. Sigley, J. Bartle, C. Medhurst, L. Cameron.

Goals - North: J. Dyson, E. Kulimushi; South: J Harten 5, O. McCracken 2, T. Bryant, C. McGregor, J. Hagge, H. Higgins, J. Vause.

Best - Casterton Sandford: B. Rhook, N. Longhurst, H. Buerworth, B. Davis, Z. Cates; West: J. Sugden, D. Jackway, Joshua Witney, L. Vivian.

Goals - Casterton Sandford: J. Geary; West: J Coe 2, T. Porter, N. Mckinnon, J. Witney.

Best - Millicent: W. Jennings, C. Gibson, L. Tunkin, L. Easterby, N. Thomson, A. Gysbers; East: E. Clark, R. Grigg, C. Gifford, T. Wilson, CJ Ligairi, A. Ferraro.

Goals - Millicent: W. Jennings 3, C. Gibson 3, L. Tunkin, K. Kenny; East: T. Wilson 2, R. Grigg, W Vincent.

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SATURDAY

MONDAY 8.00am - 10.00am

South Gambier South Gambier

Red & White

Red, Black & White

South Gambier South Gambier

Red & White

A good day at Vansittart Park last week with a good crowd watching a Senior game that was close all day with North just getting ahead at the right time. The boys continue to improve and play competitive and entertaining footy. It was great to see two new debutantes this week with Harry Wright and Jed Sims, the jumper presentations have been a real highlight this year and Gingers to Jed was one of the best. Jed also had a memorable start to a hopefully long South Gambier career being named best along with Harky, Mitch Sims, Ryan Kuhl and Sam McTaggart who has been excellent since debuting early this year Four goals to Kainy and a couple to Mitch in his first game back for four weeks and a special mention to Domo’s first senior goalwithhisbombfrom50.

The Ressies had a good win after beingdownearlywithElliotFisher kicking seven and being named best has a fantastic three weeks coming back from injury Two goals to Gus Calderwood and the rest singles, other best mentions to Willow, Jamo, Luke Gray, Gus andKeasty

The 18’s had a slow start but got going with Mitch Harrold (3 Goals) andHarryMitchellgettingtheside moving after quarter time and

being named best other bests were Gus Urquhart (4 goals), Forbesy looked good with five, MaxWhiteheadandSam Domo.

The 16’s are really rolling this year and are playing some good team footy best players last week to Milich, Lockwood, Ellis, Hopgood, McBain and Medhurst with goals scorers Jace Maxwell with five, Emerson Forbes and Scotty McBainwiththreeandHarryHicks withacouple.

The 14’s turned around the result from the first round with a good win. Jobe Harten played a cracker being named best and kicking 5 goals other mentions to Higgins, Kilpatrick, McCracken, Ropitini andBryant.

A shout out to Cayde Watson, Jacob Salmon, Rex Jones, Jace & Noah Maxwell and Will Attiwill and to the families making the trip to Adelaide to represent Glenelg so far this year, it always great to s e e t h e k i d s t a k i n g t h e opportunityatthenextlevel.

A reminder to get your tickets to the Rump and Red night with Andrew Jarman on the 1st of July, get you tables of 10 together for oneofthenightsoftheseason.

Little bit of Groundhog Day (due to no game last week) with Todd Craig set to play his 100th this Saturday He willbelovingtheextraweek basking in the anticipation. Matt Withers reaches the giddy heights of 50 games. Congratulations to both of you.

Thanks to the Under 14 boysandgirlsfootballersfor the curtain raiser to the Seniors against East. When the Doggies snuck in front, the Saints found another notch and won convincingly intheend.

There was some general banter between both camps on some of the strategiesacoachcanuseto scratchupaReservesteam:

1. Fire up your old phone and scan through your old contacts.

2 Use sentimental r e a s o n i n g t o g e t a father/son union, or even betterincludeuncles.

3. Look at old club photos and use a milestone game as leverage to get past playersinvolved.

4. Free food and beverage (afterthegame).

5. Call on that person that owes you a favour (doesn’t havetobefootyrelated)

6. Ifyouknowadirtysecret

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about someone, blackmail them!

In the Seniors match, the Dogs outfit came out and capitalised on turnovers for a fairly even first quarter A few home truths at quarter time prompted a shift in focusastheSaintsgradually p u l l e d a w a y f o r a comfortable win Dredgie finished with 6 after a promo up; Cargs and Cream got4;Clintchimedinwith3; Jack, Hamish (McRae) and Frazer with 2; and singles to Gidda, Smithers, Cush and (the dude who appeared to wander in off the street) Ginny From the celebration itwould seemitwas his first senior goal. Another first was Austin Fullers first Senior game after good forminthe‘Goos. It was a good team effort with plenty of players sharing the ball around.

C r e a m ( 4 q u a r t e r contribution) was named best followed by Consistent Clint, Worm (putting together a consistent season), Jed (who has been chipping away improving each week), Dredgie and Cargs.

Good luck today against the Demons!

seniorDEBUTs

Harry Wright pictured left with dad David and mum Kylie along with Jed Sims pictured far right with brother Mitch celebrated their 1st senior game against North Gambier last weekend.

South Gambier South Gambier

Under 18’s Under 18’s

Brodie Jennings

Chase Kilpatrick

Lee McTaggart

Henry Medhurst

Lachlan Moss

Alex Nunn

Patrick Sigley

Josh Vause

Harrison Xanthopoulos

Under 16’s Under 16’s

Under 14’s Under 14’s

Coach: Nat Anderson

William Anderson

Kyan Awill

Oscar Benjamin

Paddy Bouchier

South Gambier South Gambier

Under 12 A’s Under 12 A’s

Coach: Brad Tilley

Zavier Gurney

Ryder Straord

Axel Joyce

Levi Robbins

Tyler Ryan

Brax Thomas

Arli Sims

Colby Watson

Millicent

Red, Black & White

Blayke Koehne

David Berzel

Pacey Duldig

Elijah Finnegan Thomas Pedler

Alexander Hill

Imogen Hopes

Blake Janeway

Flynn Clarke Jackson Janeway

Zachary Cung Jackson Jones

Mitchell Dening

Benjamin Ellis

Sebasan Radlmair

Connor Ruwoldt

Liam Salmon

Beau Vivian

Nate Wakefield

NO TEAM FIELDED IN THIS GRADE

Beau Maxwell

Samuel Miller

Coaches: Chris Patzel & Mark Winterfield

Kobi Hay

Hadley Bryant

Tate Anderson

Harty Blackwell

Desney Bums

Summer Burns

Hudson Cook

Parker Davis

Essie Hill

Jack Mitchinson

Chase Noonan

Hudson O'Connell

Rowan Patzel

Casey Peterse

Jack Rees

Harry Sneath

Levi Tull

Fletcher Walker

Riley Watson

Charlie Winterfield

Coach: Team Manager:

Archer Wilson

Raff Lawlor

Hughes Hunter

Oliver Sager

Frankie Robbins

Kobe McGrath

Hamish Damhuis

Tully Robinson

Fraser Fleming

Owen Lloyd

Jed Sunderland

Jax Reilly

Lauchlan Murphy

Tex Thomas

Jarvis Gurney

Ziggy Galambos

NO TEAM FIELDED IN THIS GRADE

Coach: Craig Gysbers

Jagger Gibson

Sunny Coughlan

Levinson Clyde

Parker Millowick

Degan Rigney

Mariah Lloyd

Jacob Gysbers

Mark Rigney

West Gambier West Gambier

Senior Coach: Daron McElroy

Assistant Coaches: Nathan Lewis

Reserves Coach: Nathan Lewis

1S Aden Pfitzner

1R Jacob Rigney

North Gambier North Gambier Yellow

Senior

Assistant Coaches: Jordan Holli & Kevin

5 Kyle Giddings

8 Ethan Giddings

2 Will Crook 14 Nathan Lewis

10 Andrew Stone

11R Daniel Royals

4 Taylor Redden 6 Todd Mcpartlan 7 Todd Lewis 9 Jordan Williams 15 Brody Virgo

Jesse Pfitzner

3 Michael Minuzzo 18 Dale Robbins

19 Lawry Bradley-Brown (Sc)

27 Mitchell Cornolo

TIGER JUNIOR NOTES TIGER JUNIOR NOTES

U12A - Friday night saw the 12A's battle it out against the benchmark team South Gambierunderlights.

We welcomed another first gamer in Charlie Blanck to the team. I also want to thank Charlie'sDadforsteppinginandhelpingmeasarunner

WithsomegoodformcomingintothegameandavividmemoryofhowSouthoutplayed uslasttimethegroupwasdeterminedtomakeamendsthistimearound.

ElizaHarveyhadthehonourofleadingusoutascaptainthisweekandbywinningthetoss gotusofftoagoodstart.

South managed to kick a few quick goals on us at the start of the first quarter but by quartertimeourmidfieldandbacklinewasabletostemtheflow

Wewrestledbackmomentuminthesecondquarterandmanagedtogettheballforward attimeswhilstonlyconcedingonemoregoaltohalftime.

Thelasthalfofthegamesawusnotonlystopsouthscoringbutkeeptheballinourhalffor themajorityofthehalf

The defensive effort from everyone was great to see and proved that if we all play to our abilities,wecanmatchitwithanyone.Amuch-improvedeffortbyeveryone.

Awardwinnersthisweekwentto;

KaneHarris,

JohnStafford-Coach

U12B-Fridaynightfooty!

Safetosaythatallthekidsenjoyedtheopportunitytoplayunderlightsandhopefullyitis something we will get to do again next season with nearly all the kids asking when our next night game is! It was a great contest with South with a few players playing in new positions due to a few others being unavailable but everyone gave it a red hot go and playedwellinwhateverpositiontheywereputin.

Our goal kicker for the night was Maison Roscow and best players were Harry Window, AbelMcintosh,JarrahDurbridge,BanksStephen,PrestonBadgerandMaisonRoscow

Gotigers!

StacyMullens-Coach

U12C-WewerewithoutourHeadCoachonFridaynight,butthatwasn'tgoingtodappen ourplayer'senthusiasm withtheexcitementofplayingunderlights!

Wehadanumberofplayersplayupfrom12Dstomaketheteamsevenat18each.

Some great skills by both teams under lights. Tackling was great, and the team work was evidentwithplentyofshepherds,handballs&clearingtoteammates.Therewerealotof playersontheground,soitwasimportanttospreadnumbersthroughoutthegame.

Awards went to Will Gannon (tackling, winning hardball/ground ball, crashing packs,clearing to teammates), Ted and Harry Lucas (defensive pressure,shepherding and driving it forward), Tom Wright(rucking and strong marking around the ground) and HudsonRogers(waseverywhere).

Thankyoutotheplayers(&parents)from12Dwhoplayedtheirsecondgameofthenight!

U12D-Round6presentedagreatopportunityfortheteamtoexperiencetheprime-time slot with a game under the Friday night lights. The team took on a competitive South Gambier side in what was a close fought and highly skilled contest. Despite the slippery conditions there was lots of strong marking from the forwards which was a real highlight for the team. Contested footy and ball movement was also at a high level which is a real testamenttotheworkthateveryonehasbeenputtinginattraining. Thegameprovedto be a back-and-forth high scoring affair which was a lot of fun for players, spectators, and this week’s Care-taker coaches. Award winners for this week were Jimmy Crozier, Eden Stephenson,FlynnBuckley,FergusBrokenshaandFinnRoscow

Thanks to Shaun Lovekin for filling in as Coach for the night as regular Coaches Ciaran Buckley&JoeRenkohadothercommitments.

U12E-Greatteameffort.Andgreatfuntoplayunderlights.LookingforwardtoWestthis weekend.

AwardwinnerswereNate,Cruz,Evie,LaylaandWyatt.

BenJohnson-Coach

Auskick - Our Auskickers were very fortunate to have the opportunity to play two "real games"underlightsthisweek.Thankyoutothejuniorcommittee&Southforsupporting theidea!

Despite the cold conditions, the kids rose to the occasion & relished the chance to show theirskillstoamassivecrowd.

Manythankstotheparents,supporters&especiallytoourumpiresformakingthenighta success!

FionaYoung-NGFCAuskickCoordinator

KyeWren-Mitchell,ElizaHarvey,HarrisMustart,CharlieBlanck,Gotigs

AbigThankyoutoMichaelGannonforsteppinguptocoachtheteaminDanny'sabsence.

West Gambier West Gambier

Our under 12 B On a cold morning for football the young roo boys travelled down to Casterton to takeonthecats.

Great to see both teams had good numberswith20playersapiece

The young roo boys started well taking the game on and bringing their teammates into the game by playing in quickly and keeping the ball moving and finishing with a coupleofgoalsinthefirstquarter

Second and third quarters the youngcatsgotthemselvesintothe game by winning the balls prune the contest forcing the young roo boys to defend with the backline holdingupparticularlywell.

The last quarter seen the ball spend most of the quarter in our forward line with the forwards finishing off the good work of the midfieldtogettheballforward.

Was good to see the boys put into action what we have been practicing at training over the last fewweeks.

Special mention goes to Henry Milne who worked hard at brining his team mates into game and proved them with scoring opportunities.

Something new moving forward we will be offering 1 junior a week who does a special act that could be a 1%, a great effort or anything thatstandsouttothecoaches.We

North Gambier North Gambier

Yellow & Black Blue & Red

will be giving away the Presidents Pie Prize of $20 voucher thanks to our tremendous sponsors the Ok pieshop.

Congratulations Harry Milne for your great work you are the first winnerofthePresidentsPie!

Harry set the tone for the rest of the day with the rest of the Roo boys having a great day down at Casterton We have a lot of participantsininterleaguetrialsso congratulationstothemall.

This week is also a big week for 2 big names in our club. Mr reliable Todd McPartlan plays his 100th and So does our leader and coach Roo McElroy who plays his 100th. Both these guys have been instrumental in changing the culture and driving us to achieve o u r g o a l s t h i s y e a r Congratulations to them both and getaroundthemtocelebrateupat thebarafterthegame.

All our Presentations for 14, 16s, 18s,Reservesandseniorswiththe Netball at the club tonight at 6pm. Come up and join in the atmosphereandcelebratetheday withus.

Fridge.

brooklyn winterfield seniorDEBUT

VLast week one of winningest players played his 200th senior club game. Tim Young is a 6 time reserves premiership player and 2019 reserves B & F Youngy is our current reserves coach and no-one is trying harder than him to improve our results this year For all his onfieldachievements,probably the best thing Tim brought to the club is Fiona! I am glad Youngy has been through the highs, which I am sure it is gettinghimthroughthecurrent low

Withafewhandyinclusionsthe ressies had the lead at ¼ time, only to fall away as the game went on. I hope it not fitness given a lot of blokes are not getting to training regularly Chappy is getting closer to the club games records and this weekhestayedcloseenoughto goals to snag 2 goals. Awards were given to Nathan Tana, Dylan Walsh (in his first game for North – who would have thought that a few years ago), Zach Clark, Sam Shepherd, Michale Blanck and Tyler Harris.

Southprovedtoostronginallof the underage games. In all, we were right in the contests at ¼ time, to finish convincingly beaten. South are the team to beat in most grades, so we knowwhatisrequiredwhenwe play them again, and hopefully infinals.

Missing their best player in the U14s, it was time for others to step up and the awards were giventothosethatdid,inEthan Brook, Charles Waters, James Butler, Cody Blanck and Izac Richards.

Coach Zeitz has had to manage alotofillnessandinjuriesinthe U16s, which hopefully will reduce after this week and the bye Best players this week were James Flett, Cooper Turner, Intha Phutt, Kade Allen andEthanBrook.

The U18s shot out of the blocks and were winning at ¼ time, only to be overrun as the game

wenton. Someplayersplayeda majorroleintheseniorsvictory, so managing them is tricky for coach Bryan. Awards were given to Darcy Arthurson, Deacon Ilsely, Zayne Young , Maurice Goldsmiths and Jack Spark.

Thebestgameofthedaywasin the seniors, with the young Southies putting up a huge performance to be leading at ¾ time. Fortunately, with a combined effort from some of our oldest and youngest, we managed to get over the line. Sam Stafford and Dale Bachman with 4 goals each and Deacon Ilsely with 2 (or 3?) had the forward line ticking over, but the win came with contributions from many, including #33 for his first game for the season. We are having a b i t o f l u c k c o nv e r t i n g basketballers into footballers, includingMitchKeltonwhowas named best. Others to feature in the best players were Tim McInerney (who turned back the clock in the last ¼), his brother Nick (haha), Dale, Jake SchutzandJoshJenner

We have West away this week andwithmanyoftheirteamsat thepointyendoftheladder,itis an important week before the interleague bye. Make sure you try out their new shed and make some noise to support theNorthies.

Comingevents

Friday 2nd June 2023 – Junior Tig Golf & Music Night (see socialsfordetails)

Saturday3rdJune2023–Senior Tig Golf & Music Night (see socialsfordetails)

Saturday 22nd July 2023 –

ReunionWeekend

Saturday 29 July 2023 –Sponsorsday

Friday4thAugust2023–Goods &servicesauction

Thank you to our major sponsors in Stuckey Electrical ContractorsandKFC.

Congratulations to Brooklyn Winterfield on making his senior debut last week. He earned his spot with hard work and determination week in week out. Pictured above received his indigenous game day guernsey from Brandon Newton.

2 Finn Kennesley

4 Max Byfieldt

5 Rafael Rigopoulis

7 Henry James

8 Sam Medhurst

12 Joe Judd

13 Charlie Carson

14 Nate Davey

15 Rylan Burchell

17 Brooklyn Winterfield

18 Zac Hopgood

22 Levi Loring

23 Anton Circelli

24 Brad Cowling

25 Bryce Cowland

Coach: Andrew Pearson

Team Manager:

West Gambier West Gambier

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Under 18’s Under 18’s

26 Noah Pezzimen

29 Blake Overmaat-Pohlner

30 Harry Opperman

31 Tom Smith

34 Talon Johnson

37 Mee Ree Htoo

43 Koan Vanderheyden

51 Jayden Prior

58 Soe Nay Bell

69 Joel Day

70 Addison Noble

Under 16’s Under 16’s

North Gambier North Gambier

Yellow & Black

Brodie Szopory 5 William Johnston

2 Rhys Newton

12 Silas Bowden 3

Toby Stutley

Ethan McKenny

Owen Feetom

Coach: Team Manager:

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25 Oliver Pohlner 6 Seth Fraser

60

Koby Stratman (c)

William Pearson

Jack Milich

63 Harrison Mobbs

Under 14’s Under 14’s

Ryan Roulstone Assistant Coach: Sco Fle Team Manager: Jess Roulstone

2 Ryan Pearson

3 Zayne Parsons

4 Deegan Jackway

5 Tage Curnow

6 Hayden Aitchison

8 Jasper Coe

9 Jordan Burchell

10 Tyrece Porter

11 Jack Flier

12 Rhys Thiele

1 Alexander Cram 14 Zavier Ryan

15 Parker Pigno

17 Bradlei Witney

18 Mitchell Day

24 Ryan Hinchliffe

28 William Judd

37 Nate McKinnon

41 Logan Vivian

54 Joshua Witney

57 Jasper Sugden

West Gambier West Gambier

East

Gambier East Gambier

Casterton-Sandford Casterton-Sandford

Blue,

Last week we travelled to Millicent minus a Reserves t e a m w h i c h w a s unfortunate but with only 27 fit senior players to choose from nothing could behelped.

U14s the boys had a great first half but fell asleep at half time to not score in the 2nd half, best players E Clark, R Grigg, C Gifford, T Wilson, C Ligairi and A Ferraro.

East Gambier East Gambier

Red & Black

McDonald, T Dalton and K (chips)Mee.

A g r a d e w i t h a n undermanned side played a strong Millicent side, they tried but were simply out matched, best players F Scanlon, S Lock, N Lock, J Forster,PHatchandJMee.

Casterton-Sandford Casterton-Sandford

Blue, White & Red

VRound7Catfansandherewe are at McDonald Park ready to go against the Doggies of East Gambier, hopefully the weather is nice otherwise I'll be sitting in the car eating my hot dog and drinking a delicioushotchocolate.

The Reserves have definitely improved from the last time they played the Roos but were unable to get over the linethistime,whennextthey meet it may be a more positiveoutcome.

T h i s w e e k w e h o s t Casterton Sandford with a special appearance from our Auskickers at half time sohopefullywecangetabig crowdtosupportourboys. U16s played a spirited game but just came up short but the improvement on last round was huge so keep up the improvement, best players T Grigg, J Carey, R Angelino, J Picken, B V e r s t e e g h a n d C McCracken.

U18s with our only win for theday,apparentlyit'sbeen 4 years since our 18s have beaten them so huge effort l a d s , b e s t p l aye rs J Lawrence, E Stratford, D

With our annual MOUSE CUP coming up on 24th June, let the club know if you want to book a table or come alone and we'll find a table for you. It's always a greatnightnottobemissed

Last weekend we welcomed West Gambier to Island Park, wellmostofusdid,theUnder 16 Cats didn't, they chased the Roos all the way up M Carmichael Drive, then onto Murray Street, turned 'em into Clarke Street and then into Henty Street up til just past the Top Shop where Snake pulled them up and shouted them 3 bites and chipseach.

What a turn around by the Under 16s, when last they metWesttheylost93to1,on the weekend they won 65 to 19, great effort by all, the defenders did a great job, keeping the Roos goaless in 3 of the 4 quarters. The mids movedtheballwithprecision and up forward the goal kickers were on song, kicking twice as many goals as behinds.

Elwood Geary kicked 4 goals, Jedd Rhook kicked 3 goals as didBayMcKinnon,McKinnon and Geary then lined up later in the day for the Seniors and bothplayedtheirrolesinthat gametogreatapplause.

Better Players named were McKinnon, Rhook, Geary, Oliver Foster and Archie Lane.

The Under 14s had a crack, they looked to match it with theRoostilhalftimebutabig 3rd quarter effort by West saw them draw away Casterton-Sandford didn't give in though and finished thegameastheystarted.

Better players were Billy Rhook, Nate Longhurst, Harry Butterworth, Brody DavisandZavierCates.

Jarrad Smith was named B.O.G. and fair enough too he'sashardasaCatshead,he had a gash on his leg you could fit your fist in and he kept running around, he is a machine. Other Cats to play well were Kaden Humphries who was very impressive down back, Darren Murrell, Bradley Millard, Thomas SearleandBenPevitt.

The Seniors, I hate saying this,weredownafewplayers but they did run out each quarter and they did show enthusiasm when attacking the ball. Matt Killey, Jarrod O'Brien and the other defenders tried their level best and you can't ask for morethanthat.

Better players were Diarmid Cleary, who did a power of work around the ground in another 40 plus possession game, Michael Krieger, Hamish McCrae, Gabe Parsons, evergreen Joshua Searle and el Presidente DylanAyton.

SoCatfans,areweoutsideor in the car, doesn't matter, get those vocal cords lubed up as we let these cats and Dogs know we are here cheering onthehoops,CARNCATS!

Thank-you to all our valued s p o n s o r s i n c l u d i n g Boonaroo, Nutrien Ag Solutions, Bendigo Bank, and CastertonSecondaryCollege

Upcoming Events: 1st of July Comedy night bythe one and only Evan Hocking, he gives good banter, and his mate Siegert might wear a helmet butisnowherenearasgooda footballerasPie.

The seniors wore indigenous jumpers designed by Jason Walker from the Gunditjmara and Yorta Yorta people last weekend against West Gambier The meaning of the jumper design: Where the Bochara and Wannon rivers interconnect bordered by neighbouring tribes Buandik & Jardwajali, the Gunditjmara cared for Mirring and Mirring cared for Mara. When we work together and take care of each other

Coach: Jason Dunn

Team Manager:

1 Cody Williams

3 Dom McDonald

4 Talan Daltan

East Gambier East Gambier

Under 18’s Under 18’s

21 Trae Wilke

22 Ethan Humphies

5 Kyan Chileborough

6 Elijah Straord

8 Ky McCracken

9 Angus Clarke

10 Sam Couldrey

11 Kobe Wagener

12 Kaelen Mee

14 Fionn Graney

15 Campbell McLean

17 Nick Bignell

19 Will Ellis

20 Vinnie Kele

Coach: Kevin Schutz

Team Manager:

Mason Andersen

Ryan Angelino

Jarrod Carey

Charlie Clark

Brock Dempsey

Isaac Dwyer

Noah Gollan

Toby Grigg

Riley Lawrence

Lachlan Legray

Cruz McCracken

Angus McKinnon

Jarvi Mee

Riley Mitchell

Andison Penyman

Jaiden Picken

Coach: Grant Spooner

Team Manager:

Emme Best

Sco Brooks

Flynn Chileborough

Eamon Cook

Samuel Dickson

Xavier Farmilo

Angelo Ferraro

Chayse Gifford

Rhys Grigg

Ryan Hayden

Alex Kanahs

Joel Rentsch

Jackson Saunders

Noah Spooner

William Vincent

William Rentsch

Banjo Sampson

Corey Smith

Solomon Telford

Tex Tilley

Brodie Versteegh

Skye Virtanen

Taj Wilson

Under 16’s Under 16’s Under 14’s Under 14’s

Coach:

Coach: Charlie Jarrad

Coach: Mahew White

Braith Allison

Je Beever

Cooper Bignell

Nicholas Clark

William Clark

Tom Croser

Hallam Davey

Finn Gale

East Gambier East Gambier

Red & Black

Max Greene

Noah Griffin

Kade Hand

Vaughan Hunter

Brayden Legray

Nash Neilson

Mitchell O'Brien

Lennox Telfird

Coach: Bre Hosking

Zach Angelino

Chase Buckingham

Blake Cooper

Elijah Dickson

Will Hosking

Parker Lamont

william leitch

Connor Lynn

Coach: Nick Anderson

Samuel Andersen

Asher Anderson

Campbell Best

Hugh Clark

Oliver Clarke

Tyler Cox

Tyler Mariano

Hamish Mckenzie

Tahj Pitkin

Louis Prosperi-Porta

William Richardson

Bentley Ward

Isaac Thami

Harley Walker

Taj White

Coach: Darren Carlin

Baden Dihm

Thomas Gale Hudson Farmilo

Sebasan

Naon Hedwards Memphis

Blake Humphries

Judd Creek

Harrison Cram Kade Jakutavicius

Coach: Andrew Angelino

Dominic Albanese

Storm Altschwager

Billy Angelino

Braxton Bowyer

Nicholas Brooks

Van Byron

Archie Cook

Lenny Cooper

Coach: Marco Lucchini

Nathan Barnes

Zade Kurzman

Nate Lucchini

Oliver Mckelvie

Nash Moelder

Lucas Murray

Jax Sargeant

Jenson Davey

Oscar Ferguson

Maton Finck

Brayse Gifford

Taj Jensen

Ted Kerr

Tyler McPherson

Nate Moloney

Logan Murray

Cody O'Brien

Rayan Singh

Flynn Turner

Logan White

Ryder Wilson

ALLSENIOR GAME REPLAY’SAREAVAILABLE ON THE WESTERN BORDERYOUTUBE CHANNEL

tim young

Congratulaons our Reserves coach Tim Young who played his 200th game on the weekend against South Gambier

Tim arrived at the club in 2009 and has been a pillar of consistency since his arrival.

Tim has played in winning Reserves premierships in 2012,13,14,15,16 and 2019. He was also Best and Fairest for the Reserves in the 2019 premiership season.

Loyalty, dedicaon, and honesty are the traits that Tim has displayed during his me at North Gambier and that’s what makes him an admired figure around the club.

Congratulaons on this special milestone Youngy.

Pictured geng carried off by his team mates aer game 200 and also with his wife Fiona and children Zoe and Max.

200club games

FROMTHEARCHIVES

GREATWBFLFINALS MAGPIESCLINCHSECONDFLAG(1970)

SouthstartsclimbtotopbutHamiltontoogood

DURINGthe1950sand60sSouthGambierwasthepoor cousinoftheotherthreeMountGambierteams. North Gambier had been the trendsetter and won numerous premierships, West Gambier had won three successive premierships in 1957, 58 and 59 and while East had not won a flag in the South East and Border FootballLeagueitstartedtobecomeapowerhouseclub in the mid 1960s and that was shown when it won its firstpremiershipin1965.

Aside from on-field success where South had won just twoflags–1949and1951-theywerethepoorcousinin regard to the quality of their change rooms and the oval uponwhichtheyplayed(Showgrounds).

Having said that none of the change rooms were anything special with three clubs using rooms under a grandstand (North and West at Vansittart Park; South at the Showgrounds) while East used virtually a tin shed at McDonaldPark.

While South played home games at the Showgrounds and it was probably the flattest football ground in the league, it was also used to graze sheep and the aftereffects of that made life a little difficult when players hit theturf

In about the late 1960s club secretary and local accountant Richard Nicholson and other committee members decided it was time to move the club into the modern era and they purchased land in the Moorak area,southofthecity,withaviewofdevelopingahome groundthere.

Those plans would later change with the advent of Blue Lake Sports Park in 1973 but in the meantime South neededtostartmovinguptheladder Ithadn’twonanA gradeflagin19years

After winning the 1963 senior colts under 18 premiership and being runner-up in 1964 there was a wealth of young talent coming through into A grade ranksandthesignsofaSouthrevivalwereominous.

South made the occasional move close to the finals but it was the appointment of VFA ruckman John Dankert in 1969whichsettheteamontherighttrack.

It had already recruited Jeff “Tank” Arthur from Norwood, Steve Anear from West Torrens, Russel Matthews from VFA’s Mordialloc, Brian Norman had returned from a year in South Adelaide in 1968 and Garry Sims was home from West Adelaide so the signs werelookinggood.

By 1970 Dankert had done his job and had returned to theVFA.Southwereready

Only trouble was, this up-andcomingSouthsideranintooneofthe bestoutfitsofthatera–Hamilton.

In the 1970 Western Border Football League grand final Hamilton were playing in their third successive grand final after winning in 1968 and losing to Casterton in 1969.

And the player who stood between South and a premiershipwasformerStKildaruckmanGeoffCayzer

Anyoneinanydoubtabouthisabilityneedonlyknowhe wontheWBFLMedalasthebestandfairestplayerinthe leaguein1968and69.

South’s first ruck was Steve Rothall, much shorter and lighter than Cayzer but had as much grunt and toughness that ensured others walked tall when he was about.

An ankle injury suffered at training on the Thursday night before the 1970 grand final ruled Rothall out with RobertSimscomingintotheside.

From there, South never had a chance and if you were making a true comparison it was really boys taking on men.

South based their game on a fast, run-on football, using handball to create opportunities and that worked in the first quarter when they stole the march on Hamilton to outplaythe1968premiers.

The Demons had three goals on the board within a blink ofaneyeandwhilethissurprisedeveryone,allitdidwas awakened the sleeping giant and Hamilton took charge fromthenon.

Inthatfirstquarter,BarrySmith,BrianNormanandMax Deckert all looked in top touch as they goaled for South. Norman’s pace and elusive skills in attack had put Hamilton under pressure but then Geoff Cayzer took control.

Itwasagamewherevariousinjuriestobothsidesforced emergenciestobeusedasearlyasthefirstquarter

South’s young half back flanker Gary Fox was out of the game in the first term and ruck rover Russel Matthews who came into the game under a fitness cloud, left the fieldearlyinthethirdtermwhileHamiltonlosthalfback Kevin Balkin in the first quarter and defender Barry Kinghornejustbeforethelastchange.

Hamilton’s depth was shown when Les Payne came on to replace Balkin and went to half forward and immediatelygoaledandbecameoneofthebestplayers ontheday Payne had tried out with a VFL club and was just the boostHamiltonneededatthattime.

Cayzer was everywhere, as he roamed around the ground,takingmarksandthenwentforwardtokickfour goalsinaremarkablebestongroundperformance.

South tried to use Deckert to quell Cayzer’s dominance buttheformerStKildastarwastoostrong.

He had been a prime mover in South’s earlier finals gamesbutwaskeptundercontrolinthegrandfinal.

He went onto the ball in the ruck in the second half and probably became Cayzer’s toughest opponent, but the Hamiltonbigmanwasstilleffective.

Garry Sims played well at centre half back on Dene Millner but Milner’s second half when he went to full forward provided plenty of opportunities for the Magpies.

Brian Cordy took control of the centre against Darryl SimsandBillBarhamandSandyEckersleywonthewings convincingly,givingHamiltoncontrolofthemidfieldand ruck duels, ensuring there was plenty of supply for the forwards.

Neville Jennings and Baszcel Whitehead tried hard on the wings and picked up plenty of kicks but the ball kept comingbackatarapidrateoutoftheHamiltondefence.

The way the Hamilton centreline operated was a significant factor in their season’s 19 straight wins but also in the finals. Throughout the year their wingman Barham and Eckersley did not lower their colours while inthecentreCordywasjustasbrilliantwithhisabilityto winpossessionattheclearances.

The loss of Russel Matthews hurt South as he was using his strength in the packs to great effect and took many timelymarksonthelastlineofdefence.

Hamiltonfinallywoninacanter20.11(131)toSouth7.9 (51) and in doing so became the first club to win two WBFLflagsaftertheirsuccessin1968.

Not surprisingly Cayzer was best on the ground, along with defender Barry Pollock and rover/coach Jim Read whileBarrySmithplayedalonehandforSouth.

Deckertwasacentrehalfforwardcumruckmanandwas extremelyquickforabigmanandpossessedapowerful kick,meaninghecouldgoalfromlongrange.

South’s rise to the finals of that year was built on the back of young, raw local talent mixed with some good recruits and a great ability by coach Garry Sims to bring thesidetogetherasasolidteamunit.

Despite losing in the ruck, former Norwood rover Barry Smith was in everything and had plenty of the ball but South was unable to capitalise as Hugh Brommell and BarryPollocktookchargeindefence.

Brian Norman and Jeff Arthur continually switched between centre half forward and full forward but Kinghorne (until injured) followed Arthur everywhere he went and kept a tight rein on the bulky and talented

South forward and he was unable to exert much influenceonthegame.

Garry Sims was appointed captain coach and Barry Smith, fresh from winning the SANFL Seconds Magarey Medal was signed along with Max Deckert from HeywoodandPortland.

•PHOTO:SouthroverJimJohnsontriestobreakthrough this strong tackle by Hamilton’s John Mott in the 1970 WBFLgrandfinal.

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shARNI CLARK

Starng in our 11 & Under team in 2017 and playing in both 15 & Under sides last, this versale player can be a strong, smart goalie who uses her height and skills to her advantage or can flip into defence when needed.

INDI DWYER

Indi is a huge asset to our club. Starng in our 11 & under in 2017, geng her debut in A Reserve in 2021 whilst sll playing 15 & Under and last year playing 17’s, A Reserve and a debut in A Grade, she is definitely our future.

A tenacious, ght checking defender who can swing into mid court if needed, a joy to coach and watch, always doing extra, aending senior trainings, asking all the right quesons and stepping up to any challenge she is given. She umpires and always offers her assistance around the club. Huge congratulaons!

Pictured Right: with her mum and dad Lee-anne and Tim Dwyer and brother Keenan

Pictured Le: Sharni with mum Narelle

RESULTS

A GRADE

North Gambier 48 (G. Pos, N. McConnell) d South Gambier 40 (A. Duncan, T. McShane)

West Gambier 80 (S. Rier, A. Cram) d Casterton Sandford 31 (C. Humphries, M. Cleary)

Millicent 57 (P. McRae, L. Duldig) d East Gambier 34 (R. Henke, T. Gray)

A RESERVE

North Gambier 47 (A. Pitson, L. Roulstone) d South Gambier 40 (J. O’Neil, C. Muller)

Casterton Sandford 62 d West Gambier 61 (A. Bosco, G. Peterson)

Millicent 58 (K. Dunn, N. Facey) d East Gambier 23 (S. McKinnon, L. Murray)

B GRADE

South Gambier 49 (K. Tucker, S. Raedel) d North Gambier 28 (K. Dyson, J. Forrest)

Casterton Sandford 55 (T. Cleary, K. Harvey) d West Gambier 48 (D. Wombwell, B. Jackway)

Millicent 37 (N. Domaschenz, J. Iovion) d East Gambier 32 (B. Grosser, J Davis)

C GRADE

South Gambier 46 (M. Kuhl, B. Winterfield) d North Gambier 28 (T. Flemming, R. Johnson)

West Gambier 53 (E. Sutherland, L. Boyd) d Casterton Sandford 16 (A. Spratling, K. Gill-Killey)

East Gambier 36 (G. Ferguson, M. Wilson) d Millicent 35 (R. Millowick, L. Goodfellow)

17 & UNDER

North Gambier 86 (M. Griffith, S. Mobbs) d South Gambier 12 (S. Grassi, C. Tarr)

West Gambier 46 (I. McGregor, A. Pearson) d Casterton Sandford 44 (I. Longhurst, I. Lane)

Millicent 51 (L. Paul, L. VanEeden) d East Gambier 34 (J. Davis, M. Lamb)

15 & UNDER A

North Gambier 75 (R. Mitchell, E. Adams) d South Gambier 20 (K. Sims, G. Dalton)

West Gambier 46 (M. Vivian, L. Pearson) d Casterton Sandford 19 (M Rees, A. Crauford)

Millicent 80 (K. Dunn, M. Lynch) d East Gambier 12 (I. Straord, K. Kerr)

15 & UNDER B

North Gambier 56 (P. Coleman, Z. Davison) d North Gambier 12 (A. Ferrari, L. Sneath)

West Gambier 63 (A. Reid. M. Lynch) d Casterton Sandford 3 (A. Luers, R. Forbes)

13 & UNDER A

North Gambier 49 (J. Baron, L. Hunter) d South Gambier 18 (A. Timms, E. Merchant)

Casterton Sandford 30 (R. Gorman, A. Murphy) d West Gambier 19 (C. Hunter, E. Povey)

Millicent 53 (A. Thomson, P. Johnson) d East Gambier 10 (A. Hosking, M. Lile)

13 & UNDER B

South Gambier 23 (E. McCracken, Z. Harten) d North Gambier 22 (Z. Boyd, P. Lucas)

Casterton Sandford 53 (S. Edwards, M. Robbins) d West Gambier 8 (S. Riddoch, I. Richards)

Millicent 27 (P. Johnson, L. Sutherland) d East Gambier 16 (S. McCracken, A. Olsen)

11 & UNDER

North Gambier 18 (S. Yeates, M. Suon) drew with South Gambier 18 (L. Howard, M. Agosnelli)

Casterton Sandford 13 d West Gambier 5

Millicent 23 (H. Straord, M. Buhlmann) d East Gambier 11 (A. Perry, R. Cook)

MATCH REPORTS

NORTHGAMBIERVSOUTHGAMBIER

SouthGambierstartedtheirclashwitNorth Gambier in impressive style, leading by five at the first change but in the end, the Tigers ralliedandtookthepointsbyeightgoals.

Both sides were missing key personnel –North without heart and soul star Mel Renko and South without athlec ulity Sophie Wight – but in the end, while the Tigers secured the win, it was a vastly improvedperformancefromtheDemonsin comparisontotheANZACDayclash.

In the end, it was all about supply, with North Gambier securing more scoring opportunies.

South goalers Gracie Dalton and Alyssa Duncan had their most accurate performanceof 2023– neng 40from 48–and given the condions, both sides would have been thrilled with their conversion –Northconverng48from57.

Dalton,whoissllplayinginthe15&Under compeon – did not miss a shot from qurter me onwards in a great sign for the Demonsgoingforward.

The second quarter was what cost the Demons and set up the Tigers victory as North turned that five goal quarter me deficitintoathreegoalhalfmelead.

For the Demons, North shooter Grace Pos was again tough to contain, although the move of Elliae Bouchier back to goal keeper certainlylimitedtheinfluenceofherformer team mate, while defensively Noni McConnell was outstanding and played a role just not in creang turnovers but also asalinkplayerthroughthemidcourt.

One of the intriguing bales of the day was Demons wing defender Tully McShane and North’s Lauran Norman – two emerging talents in the A Grade compeon – while the opposite wing saw Ruby Richter for South having an impact, while Ava Collins showed she can make an impact in the top grade.

Southwascertainlyassistedbythereturnof ZoeDuncantothecourtwithherleadership

crical in keeping the Demons in the contest but in the end, the likes of Brianna Walters and McConnell led the way for Northandensuredthewin.

MILLICENTVEASTGAMBIER

It started as a ght contest but in the end Millicent was able to outlast East Gambier tosecurea23goalvictory.

East would be ruing its early inaccuracy, given the Bulldogs secured 19 scoring opportunies to the Saints’ 12 in the openingstanzatoslltrailbyfour

Things seled for Millicent in the second quarter as they started to find Tabatha Sanderson in good scoring posion and the leadwas12atthemainbreak.

That extended to 21 at the final change beforethe23finalwhistlemargin.

Pora McRae was impassable at goal keeper for Millicent as she connued to disrupt the Bulldogs aempts to score with her ability to intercept, her work over the shot and her rebounding in what was her bestoungfor2023.

LisaDuldigwasalsoonfireforMillicentwith a move back to the centre aer Lillie Paul went down with an ankle injury, where she not only directed the offensive play of the Saints but also had her usual impact at the defensiveendofthecourt.

Teagan Gray had an impact for East when she entered the clash at wing aack in the second half but the boom line is, Millicent just kept finding Sanderson in space as she need 39 from 45 in a stand out performance.

East was hampered by the absence of marathon runner Tarsh MacCallum, who put in an impressive performance in her inauguralfullmarathonintheBarossa,with her leadership missed as much as her hard running and smart decision making with ball in hand but in the end the Saints were justtoostrong.

C A S T E R T O N

SANDFORD V WEST GAMBIER

Last me the Cats played the reigning premiers, it was an onslaught that took the undermanned Casterton Sandford line-up off guard and while the 80-31 scoreline is sll convincing for West Gambier, the Cats showedsignificantimprovement.

The return of Caeleigh Humphries to the Cats lie-up freed up Madalene Cleary to move out of defence into the centre and it made for a more seled approach in aack fortheunderpressurevisitors.

West sll dominated the contest and showed why they are the benchmark with their ability to move the ball quickly and with precision, as well as their determinaon to always apply relentless pressure with Sarah Rier again proving impossible to stop in the shoong circle, neng 58 from 70 to be the best player on thecourt–notforthefirstmethisseason.

ThegoodnewsfortheCats,wastheirability to crate significantly more scoring opportunies than the round one encounter and Ivy Lane, with only two misses for the game, provide she deserves to own the goal shooter bib for Casterton Sandford.

West was missing regular wing defence Zoe Malseed for the clash but Anna Bosco stepped in seamlessly, but apart from that, the Roos looked as impressive as they have allseason.

Amy Cram connues to dominate defensively, Rier is a star in the shoong circle and the mid court of Tara Bryant and Mikaela Horrigan connue to provide good supply to Lisa McGregor and Rier – the task is ahead of the rest of the compeon tofindawaytostopthem.

ROUNDPREVIEWS

SOUTHGAMBIERVMILLICENT

South Gambier put in a much improved showinginitsroundsixclashwithNorth Gambier but it doesn’t get any easier as the Demons host Millicent this weekend.

The Saints may well be without mid courter Lillie Paul, aer she suffered an ankle injury last weekend, but with Lisa Duldig running through the mid court, Daisy Tunkin taking the aacking wing andplentyofjuniortalentwainginthe gins for their chance at A Grade acon, Millicent’s depth will help them cover thehardrunningPaul.

WithSophieWightbackoncourtforthe Demons this weekend, Ellie Bouchier could again find herself back at keeper to try and combat the height of Tabatha Sanderson aer the star defender got thejobonGracePoslastweekend.

The defensive work of Megan Reid and TullyMcShaneontheSaintsfeederswill also be crical in liming the scoring opportunies for Sanderson, who also receives plenty of good ball from Demi Verbena.

The clash between South shooter Gracie Dalton and Millicent defender

Pora McRae will be pivotal, while Alyssa Duncan and Lauren VanEeden will go toe to toe, just as they have the majorityoftheirjuniorcareers.

For South it will be about an improved scoreboard performance but the Saints shouldtakethewin.

EAST GAMBIER V CASTERTON SANDFORD

Not only are both East Gambier and Casterton Sandford trying to finetune new look line-ups in 2023, they have both been hit by injury and player

unavailability and found it tough to seleintoacombinaon.

Both sides do seem to have seled on a combinaon at either end of the court withtheBulldogsshoongcombinaon of Renee Henke and Casey Horrigan tesng defenders with their strong drives and quick movement in the circle and their match up with Ebany Jarrad and Caeleigh Humphries will be pivotal in the final outcome with Jarrad and Humphries both quick on their feet as wellasbeingstrongintheair.

At the other end, Ivy Lane and Chelsey Galpin are building their chemistry and scoring power and they will need to be at their best against the more experiencesdefensivelineforEastofBo CreekandMorganAmy

Accuracy will also be key as Creek and Amy will dominate the rebounding duels.

The mid courts have been where both sides have been playing around with line-ups but with Tarsh McCallum back to take her role at wing aack for East, along side the strength and tenacity of Chloe Perryman in centre and the Bulldogs have the disnct experience advantage.

Madeline Paon has been in good for in the Cats’ mid court, while the ght checking and hard running of Libby Altorfer will also be key in liming the influenceofMcCallumandPerryman.

Eastshouldreturntothewinner’list.

WESTGAMBIERVNORTHGAMBIER

The Malseed Park clash between West Gambier and North Gambier looms as the match of the day, with the Roos coming off a strong win over Casterton

Sandford and North overcoming a sluggish starttotakethepointsoverSouth.

Both teams have dominant goal shooterswithGracePosdominangat the post for North and Sarah Rier proving tough to combat from every range in what has been a stand out seasonthusfar

And while denying them the ball will be a team effort based around pressuring the feeders, much also falls on their respecveopponents.

Mikaila Pi will need to use her athlecism and ability to play the ball in theairandonthegroundtotryandlimit supply to Rier, while Jade Rier will need to work overme to try and force Pos further from the post than she prefers.

InthemidcourtTaraBryantloomslarge assomeonetheTigerswillneedtostop, whether that be through Brianna Walters or Mel Renko, while the respecve goal aacks will also be key players given they are the main feeders totheirdominantshoongpartners.

West’s Lisa McGregor and North’s Macey Griffith both do a mountain of work outside the circle and deliver the ball with accuracy to Rier and Pos respecvely, so neither side can ill afford not to provide some close checking defence on these damaging players.

McGregor will match up on Noni McConnell, who thrives on the challenge of denying her opponent any me or space, while Amy Cram will use allherexperiencetounseleGriffith.

The reigning premiers should remina undefeated but it looms as a ght contestforfourquarters.

ROUND 6 saw the Roos's head over the bordertotakeonCasterton-Sandford.Avery successfuldayonthecourtswithsomereally close games in 17s and A-res. Our A Grade Girls joined the A Grade boys on the oval to takepartintheIndigenousRoundCeremony

Thank you to Casterton for organising it. As alwaysabigthankyoutoourlocalBusiness's and Supporters who supply our ten Netball Teams with Game Day Voucher Awards throughouttheseason.

Round6wesaythankyouto:ParadisePIZZA, Awatuna Pty Ltd, OK Pie Shop, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Mount Gambier, A Wave From It

All,NataliePearson - FinanceBroker- Mount Gambier,SorrentosCAFÉ,BoostJuiceMount Gambier, Kaboom Family Entertainment, Wash Day Laundromat, Intersport Mount Gambier,BirdieBlue,VanityMakeupBarand Body Lounge, MGS Tilt Tray and Towing, Makeup by Kirralie Jade, The Haven - Cafe & Takeaway,Lima&Co.

Doug & Di Harding Encouragement award –AleishaPearson–Under17s

A big CONGRATULATIONS to the following playersandcoacheswhohavebeenselected to represent the Western Border Netball Association at the Country Championships heldontheJunelongweekendinAdelaide

Under 13 Championship Team - Lila Pearson, CaraPearson(coach)

Under 15 Development Team - Analeigh Anderson(Reserve)

Seniors - Tara Bryant, Mikaela Horrigan, Jade Ritter,SarahRitter

We are so proud of you and looking forward toseeingyourepresentyourclubandleague

U/11s - Another great game by the girls. All girls worked hard and never gave up. Our defensivepressurewasreallygoodwhichwe had been working on at trainings. We had somefantasticpassagesofplayfromoneend of the court to the other but we just struggledtoconvertintogoals.Keepworking hard at trainings and watch our passes. Best playerswenttoAylaandEliza.

U/13BS - This week the 13b girls travelled to Casterton.Thiswasaveryphysicalandtough game These young west players kept workinghardandnevergaveup. Theskillsof the girls keep improving and there were some brilliant passages of play 1st best on courtIsobelRichards2ndRubyLamb

U/13AS - Well done girls what the whole team effort was outstanding and you made them work hard for the win every moment on the court you gave it 110% putting the things we have done in training each week. Attacking end amazing work and you kept going and driving to every ball, mid court excellent stepping up beautiful leads and making options. Defenders excellent work for the whole game to put pressure on Castertontoturntheballover Bestoncourt: Claire Hunter happy birthday Second best: Eva Povey Award winners: Claire Hunter & Isla Lynch. Honestly a whole team effort be proudandlet’sgoWest.

U15/B’S-Agreat4quartersofnetballbythe u15B team this week with a solid win against Casterton-Sandford 63-3 Our defensive playersworkedtheirmagicinconsistentturn overs and holding pressure against their opponents. The mid court players worked relentlessly in their movements throughout the middle of the court and fed into the shooters well The shooting girls worked their magic ever improving accuracy and movementwithinthegoalcircle.Thisweek’s bestincourtwasawardedto1stAvaReid2nd MayaLynch.

West Gambier West Gambier

North Gambier North Gambier Yellow & Black Blue & Red

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U/15AS - Back to the second round and another good win again Casterton. Miley placed well in goals with also helping up in themidcourt.Aliceonceagainplayedwellin Defence. You are all putting in place with what we are learning at training it’s good to see.

Award winners this week was Miley and Alice.

17s - We had a hard match against Casterton in the first game of the season. We went down by 16 so we knew we had to come out hard. It didn’t happen for us and by the first break we were 11 goals down. To my girls creditwedidn’tletitgettousandtheyhada great 2nd quarter outscoring the opposition 14 to 7 goals bringing us back into the game. The defence of Tully, Lucy and Halle kept the pressure up and taking some timely interceptions and getting the ball down to our attack end. Charlotte and Alex did a fantastic job feeding Imogen and Aleisha in the goals. The third ¼ was very even so we had some work to do in the last ¼. With lots of positive discussions at the break I knew theyhaditinthem,justneededtokeeptheir heads and play our game. Both ends of the court were amazing. The final quarter was a tough battle, Ellie and Macy came on after halftimeandworkedwelltogetherintheGD and GK positions. We slowly pegged them backandbythefinalwhistlewewere

2 goals in front. A fantastic effort to come from 11 down at the start of the game. A never give up attitude was what my girls had today and I was very proud of each of them. Game day awards 1st best – Halle Boult 2nd best–ImogenMcGregor

CGrade-Anamazingeffortputforwardfrom our girls, demonstrating great strength and cohesion in each domain, for all four quarters. Defenders Madelyn, Emily, Alana, and Zarah, all stood strong and clean whilst defending cats shooters Our mid court Olivia, Teone, and Annabel, all worked incredibly well, feeding the ball into the goalies with great precision And our beautiful goalies Emma, and Lisa, all held their ground and shot brilliantly. We celebrated well (probably too well) on the bustriphome!!WestdefeatedCasterton5316. Best Players Emily Sutherland and Lisa Boyd. Game Day Awards, Zarah Sudgen and MadelynSutherland.

B Grade - Today saw us travel to Casterton. We started off strong. Brooke and Daena worked hard in defence against a very tall Casterton goalie and just missed so many touches. Unfortunately for the first half a lot of our goals wouldn’t sink and so we were unable to regain possession. The second half saw us make some positional changes in the mid court and after it took us a few minutes to settle we started to get some good interceptions.Withourgoaliesstatingtosink theirshotswemanagedtoclawbackthegoal difference but unfortunately we went down at the final whistle 58 – 48. Best players DaenaandBianca.

A-Res - We were ahead most of the game except for the final whistle. Our first quarter wasourbestandweweren'tabletocontinue our standard of play for the rest of the game. I thought Gracie worked really hard giving us maximum effort and Maddi got some really greattouchesthewholegame.Annashowed great stamina lining up and playing for A gradeaswell!Let'sregroupattrainingandbe readytogiveiteverythingnextweek!

A Grade - Happy with our performance today, I thought we were consistent all game!! Sarah was unstoppable and Jade got touchaftertouch.Annaslottedinseamlessly at WD and had a solid game. It's so pleasing to know we have the depth in our A res. Thanks to Tahls and Chels for benching. We hope to have Zoe back alive and raring to go thisweekafteranadventurousholiday

Under11’s-North18vsSouth18

What a fantastic game for the girls this week.Itwasanailbitterrightuntiltheend, with us coming away with a draw The girls confidently demonstrated the strategies we have been exploring in training, resultinginseamlesspassagesofplay Best PlayerawardsgotoStellaYeatesandMolly Sutton for applying fantastic defensive pressure Stella had an amazing game showing her emerging skills as a quickthinking defender Isla Clark was awarded the VanCino encouragement award. Isla is always positive and encouraging. She is an asset to our team. Well done on another greatgame.

Best players: Stella Yeates and Molly Sutton

Under13B’s-North22vsSouth23

Today was a very evenly matched game of netball!! It was intense right until the final whistle, going down by only 1 goal. The girls are showing improvement each week as theysettle into their positions and build team morale. Awards to Addi K and Emily as they both applied impressive defensive pressure throughout the mid court. Addi S was awarded the VanCino encouragement award for her positive attitude and sportsmanship.

Best players: Addison Kamphius and Emily Berkefeld

Under13A’s-North49vsSouth18

Wonderful team connections are really developing after one full round of matches. We focused on scoring every centre pass and using a variety of tactics. Great defensive game from all 7 players and high percentage shooting from Carey, Lacey&Jenna.

Best players: Mackenzie Harrold and GraceCollins

Under15B’s-North56vsSouth12

The girls continued to demonstrate their strong skills, winning 56-12 From the start, the girls applied defensive pressure, causing South to turn over the ball on many occasions. This resulted in the girls capitalising on these opportunities to convert onto the scoreboard. Penny was a force to be reckoned with defensively, getting many touches. The mid-courters provided many passing options and fed beautifully into the goalies. Claire played a greatholdinggame,usingherheighttoher advantage. Overall, a great 4 quarter team effort.

Best players: Claire Mitchell & Penny Coleman

Under15A’s-North75vsSouth20

Thegirlshadanotherstrongwin,butmore importantly improved on our result against South from our first round game against them and have been working hard to implement what we work on and speak about at training into our game play The girl’s decision making and transition all overthecourtwasgreattowatchandthey continue to grow as a team Maggie’s timing, drives to circle edge and feeding was exceptional and her, Georgia, Elodie and Mischa are building a very strong attacking end. They’re such a talented and great group of girls and it’s really showing on the court. Keep up the amazing work girls.

Best players: Maggie Collins and Elodie Adam

Under17’s-North86vsSouth12

What a fantastic performance from all players.Thisweekwasanothergreatteam effort.Wehadastrongstart,takingcontrol

of the game early The transition from defence to attack was seamless, with all players completing their part well. The defensive pressure from all players resulted in a number of turnovers, which were converted by our goalies, whose shooting statistics were excellent. Despite changes at half time the girls continued to work well, extending the scoreboard p r e s s u r e T h e h a r d w o r k a n d determination from all players paid off with an 86-12 win. Best players for round six are Macey Griffith, who shot at 100%, and Tora Jones, who played an exceptional gameinthemidcourt.

Best players: Macey Griffith and Tora Jones

CGrade-North28vsSouth48

We had a strong start and took control of the game, winning the first quarter After the first break South upped the intensity and ran away on the scoreboard We settled again in the last but were unable to close the gap, loosing 28 - 46. Rebecca Johnson and Sarah Nieuwenhuizen had a hard day out, their pressure was great and gave us many opportunities through turnovers. Unfortunately, we fell short at our attacking end this week and weren’t able to convert on several occasions. Our lack of voice and communication through the mid court and on the circle edges was evident, something we will continue to focuson.

Best players: Rebecca Johnson and Keeley Quinn

BGrade-North28vsSouth49

Unfortunatelythisgamegotawayfromus. There were definitely some good passages of play through the court with our defence being at the top of their game The pressure we apply provides many turnovers, converting these turn overs is pleasing to see. Passing options and our attacking game still needs the work but thisgamedidprovewecanbealittlemore competitive.

Best players: Maddy Pegler and Amelia Redman

AReserve-North47vsSouth40

A very up and down game, where there were some great moments/ passages of play and others where it appeared there was no game plan at all and things looked very messy Stella has a solid game out at GD getting lots hands to balls and was driving strongly out of Dee and also combined well with Riley who was providing lots of leadership and talk to a very young new defensive line up for the game. I know we have had a few unsettled weeks so let's now regroup, work hard to play the type of game we have been training for and get some consistency on courthappening.

Best players: Stella Mobbs and Riley Mitchell

AGrade-North48vsSouth40

A very slow start to the game allowed South to get a 5 - 1 lead. Some errors in attack and some new positions saw us not as confident to give the ball and take the ball. Our passes were to the body and not enough in space. Fortunately for us, our defenceinthecirclefromNoniandMikaila helped us to get turnovers and apply scoreboard pressure on a very young South side. Grace stood up to some tall defensive pressure in the ring We managed to get the win in the end and worked through the new combinations andabsences.

Bestplayers:MikailaPittandGracePotts

Under13DevelopmentTeam-EllaMcKenny, Claire Hunter, Sara Richards, Eva Povey (Reserve)

South Gambier South Gambier Red & White

Itwasn’tawinbutitwasavastlyimproved performance with the A Grade girls, compete with a cameo appearance from much loved long standing Demon Zoe Duncan, really taking it up to North Gambier

The girls led early, had a poor second quarter but rallied strongly, refusing to let thegameslipaway

Gracie & Alyssa are developing strongly as a shooting combination, while Megan is hitting her straps in the mid court, getting the job done at both wing attack and centre,whileRubyhadanimpactandTully islovinglifebackonthedefensivewing.

Ellie had a rare stint back at goal keeper to tryandtameformerDemonGraceandshe may well need to do that again this weekend against Tabatha Sanderson, whileZoewasathertenaciousbestaswell as leading the side with her incredible on courtleadership.

Thanks to Flick for taking the reins with Tanya away for work and Brandi in the sick bay and we will welcome Sophie back this weekendaswetakeonMillicent.

TheAReservealsoputinavastlyimproved effort, staying in touch with the strong Northline-upacrossthefourquarters.

Caity is dominating the mid court and the attack line of Jaymee, Georgia & Maddie is workingwellandisaversatileline-up.

Defensively, Joirdy, Charlene and Mykaela are making scoring tough for opposition teamswhileChelseaisfillingwhateverrole neededtobringfreshlegsintothecontest.

The B and C keep doing their thing and both had strong wins, while it was a tough outing for our junior teams against the Tigers.

The big news of the day against North was the superb breakthrough win for our 13 & UnderBgirls…

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Hannah has been working hard with this group and despite having Izzy on the sidelines with her soccer injury, the girls were able to hang on for an exciting one goalvictory…

Holly was impressive in goals and teamed well with the hard running Ellie and Zara whobothhadanimpactatgoalattack…

Milla was everywhere and Addy provided an option every time her team mates neededanoutlet…

Annalie and Lucy created so many turnovers with their tight defending that we lost count and Paegan was also really tight checking in the defensive circle and reboundedstrongly

In a freneticlast quarter it was great to see the girls hang on and get some reward for hardwork…

The 11s had a great game, drawing with the Tigers at 18-all which is quite high scoringforthisagegroup.

Halle shot her first goal in competition, Elsie Sims showed great defensive intent despite playing on much taller opponents, Lily keeps improving every week and sisters Ebony and Myla proved a great combinationinthemidcourt.

Our other sister combo of Lara and Mia also were in our team’s best, while the leadership from Courtney and Lacey has beenamazingallseason.

Chloe had one of her best games, Ellie was super reliable through the middle of the court in transition and Willow just kept winning the ball back for us in a stunning performance.

Congrats to Alannah on 150 games and Charlene for 100 games – both have been greatdefendersforourclub.

Today we play away at South Gambier

Welldonetoallthejuniorgirlswhomade the Western Border Netball teams who willbeplayingnextweekendinAdelaide!

HaveFunandGoodLuck!

13s – Amarlie, Indi, Olive, Lucy, Scarlett, Lola,Audrey,Lindy,andPrudence

15s – Kalani, Mylee, Piper, Mia, Bell, Matti, Emily, Tahnee, Jeda, and Eva (emergency)

17s – Lillie, Lauren, Poppy, Edie, Keelie (emergency)andMackinlee(emergency)

Coaches – Donna Denton and Hayley Dunn

U11s-23to11

Starting out this one looked like a good even match up with both young teams getting some scoring shot in the board. After a couple of changes the girls found their flow and with some great defensive pressure, they created turnovers and slowly increased their lead with some accurate shooting In the last two quarters they moved the ball beautifully down the court and with some good movement in the attacking circle they built a strong lead to take another great win. Best players were Halle Stratford (Bakers Delight & Toy Kingdom) and Maggie Buhlmann (Sports Power & Wendy’s).

U13As-53to10

Another solid team effort girls. Our full court defensive pressure won us tons of ball and the attacking end were able to execute these on the scoreboard. At half time, new combinations were tried with playing the girls in different positions to usual. The awards went to Scarlett Zalme (Fasta Pasta) for her outstanding defensive pressure and feeding into the goalies, Lindy Van Eeden (Shearers Cook) forherdefensivepressureonherWAand blocking, and Indi Coghlan (JM Incentive Award) for her accurate shooting and movementingoals.Greatjobteam!!

U13Bs-27to16

Amazing work today girls, you came out firing from the get-go The transition fromourdefencetoattackwasexcellent. There were many intercepts taken the whole way down the court allowing for more scoring opportunities It’s awesome to see the improvement from last time we played them to today Awards went to Olivia (Duckys), Prudence (Toy Kingdom) and Sophie (JM Incentive).

U15As-80to12

The players started the game at 100% intensity, defending tightly and making the East players work hard, creating lots ofturnoversinthemidcourt.Itwasahigh scoring quarter with Kalani Dunn and Mylee Lynch scoring 25 at over 90% accuracy The game continued at a fast pace with the Saints mid-courters in Piper Paul, Bell Coghlan and Mia Gysbers shutting down the space then driving hardtocircleedgetofeedquicklyintothe goalies Emily Denton and Matti Fauchelle’s partnership in the defensive circle was tight checking cleaning up any lose balls. Jeda Hibberd and Eva Crowe also in the defensive end created turnovers which were quickly converted by the goalies. East players never gave with Indee Stratford running hard all day and Katie Kerr in defence working tirelessly earning best players for East and the Saints goalies, Dunn and Lynch were named best for their high scoring

Millicent Millicent Red, Black & White

efforts.Agreatteameffort!

U17s -51to34

Strong start this week showed us come out with the lead first quarter, a lead we not only kept the whole game but improvedoneachquarter Ourdefenders worked hard and produced many balls throughout the match. Attackers were strong all down the court with perfect delivery into the circle An attacking change up at half time didn’t rattle the line up only made us stronger Awards went to Lillie Paul (Java), Maya Tarrant (Pierinas) and Mackinlee Alcock (Chook House).

CGrade-35to36

An awesome effort by absolutely everyone on the court, everyone played with a purpose today, unfortunately we went down by 1 goal in the last few minutes of the game, but this is a great improvementaftergettingbeatenby20+ in round one. This team is growing and becoming stronger each week and will become dangerous coming into the pointy end of the season. Naomi Winter (Sassi) and Ella Wesolowski (McCourts) wereourawardwinnerswhodeservedit. Bringonnextweek.

BGrade-37to32

Sluggish start to the game but the girls responded quickly, and we had the early lead. It was a tight contest all over the court with us still maintaining a 1 goal lead at half time. The girls lifted their intensity in the second half with some excellent defensive pressure and excellent shooting. We came away with thewinandaconfidenceboostertowina tough game. A lot to take away from the game but happy with our efforts across the board. Awards went to Kate Patten (Pierinas) and Kalli Brown (Laura and Vicki’s).

AReserve-58to23

A Special day for the A reserve with Donna playing her record breaking 434 matchesingoals.Withplayerinjuriesand holidays the line-up looked a little different with Alana moving to defence with Keisha and Jackie. Rylee & Abby connected well with Poppy in attack, and weheldahandyleadatthemainbreak.It was great to see Emily Denton, Kalani Dunn and Belle Coghlan debuting for their first senior game They were supported by senior players, and it was a strong team performance with a highlight being Keisha rock solid under the post Awards went to Rylee (Somerset)&AlanaCraig(Since56)

AGrade-57to34

Afterascrappystartandnotbeingableto find a rhythm in attack we settled in the second to push the scoreboard in our favour and take the win against a determined East Our defence Portia, Lauren and Lisa were on top early providing plenty of opportunities which we just couldn’t convert on the board. After the first break our intensity lifted and Demi Tab, Daisy and Lillie took control with strong leads and nice movementinthecircle.Anankleinjuryto Lillie, saw Lisa move into Centre and Kimmi to Wing Defence. It was great to see the return of Kimmi from injury and to see Keish on court again! Awards went toLisa(AlternateLife)&Portia(Denton’s)

U15Bs-NoGame.

Under11’sEast11LostMillicent23

Not the outcome we were hoping for playing against a strong Millicent side. Thegirlsgaveittheirallbuttheyproved toostrongforusontheday Goodeffort girls.

Bestplayers:A.Perry,R.Cook

Award Winners: Ruby Cook ( Arena), AlexaPerry(KFC)

Under13BEast16LostMillicent27

Was a tough game against Millicent. Some of our passing choices let us down. We had some good passages of play Keepworkinghardgirls.

Bestplayers:S.McCracken,A.Olsen

Award Winners: Liana Dickson (Fasta Pasta),Isabellecook(Kamboom)

Under13AEast10LostMillicent53

Was a tough game against a strong Millicent side. There were some good passages of play during the game and lotsofpositivestotakefromthegame.

Bestplayers:A.Hosking,M.Little

Award Winners: Mia Little (Kaboom), AvaOlsen(Wendy’s)

Under15’sEast12LostMillicent80

Was a very tough game against Millicent. Big thank you to Chole and Mia for playing for us it was very much appreciated.

Bestplayers:I.Stratford,K.Kerr

Award Winners: Indee Startford ( Zambrero),KatieKerr(BakersDelight)

Under17’sEast34LostMillicent51

Was a tough a game for us girls, we had some good consistent passages of play duringthegame.Keeptraininghard.

Bestplayers:J Davis,M.Lamb

Award Winners: Tahlia Geraghty (FoxiesDeli),IndiDwyer(OKPieShop)

CGradeEast36WonMillicent35

Millicent started strong, showing us Easties what they are capable of out scoring us in the first half, with changes being made at half time where we seen

East Gambier East Gambier

Red & Black

a change in every position. The girls adjusted well and came home with the winby1!

Best players: Grace Ferguson (sponsored by TRAC (Total Result at Consulting), Megan Wilson (Sponsered by Adam Wilson Plastering & Niche Homes)

Award Winners: Millie Button (Kirralie Jade),Danielawaters(JensHotel)

BGradeEast32LostMillicent37

To lose by only 5 with 3 players out and positional changes is fantastic, I am proud of your never give up attitude. Silly errors cost us the win though so let's work hard this week to minimise themandtakeittotheCats.

Bestplayers:B.Grosser,J Davis

Award Winners: Nicola Smith ( Globe Hotel),AlysiaGeraghty(SanPiero)

AResEast23LostMillicent58

WasatoughgameagainstMillicent.We had some fantastic passages of play. So many positives to take away from the game.

Best players: R Henke, T Gray (SponsoredbyJohnPodgorski¬)

Award Winners: Sharna McKinnon (NourishNook),Taylawaters(25Acres)

AGrade:East34LostMillicent57

Good fight girls, we worked hard to create errors for them and turn the ball over We had plenty of opportunities but our own errors let us down. Let’s keep working on our right passing options and find space down the court. Overall everyone worked really hard. Big thank you to Brooke and Teagan for playing half each, whilst Tarsh rested so shecouldsmashhermarathon.Inwhich she smashed it on Sunday Congrats Tarsh,weareallsoproudofyouxxx

Best players: Renee Henke, Casey Horrigan (Sponsored by Helloworld Travel)

AwardWinners:BoCreek(OKPieShop) MorganAmy(Zambrero’s)

VLast Saturday saw the CastertonSandford girls take to the court against West Gambier for the secondtimethisseason.

SENIORS: Caeleigh, Madalene and Ebany made great passages of play throughout the game, but unfortunately our A Grade side couldn’t come away with the win losing41-73.

The A Reserve game was a close one with Dani and Gaby helping the girls finish with a one goal win 62-61.

B Grade players this week in Trictia, Kerri, Dakota and Anna fought hard for every ball across thecourtleadingtheteamtoa5548win.

ThescorelineintheCGradedidn’t reflect how well our girls played. Amber, Katie, Brianna and Ebony did a great job across the court. Thegirlslost16-53.

The Under 17’s had a tough game losing 44-46. Indi and Ivy played wellallgame.

JUNIORS:

TheUnder15A’shadatough,hard fought game, but unfortunately lost 19-46. Makayla, Amy, Phoebe and Amelia demonstrated terrific skillsinbothdefenceandattack.

Amelia, Rachel, Ella and Amelia never gave up but couldn’t quite match the skill level of the West Gambier Under 15B’s and lost 3-

63.

Under 13A players in Renee and Adele made certain of each and every pass, and with a help of a few well-timed intercepts from the rest of the team they came awaywithawin30-19.

Our Under 13B’s were keen to hit the court early on Saturday morning with the promise of a good game Stacey, Marlee, Georgia and Brooklyn worked hard to stretch their winning margin to 53-8 by the end of the game.

The Under 11’s showed off their skills on the weekend. With some fast footwork and great passes, theywon13-5.

games

Indigenous Round

SEASON FIXTURE F.L.

ROUND 1 - 22nd April 2023

West Gambier

East Gambier

Casterton-Sandford

Millicent

Anzac Day - 25th April 2023

South Gambier

North Gambier

ROUND 2 - 29th April 2023

Casterton-Sandford

Millicent

North Gambier

East Gambier

South Gambier

West Gambier

ROUND 3 - 6th May 2023

East Gambier

West Gambier

North Gambier

West Gambier

Casterton-Sandford

Millicent

ROUND 4 - 13th May 2023

East Gambier

West Gambier

Casterton-Sandford

North Gambier

South Gambier

Millicent

ROUND 5 - 20th May 2023

South Gambier

Millicent

North Gambier

East Gambier

West Gambier

Casterton-Sandford

ROUND 6 - 27th May 2023

North Gambier

Casterton-Sanfford

Millicent

South Gambier

West Gambier

East Gambier

ROUND 7 - 3rd June 2023

South Gambier

East Gambier

West Gambier

Millicent

Casterton-Sandford

North Gambier

BYE Interleague - 10th June 2023

ROUND 8 - 17th June 2023

West Gambier

Casterton-Sandford

Millicent

East Gambier

South Gambier

North Gambier

ROUND 9 - 24th June 2023

South Gambier

North Gambier

Millicent

West Gambier

East Gambier

Casterton-Sandford

ROUND 10 - 1st July 2023

West Gambier

East Gambier

Casterton-Sandford

Millicent

South Gambier

North Gambier

BYE State Country Championships - 8th July 2023

ROUND 11 - 15th July 2023

South Gambier

West Gambier

East Gambier

North Gambier

Casterton-Sandford

Millicent

ROUND 12 - 22nd July 2023

Casterton-Sandford

North Gambier

Millicent

East Gambier

West Gambier

South Gambier

ROUND 13 - 29th July 2023

East Gambier

South Gambier

North Gambier

West Gambier

Casterton-Sandford

Millicent

ROUND 14 - 5th August 2023

Casterton-Sanfford

East Gambier

West Gambier

Millicent

North Gambier

South Gambier

ROUND 15 - 12th August 2023

Millicent

South Gambier

North Gambier

West Gambier

East Gambier

Casterton-Sandford

ROUND 16 - 19th August 2023

West Gambier

Casterton-Sandford

Millicent

1st Semi Final - North Gambier - 26th August 2023

2nd Semi Final - Millicent - 2nd September 2023

Preliminary Final - East Gambier - 9th September 2023

Grand Final - South Gambier - 16th September 2023

East Gambier

South Gambier

North Gambier