Pigeons Kaleisha Pell, Tilly Kennedy and Hannah Symes (who captained the Opens netball side) all had a great game although the opens team went down by 37 goals. They are pictured with fellow Pigeon and Under 15s O&M coach Emma Sinclair who led the Under 15s to a convincing 31 goal victory.
The Ovens and Murray Football League proved far too strong for their fiercest rival the Goulburn Valley last Saturday, recording a 77-point victory 18.19.127 to 7.8.50 at Wangaratta Rovers WJ Findlay Oval.
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The GV kicked their first major at the three-minute mark of the first term but didn’t come out to play again until the 14th minute mark of the last quarter when they kicked their second major, with the O&M leading at every stoppage and change throughout the match.
Corowa Rutherglen’s Kaelan Bradtke got the home team on the board within the first 30 seconds, before pushing the margin to more than seven goals early in the second quarter, on his way to booting three majors for the game.
Pigeons enforcer Ned Pendergast was up the ground, working his way into the action as the ball didn’t make its way to the backline too often.
The three-quarter-time scoreboard showed only one goal for Goulburn Valley against the O and M’s 14 however the home team took their foot off the throttle in the last with the visitors finally finding the big sticks and booting six goals in the last quarter.
North Albury’s Josh Murphy kicked six goals, including three in the first quarter blitz of 6.7 to 1.2, to win the AFL Victoria Medal.
The victorious Ovens and Murray senior side who convincingly claimed back the Ash-Wilson trophy after defeating the Goulburn Valley by 77 points.
O and M coach Jake Sharp said his team worked really hard to build strong connections as a group over the three-week training in the lead up.
In the earlier football match, the O&M’s Under 18s team had a thrilling 13-point win.
On the netball court the league’s senior netball team, which saw Pigeons’ Kaleisha Pell, Tilly Kennedy and Hannah Symes (captain), take to the court, went down 31-68 after trailing by 11 goals at the first break.
The match before in the Under 17s went down to the wire with the O&M unfortunately falling by just two goals whilst the Under 15s, which was coached by Pigeon Emma Sinclair, posted a convincing 31 goal win.
