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Happy Hurricanes host tenacious Tigers by Vin Maskell
The Hampden Hurricanes, a western Victorian all-abilities football team with just a few games under its belt, hosted the Wyndham Tigers over the Queens Birthday weekend. Continue reading
FIDA Knights making their move by Vin Maskell
After a very lean start to the season the North Ballarat Knights, last year’s Division 1 premiers, has now won two games in a row, easily accounting for Wyndham in the round six game at White Flat Oval in Ballarat.
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Carnival to highlight inclusiveness by Vin Maskell
The 2014 National Inclusion Carnival kicks off on Thursday 19 June at Preston City Oval.
Hosted by the AFL and FIDA, the Victorian league for players with intellectual disabilities, the carnival is a great showcase for inclusiveness and all-abilities football.
This year the carnival features the best players from Victoria (metro and country), New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania. Several players from FIDA teams in Victoria are topping up the Tasmanian team.
Vic Country and Vic Metro will open the carnival with a 12.30pm game. This will be followed by clashes between New South Wales and South Australia, and Queensland and Tasmania.
Friday 20 June will be full of action, with six games to be played at the Preston ground, starting at 9am.
Saturday’s six games are at Pitcher Park in Alphington.
Finals will be played on Sunday 22 June at Ransford Oval, Parkville, from 9am.
The Grand Final will kick off at 11.20am.
More details at fida.org.au
AFL ladder after round 11
Hawks sneak home, deny Magpies first win
MARYBOROUGH came within a whisker of registering their first win of the 2014 season at Eaglehawk’s Canterbury Park on Saturday.
In the end a match-sealing last quarter major 25 minutes in from Eaglehawks’ Wade Minter, playing his ninth senior game, handed the home side a nine-point victory.
FIDA Seagulls take the Bulls by the horns by ROB KLEMM
Rob Klemm is the coach of the Seagulls….
Two of the toughest road trips in FIDA football are those to Ballarat to meet 2013 Premiers North Ballarat Roosters, and to Seaford to take on the powerful Kananook Bulls. After an outstanding win against the Roosters at home at The Fearon in Round 2, Williamstown Seagulls made the long journey down the Nepean Highway to face the club they have only beaten once previously – in the 2013 Semi-Finals.
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First win for FIDA Tigers by Vin Maskell
On a cold and wet day Wyndham jumped out of the blocks early against reigning premiers North Ballarat to record its first win in Division 1. The Tigers, Division 2 premiers last year, had a very handy 25 point lead at half-time, which they increased even as the weather got worse. Continue reading
Swans are good South are getting better Peel are not by LES EVERETT
A strong mark by South Fremantle’s Marlon Pickett. Photo by Les Everett
WAFL round seven…
Tigers upset Dogs, break MyJet Oval hoodoo by RICHARD JONES
Bendigo Football League round five
KYNETON scored one of the most astonishing victories of the 2014 Bendigo league season to date, holding on to beat Golden Square by seven points in Saturday’s MyJet Oval match.
The Tigers held the Bulldogs to a trifling 2.11 by three-quarter time while posting 7.8 with one term to play.
Even though Square booted five goals with the breeze in a pulsating final quarter, Kyneton managed two majors in reply to hold on for their second win of the year: 9.8 (62) to 7.13 (55). Continue reading
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