Lions continue streak
Undefeated Great Western continues to set the pace atop Mininera and District Football League’s ladder after another convincing win, this time by 12 goals over Glenthompsondunkeld.
Andrew Cameron bagged another six goals for the winners and Benjamin Birch-burton earned best-on-ground honours as well as adding five goals to the scoreline himself.
Lismore-derrinullum, meanwhile, is behind the Lions in second place after a win over Wickliffe-lake Bolac, just ahead of Penshurst.
Glenthompson-dunkeld and SMW Rovers round out the top five, but the fight is on for top-five berths, with both on the same points as Woorndoo-mortlake and Wickliffe-lake Bolac, sixth and seventh respectively.
After its first win of the season, over Ararat Eagles, Moyston-willaura will be looking to make it two in a row when it plays Hawkesdalemacarthur this week.
Hawkesdale-macarthur
has had only the one win so far this season, and is coming off a 22-goal defeat at the hands of Rovers.
Shane Dowie and Lachlan Reichmam were best players for Hawkesdale-macarthur last weekend, while Christopher Moutray managed three goals to be the only multiple scorer.
The team will come up this week against some young Puma talent in Ben Robertson and Isaiah Palamo who are continuing to perform strongly for their team.
In the Pumas’ bid for a second win, their emphasis will be on goal scoring after last weekend’s inaccuracy resulted in a 9.24 scoreline.
SMW Rovers will be the latest team to take a shot at the rampaging Great Western side.
Although the Rovers sit just inside the top five, they are yet to beat a team not in the bottom four this season.
Saturday’s game will be the real tester to see whether they have their season on track.
Jarryd Underwood has been on song in front of goal, kicking 25 six-pointers in the last two weeks, while Gavin Smith, Lachlan Pickering, Nic Byrne, Ben Jackson and Daniel Curran have been doing most of the heavy lifting around the ground.
For the Lions, along with Cameron and Birch-burton, it has been Nicholas Dunford, Patrick Bell and Gerrard Cunningham who have been featuring in the best.
In other games, Ararat Eagles play Wickliffe-lake Bolac, Caramut and Woorndoo-mortlake meet, second-placed Lismore Derrinallum takes on third-placed Penshurst to try and gain a four-point advantage and it’s a home game for Tatyoon when it plays Glenthompson-dunkeld.