Saints “Suns” set sights sky high
The Saints Gold Coast Suns AFL squad of 22 under 14 boys headed down to Metricon Stadium on Tuesday to play off for the state title in the Gold Coast Suns Cup. Leading up to the day, the Saints boys had won the Cairns regional title in May and booked their place to play the winning team from the Townsville region. We drove down to Townsville in June to play St Anthony’s for the right to represent the North Queensland region down on the Gold Coast.
After the early morning flight down to Brisbane and the bus ride to the Gold Coast, the boys faced St Brendan’s College, Yepoon in the first match of the day which proved to be a tough match and fiercely contested. The boys from St Brendan’s certainly outsized our boys but our Saints proved themselves to be more skilled and quicker and more accurate on the field. There seemed to be no doubt that our boys would outrun them from the first bounce, leading on the score board at the end of each quarter and eventually running out victors, 9.10 (64) to 1. 2 (8). Goal scorers for this game were: three to Jack West, two each to Oliver Koch and Grayson Redgewell and singles to Jacob Heron and Hugo Walker.
After this convincing win, the boys advanced straight to the grand final, and the thrill of running on to the main arena, home of the Gold Coast Suns in front of several Suns players. This match saw us come up against Aquinas College from the Gold Coast and was a much closer tussle and harder fought match with the lead changing several times throughout the first 3 quarters. The boys ran away with the match and the title in the fourth quarter, adding 5 unanswered goals after an inspirational Grand Final class speech from coach, Matt Walsh. The final score was 9.9 (63) to 5.5 (35). Goal scorers were Jack West three, Harry Cozens two and singles to Dylan Anderson, Hugo Walker, Finn Devine-Cameron and Martin Raco.
The boys were presented with the Gold Coast Suns cup and a jersey signed by the Suns players and will now compete against the winning school from the Brisbane Lions Cup competition for the chance to play in the nationals in Sydney in September. Congratulations go to Jack West who was awarded best on ground for the day and to the rest of the boys for doing themselves and their school proud in every regard from the moment we left Cairns in the early morning until our late arrival home close to midnight.
Last Modified on 23/09/2013 15:33