By Alex Woods and David Ball
Reserves took the field ready for their clash and the Yarra Glen Reserves went in against the undefeated Warburton Millgrove with a depleted line up due to a number of senior injuries.
Warburton started in fine style to be 6 goals up by quarter time.
Yarra Glen kicked their only goal in the second quarter with Dayne Downward battling hard in defence and Ash Bryans lifting in the midfield.
Burras defence managed to keep them to only 2 points until the end.
The Burras had a big second half kicking 13.6 – The River Pigs weren’t able to add a goal .
The Burras came home with a big win of 1.3-9 to 23.13-151 with Damien Egan having another mega 10 goal game.
In Warburton Milgrove Cody Ladewig, Damien Egan, Jackson Blake, Marcel Kocher, Aaron Maguire and Zayden Crunden were all named top performers.
Joshua Read secured 3 goals to his name, Marcel kocher and Aaron Vaughan both kicked 2 and Luke Anderson, Caelan Flynn, Cody Ladewig, Aaron Maguire Hudson Semple and Matt Sidari all had 1 each.
Yarra Glen Best players were Ash Bryans, Dayne Downward, Regen Daniel, Lachlan Crawford, Dylan Jarvis and Daniel Galbraith. The Goalkicker was Drew Brodie.
Seniors footy finished off the day – Yarra Glen took on top side Warburton Millgrove at Yarra Glen in perfect conditions -they had a strong start kicking 6.7 to Yarra Glen’s 2.1 in the first quarter.
Both teams were missing their top midfielders, Ben Ashton for the River Pigs and Tom Barr for the Burras.
Warby didn’t miss a beat, outclassing Yarra Glen in the middle, giving their forwards plenty of opportunities.
They wasted a few, ending up with 6.7 at quarter time.
Yarra Glen kicked a couple of late goals to be 2.1.
The second quarter saw the Burras dominate in general play, but some extra pressure from the River Pigs and some errant kicking only added 3.6 to Yarra Glen’s single goal.
Down by 48 points at half time, things only got worse for Yarra Glen, with leading goal kicker Josh Hawkins and a few others suffering injuries.
With a depleted line up the River Pigs came out and battled hard in the third quarter, Jayden Schille on one leg kicking 2 goals as the team added 3.3 for the quarter, with Warby adding another 5.
With no bench in the last the River Pigs struggled against a younger and fitter Warburton Millgrove outfit. They once again dominated and in the end, Yarra Glen were well beaten, 6.6 to 21.22.
Best Players for Yarra Glen were Ryan Smith, Tom Sullivan, Jim Marks, Richard Wyles, Tyler Ames and Callum Morison.
Goalkickers – Jayden Schille 2, Matt McCann, Josh Hawkins, Marcus Kikidopolous & Callum Morison.
Tyson Henry, Trent Elliott, Josh sharp, Nelson Aldridge, Liam Westlake and Brady Mitchell were all top performers for Warburton Millgrove.
Trent Elliott kicked 6 goals, Liam Westlake had 5, Brady Mitchell kicked 4 goals, Josh Sharp had 4 goals. Josh Dobson secured 2 and Blake Muir with 1.
Warburton Millgrove has its First Nations Traffic Management Indigenous Round next weekend, which is set to be a good and big day and next week Yarra Glen takes on third-placed Powelltown at Yarra Glen in the last home and away game for the season.
