By Alex Woods
Big day on the weekend for the Burras at three milestones were celebrated; Trent Elliott’s 50th game, Aaron Pye’s 300th game and the Club’s 1000th game as Warburton-Millgrove hosted Yarra Glen in Footy and Netball while the Women’s Footy took on Officer.
D grade started the morning, Yarra Glen got the strong lead at halftime with a score of 9-16.
Unfortunately, Yarra Glen bought a strong game against our young D Grade, but they put up a good fight. The final score was 18 to 30, Brooke de Pedro put up 10 goals, Maddie Loveless with 5 and Sienna Muir with 3. Layla Ata, Hannah Darwall and Sienna Muir were the top performers.
The Women’s Footy started off the footy for the day against Officer. A strong start by the team, with a 2.5-17 to 0 first quarter. The second quarter was much the same securing another 2.3, but allowing Officer to gain 1.1 of themselves. The second half, they continued their momentum and finished off with a 9.12-66 to 2.2-14 win. Jade Mewburn had another solid game, kicking 4 goals. Lily Pagels, Gabby Woods, Jade Radford, Emerson Woods and Charleen Gray all secured 1 goal each. Jade Mewburn, Emerson Woods, Jade Radford, Kylie Ockwell and Sally McIntosh were all top performers for the match.
C Grade was next on court and had a tough game in front of them. The game started in Warby’s favour with an 11-7 lead at quarter time. Unfortunately, Yarra Glen had a strong second quarter, shooting 13 goals to out 7. The game remained close until quarter time with 1 goal being the difference, Yarra Glen’s way. YG came out strong in the last quarter and took home a 7 goal win.
Mel Hancock secured 16 goals and Ashlyn Hermansen with 12. Courtney Lever, Mel Hancock and Casey Hare were the stars of the game.
B Grade also had a tough game ahead of them. The first quarter was strong by both teams, but Warby had the lead at the first break by 4 goals. Halftime was only 2 goals, Warby’s way but Yarra
Glen came out strong in the second half. They secured the win by 4 goals. Tayla Ferguson put up 33 goals, Alex Woods with 11 and Zoe Timoney with 3. Tayla Ferguson, Ruby Kelly and Zoe Timoney were stars of the match.
Reserves took the field after the women for Aaron’s 300th game. Burra’s came out firing with a 30- 6 lead at the first break. The Burras were able to keep Yarra Glen to only scoring their only goal in the first quarter. By halftime, they had a nice lead of 10.11-71 to 1.0-6. They continued on in the second head and had a massive win of 21-27-153 to 1.0-6. David Lever kicked 5 goals, Aaron secured 4 goals for his big game, as well as Damien Egan. Matt Sidari kicked 3, Tim McKail and Chad Currey both got 2, and Dave Bedggood and Caelan Flynn both secured 1. Caelan Flynn, David Lever, David Bedggood, Brett Winzer, Damien Egan and Chad Currey were all top performers.
A Grade started strong with a 12-6 lead at quarter time. The game was intense but they held a nice lead to be 6 goals up at halftime. They took control for the remainder of the game and extended the lead to take the win by 11 goals. 51 to 40 was the final score with Karly Wappett putting up 28 goals and Bianca Daniels with 23. Ally Langdon, Karly Wappett and Jessie Hare were top performers for the match.
The Seniors finished off the day. They got a nice start of 5.4-34 to 1.0-6, and continued on much the same into halftime. The game was much in Burras’ favour and secured a nice win of 12.21-93
to 5.3-34. Hudson Semple secured 2 goals, James Iacono, Trent Elliott, Jack Farrugia, Bailey Humphrey, Lachlan Hewitt and Liam Westlake all secured 1. Top Performers were Tom Baker, Brock Caneva, Nelson Aldridge, Dylan Walker, Tyson Henry and Bailey Humphrey.
