SOUTH Australia has done the double at the 2018 National Championships, claiming the Under 16s title to go with their Under 18s victory a week earlier. The Croweaters defeated Vic Metro by 12 points to remain undefeated and claim the title on the final day of the championships last Friday. South Australia came from behind in the opening round to post a narrow three-point victory over Western Australia, before easily accounting for Vic Country last Monday, and defeating Metro four days later.<\/p>\n
South Australian vice-captain\u00a0Corey Durdin<\/strong>\u00a0was awarded the Kevin Sheehan Medal for the top player across Division One, while also being named South Australia\u2019s Most Valuable Player (MVP). Second placed Western Australia \u2013 who came within a kick of the overall title \u2013 defeated both Vic Metro and Vic Country comfortably in Queensland last week and announced\u00a0David Yaccob<\/strong>\u00a0as their MVP. Oakleigh Chargers\u2019\u00a0Will Phillips<\/strong>\u2018 was named Vic Metro\u2019s top player across the carnival with the Metro side having just the one win over Vic Country. For Country, Geelong Falcons\u2019\u00a0Tanner Bruhn<\/strong>\u00a0was the standout performer across the three games and named as MVP.<\/p>\n Among the top performers outside the MVPs were South Australia\u2019s\u00a0Kaine Baldwin<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 who booted four goals against Western Australia in a best on ground effort, and another goal in each of the other two games. Other Croweaters who impressed across the carnival were\u00a0Riley Thilthorpe<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Henry Nelligan<\/strong>, named in the best multiple times. For the Black Swans,\u00a0Brandon Walker<\/strong>,\u00a0Taj Schofield<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Logan McDonald<\/strong>\u00a0were among the best, with McDonald being the dominant goal kicker up forward across the carnival, with nine majors.<\/p>\n For the Victorian sides, Calder Cannons\u2019\u00a0Campbell Edwardes<\/strong>, Northern Knights\u2019\u00a0Ben Major<\/strong>\u00a0and Western Jets\u2019\u00a0Cody Raak<\/strong>\u00a0were the top performers for Vic Metro, while Bendigo Pioneers\u2019 and Country captain\u00a0Sam Conforti<\/strong>\u00a0and exciting GWV Rebels\u2019 forward\u00a0Jamarra Ugle-Hagan<\/strong>\u00a0were named among Vic Country\u2019s top players as the latter booted four goals across the matches.<\/p>\n GOALS<\/strong> BEST<\/strong> GOALS BEST<\/strong> GOALS BEST GOALS BEST GOALS BEST GOALS BEST SOUTH Australia has done the double at the 2018 National Championships, claiming the Under 16s title to go with their Under 18s victory a week earlier. The Croweaters defeated Vic Metro by 12 points to remain undefeated and claim the title on the final day of the championships last Friday. South Australia came from behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":37494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[5700,5690,5840,5931,5442,5692,5685,2624,5845,5686,2509,2835,4255,2817,5491,5934,5933,5932,5935,2460],"class_list":["post-37484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-championships","category-news","tag-ben-major","tag-brandon-walker","tag-campbell-edwardes","tag-cody-raak","tag-corey-durdin","tag-david-yaccob","tag-henry-nelligan","tag-jamarra-ugle-hagan","tag-kaine-baldwin","tag-logan-mcdonald","tag-riley-thilthorpe","tag-sam-conforti","tag-taj-schofield","tag-tanner-bruhn","tag-under-16s-championships","tag-under-16s-south-australia","tag-under-16s-vic-country","tag-under-16s-vic-metro","tag-under-16s-western-australia","tag-will-phillips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/afl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Results:<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Round 1:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Vic Metro 12.9 (81) defeated Vic Country 11.7 (73)<\/h6>\n
Vic Metro:<\/strong>\u00a0Failli 3, Bowey 2, Jenkins 2, Varagiannis, Laurie, Phillips, Raak, Hart.
Vic Country:<\/strong>\u00a0Ugle-Hagan 3, Fitzpatrick 3, Conforti 2, Hollands 2, Stevens.<\/p>\n
Vic Metro:<\/strong>\u00a0Major, Failli, Phillips, Hipwell, Bowey, Downie
Vic Country:\u00a0<\/strong>Stevens, Hollands, Ugle-Hagen, Baxter, Lazzaro, Bruhn<\/p>\nSouth Australia 11.3 (69) defeated Western Australia 9.12 (66)<\/h6>\n
South Australia:\u00a0<\/strong>Baldwin 4, Dudley 2, Schwerdt 2, Dumesny, Horsnell, Wright.
Western Australia:\u00a0<\/strong>McDonald 3, Allen 2, Bellchambers, Curley, Evans-Thomson, Western.<\/p>\n
South Australia:\u00a0<\/strong>Baldwin, Durdin, Kraemer, Nelligan, Thilthorpe, Horne
Western Australia:\u00a0<\/strong>Walker, Yaccob, Allen, Schofield, McDonald<\/p>\nRound 2:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
South Australia 9.13 (67) defeated Vic Country 3.7 (25)<\/h6>\n
South Australia:\u00a0<\/strong>Dudley 3, Higgins, Dean, Dumesny, Baldwin, Thilthorpe.
Vic Country:\u00a0<\/strong>Gadsby, Braver, Reid.<\/p>\n
South Australia:\u00a0<\/strong>Thilthorpe, Durdin, Pedlar, Horne, Baldwin, Nelligan
Vic Country:\u00a0<\/strong>Conforti, Bruhn, Maher, Braver, Reid, Gadsby<\/p>\nWestern Australia 14.13 (97) defeated Vic Metro 2.13 (25)<\/h6>\n
Western Australia:\u00a0<\/strong>McDonald, George, Allen, Cartwright, Daly, Jetta, Trew, Walker.
Vic Metro:\u00a0<\/strong>Raak, Tucker.<\/p>\n
Western Australia:\u00a0<\/strong>Yaccob, McDonald, Grainger-Barras, Walker, Johnson, Trew
Vic Metro:\u00a0<\/strong>Edwardes, Downie, Major, MacPherson, Phillips, Raak<\/p>\nRound 3:<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Vic Country 5.7 (37) defeated by Western Australia 13.13 (91)<\/strong><\/h6>\n
<\/strong>Western Australia:<\/strong>\u00a0Dann 4, Avery 2, Cartwright 2, Western 2, Walker, Allen, Daly.
Vic Country:<\/strong>\u00a0Neal 2, Ugle-Hagan, Gay, Hollands.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>Western Australia:<\/strong>\u00a0O\u2019Driscoll, Schofield, Bellchambers, Avery, Dann
Vic Country:<\/strong>\u00a0Bruhn, Conforti, Walsh, Brauer, Maher, Reid<\/p>\nVic Metro 11.12 (78) defeated by South Australia 13.12 (90)<\/h6>\n
<\/strong>South Australia:<\/strong>\u00a0Dudley 3, Horsnell 3, Dumesny 2, Durdin, Dean, Higgins, Pedlar, Baldwin.
Vic Metro:<\/strong>\u00a0Phillips 2, Edwardes 2, Tucker 2, Failli, Bowey, Jenkins, Teal, Feagaimalii.<\/p>\n
<\/strong>South Australia:<\/strong>\u00a0Durdin, Jones, Nelligan, Thilthorpe, Horsnell, Kramer
Vic Metro:<\/strong>\u00a0Phillips, Edwardes, Raak, Hipwell, Laurie, Ford<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"