AFLAFL MackayMackay NewsletterNewsletter -- IssueIssue 77 AFL Season 2014 Find Below times and places for all of this weekend’s Games, the highlighted games have changed from the original draw. Round 7 14/06/14 Weekly Game Schedule Seven team Senior Round3 Mackay City vs. Magpies NB 2:45pm Harrup Park North Mackay vs. Eastern Swans 2:45pm Zeolla Park Moranbah vs. Bakers Creek 2:45pm Stevenson Sport Pk Whitsunday BYE Five Team Reserve North Mackay vs. Eastern Swans 1:00pm Zeolla Park Moranbah BYE Mackay City vs. Whitsunday 1:00pm Harrup Park Four Team Women Magpies NB BYE Eastern Swans vs. North Mackay 5:15pm Zeolla Park Moranbah BYE Four Team Colts Mackay City vs. Whitsunday 11:10am Harrup Park North Mackay vs. Eastern Swans 11:10am Zeolla Park Four Team U15 North Mackay vs. Eastern Swans 9:40am Zeolla Park Mackay City vs. Whitsunday 9:40am Harrup Park Five Team U13 Sarina BYE North Mackay vs. Eastern Swans 8:15am Zeolla Park Mackay City vs. Whitsunday 8:15am Harrup Park Sports Administrator | Debbie Hildebrand | P (07) 4944 6105 | M 0419 920 104 Email: [email protected] AFL Mackay Newsletter Page 2 Representative Tri Representative What a weekend of Representative football at the home of AFL in Mackay – Harrup Park! Friday night featured an excellent showing from parents and players for the weekly junior fixtures under lights on the main field. It is a fantastic spectacle on a Friday evening at Harrup Park, with 100s of young junior AFL participants enjoying their football! Saturday morning marked the start of the newly structured U14 Central Queensland Championships featuring the best young AFL talent from Mackay, Capricornia and Townsville. The championships included a testing component with the Vertical Leap, Agility Test and 20m Sprint measured under the watchful eye of coaching staff and selec- tors. The first match of the carnival was Mackay hosting Townsville, in which the boys from North of our Region proved too strong for the local U14s. Furthermore, Mackay backed up to play their second match of the championships against Capricornia who also prevailed as winners of this match. Well done to the U14 Mackay team which put in a courageous ef- - fort, coached by experienced campaigner Craig Widdowson. Series Weekend Congratulations to the six Mackay players selected in the Central QLD squad to compete at the State Championships later this month – Blake Jones North Mackay Saints, Jarrod Jones Mackay City Hawks, Cameron Chiswell Mackay City Hawks, Josh Norris Whitsun- day Sea Eagles, Tyrell Lafituanai Rookie and Adam Fedor Mackay City Hawks. The weekend consisted of plenty of Representative AFL action, with the Mackay Men‟s and Women‟s senior teams taking to the field for the first time against Townsville and Capricornia. This showcased an excellent brand of NQ football in all matches, with Mackay Men‟s Rep squad winning against Capricornia and going down to a well-drilled Townsville outfit. In an exciting first for AFL Mackay, the inaugural Tim Mulherin Women‟s AFL Tri-shield took place on new Oval 9. North Queensland too good The NQ representative team, including Michael Fisher - (Moranbah)., Nathan Peters (Saints) and Bradley Smith (Hawks) had a six-point win over SQ. 7/6/14 Assistant coach David Harding said the Mackay players shone in a great game of footy! “Our (Mackay) boys did more than hold they‟re own; they were in our best 10, certainly” he said. Article from the Daily Mercury Page 3 Tri-City Results Results from this weekend‟s Tri-City Challenge representative series played last night at Harrup Park Country Club below. The matches were played between both Mens and Womens teams representing AFL Capricornia, AFL Mackay and AFL Towns- ville. Matches were played on a 2 x 25 minute half format. AFL Townsville ran out winners of the NAB Tri-City Shield, winning both matches: Townsville Eagles 3.1; 8.4 (53) def Mackay Crows 3.1; 4.3 (27) Towsville Eagles 3.3; 7.3 (45) def Capricornia 3.2; 5.4 (34) Mackay Crows 2.3; 9.5 (59) def Capricornia 1.4; 4.4 (28) AFL Capricornia took out the Tim Mulherin Tri-Series Shield, winning both their matches: Capricornia 3.0; 4.0; 6.2; 9.6 (60) def Mackay Crows 0.1; 1.1; 1.3; 1.3 (9) Mackay’s Best of the Weekend: Alisha Matsen was named Mackay’s best player at the weekends tri series games against Townsville and Rockhampton. Thank you! On behalf of AFLQ we would like to thank-you all on hosting another very successful long weekend of football in Mackay. Under 14 Central QLD Championships, Open Men‟s and Ladies Representative football. Wonderful effort by all concerned this is another great step in growing our regional AFL BRAND. A Big thank-you to Peter Busch and John Round. Football again was the winner. All the best to everyone for the rest of the season and lets make 2015 even better. Page 4 AFL Mackay Newsletter Woman’s AFL Mackay Eastern Swans Senior Women’s coach, Neil Grummitt is a great asset to the club, AFL Mackay and has a wealth of knowledge about the game AFL has been a huge part of Neil „Moth‟ Grummitt‟s life, as a QLD state player from the Mayne Football Club and now he is proud as punch to watch his daughter Re- becca play AFL in the new AFL Mackay Women‟s league. Rebecca, a talented all-round sportswoman from Mirani SHS, was selected in the U16 Capricornia Schools AFL Girls squad who recently competed in the State Championships on the Sunshine Coast. Dad was very proud of his daughter‟s efforts and is now the first official Head Coach of the Eastern Swans Ladies AFL Team. Neil has held the nickname of „Moth‟ since his playing days, in which he was always the first one at training and would stand direct- ly under the lights performing his warm up and waiting for the rest of the team to arrive. Moth is excited about the opportunity to coach the first official Ladies team for the Eastern Swans AFL Club. He will keep a watchful eye over his Swans Players. The Mackay representative side who took on the best Ladies players from Townsville and Capricornia for North QLD bragging rights in the inau- gural Tim Mulherin Women‟s AFL Shield. We are calling on all ladies interested in playing AFL to join the Women‟s AFL Mackay Facebook page, no AFL experience necessary. AFL Mackay Women‟s Directors Vanessa Creeley and Naomi John- stone have worked tirelessly to establish Women‟s AFL in Mackay, let‟s all get behind one of the fastest growing forms of AFL in Queensland. Contact details: Neil can be contact on 0427 698 202 Vanessa Creeley on 0428 520 180 Naomi Johnstone on 0422 752 373 Page 5 Women’s AFL Report 7th June 2014 – Representative Weekend The Queen‟s Birthday long weekend offered us some fantastic Women‟s AFL; it was the first Tri- City Challenge between Mackay, Townsville and Capricornia who played it out for the Tim Mul- herin Tri-City Challenge Shield. Each City has some amazing talent and we are very excited about the future of Women‟s AFL in North Queensland. We are so very proud of all our girls, everyone stepped up and played fantastic footy on Saturday and we would like to acknowledge some of them, firstly to our Captain Emily Morley and Vice- Captain Rahnee Vaccaneo both girls had fantastic leadership and really helped the team out with their quarter break pick me up talks. Also to our emergencies Melody Tysoe and Megan Giles who played in the spirit of the game and played for Townsville to help them out with numbers in their second game, thank you girls you made us so very proud. Secondly to our stand out stars over the two games Nicci Campbell – Moranbah Bulldogs, Lisa-Jane Millard – Northern Beaches Magpies, Kate Cowen – Moranbah Bulldogs and Alisha Matsen – Eastern Swans what an amazing display of skills each of you displayed throughout the night, awesome job girls. Alisha Matsen was award- ed the prestigious Josie Rogers Best on Ground Medal for Mackay, well done Alisha and so very well deserved. Naomi & I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone that made Saturday possible, firstly Shaun Creeley for coaching the girls for the past 12 months or more which has helped build their skills with consistent training and we know the girls absolutely adore and respect you. Secondly to Dion Obst who also helped with training but also helped set up Saturday and who was also our Runner. Neil Grummitt (aka Moth) for helping with coaching on the night and sup- porting the girls. Another shout out to Toni & Greg Vollmerhause if it wasn‟t for your help Satur- day we would‟ve been without a timekeeper and scorer, to all of you, thank you, your help and support is greatly appreciated. After witnessing the fantastic skills of all the Mackay Women in Saturday‟s games from such a short amount of time training and playing we are very excited about the next Tri-City Challenge in 2015 especially after these ladies have had a full season of playing and training. The Tri-City Challenge was a fantastic round of football with all Cities enjoying every moment and with every competition there is a winner and this year the winner of the Tim Mulherin Tri- City Challenge Shield is Capricornia, winning both of their two games. Well done.