Cherry on top in Lions premiership
Nathan Cherry has led his side to an impressive 12.16 (88) to 3.2 (20) victory over Coolaroo in the Under 16 McDonald's Cup Grand-Final.
It was an impressive display from the young men in gold and maroon, leading at every change to record the Lions first ever club premiership, both junior and senior. The most impressive facet of their win, is the way the Lions went about it.
Their ability to play both attacking and defensive footy, was first class and knew exactly where each other were going to be or go.
Midfielder Nathan Cherry was prolific all-day setting up a lot of the Highfields forward raids and bagging 3 majors of his own for the afternoon. Nathaniel Bianchi and Jacob Sheath also had very good games, as did goal-kicking machine Tom Clark who bagged another 4 majors up forward.
That took Clarks season tally to 81.
For the Roos Kale Ross was their most influential player, with the silky skilled midfielder a warrior all day. Highfields ability to keep the normally attacking Roos goal-less in the second and third quarters, set up the premiership victory.
Nathan Cherry was judged as the best on ground player by the panel of independent judges. Cherry received the Michael Langfield Medal, after receiving the maximum votes from all three judges.
HIGHFIELDS
Goal Kickers: T. Clark 4, N. Cherry 3, J. Johnson 2, J. Carroll , F. Collison , J. Adams
Michael Langfield Medallist: N. Cherry
COOLAROO
Goal Kickers: D. Long , K. Ross , B. Southey
Michael Langfield Medal Voting
Final Leaderboard (3 ballots of 3,2,1 votes total of 18 votes)
Nathan Cherry (Highfields) - 9 votes
Mitchell Wren (Highfields) - 2 votes
Kale Ross (Coolaroo) - 2 votes
Nathaniel Bianchi (Highfields) - 2 votes
James Sprason (Coolaroo) - 1 vote
Lachlan Strachan (Highfields) - 1 vote
Jacob Sheath (Highfields) - 1 vote
Last Modified on 09/10/2014 15:12
