U18 Cairns Lions Team Named for Country Championships
The Piccones U18 Cairns Lions Team will head down to Rockhampton on the weekend to compete in the U18 Queensland Country Championships. The main focus of the tournament is to select the U18 Queensland Country Kookaburras team to compete at the State Titles in Brisbane in March.
The squad has been training since November through the hot and wet summer months building up to this weekend. The group has played a handful of practice games in the lead up, including two against the Cairns Masters team and recently a hit out in torrential rain against a South Cairns reserves team. Players will be keen to test themselves against Queensland Country's best, in particular the players who were denied this opportunity last year due to a cyclone passing through Mackay. The squad will be strengthened with the addition of Jye Bohm and Atiba Jackson who both recently departed the North to pursue their football dreams in the big smoke. Bohm on a scholarship with Redlands Football Club and Jackson becoming a GC17 squad member. Many players will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of 2008 Gold Coast signings Charlie Dixon and Zac Smith who played in this tournament last year.
"The team is well prepared and should go into the weekend with confidence" "Our main goal as coaches is to try to get as many Cairns players selected in the Kookaburra team as possible"
The team will play 2 games on Saturday 21st Feb at Stenlake Oval in Rockhampton. The first game against Central Queensland County (Townsville, Mackay, Capricornia) at 4pm and the second game against South Queensland Country (Darling Downs, Bundaberg, Wide Bay) at 5pm.
Piccones U18 Cairns Lions Team:
Dallas Abel, Tim Hanly, Jye Bohm, Damien Thompson, Ben Herbert, Chris Hunt, Clive Connolly, Michael Stewart, Luke Fuller, Josh Marriot, Jackson Martin, Ray Stubbins, Josh Coombs, Jake Emery, Josh Avison, Michael Lovell, Jordan Buterss, Ben Graham, Nathan Weiss, Mitchell Nicholson, Mahdi Chizari, Marley Anderson, Atiba Jackson.
Last Modified on 30/11/2012 16:02