KOORALBYN 10 GOAL

The first days play in the Kooralbyn 10 goal was held today at the Salisbury Field. The tournament was supposed to be held last weekend but the rain that fell was enough to call it off with the the games being scheduled to fit in with the other tournaments still to come before the 14 goals start. The 11am game was between Taman Cuda (Kim Goodall, Glen Gilmore, Adam Grills and Ed Goold) and Wright Properties (Glen Wright, Guy Kirkpatrick, Dirk Gould and Mike King). The score at the end of the 6th chukka was 11 all so they saddled up to play the 7th and at the end of the 7th it was still 11 all so an 8th chukka was on the cards. The goal posts were widened and eventually Taman Cuda managed to sneek 1 through to take the game 12 to 11. the 12.30 game was Willowcroft (Sadie Michelle, Will Gilmore, Mark Lillyman and Rob Ballard) against Alsace (Neil Ford, Wayne Glennie, Tex Webster and Shane Martin). Willowcroft came out with all guns firing and at one stage in the game were up 8 to 1 but Alsace fought back and at the final bell Willowcroft had won 10 to 6. The 3rd game was between Custodian (Guy Higginson filling in for John Fitzgerald, Craig Wilson, Mark Field and Beau Skerret) and A and L Windows (Dean Caulfield, Damian Johnston, Steve Barnard and ill White). Custodian were to strong and the final score was 14 to 3. I think the finals for this tournament will be played, weather and circumstances permitting, on the weekend of 20th and 21st September.