Juniors do the club proud

Jobe Lange skips clear and waltzes into goal for the under-12s on Saturday morning. 156867 Pictures: JAMIE CULLUM

UNDER 9
OGCC White (7) v OGCC Orange (45): An exciting future for Ocean Grove after watching White and Orange clash on Saturday. While the scoreboard was one sided, the game itself was competitive with some fantastic passages of play for both sides. Jack McGough, Jaxon Coon and Lucas Anderson all played well.
OGCC Blue (46) v South Barwon Blue (32): After two fairly even quarters, South Barwon Blue put a genuine challenge out to the boys in the third quarter with some midfield dominance and consecutive goals really opening up the game. The response from the boys in the last quarter was emphatic and started in the midfield with across the board participation, and a level of intensity at the ball which was great to see. Award winners this week were Will Cunningham, Bohdi Hateley, Tom Teague, Jack Vose and Charlie Confoy.
OGCC Red (76) v Torquay Boak (13): A dominant game by the Red boys, starting strongly with six goals in the first quarter. The pressure continued and the team showing great skills on the ball, ran away with an easy win.
UNDER 10
OGCC Orange (51) v Queenscliff (12): The Orange under-10s winning streak extended to three after a resounding win over Queenscliff. The boys burst out of the blocks early taking a four-goal-to-one lead at the end of the first term. Miller Keck had the ball on a string and this string held together fantastic links of play throughout the game that saw the lads bring home the bacon. Luke Devlin was a standout picking up possessions all over the ground, Oscar Stephenson lead from the front playing a great captain’s
game and Jack Every and Finn Reid worked hard all day.
OGCC Blue (53) v Grovedale Delaney (14): The Cobra Blue boys had a great win this week, we were quick out of the blocks with four goals in the first quarter and maintained the rage with some great passing and a team first approach. Award winners this week were Oliver Kristapsons (two goal first quarter), Jack Bennett, Caden Walsh and Henry Woods.
UNDER 12
OGCC White (20) v Lara Batman (59): This week White played Lara Batman and lost 20 points to 59 points, Lara proved to be too big and strong for but the White side won the last quarter. A great game by Baxter Lindsay who won an award along with Noah Jefferies, James Devine and Lachie Wallbank.
OGCC Blue (8) vs Leopold Ruggles (60): An excellent three quarters by under-12 Blue kept the scores competitive until the final quarter where Leopold Ruggles had a stronger final quarter and kicked a number of unanswered goals. Awards this week go to Bryce O’Neil, Xavier Eales, Charlie Mahoney and Heath Collins.
OGCC Orange (27) v Teesdale (76): Super physical hard game fought out between Orange and the Roos left the Snakes shy of the win when the siren sounded early Saturday morning. Led bravely by senior players Nick Gibbon and Toby Gill the Orange boys did their jumper proud keeping a stronger and more physical Teesdale to a low score. Lots of heart and courage shown. Awards to Dylan Grace, Jack Newland, Toby Gill, Tahj Wirth and young gun Will Irwin.
OGCC Red (48) vs Torquay Milliken (37): The Reds started well with three goals in the first quarter by Saxon Copeland, Ryan Humphries and Blake Hodgson. Torquay fought back in the second and third quarters with Bailey Lewis-Mclachlan being the only goal scorer for the Reds. In the last Harry Hillier kicked two goals to secure the win.
Round 10
UNDER 14
OGCC 2 (69) v South Barwon 2 (8): The boys played their one and only Friday night game of the season and with last week’s disappointments behind them they really did put on a show. With every player on the ground winning their position, the ball movement and run and carry was first rate. The game plan that was worked on at training was implemented to a tee, with all the boys getting plenty of the footy and working hard for each other. The boys had a great time out there, using plenty of voice and singing
the club song after the game with lots of gusto. Encouragement awards to Will Harrington, Jake Charles, Beau Allan and Jack Fox.
OGCC 3 (50) v Torquay Pyers (41): A perfect combination of big and smalls creating great free-flowing tough football. Fantastic ruck work led by Ollie Northam and Max West which set up space for the Cobra on-ballers. The coach could not be prouder of the team’s improvement with three consecutive wins. Awards to Max West, Connor Asquith, Cooper Falconer and Ollie Northam.