SANDHURST marked another under-18s footy premiership victory at Bendigo Bank Bendigo FNL grand final day on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Dragons fired up in the second half of the clash with Golden Square at Queen Elizabeth Oval.<\/p>\n
The Dragons went in as hot favourites against a Golden Square team which it had beaten in all four previous showdowns.<\/p>\n
Back-to-back premierships in the SportsPower-sponsored competition were a goal for the team in maroon and blue.<\/p>\n
Sandhurst was first to goal through Guy Hay less than two minutes in.<\/p>\n
The Dean Strauch-coached Golden Square applied plenty of pressure and was rewarded with consecutive goals.<\/p>\n
By quarter-time it was the Bulldogs who led 13-7.<\/p>\n
Less than 50 seconds into the second term and it was 13-all when Carter Reid was on target for Sandhurst.<\/p>\n
The Bulldogs struck back through the skilful Josh Kelly.<\/p>\n
Joint recipient of the George Symons Medal as league fairest and best, Oscar Cail goaled for Sandhurst.<\/p>\n
When Reid booted his second major the Dragons led 26-19 at nine minutes to go in the half.<\/p>\n
An Oliver Stewart goal gave the Mal Borchard and Darcy Mills-coached Sandhurst a 13-point buffer by half-time.<\/p>\n
Heat was right on the Bulldogs when Jaxon Howard goaled for the Dragons.<\/p>\n
More than halfway through the third quarter and Golden Square broke through the Dragons\u2019 defence to goal.<\/p>\n
Another goal by the classy Cail meant Sandhurst led 47-29 going into the final quarter.<\/p>\n
Consecutive goals by Charles Duke made it 60-31 at less than seven minutes to play.<\/p>\n
Seth Cooke-Kingston kicked Golden Square\u2019s fifth goal.<\/p>\n
A Miller Armstrong goal at 45 seconds to play capped a 66-38 victory for Sandhurst.<\/p>\n
The Dragons\u2019 attack was led by Cail, Duke and Reid on two each as Armstrong, Hay, Howard and Stewart were also on target.<\/p>\n
Goalkickers for Golden Square were Seth Cooke-Kingston, Archie Eaton, Josh Kelly, Melvic Pambai and Jaxson Smith.<\/p>\n
Best for the Dragons were Carter Reid, Shannon Tardrew, Zane Connick, Harvey White, Gus Hay and Noah Willits.<\/p>\n
Golden Square\u2019s best were Melvic Pambai, Archie Eaton, Axel Drummond, Josh Kelly, Xavier Cain and \u00a0Xavier Grant.<\/p>\n
The Rod Ashman Medal for best-on-ground was presented to Sandhurst\u2019s Carter Reid.<\/p>\n
Melvic Pambai from Golden Square earnt the AFL Victoria medal.<\/p>\n
Sandhurst\u2019s premiership-winning team:<\/p>\n
B: Jaxon Howard, Thomas Davie, Harry Byrne.<\/p>\n
Hb: Harvey White, Charles Duke, Shannon Tardrew.<\/p>\n
C: Hudson Banfield, Gus Hay, Kobi Macdonald.<\/p>\n
Hf: Miller Armstrong, Zane Connick, Carter Reid.<\/p>\n
F: Charlie Bombardieri, Lachlan Borchard, Oliver Stewart.<\/p>\n
Foll: Miller Nihill, Noah Willits, Oscar Cail.<\/p>\n
Inter: Jack Harvey, Charles Kealy, Thomas Smith, Darby Whatley.<\/p>\n
There have been some great eras for Sandhurst across the 71-year history of the under-18s competition.<\/p>\n
Highs include the premiership four-peat of 2011 to \u201914.<\/p>\n
In \u201926, Sandhurst will be aiming for a Cup hat-trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANDHURST marked another under-18s footy premiership victory at Bendigo Bank Bendigo FNL grand final day on Saturday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-160468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}