Four WA talents made their mark for Australia over the weekend, taking on Richmond\u2019s VFL side in Melbourne as part of their AFL Academy duties.<\/p>\n
West Perth forward Koby LeCras was one of the Australian Under-18s\u2019 best against Richmond VFL at Punt Road Oval on Saturday, while fellow AAMI Football State 18s squad member Heath Mellody made a successful return from injury.<\/p>\n
Playing a mix of half-forward and wing, LeCras was in the conversation to win his team\u2019s best-on-ground medal, booting an equal game-high three goals to go with 18 disposals and seven marks in the loss to the Tigers.<\/p>\n
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The son of former North Melbourne player and West Perth champion Brent is among the State\u2019s top AFL Draft prospects for 2026.<\/p>\n
Claremont young gun Mellody also impressed in his return from a minor hamstring injury, amassing 15 disposals, five marks and three inside 50s across half-back.<\/p>\n
Mellody\u2019s Tigers teammate Benji van Rooyen had his best game of the camp after moving into the ruck.<\/p>\n
Van Rooyen\u2019s work rate around the ground was particularly encouraging, finishing with 15 disposals, three hit-outs and two marks.<\/p>\n
East Perth and West Coast Next Generation Academy speedster Garrison Kenh also had an impact, playing mainly across half-back where he showcased his rebound and damaging left foot.<\/p>\n
Kenh had 15 disposals, four marks and four rebound 50s in a fine performance.<\/p>\n
The game was part of a week-long AFL Academy camp in Melbourne, with the West Aussie quartet getting access to high-performance facilities and AFL-like preparation.<\/p>\n
All four were selected in the AAMI WA Football State 18s Boys squad as preparations ramp up for the upcoming AFL National Under-18s Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four WA talents made their mark for Australia over the weekend, taking on Richmond\u2019s VFL side in Melbourne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-625056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625056","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=625056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}