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YCW Eagles fly high again

18 Aug, 2011 04:00 AM
YCW is again the Loddon Valley Football Netball League’s champion club for the 2011 season.

Across their three football and five netball teams, the Eagles won 109 of their 128 games during the home and away season and finished with a combined average percentage of 218.7.

The Eagles finished 30 wins clear of their nearest rivals, Marong.

YCW – the competition’s only Bendigo-based club – had all eight of its teams finish in the top three, meaning they all have double chances for the finals, which start this weekend.

Five of the club’s teams – the reserves, along with A-grade, B-grade, C-grade and 15-under netball sides – finished on top of the ladder.

The Eagles’ super record of 109 wins includes 38 from 48 games on the football field, and 71 from 80 on the netball court.

This is the second year in a row YCW will have all eight teams in the finals, although, last year the Eagles won just one premiership – the A-grade netball following a thrilling one-goal win over Mitiamo in the grand final.

“It has been a really good effort by the club, especially when you look back to three years ago when the footy side of things was fairly bleak,” YCW president Brendon Breewel said yesterday.

“So to get back up to where we are now in a fairly short time is really pleasing.

“The netball has always been pretty strong, with the A grade girls going for four flags in a row this year.”

Marong (79 wins), Calivil United (78), Mitiamo (69) and Bridgewater (68) fill positions two to five on the 2011 club champion ladder, with the four clubs separated by just 11 wins.

While YCW has all eight teams in the finals, Calivil United and Marong have seven each.

For the first time since 2003, Inglewood will be represented on the football field during the finals.

The Blues’ under-17s finished fourth on the ladder and will be the club’s only representative in the finals.

Bears Lagoon-Serpentine is the only club that won’t have any teams in the finals.

However, the Bears were unlucky, with their senior and reserves football teams both finishing sixth.

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