St Augustine’s brothers Billy and Archie Sheppard are setting the Goulburn Murray Junior League alight with their goal-kicking antics.
In the opening three rounds of the under-14 season Archie has kicked 14 goals and Billy has almost matched the exploits of his older brother with eight goals in the past two weeks.
Billy’s under-12 Yellow team kept Lockington Bamawm Cats scoreless on Sunday and scored a 97-point win, while Archie’s team has won by a combined 273 points in three weeks of competition
On Sunday at Northern Oval the under-14 St Augustine’s Yellow team won 15.12 (102) to Moama’s 3.0 (18).
Archie Sheppard kicked four goals in the win, with Max Stockdale, Jett Emini (playing his second game for the weekend) and Timothy Mawley bagging two majors.
Billy Isaac and Charlie Pekin were again stars in the midfield.
Billy Sheppard and his under-12 Yellow team kicked 14.13 (97) in the Friday evening match and another “younger brother”, Jett Emini, also kicked four goals in the win.
Xavier Graetz, Ashton De Pasquale and Hudson Gray were St Aguustine’s best players.
· St Augustine’s Blue lost by 31 points to Moama Black in another under-12 fixture on Sunday, Hudson Boylan’s defensive work a highlight of the game.
Archer Nunn and Lincoln Johnstone were also good players, the latter kicking one of the two goals for the team and Clayton Wilson the other.
· St Augustine’s Blue won its under-14 fixture on Sunday against Euroa by 71 points, Henry Miller and Sam Bruhn accounting for seven of the team’s 13 goals.
Jonty Sefton and Regan Scoble kicked two goals, with Cooper Wilson among the team’s best players for the third week running.
· Kyabram’s under-16 team returned to its winning ways with an 84-point win against Shepparton United Demons at Deakin Reserve on Sunday.
Archer Backway kicked eight goals in the win, but even his oustanding form in front of goals was outshone by the work of Isaiah Scoble in the midfield.
Jeff Turpin kicked three goals, while James Priest and Isaac Grealy kicked two apiece as the Bombers won their second game of the three-week-old grading season.
This Sunday they face the unbeaten Echuca Bombers, who kicked 29 goals from 51 scoring shots in the opening round of the season.