By
Ben Caddaye
A
HASTILY put together combined ADF women’s team surprised
ADFA’s women’s Australian rules football side, beating
it by 41-points in the curtain-raiser to the Kapooka 12s grand
final.
Owing
to a lack of entrants in the women’s division, ADFA found
itself with no opposition in the tournament.
A
last minute call was put out, inviting any females at the ground
to form a combined services side, which would play before the
grand final between ARTC and HMAS Cerberus.
Having
never met one another let alone played together before, the ADF
girls had a five-minute warm up before the game to become accustomed
to the rules.
Given
that many of them had no Australian rules experience, the side
combined extremely well, dominating proceedings from the opening
bounce.
In
attack, the ADF was as entertaining as any team had been on the
day, with several goals scored on the back of lead up work that
would have made an AFL team proud.
Meanwhile,
a miserly display in defence restricted their more experienced
opposition to just one goal in four quarters of football.
In
an impressive display, the ADF ran away with the match to win
convincingly 7.7 (49) to 1.2 (8).
