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00:00 Welcome to our second edition of our football wrap program.

00:03 For the weekend, I'm David Brown,

00:04 I'm joined by Edward Holland.

00:06 Good evening, Edward.

00:07 - Evening, David, how you doing?

00:08 - Yeah, all right.

00:09 Sunday, a massive day of football

00:11 in the Central Highlands Football League.

00:13 And we'll talk about that very shortly.

00:16 More drama and yeah, it's just delivering in spades.

00:19 But before we go into that,

00:21 just a bit of an update on the injuries

00:24 you spoke about last night for Sebastopol,

00:27 which could be crucial going into the finals

00:29 because the Borough has finished third.

00:32 They're set to play, hopefully,

00:34 a big part in the Premiership race,

00:36 but not good news.

00:38 - Yeah, so there was some carnage yesterday

00:39 at Mighty Bush Reserve for Sebastopol.

00:42 Probably the biggest story of them all

00:44 is playing co-coach Luke Keel.

00:46 His finals campaign, his season's over,

00:48 he's broken his leg,

00:49 he was admitted to hospital last night.

00:52 So thoughts go out to him,

00:54 but he's not the only one, unfortunately, for the Borough.

00:57 So Keel's finals campaign is over.

00:59 They're sweating on scans for Toby Hutt,

01:01 their key forward who's leading the goalkeeping out

01:04 at the Borough this season.

01:06 Knee injury there, so fingers crossed for him,

01:09 but they are a little bit nervous

01:11 as they await scans midweek.

01:13 And James Keeble as well,

01:15 they were worried it was a hamstring injury,

01:17 but it might just be a really bad corky knee.

01:20 Either way, in a do or die scenario,

01:23 Michael Colombo said in a do or die scenario,

01:25 he plays and that is next week,

01:26 so we'll have to see how he goes.

01:27 But once again, we'll find out midweek how they're looking,

01:30 and then a few other boys, Liam Stowe,

01:33 came back through the reserves

01:34 and actually did a hamstring in the reserves as well.

01:36 So yeah, a bit of a blow for the Borough.

01:39 - Yeah, it's not good news,

01:41 and the worst possible outcome is going into a final series.

01:44 But in the Central Highlands today,

01:45 we had our second elimination and qualifying finals.

01:49 And first of all, we'll go to the results

01:52 of the second qualifying final

01:54 between reigning Premier Gordon and Hepburn at Learmonth,

01:57 and it was a win to the Eagles, 14,892 to Hepburn, 8,957.

02:02 The Eagles getting away in the last quarter.

02:04 There wasn't a lot in this game.

02:06 Gordon led for most of it,

02:08 and they just, they more or less kept Hepburn at arm's length

02:13 and at the end though, it was the reigning Premier

02:17 that put the foot, the gas down,

02:19 and they ran away to a comfortable win.

02:22 So like Springbank, they get a week off

02:27 and await a preliminary final encounter

02:32 in a couple of weeks' time.

02:33 So at the moment, those two teams,

02:35 Gordon and Springbank, by winning the qualifying finals,

02:38 they are on target to meet

02:40 in a second consecutive grand final.

02:43 But there's a little bit to play out before then,

02:45 but right now you'd say those two

02:47 are the favourites for the flag.

02:50 The other game today was an elimination final.

02:53 Of course, yesterday we saw Carnum Linton

02:56 win their first final against Newell.

02:58 And today it was Skipton's turn,

03:00 another former Lexington Plains League club,

03:02 and they won a dramatic elimination final

03:07 over Dunstown by six points, 10,868, Dunstown, 8,1462.

03:12 If you don't do anything else,

03:15 the best way to see what happened

03:17 is to watch the last 10 minutes

03:19 of our live stream today of this game.

03:22 It was just unbelievable.

03:24 Dunstown, they grabbed the ascendancy in the third quarter

03:28 after scores were level at half time.

03:30 And the three quarter time,

03:32 the margin wasn't so great that they were unbeatable,

03:37 but they certainly had control of the game.

03:40 And as the last quarter went on,

03:42 it looked more and more like the Towners would hold on.

03:46 They'd been the better team all day.

03:48 Their defensive side of their game was outstanding.

03:52 Their tackling, they just shut down the midfield of Skipton.

03:57 And they looked like going into time on,

04:02 that while the margin wasn't great,

04:04 that they had enough up their sleeve.

04:06 But then virtually out of nowhere,

04:09 I could just about see the Skipton supporters

04:10 walking out the gate, you know.

04:12 But out of nowhere, they just produced some special moments,

04:16 Reece Monument, what a game he had.

04:19 He's a sharpshooter at Skipton,

04:22 and he certainly delivered in that last quarter

04:24 with a couple of clutch goals.

04:27 And it was the big fella in Jack Peters,

04:31 not long back from a knee reconstruction.

04:34 He kicked a long goal to level the scores.

04:37 And when he did that,

04:38 it looked like it might be extra time.

04:43 The quarter kept going and going.

04:44 I think in the end it went for 35 minutes.

04:46 One of the reasons for that, or the main reason I guess,

04:49 was that the big defender for Skipton, Ben Crowell,

04:54 landed very heavily.

04:56 And it looked like he was knocked out for a while.

04:58 So we'll have to follow that one through during the week.

05:00 And he had to be helped from the field.

05:02 So there was quite an amount of extra time.

05:05 But the clock kept ticking.

05:07 Skipton hit the front.

05:10 There was still time for Dunstown to get back

05:13 and equal the scores again after Monument

05:18 had put them in front.

05:19 But yeah, Peters leveled the scores.

05:21 Monument kicked a goal in front and they held on.

05:26 But for a long time it looked like extra time.

05:28 It's really hard to get the,

05:31 if you weren't there to get what it really felt like.

05:33 So have a look at the live footage

05:37 from our live stream today.

05:39 So yeah, fantastic weekend of finals football

05:42 to get things underway.

05:44 Excuse me, after calling the game today,

05:46 or two days, my voice is absolutely gone.

05:49 So before we finish,

05:50 Carnum Linton play Bungaree at Bunningham on Saturday

05:53 in the first of the semifinals.

05:55 And the second semifinal will be Hepburn versus Skipton

05:58 at Learmoth.

06:00 We will live stream the first Saturday's game,

06:03 Carnum Linton versus Bungaree at Bunningham.

06:06 Unfortunately, we cannot get any...

06:11 - Signal. - Signal, that's the word.

06:13 Signal at Learmoth.

06:14 So all we can do there is we will call the game

06:18 and record it.

06:19 And that will be Hepburn against Skipton

06:21 in the other semifinal.

06:22 And those games are cutthroat,

06:24 as those teams battle it out to go up against Gordon

06:28 and Springbank the week after.

06:30 So yeah, just so much happening

06:32 in both the Ballarat and Central Highlands leagues.

06:35 Hope you've had your footy fixed for the weekend,

06:38 either locally or on the big stage.

06:40 I know a Melbourne supporter here, very happy,

06:43 and a very happy North Melbourne supporter here.

06:46 A lot of people know I'm a Kangaroo supporter.

06:49 We do it pretty hard and we have in recent times,

06:51 but yeah, good finish to the season there

06:54 and some ripper football locally.

06:56 So until we catch up with everyone on Thursday night

07:00 with more Teams Talk, it's goodnight from me,

07:02 and it's...

07:03 - Goodnight from me, Edward.

07:05 - It's supposed to be goodnight from him.

07:06 Goodnight.

Sunday Wrap | The Courier | August 27, 2023

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