Proctor Park hosted five cracking Bathurst District Football grand finals on Saturday, with Macquarie United winning three title deciders, with Bathurst '75 and Abercrombie FC claiming one each too.
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Macquarie United won the opening grand final of the day against Eglinton Blue 1-0, with the match's only goal coming from the boot of Benjamin Eardley.
The under 13s went the way of Macquarie United Snow Leopards, with Omar Abdalla scoring the deciding goal with the very last kick of the game in extra-time, breaking the hearts of the Eglinton Blue side. Abdalla scored both goals for his side in the 2-1 win. Abdalla was also named the man of the match.
After being down 2-0 early, Macquarie United Tomcats stormed home to defeat rivals Bathurst '75 Royals 6-3 in a pulsating under 14s grand final. It would've been a bittersweet reward for Royals' Logan Constable. He was on the losing side even though he scored a hat-trick and was awarded the man of the match. Surely he'd trade in his individual accolades for the championship trophy.
The under 15s decider didn't go to plan for Abercrombie FC, the minor premiers humbled by John Lamberton's Bathurst '75 side. Nate Baker was the star for '75, scoring a hat-trick and claiming the man of the match award.
Abercrombie FC's under 16s side carried on its form from the regular season, showing no mercy against Macquarie United to win 5-0. Goals came courtesy of a double from Caiden Grimmett and Thomas Huijser, as well as one from Gabriel Fuchina.
UNDER 12s:
MACQUARIE UNITED TIGERS 1 (Benjamin Eardley) defeated EGLINTON YELLOW 0
GRAND FINAL WINNING SQUAD: GK Charlie Sewell, 2 Joshua Aglan, 3 Declan Hulme, 4 Cameron Sutton, 5 Benjamin Eardley, 6 Blake Harris, 7 James White, 8 Cody White, 9 Will Mutton, 10 Hayden Simm, 11 Brendan Mitchell, 12 Ozzie Gray, 13 Will Daymond, 14 Jack Mulligan. Coach: Trevor Simm. Assistant coach: Dave Sutton
MAN OF THE MATCH: Riley Renshaw (Eglinton Yellow)
BEST & FAIREST: Will Mutton (Macquarie United Tigers, 19 points)
UNDER 13s:
MACQUARIE UNITED SNOW LEOPARDS 2 (Omar Abdalla 2) defeated EGLINTON BLUE 1 (Summer Beckmann)
GRAND FINAL WINNING SQUAD: GK Zebediah Death, 2 Affan Usmani, 3 Logan Helner-Reece, 4 Sebastian Prior, 5 Ashton Griffiths, 6 Max Blundell, 7 Austin O'Shannessy, 8 Angus Collins, 10 Omar Abdalla, 11 Ali Wally, 12 Wilton Griffiths, 13 Samuel Franklin, 14 Langley Death, 15 Harrison O'Rourke, 18 Logan Sargent. Coach: Cameron De Jong. Manager: Rebecca Murphy
MAN OF THE MATCH: Omar Abdalla (Macquarie United Snow Leopards)
BEST & FAIREST: Jayden Brasier (Collegians, 14 points)
UNDER 14s:
MACQUARIE UNITED TOMCATS 6 (Noah Soetens 2, Caleb Cashman, Owen Porter, Ben Reichelt, Hugh Thomas) defeated BATHURST '75 ROYALS 3 (Logan Constable 3)
GRAND FINAL WINNING SQUAD: GK Connor Brown, 2 Jack Mashman, 3 Riley Whitfeld, 4 Sophie Lindsay, 5 Owen Porter, 6 Elias Cutler, 7 Rufus Fox-Allan, 8 Levi Bell, 9 Noah Soetens, 10 Jacobi Callan-McKechnie, 11 Hugh Thomas, 13 Ben Reichelt, 14 Landes Mokaraka, 15 Caleb Cashman, 16 Wil Blatch
MAN OF THE MATCH: Logan Constable (Bathurst '75 Royals)
BEST & FAIREST: Logan Constable (Bathurst '75 Royals, 18 points)
UNDER 15s:
BATHURST '75 3 (Nate Baker 3) defeated ABERCROMBIE FC 0
GRAND FINAL WINNING SQUAD: GK Thomas Borland, 2 Brodie Wolfe, 4 Darcy Meale, 5 William Foskett, 6 Joshua Miller, 7 Cayleb Dennis, 8 Tyler Bird, 9 Zane Newham, 10 Dean Asimus, 11 Cody Borland, 12 Lewis Schoenmaker, 13 Zac Johns, 14 Nate Baker, 15 Ethan Goldfinch, 16 Jakob Lamberton. Coach: John Lamberton. Manager: Melissa Baker.
MAN OF THE MATCH: Nate Baker (Bathurst '75)
BEST & FAIREST: Isaac Hadley (Abercrombie FC, 12 points)
UNDER 16s:
ABERCROMBIE FC 5 (Caiden Grimmett 2, Thomas Huijser, 2, Gabriel Fuchina) defeated MACQUARIE UNITED 0
GRAND FINAL WINNING SQUAD: GK Riley Ledingham, 2 Sam Johnson, 4 Nicholas Lane, 5 Daniel Windsor, 6 Ronan Daunt, 7 Thomas Huijser, 9 Gabriel Fuchina, 10 Caiden Grimmett, 11 Max Johnson, 12 Cody Hall, 13 Campbell Smith, 15 William West-Kennett, 16 Menzi White, 17 Kauri Mokaraka, 18 Heath Kennedy, 112 Caiden Barnes. Coach: Jason Ryan.
MAN OF THE MATCH: Cody Hall (Abercrombie FC)
BEST & FAIREST: Jesse Downey (Macquarie United, 20 points)