Inverell Polocrosse Club players split on the weekend with half of the club travelling to the Goondiwindi carnival and the other half headed for the USA Junior touring side.
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Inverell’s Lauchie Brennan went to Wee Waa to represent while other players headed north.
Club secretary Leonie Buchan said two teams went to Goondiwindi. The A grade team was Emily Gentry, Banjo Payton, Tom O’Brien, Cody Woodward and Jade Collins, and the D grade team was Alex Wrobel, Chelsea Whytecross, Brent Morecombe, Jess, Leonie and Kate Buchan.
“We won the D grade Beaten Teams Competition,” Buchan said.
“Don’t ask me how they do it, but they do. You lose all day Saturday, and then you win on Sunday and you win the beaten teams,” she said, then laughed.
“Don’t ask me any more questions than that because we don’t know how it works either. You go into a semi-final on Sunday and if you win that you go into the final, and if you win that you win.
Buchan laughed as she admitted her team had come in the best of the day’s losers.
“Yeah, that’s it! That’s us. The first game was a graded game between B and D grade, so we lost that and went to D grade. Then we lost the next one, but we don’t know why we ended up being in the semi-final on the Sunday morning,” she said.
We all won a halter each and had a team photo taken too.
- Leonie Buchan
So how did it feel to be the best of the losers? Buchan laughed loudly and said they would take anything they could get.
“We came home with a prize, so it was all pretty good really,” she said.
“We all won a halter each and had a team photo taken too.”
If the D grade were left feeling pretty ‘pleased’ with their unexpected win, then the A grade side may have had similar feelings because it also took out the A grade beaten teams trophy.
Buchan admitted even thought it may not have been the best look, no inferences about the Inverell Plocrosse Club could be drawn from the weekend’s results.
“We’re an up-and-coming, promising side, is what you would call us,” she said with a chuckle.
“But it could have been worse, we could have actually lost the beaten teams, so we are not the worst of the worst, we are actually the best of the worst.”
“This why you play a team sport. You can blame everyone else in your team, but if you play an individual sport you can only blame yourself.
“You know what I mean? It was obviously that number three on the other chukka who did this, so there’s a good reason for it.”