Football
THE South West Football League (SWFL) has once again triumphed in the Landmark country football championships.
Donnybrook were well represented in the side with three of the strongest performers playing their footy for the Mighty Dons this year.
The record-breaking run by the South West backs up the perennial boast that the SWFL is the strongest competition outside the WAFL, but this year the league got over the line by the skin of their teeth.
The carnival started well for the South West with a comfortable win over Avon but in the afternoon game they stumbled to a well organized Upper Great Southern side eager to take on the champions. This defeat left the SW with a lot to do to make the final, with Great Northern also looking competitive this year.
Going in to the last game of the round robins South West were tied with Great Northern on two wins each. In a winner takes all shoot out Great Northern went in to an early lead, which they held for the whole game.
At the death the South West came hard and managed to draw the game with almost the final kick.
Donnybrook’s Simon Parry was best on ground, with David Roche kicking a crucial goal late in the game. The draw was enough for South West to progress to the grand final on percentage.
In the final they met Upper Great Southern again and this time there were no slip ups. The South West showed their class to win comfortably with the Donnybrook trio again featuring strongly.
This Sunday the Dons are in action again at VC Mitchell Park. Come along and support your local community football club which puts so much into the town and shire.
