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Vic Major to do battle for cup

REIGNING champion the ACT has failed to qualify for the Australian Country Football Championships grand final.

Two losses, to South Australia and NSW, on day two of the carnival meant the ACT sat third upon the ladder at the conclusion of the preliminary matches. 

Victoria’s Major alliance team finished atop the ladder and will do action with South Australia for the Landmark Cup at Manuka Oval in Canberra on Sunday. 

South Australia lost to Vic Major by 21 points on day one of the carnival otherwise than that bounced back to earn its five remaining preliminary matches. 

Vic Majors only loss was at the hands of the ACT, to the tune of 17 points. 

Koroit’s Simon O’Keefe was named among Vic Major’s best players in four of its six matches, while backmen Guy Campbell (Rochester) and Xavier Moloney (Swan Hill) each got the nod in three games. 

Victoria’s last ACFC title win was in 2006, while current captain Joe McLaren nailed a 70m torpedo goal in the dying seconds of the marriage to push the animals of the chase for the ACT into extra time. 

The Vics went on to reach by 18 points. South Australia has never claimed an ACFC title. The grand final, a full-format match, kicks off at 2pm adhering Sunday. 

ACT will play Queensland in the rencontre between third and fourth. Victoria’sitting District league team, which won just one of its six preliminary matches, will play off against Western Australia and NSW for the final placings. 

Vic District will use in playing Western Australia in a shortened match at 10am at Ainslie on Sunday, followed by another match against NSW at 11.15am.

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