Sydney Uni American Football Club

In wet conditions this afternoon in Berkeley, two undefeated teams met to determine who had midseason bragging rights. Although both teams may consider themselves the big dogs of the league, only one was able to extend their 75 game win streak, and that was the Sydney University Lions, who demolished the Seahawks 46-8.

In a game with plenty of back story and motivation for a large part of the squad, the Lions showed what a clinical, well drilled attack looked like, and enforced their will on the opposition. Running behind a well drilled, aggressive offensive line, made up of Paul Edwards, Twinky Lawrence, James Gifford, Aaron Carbury, David Wilson and Justin Lauderdale, the offence was able to grind it out. Alex Watson continued to be the workhorse that he has developed into this year, running through tacklers before embarrassing defenders at the goal line. Harry Granger scored multiple times also, with an absolutely wicked juke that left Seahawk defenders looking foolish on the ground.

Although the Sutherland Seahawks had a reputation for a high powered attack coming into the game, they were not able to achieve anything against a real defence like the 2012 Lions squad. With crushing hitting from Nick Olive, Mick Rigney and Nicolai Hansen, the Seahawks were terrified into fumbling multiple balls, throwing away passes and ineffective running. Andrew Matthews gets a particular shoutout for some fine tackling and excellent ball hawking, as does Kevin “Trinantula” Trinh who tackled well and only had a pick six taken away from him due to uncontrolled Gangnam Style celebrating on the 2 yard line.

More detailed report with stats, photos, interviews, video and director’s cut commentary to come soon.