2014 Magners Australasian GFHAA Championships - Day 2

The action continued today at Gaelic Park in Melbourne with all states out in force. While the Senior Men’s Football and Ladies Football teams progressed with their round games, the Minor Footballers and Camogie sides had semi-finals to contest.

In the first Minor Football semi-final Victoria Blues defeated their state counterparts Victoria White 5-14 to 0-02, while the second semi-final was a closer affair with South Australia edging out New Sales Wales 3-05 to 4-05.

Queensland Camogie had a convincing win over hosts Victoria (3-07 to 0-06) in the first semi-final securing their place in tomorrow’s Camogie Final. In the other game, New South Wales faced off against Western Australia and came out on top winning 2-08 to 1-04. Queensland will go into the Final as slight favourites haven beaten New South Wales already in the round games.

In the Ladies Football competition, New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia all recorded wins, with the New South Wales v Queensland game a closely contested affair (1-10 to 0-08). New South Wales will now meet hosts Victoria in the semi-final, while West Australia will be up against Queensland. go into the semi-finals unbeaten and will be up against Western Australian.

New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia had wins in the Hurling. While New South Wales beat Queensland in the early game (0-12 to 0-06), Western Australia were the stronger team later on the day edging them out by two points (2-07 to 0-15) in close match. While Wellington Hurlers didn’t make the semi-finals, they must be commended for travelling to the games for the first time and will no doubt be a force to be reckoned with when New Zealand host next year’s games.

The Senior Men’s Football teams each had two games today with New South Wales maintaining their unbeaten record by seeing off competition from Victoria (1-08 to 1-04) and Western Australia (1-10 to 1-06). They finish top of the table as we go into the semi-finals. Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia also progress to the next stage while Wellington and South Australia unfortunately bow out of the Championships.
Tomorrow is set to be another cracking day as we look forward to the highly anticipated Minor Football and Camogie Finals, in addition to the semi-finals for all other codes.

Camogie
WA	0-06	NSW	2-11
Camogie Semis
NSW	2-08	WA	1-04
VIC	0-06	QLD	3-07
Ladies Football
SA	0-03	VIC	0-09
NSW	1-08	QLD	0-10
WA	6-11	WELL	0-02
Hurling
NSW	0-12	QLD	0-06
VIC	5-13	WELL	0-05
NSW	2-07	WA	0-15
Minor Football – Semi Finals
SA	4-05	NSW	3-05
VIC BLUE	5-14	VIC WHITE	0-02
Senior Football
SA	0-01	QLD	4-10
NSW	1-08	VIC	1-04
VIC	3-13	WELL	0-01
NSW	1-10	WA	1-06
SA	0-09	WELL	2-06
WA	0-05	QLD	2-05

 

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2014 Magners Australasian GFHAA Championships - Day 1

In the first full day of games at this year’s Australasian State Championships saw 20 matches played across three pitches. 

In the Camogie competition, a strong start by Western Australia resulted in them defeating both Queensland and hosts Victoria. New South Wales and Victoria battled it out in the last Camogie game of the day with the visitors from Sydney proving to be the stronger outfit defeating VIC by 1-10 to 2-03. The final round of Camogie games will be played tomorrow morning, ultimately determining which teams will face off against each other in the Semi Finals, the first of which will be played tomorrow evening.

Representing New Zealand, Wellington Ladies came up against a very strong Queensland side, and despite the score line they put in a solid effort for their first Australasian Championships. After today’s performances both NSW and Queensland are in a good position to advance to the Semi Finals on Friday having won both their games, this leaves South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia with ‘must win’ games tomorrow.

For the first time in the Championship’s history, Wellington also submitted a Hurling side however they came up against a strong New South Wales side who recorded a high scoring win. The remaining two matches were a closer affair, with hosts Victoria narrowly beating Queensland in the early game, while their second game against Western Australia finished in a draw at 0-07 a piece.

The Minor Footballers who opened the State Championships yesterday afternoon had their all-important semi-final placings to play for today. After two impressive wins, Victoria Blues finished top of the table followed by South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria Whites. The Minor semis will be played tomorrow with South Australia meeting New South Wales, while both the local Victorian teams will face off against each other.

In the Senior Men’s Football competition, Western Australia, Victoria and New South Wales recorded convincing wins, and will undoubtedly be the ones to watch as the tournament continues tomorrow.

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Camogie
QLD	4-7	NSW	0-2
WA	2-8	VIC	1-4
WA	3-14	QLD	1-2
VIC	2-3	NSW	1-10
Ladies Football
SA	3-2	NSW	4-6
QLD	8-12	WELL	1-6
WA	1-5	VIC	1-5
SA	3-11	WELL	0-3
QLD	1-7	VIC	0-8
WA	0-6	NSW	2-2
Hurling
VIC	1-9	QLD	0-8
WELL	0-7	NSW	3-19
VIC	0-7	WA	0-7
Minor Football
VIC WHITE	2-1	NSW	2-2
VIC BLUE	1-7	SA	0-5
VIC BLUE	2-10	NSW	1-0
VIC WHITE	0-2	SA	6-8
Senior Football
SA	1-2	NSW	2-15
VIC	0-6	QLD	0-4
WA	1-14	WELL	0-0