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Three Tully Touch Football teams crowned Junior State Cup North champions
Maria Girgenti
JUNIOR touch football players proudly represented Tully Touch at the Junior State Cup North carnival at Townsville Sports Reserve and Queens Park from April 14 - 16.
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Over the three days of the championship, all teams displayed fantastic game skills, sportsmanship and spirit.
Tully Touch is exceptionally proud of all their ten teams as they faced tough competition in sweltering conditions.
Despite a 2 - 2 score line in the grand final against Brothers, Tully Thunder finished as B-Grade grand final winners.
The Tully Storm Under 10 Boys’ team finished as champions after a 6 - 3 victory over the Redskins Bears in the grand final.
Under 10 Boys Player of the Final: Matai Tauli.
After wins over Gordonvale, Townsville Yellow, Townsville Blue, Innisfail and Townsville Green, Tully’s Under 16 Girls’ team finished undefeated. Then they faced Gordonvale in the semi-final and registered a convincing 7 - 1 win to secure a grand final spot.
In the Under 16 Girls’ grand final match, Tully’s Under 16 Girls team defeated Townsville Blue by 4 - 1 and returned home as champions.
Under 16 Girls Player of the Final: Brooke Johnston.
Tully Touch’s Samantha Patch received the Most Promising Female
Referee of the Carnival award.
Other results:
Under 10 Girls - reached semi-finalfinished fourth
Under 12 Boys - Tully Rain and Tully River - reached playoffs
Under 12 Girls - played quarter-finals
Under 14 Boys - won a play off two against Moranbah 9 - 1
Under 14 Girls - reached semi-finalfinished fourth
Under 18 Boys - finished third
After this tournament, a strong contingent of Tully Touch players gained selection in North Queensland Cyclones squads, who will participate in a muster weekend in Townsville this month.
Under 12 Girls
Mya Tauli
Annika Duiker
Emily Quabba
Under 12 Boys
Laine Spencer
Archie Walker
Benjamin Langdon
Under 14 Boys
Fynn Hawkins
Case Durighello
Under 14 Girls
Molly Morice
Layla Jenkins
Kassidy Dore
Danni Stremouchiw
Hannah Dryden
Maddie Jenkins
Under 16 Girls
Ellie Jenkins
Brooke Johnston
Hayley Johnston
Eve Zonta
Elise Kleinhans
Lucy Chilcott
Under 16 Boys
Billy Helion
Under 18 Boys
Logan Deloryn
Ben Roebuck
Jay Whaley
Blake Morice
The club especially wanted to thank the coaches, managers and referees, Alyssa Patch, Andrew Brunello, Brett Brunello, Chloe Johnston, Chris O’Kane, Christian Campbell, Josh Balke, Nicholas Frumento and Samantha Patch, as well as Maria and Peter Crema.
A special mention to the Langdon Family from Mt Tyson Hotel for donating vouchers for the Coaches’ Awards and the Zonta and Sellars families for their assistance with bananas.
Former Tully Touch Maddie Crema, a Queensland Touch Football Game Development Officer for the central area, was appointed as head coach of the North Queensland Cyclones Under 12 Girls’ team at the National Youth Championships.
During this muster weekend, players will vie for selection in teams to compete at the National Youth Championship on the Sunshine Coast over the long weekend at the end of September.
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LAST weekend the weather conditions were on the lighter side of the forecast. This allowed boats to fish the close inshore islands and headlands. The mornings were by far the best, with an afternoon breeze making water conditions uncomfortable later in the day. Water clarity around the islands had improved due to the neap tides, which resulted in schools of Tuna and Trevally feeding aggressively on surface schools of baitfish. Several boats also reported catching Spanish and School Mackerel. You can`t go past casting small metal slugs for Mack and Blue Fin Tuna. A good starting point is the Samaki Torpedo V2 in a 35-gram size. Often you will find you can change to a larger slug for the Blue Fin Tuna, while with the Mack tuna, you will usually have to scale down in size.
As we come into June, the Spanish Mackerel and School Mackerel catch will become more common; by far, the best way around the islands for Spanish Mackerel is to float live baits or troll wolf herring (ribbon fish).
Lures work exceptionally well on the more diminutive Spanish around the 6-kilo mark and will still catch the larger fish. With the new catch restrictions coming into effect on July 1, many anglers will try to maximise their experience by casting surface lures or sinking stick baits to the fish. This is an exciting style of fishing, with the Mackerel often leaping right out of the water in their attempt to take the lure.
Boats bottom fishing around the islands reported catching the usual species, Grass Sweet Lip, Small
Nannygai and the occasional Coral Trout. Those prepared to put in the hard yards also managed some nice Fingermark and quality Grunter.
Several competitions were happening in the Hinchinbrook Channel last weekend. Catch numbers were down, possibly because the small run in the tide did not suit most anglers. My manager Derek had a very tough day in the channel early in the week; however, he had a blinder managing 8 good Barra to 86cm on Friday—and three quality Jacks. I have not heard any reports of Grunter; however, most Grunter specialists focus on the larger tides.
I did a short 2-hour luring session in the hull on Sunday afternoon with my brother Peter. We had a short bite window during the low tide change and managed 3 Barramundi to 62 cm and a single Mangrove Jack, not spectacular results; however, what a lovely stress-free way to spend a couple of hours of an afternoon.
The freshwater continues to fish well, but the fishing is dropping off as the water cools; however, it is still relatively easy to catch Sooty Grunter and Jungle Perch, especially during the warmer late afternoon.
Some very good Barra are being caught from the mouth of the feeder creeks and lagoons.
I do this fishing report on Monday, so looking forward to this coming weekend; the forecast is for the wind to drop to 10 to 15 knots on Saturday morning and for these conditions to remain through the weekend. Ten to fifteen knots is borderline for most boats to fish the islands or to travel offshore to fish the main reefs, so all we can do is keep our fingers crossed. It has been a while, so hopefully, the fish will be hungry.
The rubble patches in the shipping channel should also fish well for Nannygai with the Spanish and School Mackerel bonus.
For those content with fishing the estuaries, I like either side of the early morning high tide for Grunter. At the same time, some may prefer the more extensive run in the evening tide.
For those that wish to fish for Barra, Mangrove Jacks and Flathead, I would fish either side of the low afternoon tide. This shallow tide will cause access problems at river mouths and access to some boat ramps.
Good Fishing, Roly Newton, Tackle World Tully
