Big Foot took out the top two divisions of the MetrO League for the second time in four years after a dominant display in the final round at Lansdowne on Sunday.
The Feet needed only a win over Garingal in Division 1 to regain the newly minted Frank Assenza Trophy, and did so 32-23. The hybrid WHO Evers team beat SHOO-IKO 31-24 to finish level with Big Foot but second on 'goal difference'.
We believe it may be the first time a father-son combination (Mark and Ewan Shingler) have shared in a Division 1 title.
Big Foot beat Uringa-Central Coast by the same scoreline in Division 2 to make it a double, but UR-CC had their moment in taking out Division 5 against WHO 34-21. SHOO-IKO triumphed in Division 3, beating an unusually lacklustre KNOX team for whom Thomas Gordon sped around the 4.1km course in 26:39 - a massive nine minutes ahead of his nearest rival.
Continuing the lopsided scorelines, Bennelong had an easy win over the Garingal Monitors 36-19 in the Division 4 final.
Congratulations to our team and individual champions for 2017:
Division 1: Big Foot + Toby Wilson (Garingal)
Division 2: Big Foot + Ross Morrison (Garingal)
Division 3: SHOO-IKO + Clyde McGhee (Bennelong)
Division 4: Bennelong Northside + Bob Morgan (Bennelong)
Division 5: Uringa-Central Coast + Serena Doyle (Uringa)
A big thank you to all our setters, controllers, organisers, club captains, SI gurus and participants. Uringa hosted us for the finals on the revamped Boggabilla map and setter Dick Ogilvie regaled us all with a botany lesson that seared asparagus weed into our minds until next year!
