The Mornington Peninsula Junior Football League and AFL New Zealand teams have completed Game 2 of the Aotearoa tour to Auckland.

The Level 1, Level 2 and Youth Girls AFL New Zealand Academy have Finished the 2 game series against three Mornington Peninsula BlueScope Steelers sides at Auckland at North Harbour Stadium.

This is the seventh time players from the Mornington Peninsula have travelled to New Zealand, and the the tour has been an amazing success. 

The tour finished on Monday, with each team playing their second game against each other. Mornington had sharpened up their skills from the first game and once again all three Mornington teams won, taking out all three series.

Congratulations to all the players involved with this years campaign and thank you to all the staff, coaches umpires and volunteers involved with making all of this possible

The Mornington Level U14 boys put up another big challenge for the NZ Level 1’s. Improving upon the first game, the Level 1’s started out better defensively and had more shots at goal than in the first game, but as fatigue set in, the MPJFL U14’s put on the pressure and made it difficult for the NZ boys to to stay within reach. The Mornington U14’s finished off the game with a flurry of goals to secure the series.

Congratulations to all of the following New Zealand players who took part in the campaign

The second game of the series started off as a tight contest. The boys were neck and neck through the first quarter and the game looked like it was going to be a close battle, with only 5 points separating the boys teams at the end of the first quarter. The Mornington U15/16 boys were not going to let this game come down to the wire though, and as the second quarter got underway, Mornington turned up the pressure on both ends stopping the NZ Level 2’s from catching them on the scoreboard, and increasing their lead out to 22. In the second half, accuracy became the difference between the two sides, with the MPJFL side becoming more accurate with their kicks, allowing them to continue to increase their lead on the scoreboard and win the series

Congratulations to all of the following New Zealand players who took part in the campaign

Coming off the back of a historic win the MPJFL Youth Girls, the challenge was set for the second game and the Mornington girls were not going to let their first win be their only win, coming out of the gates firing , kicking 6 goals to start and causing an uphill battle for the NZ girls. They continued this into the second quarter and finished the half with a big lead. Tightening up in the their defense in the third quarter the NZ Girls managed to get one goal back, through star player Indy Gibson.