A beautiful autumn day saw North Brunswick take on Hawthorn at Allard Park, the first time in many years that these two teams have met.
Signs were not great early with Hawthorn starting strongly in the reserves, delivering well out of the centre and marking strongly. Things were looking tough for the 2s by half-time, already trailing by six goals. The boys rallied however and held a simliar same scoreline to full time, eventually going down by 42 points.
Troy "Tackle Bags" Geary was again busy, finishing best afield, and receiving strong support from Ryan Sweeney, Louis Orfanidis and Gus Selaidinakos.
North Brunswick recorded its first win in the seniors, downing Hawthorn by 22 points in what was Jarrod Ford's 100th game for the club. It was another bittersweet day however, with their first victory marred by a knee injury to star mid, Josh Dimarco, and a hamstring injury to Andrew Cooper.
Pat Notaro was unstoppable up front with sound delivery from Sahand Ghasimzadeh and co. in the middle making sure he was dangerous all day. He finished with 7 and Ben Gallagher again helped out with 4 of his own.
This win, coming with only 2 men on the bench against an unknown opposition, was rated by Senior Coach Brad Martin as one of the best of his career.
