BENDIGO has defeated Ballarat to win this year's Goldfields Trophy.
Both teams finished level on three wins apeice at Bendigo's Strathfieldsaye Reserve on Saturday, but it was the home side that was declared winners on aggregate.
Ballarat won youth girls, under-15 and under-14 football clashes, with Bendigo prevailing in the under-16, under-13 and under-12 encounters.
RESULTS
YOUTH GIRLS
Ballarat 6.10 (46)
Bendigo 2.7 (19)
GOALS - Ballarat: Abby Cummins 2, Letisha Maraltadj 2, Lily Corboy, Jenna Bruton. Bendigo: Paige Baksh, Grace Campbell.
BEST - Ballarat: Jenna Bruton, Sarah Hawkes, Abby Cummins, Ashlee Wilkes, Elizabeth Drake, Shannon Simpson. Bendigo: Grace Campbell, Emily Kelly, Alexandra Mulcahy, Allie Johns, Brittany Tancred, Ruby Campbell.
UNDER-16
Bendigo 11.14 (80)
Ballarat 4.3 (27)
GOALS - Bendigo: Harry Conway 3, Ben Connelly 2, Philip Ryan 2, Daniel Davie 2, Kyle Chant, Liam Jacques. Ballarat: Hayden Hughes, Ryan Noether, Mitcheil Gillespie, Brenton Payne.
BEST - Bendigo: Philip Ryan, Harry Conway, Ross Culvenor, LIam Jacques, Fergus Payne, Corey Sharp. Ballarat: Darcy Gallop, Ryan Noether, Alexander Parrot, Bradley Mc Donald, Sam
Romeril, Oscar McDonald.
UNDER-15
Ballarat 10.14 (74)
Bendigo 7.9 (51)
GOALS - Ballarat: Mitchell Martin 4, Jacob Wheelahan 2, Leigh Spiteri, Daniel Foley, Leeroy Sheridan, Jack Oostendorp. Bendigo: Peter Wytkamp 2, Louis Piccolo, Patrick Ludeman, Jayden Burke, Max O'Sullivan, Beau Roy-Clements.
BEST - Ballarat: Blake Thomson, Jordan Taylor, Daniel Foley, Leeroy Sheridan, Mitchell Martin, Jacob Wheelahan. Bendigo: Jamieson Sheahan, Liam Collins, Tom Gill, Patrick Ludeman, Jakson Gibbs, Jayden Burke.
UNDER-14
Ballarat 7.2 (44)
Bendigo 3.4 (22)
GOALS - Ballarat: Jack Butler 3, Austin Corliss 2, Sam Jackson, William Garner. Bendigo: Matthew Higgs, Nash Honig, Harry Weaver.
BEST - Ballarat: Lachlan Thornton, Austin Corliss, Billy Griffiths, Jack Butler, Kayde Linton, Ryan Thompson. Bendigo: Jordan Rosengren, Tyler McLeod, Matthew Higgs, Cooper Jones, Braidon Blake.
UNDER-13
Bendigo 9.5 (59)
Ballarat 5.7 (37)
GOALS - Bendigo: Benjamin McKinley 2, Lachlan Wallace, Angus Schumacher, Koby Hommelhoff, Charlie Simpson, Caleb Sheahan, Brayden Sheahan, Jack Bouwmeester.
Ballarat: Mitchell Bishop, Lachlan Chivers, Mackenzie Spark, Jordan Johnston, Liam Smith.
BEST - Bendigo: Jordon Waldron, Lachlan Wallace, Mackenzie Wade, Benjamin McKinley, Sebastian Spijkerman. Ballarat: Bailey Medwell, Aiden Domic, Joseph Dodd, Jordan Johnston, Robert Corden-McKinley.
UNDER-12
Bendigo 4.9 (33)
Ballarat 2.3 (15)
GOALS - Bendigo: Daniel Clohesy, Harrison Fiske Kealy, Jarrett Miles, Sebastian Maes. Ballarat: James Dickson 2.
BEST - Bendigo: Jye Caldwell, Callum McCarty, Kai Daniels, Daniel Clohesy, Flynn Perez, Lachlan Dillon. Ballarat: Jesse Marshall, Jordan Botheras, Scott Baldwin, Blake Colley, Joel O'Connell, Dale Harris.
