West strong in interleague squad

WEST Gippsland Latrobe Football League interleague selectors have announced a 49man training squad from which 26 players will be chosen to represent the league in Pool A of the VCFL country championships at Albury on 1314 May.
The WGLFL will play the Ovens and Murray, Ballarat and Goulburn Valley leagues in the muchdiscussed roundrobin format that has been preferred over the past two years.
Included in the squad are six players from Garfield, four from Warragul and three from Drouin.
The Stars will be represented by both the Soumilas brothers, Ben, who was an emergency callup in last year’s successful campaign, joining his champion sibling Andy, who made a surprise comeback from a foot injury on Saturday.
Other districtbased players to make the squad include Ben Marsh, Shaun Pickering, Brent MacFarlane and Jake Hower.
Training sessions will be held at Moe on Wednesday, 3 May, Monday, 8 May and Wednesday, 10 May, starting at 6.30pm.
The full 2006 squad is:
Drouin Brent Mounsey, Jordan Edwards, Bob McCallum. Leongatha Tom Dowd, Jack Hughes, Paul LePage. Moe Gary Blandford, Leigh Stevens, Matt Dickason, Peter Ainsworth, Stuart Robertson. Maffra Winston Gieschen, Justin Bramich, Tim Rawlins, Ben Coleman, Kallan Kalloran, Ben Batahla, Adrian Burgiel, Hayden Burgiel, Nick Horsford, Nigel Sellings, Cameron Streeter. Warragul Leigh Sheehan, Matt Gray, Nick Edney, Ryan Davey. Morwell Michael Marchment, Sam Mills, Adam Bailey, Ben Webb, Don Webb, Michael Mooney. Garfield Ben Marsh, Ben Soumilas, Andy Soumilas, Shaun Pickering, Brent MacFarlane, Jake Hower. Traralgon Michael Geary, Shane Simpson, Jamie Aitken, Dane McGennisken, Leigh Cummins. Sale Jacob Schuback, Kane Fraser, David McLay, Shane Fyffe, Brenton Martin.
A concurrent interleague netball competition will also be run between the four country leagues on the same weekend.