As we host Bridgewater-Callington Raiders at Arkaba Oval on Saturday, the A Grade will be fighting it out for the honoured Cutting Cup on home soil for the first time in 10 years.
Beginning in 1994 as a friendly Cup between neighbouring clubs, and re-named after the treasured Neil ‘Biggsy’ Cutting, who sadly passed away in 1998 at the young age of 44. Neil had spent time at both Mt Lofty and Bridgwater-Callington. The Cup has been played for now 21 times, having a break between 2014-2020 whilst our clubs played in different divisions.
Bridgewater-Callington having won it 11 times and the Devils 10.
2021 the Raiders took the Cup home by 28 points, while the average winning margin sits at 46 point over the 21 year history.
Head up to the game tomorrow to help make a day at the Devil Dome in 2022 the Cutting Cup year of the Devils to level the tally back out.
Thanks to Jason Cook for collating the scores for the Moddies from the weekend 💪 Here is how the weekend panned out for the kids 👹
Mt Lofty U8 White def Mt Lofty U8 Red 10-5-65 6-5-41 White GOALS: S Purcell 4, E John 2, W tenRaa 2, J Wallis 1, W Spencer 1 BEST: S Purcell, W tenRaa, E John Red GOALS: G Went 3, J Grbin 2, L Brewster 1
Mt Lofty U9 Red def Onkaparinga U9 11-9-75 0-0-0 GOALS: J Hartwig 2;A Wallis 2; L Leslie 1, C Wallis 1, A Trowse 1, H Wainright 1, H Moon 1,
Mt Lofty U9 Green def by Hahndorf U9 2-1-13 8-9-57 GOALS: H Booth 2, S Dawes 1 BEST: S Dawes, P Hartwig
Mt Lofty U10 def Onkaparinga U10 4-3-27 2-4-16 GOALS: H. Calvert 1, E.Kerr 1, W. O’Rourke 1, R. Oliver 1. BEST: F Della Torre, R Oliver, G. Leake, B Lamshed, J Bogdanovic.
Mt Lofty U11 White def Nairne-Bremer U11 8-7-55 1-1-7 GOALS: O Makin 4, L Martin 2, G Walsh 2 BEST: A Cochrane, H John, S. Cootes, O Makin, K Furniss
TBC U8 Lofty Black v Lofty Green U9 Lofty White v Meadows U11 Lofty Red v Bridgewater
A Grade were PUMPED for the game against Blackwood this week!
Our young U8’s Devs were too. We had a double header following the A Grade with U8 Black v Green and White v Red taking to the field at Arkaba Oval under lights.
U8 Green made the most of the day and were able to soak up the experience of the whole day
Stan Evans is being celebrated today as he does us the honor of tossing the commemorative coin for the A Grade game.
At 91 years of age he is one of our longest serving Life Members and was awarded HAU Life Member status in 1976.
Stan played B Grade for Stirling FC between 1949 and 1955 and then led the formation of the Heathfield Football Club in 1955.
Stan then played for Heathfield, Heathfield Aldgate United and finally Mount Lofty, hanging up his boots at the age of 55.
He has served as president for all three clubs, a devoted man that has spent a lifetime beside his beautiful wife Barb to build these facilities and our great sense of community.
