HMAS Albatross has won the Navy East Coast touch football championships for the second year running.
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A field of 19 teams from different ships and establishments battled it out for the coveted Adelaide Cup at Queens Park in Sydney on June 15.
Albatross travelled up to Sydney with Young Guns and Old Boys teams but experience was the deciding factor according to Old Boys’ player CPOATA Raimund Winkler.
“A few of us have played together for the best part of 20 years and, when combined with a few others, they made up half our team,” he said.
The Old Boys from Albatross clashed with a team from HMAS Waterhen in the grand final. The Waterhen team proved to be a worthy opposition, but after some continued pressure, the experienced Albatross Old Boys team managed to break Waterhen’s line to win the game 3-0.
“It wasn’t about speed but more experience that got us across the line,” CPO Winkler said.
