Edithvale-Aspendale junior footballer Harry Demattia kicks 20 goals in a game
Thirteen-year-old Edithvale-Aspendale player Harry Demattia is the talk of the Frankston District junior league after booting 20 goals in a game, with half of those by quarter time.
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Edithvale-Aspendale junior Harry Demattia is a strong-marking left-foot forward who likes a goal.
He’s kicked a few in his young career but on Sunday he made a bulging bag, booting 20 for his Under-14 team.
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The 13-year-old had 10 goals by quarter time and 17 by half time before being taken off the ground for a breather.
He returned to take his tally to 20, with five behinds, as his team, Edithvale-Aspendale Blue, continued its fine start to the season, beating Edithvale-Aspendale White.
The final scores recorded a 60-point win —the maximum allowed under junior rules — to the Blues.
Harry, the Eagles’ skipper, also kicked 11 goals in the first game and Sunday’s haul gives him 31 from two outings.
The Year 7 student also represented the league last year, captaining the Under-13s.
He was runner-up in the league medal and won the best and fairest, replicating his success of 2016 and ’17.
Harry is also an outstanding young cricketer for St Brigids St Louis.
He won the SECA batting average last season and as a bottom-age player made the most runs for the South East Bayside Breakers in the state under 14 championships (the Youth Premier League) — 244 at an average of 40.7.
That led to selection in the Melbourne Stars Metro team.
For the Saints he cracked 280 runs at 140.
The team won the premiership, and Harry and teammates Prathan Raje, Dinal Gamage and Zac Grech have now been selected in Victorian indoor cricket teams for the national championships at Casey Stadium in July, Harry as captain of the Under-13s.
His brother Tom, nine, is starting out but is also promising.
In his first season of cricket he made an aggregate of 96 runs for the Saints’ Under-12C team without being dismissed.
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