The Northern region's most promising junior girls footballers came out on top in battle with the North-West Coast on Tuesday.
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Traveling to Ulverstone for under-13, under-14 and under-15 matches, the Northern sides dropped the first match before claiming the next two and prevailing in the Devils Challenge match-ups.
AFL Tasmania's talent operations lead for the North-West Coast Jamie Hayward stressed the importance of these games for the state's football pathway.
"Today we brought some of the North and North-West's best young footballers together," he said.
"We used today as a reference point to pick under-13, under-14 and under-15 teams to represent the Greater North and North-West of the state against the South in July.
"It was fantastic getting everyone together, with some high levels of skill being displayed across the day."
The Northern side's biggest win came in the under-14s contest, with a 5.13 (43) to 4.1 (25) result telling the story.
Leading by only four points at half-time, the visitors put the foot on the throttle in the final term, kicking 3.8 to 2.0 to blow out the margin to the 18-point result.
The under-15s' victory was much closer, prevailing by five points - 6.4 (40) to 5.5 (35).
Scores were all square at half-time of the see-sawing contest before the Northern side managed to find themselves in front by the small margin at the final siren.
The home side were victorious in the first contest of the day, which was also the highest scoring.
The North-West won the under-13 contest 7.8 (50) to 6.7 (43) but it wasn't all one-way traffic in victory.
The Northern side led by eight points at the main break before the home team cut it back to just three points at three-quarter-time.
North found the big sticks to start the last but the North-West kicked three goals in the last five minutes to gain ascendancy.
The two regions will square off again on Wednesday, with the same age groups of boys doing battle at Ulverstone.
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