The Swans Reserves have won the AFL Canberra premiership two years running after beating Belconnen by 33-points on Sunday in cold and wet conditions.

The game was tightly contested due to the conditions and did not involve a lot of free-flowing play.

Paul Bevan was the Swans’ best and took out the Alex Jesaulenko Trophy with 14 kicks, seven handballs and eight marks.

Sam Rowe managed 15 possessions and five marks playing at centre half-back and containing Belconnen’s best player and captain-coach, Steve Mahar, throughout the game.

David Spriggs was also good for the Swans with 23 possessions and nine marks playing on-ball. Spriggs had a consistent year as the Swans Reserves’ captain and won the Mulrooney for the best player in the competition.

Luke Vogels and Paul Currie were the Swans only goal scorers in the first term and after the scores being locked at 18-points at quarter time.

The Swans put the pressure on in the second quarter to be leading Belconnen by 19-points at half time after Jonathan Simpkin goaled on the run and Simon Phillips scored from a boundary throw in.

Spriggs kicked the goal of the game at the 21 minute mark of the second quarter from a right foot snap after dodging a number of Belconnen players and Rowe sealed the Swans’ lead after a right foot snap in a congested goal square.

The Swans had kicked another two goals through James Wall and Spriggs, before Belconnen managed their first and only goal for the third quarter.

Kristin Thornton put the Reserves 35-points up at three quarter time, kicking a goal on the run from the boundary line.

Both teams only managed a single goal in the last quarter that was full of stoppages as both teams were tiring. Matthew Laidlaw kicked the Swans’ goal 20 minutes into the last term.

Final Score:
Swans Reserves- 2.6 (18) 6.7 (43) 9.14 (68) 10.16 (76)
Belconnen- 3.0 (18) 4.0 (24) 5.3 (33) 6.7 (43)

Goals:
Spriggs 2; Currie, Laidlaw, Phillips, Rowe, Simpkin, Thornton, Vogels, Wall

Best:
Bevan, Rowe, Jack, Thornton, Simpkin, Garrubba