Battle of the Hexes by Morgana Best

Author:Morgana Best [Best, Morgana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Best Cosy Books

Chapter Eleven

Saturday dawned bright and clear, a good day for an AFL match. There were several types of football in Australia, but AFL was home grown, as the name Australian Football League suggested.

I pitied the poor girls who would play against the Yowie Team this Halloween.

The Yowie women were all farmers from out of town. They rarely came into town, thankfully. They were loud, rude, and obnoxious.

Sure, there were umpires for the game, but as it was not part of any league, players couldn’t be reported or suspended, so the Yowie women did whatever they liked.

And so it was with some trepidation I agreed to meet Jackson for the match.

As I took my seat next to him in the stand, a voice came over the loudspeaker. “Did he say the Sisters of Temperance Team?” I asked in disbelief.

Jackson nodded, but the voice over the loudspeaker continued, and announced that only six players would be playing on the Sisters of Temperance Team.

A loud gasp of horror went up from the spectators. Jackson and I were shocked, but not for the same reason as the spectators. I turned to Jackson. “The man nuns are playing!”

Jackson pointed to the field.

Six nuns in full habit ran onto the field, while the eighteen players from the Yowie Team ran onto the field at the opposite end.

No one cheered. I assumed everyone was in shock. It was bad enough playing against the Yowie Team with a full team of eighteen players, but the Sisters of Temperance Team was one-third of that. However, Jackson and I knew something that nobody else knew: the nuns were men, and big, bulky, hardened criminals at that.

“That explains the bookmaker,” Jackson whispered to me.

I nodded. It looked as though the women on the Yowie Team were finally going to get their comeuppance and the nuns were going to make a tidy sum.

The Yowie women doubled over with laughter, pointing at the nuns. If only they knew.

The game started, and a nun from the Sisters of Temperance Team took immediate possession of the ball. Two hefty, solid Yowie players tackled her hard, a legal tackle for once, but the tackle had no effect whatsoever. The two Yowie players fell backwards onto the ground, and lay still. Play continued while the two Yowie players were taken away on stretchers. The nun kicked the ball to another nun. A Yowie player pushed that nun in the back, an illegal move, so the umpire blew the whistle.

This meant a free kick to the Sisters of Temperance Team. The field umpire pointed to the spot where the offence had occurred, and the other five nuns ran towards the goal posts. The nun kicked the ball, which flew in the direction of a nun standing at the fifty-metre mark.

Right then, a Yowie player ran at the nun, with her elbow raised to strike the nun across the neck. The crowd sent up a collective gasp. The nun ducked, and the Yowie player flew over her head and landed badly.

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