AUSTRALIAN FOOTBALL
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TWO Wagga youngsters are one step closer to an AFL career after being invited to the draft combine at season's end.
Wagga teenagers Dougal Howard and Mick Mattingly have been invited to attend the AFL Draft Combine.
The four-day testing camp will be held at Etihad Stadium in October.
Howard and Mattingly both won enough votes from interested AFL clubs to win an invite to the Combine.
Howard, a former East Wagga-Kooringal and Wagga Tigers junior, is based in Albury this year and is playing with Murray Bushrangers in the TAC Cup.
Mattingly, a Wagga High School student, played his football with Turvey Park up until this season when he made the switch to Ovens and Murray League club Corowa-Rutherglen.
Both players represented NSW-ACT at the AFL under 18 national championships earlier this month.
Culcairn's Jeremy Finlayson has also been invited.
Of the 96 players invited to this year's Combine, 12 are from NSW-ACT.