From Ballarat Courier
Reported by DAVID BREHAUT
NORTH Ballarat will learn this morning whether match-winning forward Corey Jones is fit to line up against Box Hill Hawks in the Victorian Football League at Box Hill tomorrow.
Jones will be tested by North Melbourne medical staff at Arden Street to determine whether he has recovered sufficiently from concussion suffered in a loss to Casey Scorpions on Saturday.
He has been tentatively selected but Selkirk Roosters football manager Marg Richards said the final decision would be made by the Kangaroos.
Unable to force his way into the North Melbourne line-up, Jones has become a linchpin in the North Ballarat attack.
The Roosters will make at least three changes to the team which came up short against the Scorpions by 10 points.
Ed Lower will play his first VFL senior game for the year after breaking a leg pre-season, Brayden Norris returns after missing two weeks with hamstring soreness and Marcus Darmody replaces North Ballarat Rebels teammate Jandre Slabbert as the 23rd player.
Darmody is from Warrnambool and is an over-age player on the Rebels' list.
Lower broke a leg in a pre-season AFL challenge match against Hawthorn in Ballarat and convinced the Kangaroos and Roosters football departments he was ready to step up after playing limited time in one VFL reserves match.
A first-year player with North Melbourne, Norris impressed in the opening round of the VFL season.
Warren Benjamin has already been ruled out with a strained calf suffered at training yesterday.
Box Hill, which, like the Roosters, is on two wins after three rounds, has regained dangerous forward Carl Peterson from Hawthorn and also features Garry Moss and Beau Muston who are close to returning to AFL ranks.
