Ben Sexton

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Ben Sexton
Personal information
Full name	Benjamin David Sexton
Date of birth	29 October 1972
Place of birth	Papua New Guinea
Original team	Sandhurst
Draft	86th overall, 1988 VFL Draft
Height/Weight	191 cm / 90 kg
Playing career¹
Years	Club	Games (Goals)
1991–95 1996 Total -	Footscray Carlton	39 (32) 4 (1) 43 (33)
¹ Playing statistics correct to end of 1996 season.

Benjamin David Sexton (born 29 October 1972 in Papua New Guinea) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for Footscray and Carlton in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1990s.

Born in Papua New Guinea, Sexton played his early football in the Bendigo Football League where he took the field for Sandhurst. Footscray picked him up with the 86th pick of the 1988 VFL Draft and he kicked five goals and three behinds on his league debut, against the Brisbane Bears at Western Oval. He kicked another three goals the following round but was dropped four weeks later after struggling for form. The 1992 AFL season was spent mostly as a defender but he could never establish his place in the Footscray team, although he put in the occasional good performance when pushed forward such as a haul of six goals and four behinds in a win over North Melbourne at the MCG in 1993.

Sexton joined his brother Michael at Carlton in 1996, having been traded for inconsistent forward James Cook. Carlton had won the premiership the previous year and Sexton was only able to break into the side on four occasions and didn't make enough of an impact to prevent himself being de-listed at the season's end.

References

Ben Sexton's statistics from AFL Tables
Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.

v t e 1988 VFL National Draft

First round	1. Alex McDonald 2. Todd Breman 3. Carl Dilena 4. John McNamara 5. Chris Naish 6. Ray Sterrett 7. Leon Cameron 8. Dion Scott 9. Michael Werner 10. Peter Higgins 11. Mark Bayliss 12. Brad Fox 13. Darren Bennett 14. Stephen Byers

Second round	15. Danny Craven 16. David Bain 17. Brad Edwards 18. Anthony Stevens 19. Matthew Francis 20. Adrian Fletcher 21. Anthony Reynolds 22. Paul Holdsworth 23. Michael Long 24. David Hynes 25. Colin Alexander 26. David Regan 27. Rod Keogh 28. Chris Martin

Third round	29. Tim Allen 30. Richard Champion 31. Brenton Klaebe 32. Brad Sholl 33. Bruce Lennon 34. Daryn Cresswell 35. John Georgiades 36. Nick Chigwidden 37. Michael Strickland 38. Jeremy Crough 39. Scott Russell 40. Glen Johnston 41. Michael Hobbes 42. Dion Rhook

Fourth round	43. Daryl Griffiths 44. Scott Williamson 45. Damian Simmonds 46. Simon McCarthy 47. Glen Leaf 48. Scott Jordon 49. Shannon Corcoran 50. Jim West 51. Adrian Burns 52. Darren Bartsch 53. Michael Smith 54. Michael Sexton 55. Andrew Ford 56. Justin McGrath

Fifth round	57. Pat Lambert 58. Lachlan Sim 59. Matthew Dundas 60. Derek Kickett 61. Julian Moloney 62. David Welsby 63. Scott Davies 64. Andrew Bishop 65. Rod Saunders 66. Matt Richardson 67. Peter Divenuto 68. Grant Povey 69. Matthew Mahoney 70. Russell Wilding

Sixth round	71. Graeme Kettle 72. Chris O'Sullivan 73. Stephen Walker 74. Steven Hamilton 75. Ty Esler 76. David Preston 77. Robert Bloom 78. Jamie Bond 79. Simon Jorgensen 80. Damian Berto 81. Nick Probert 82. Anthony Loone 83. Brian Stynes 84. Justin Crough

Seventh round	85. Ian Dargie 86. Ben Sexton 87. Dwaine Kretschmer 88. Justin Staritski 89. Adam Crudden 90. Kym Nicholls 91. Matthew Queen 92. Stephen Vizy 93. Paul Hills 94. Andrew Gedden 95. Tony Francis 96. Michael James (F/S) 97. Tom Grehan 98. Michael Barrett

Eighth round	99. Dermot McNicholl 100. David Kupsch 101. Leigh Funcke 102. Shaun Holloway 103. Sean Bowden (F/S) 104. Andrew Gribble 105. Chris Grant 106. Gareth John (F/S) 107. Darren Mead 108. Peter Melesso 109. Heath Shephard (F/S) 110. Chris Mulcair (F/S) 111. Tom Kavanagh (F/S) 112. Troy Reid

Persondata
Name	Sexton, Ben
Alternative names
Short description	Australian rules footballer
Date of birth	29 October 1972
Place of birth	Papua New Guinea
Date of death
Place of death

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