The north-west champions meet the Sydney powerhouse in the last 16 of the national schoolboys' competition at Australia's premier sporting stadium in what will be the school's first televised match this year.

Farrer will be without captain Marty Lewis who is in camp with the Australian Schoolboy side ahead of its Test against New Zealand's Junior Kiwis on the

weekend.

Lock Chris Oxford will take over as skipper while Tom Alexander moves into the starting back row in place of Lewis and NSW under 17 rep Zac Russ is on board.

Farrer has been dominant in getting to the last 16 of the prestigious competition.

It hammered St Joseph's College Port Macquarie 90-nil and then went to Ballina and cruised to a 44-3 win over St Xavier's Ballina.

Farrer reached the business end of last year's Arrive Alive Cup only to fall to Sydney's Patrician Brothers Blacktown in another television match in Newcastle.

While Lewis will be sorely missed, Westfields also have one Australian Schoolboys rep out of the game and two Junior Kiwis as well.

The match will be an early curtainraiser to the Bulldogs v Brisbane NRL match and will be televised on NBN at a later date.

The Farrer squad is: 1 Andrew Laurie, 2 Sam Price, 3 Scott Mitchell, 4 Zac Russ, 5 Nicklas Moore, 6 Liam Hasler, 7 Glen Plater, 8 Brent Paish, 9 Mitchell Ayers, 10 Nick Colley, 11 Tom Alexander, 12 Gavin White, 13 Chris Oxford (capt), 14 Seb Swain, 15 Jono Madden, 16 Andrew McKenzie, 17 Angus McHatten, 18 Rowan Pettit, 19 Matt Cameron. Coach - Darren Smith.