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Round: 7 Venue: Prospect Oval Date: Sat, 19-05-2018 2:10 pm Crowd: 1,879 | |||||
North Adelaide | 4.3.27 | 5.5.35 | 8.6.54 | 8.10.58 | |
South Adelaide | 2.2.14 | 7.2.44 | 10.5.65 | 15.5.95 | |
NORTH by 13 | SOUTH by 9 | SOUTH by 11 | SOUTH by 37 |
Weather |
12.2°C 17.6°C |
22.2mm 71% 1026.4mb |
17km/h SW |
The last of the Saturday games takes us to the inner north of town, to the Prospect Oval where the Roosters locked horns with the Panthers in the SANFL's own "Civil War" match. It seemed that in 2017, between these two sides the number 44 was the cosmic number. That was the winning margin in their two encounters last year, South winning in Round 5 and North victorious in Round 11. Both clubs took the points two weeks ago, with the Panthers outlasting the Bulldogs and the Roosters downing the Crows.
North had the better of the opening quarter, scoring 4.3 to 2.2 to be ahead by 13 points at the first change. But in an extraordinary reversal of recent form, managed just 1.2 in the second term while the Panthers banged five goals without a miss to snatch the lead. At the long break, South were up by nine points. An arm-wrestle contest ensued in the third quarter, the Panthers adding a couple of points to their advantage by the final change. The visitors' 3.3 to North's 3.1 saw South lead by 11 points at three quarter-time. Any hope of a last ditch comeback by the Roosters was swiftly put down into the turf, they kicked just four behinds while the Panthers rammed down a further five unanswered goals to leave Prospect with a 37-point win and their first back-to-back victory for 2018.
Nick Liddle was named best for the Panthers, the Roosters named Cameron Craig as their standout.