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Woodville West Torrens vs Central District

Scoreboard | Match report

Round: 14   Venue: Woodville Oval   Date: Sun, 21-07-2019 2:10 pm   Crowd: 1,751  
Woodville West Torrens 3.0.188.3.518.5.5311.9.75  
Central District 2.4.163.4.2210.6.6615.8.98  
  W-WT by 2W-WT by 29CENT by 13CENT by 23  

Match Report

The other matches of Round 14 would take place on the Sunday afternoon, the first of which takes us to the Maughan Thiem Kia Oval in Woodville where the Eagles clashed with the Bulldogs. Back on the Queen's Birthday weekend of Round 9, it was the Eagles that got the presents with their 31-point victory at Goodman Road. The Dogs would hang within three goals of the lead at three quarter-time, but the Eagles had the answers in the final term. Centrals weren't able to put one over the Blues last week and went down by five points at Elizabeth, while the Eagles were only just able to nick the points at Noarlunga. The Eagles have dropped one game from their last seven and were the favourites for victory. 

The Doggies had a hard time shooting on goal in the opening stanza, they kicked 2.4 but the Eagles would manage just three goals to hold a two-point lead at quarter-time. No doubt more than a few Bulldogs fans had their hearts sink by half-time, their charges kicking just one goal while the Eagles scored 5.3 to take a 29-point lead into half-time. But everyone was in for a massive shock. Centrals came back to the field a completely different side, proceeding to ram home 7.2 and keep the Eagles to two behinds to lead by 13 points at three quarter-time. The Dogs completed the stunning turnaround with a 5.2 to 3.4 final term to win by 23 points, putting the Eagles' final chances in serious jeopardy. 

Centrals named Jarrod Schiller as their best on ground, Joe Sinor was voted best afield for the Eagles.

Source

Match Report by RA Boyle

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.