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South Adelaide vs Woodville West Torrens

Scoreboard | Match report

Round: 12   Venue: Hickinbotham Oval   Date: Sun, 21-06-2009 2:10 pm   Crowd: 2,272  
South Adelaide 2.1.135.2.327.4.4610.8.68  
Woodville West Torrens 3.2.206.8.4410.10.7013.11.89  
  W-WT by 7W-WT by 12W-WT by 24W-WT by 21  

Match Report

In the final match of Round 12, the Eagles were off to the Hickinbotham Oval in Noarlunga to face the Panthers. The birds of prey have had it all over the luckless Panthers in recent times, out of the eight previous matches the Eagles have dropped one match and that was back in 2006 when they got hammered at the home of South Adelaide. The Eagles got a rude shock from the Redlegs two weeks ago, this match was an opportunity at fourth spot on the league ladder. 

South would make them work for it though, the Eagles up by just seven points at quarter-time after a 3.2 to 2.1 first term. Poor shooting on goal in the second quarter kept the door open for the Panthers, the visitors scoring 3.6 to South's 3.1 to make it a two-goal deficit at the half-time break. The Eagles would come out in the second half with far better accuracy than in the first half, stretching the gap to four goals at three quarter-time after scoring 4.2 to the Panthers' 2.2. It was yet another opportunity lost for South, but despite eventually going down by 21 points, there were still positives coming out of Clay Sampson's junior initiatives in the form of James Boyd and Crows rookie Shaun McKernan. 

He lost out to 22 year old Dylan Williams in South's best on ground honours, but has made a good case for an AFL call up. The Eagles meanwhile, named Jay Cheep as their best.

Source

Match report by RA Boyle

Footnotes

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