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Round: 13 Venue: Woodville Oval Date: Sun, 16-07-2017 2:10 pm Crowd: 2,171 | |||||
Woodville West Torrens | 0.0.0 | 5.1.31 | 8.3.51 | 11.4.70 | |
Sturt | 3.5.23 | 5.7.37 | 8.7.55 | 8.9.57 | |
STURT by 23 | STURT by 6 | STURT by 4 | W-WT by 13 |
Weather |
9.9°C 12.9°C |
0.2mm 68% 1011.0mb |
19km/h NNE |
The last game for the round was on Sunday afternoon at the Maughan Thiem Hyundai Oval in Woodville, where the Eagles faced off against the Double Blues. The Eagles caught the Blues in the middle of their early season premiership hangover, a 14-point win at Unley the third victory out from seven on the trot prior to their one and only loss for the year against Norwood. The reigning premiers would cop one more after that, after losing to Port in Round 5 the Blues would go on to win every match in front of them up to this point including their six-goal victory over North last week. The Eagles also came into this on the back of a win, interrupting the Bloods sudden rise by 45 points.
The Eagles first term was a rare one indeed, but while they were kept scoreless the Blues had wasted prime opportunities on goal with their 3.5 to lead by 23 points at quarter-time. The Eagles would recover though, kicking back to within a goal of the Blues by the long break. The Eagles' 5.1 to Sturt's 2.3 would have the visitors leading by one goal. The match descended into an arm-wrestling contest in the third quarter, the Eagles outscored the Blues but not taking over control. A pair of sprayed shots saw the gap cut down to four points by three quarter-time, the Eagles scoring 3.2 to three goals. Despite fighting hard, the Blues' final quarter brought them unstuck as they managed just two behinds while the Eagles scored 3.1 to win by 13 points, one hand already on the minor premiership.
Jarred Allmond was voted best for the Eagles, the Blues named James Battersby as their best.