By Anne-Marie Ebbels
The first of HFNC female footballer celebrated playing 50 games for Healesville this weekend with Ali Mende and Emily Hay both reaching that milestone this week.
The team celebrated the milestones with a comprehensive win over Upwey-Tecoma.
Healesville kept Upwey scoreless throughout the game, but Upwey worked hard to keep Healesville goalless in the second and third quarters.
The large playing surface at Don Road finally took its toll and Healesville were able to break free in the final quarter to score a couple of goals and run out winners by 34 points.
In the Netball Healesville took on Yea, the first quarter in the C Grade game was tight with Healesville going into the first break one goal ahead.
A strong second quarter by Healesville set-up the game with Healesville extending their lead to 9 goals at half time.
Healesville continued to kept the pressure on and ran out winner by 16 goals for their first win of the season.
In the B Grade game, turnovers proved costly for the Healesville team with Yea inching ahead each quarter to go into the halftime break six goals up.
Healesville pegged back the lead in the third quarter to four goals, but couldn’t maintain the momentum in the final quarter with Yea posting a win by six goals.
The first quarter of the A Grade game was goal for goal with the scores even at quarter with 12 goals each.
The next two quarters were tightly contested with the lead changing multiple times through the game.
Healesville put in a solid final quarter to have the biggest lead of the match and run out winners by four goals.
Next week’s games are home with netball starting at 10:30am and football from 12pm.
The Women football is at Monbulk at 4:45pm.
The Veterans play their final game at Narre Warren on Sunday at 3pm.
Football
Women Healesville 4.10 defeated Upwey-Tecoma 0.0 Best: S Potter, E Cianci, S Frazzetto, E Hay, I Stock, A Mende
Netball
A Grade Healesville 40 defeated Yea 36 Best: J Milne, B Erickson, N Braden
B Grade Healesville 16 defeated by Yea 22 Best: C Haywood, C Bouma, H Blackney
C Grade Healesville 30 defeated Yea 14 Best: L Boundy, T Pinkster, K Deuart
