By Anne-Marie Ebbels
With usually fine weather this week, Healesville’s senior men’s football played the competition leaders in Emerald at home.
The Reserve game was tough to watch with Healesville not able to score a goal for the game. Emerald put on a dominant display running out winners by a massive 175 points.
In the Senior men’s game, Emerald got the jump on Healesville in the first quarter and led at quarter time by 19 points.
Emerald continued to extend their lead in the second and third quarter.
Healesville staged a comeback in the final quarter but had left themselves too much to do and Emerald were 30 point winners.
The Women’s team travelled to Monbulk for the late game and continued their dominance in the competition.
Danielle Carrucan scored six goals on the back of some good work in the midfield getting the ball into the forward line.
Healesville kept Monbulk scoreless for the game and were big winners by 82 points.
In their final round game, the veterans travelled to Narre Warren.
Narre Warren started the game well kicking two goals to four in the first quarter and kept the pressure on in the second quarter keeping Healesville goalless.
Healesville struggled to kick accurately in front of the goal which proved the difference in the final score with only a difference of one scoring shot, Narre Warren were winners by 36 points.
A strong second and third quarter by Emerald in the A Grade netball set up the win with Emerald restricting Healesville’s scoring opportunities.
Emerald’s defensive pressure resulted in a number of turnovers which Emerald took advantage of on the scoreboard which Healesville was unable to counteract.
Emerald ran out winners by 35 goals.
B Grade had another tough assignment this week with a number of regular players missing from the line-up.
The height difference between the Emerald goalers and the Healesville defenders meant that Healesville needed to have a strong defensive effort over the whole court to starve the goaler of opportunities, but Healesville were unable to maintain the pressure for the full four quarters despite the ongoing efforts by the defence.
Emerald were big winners by 45 goals.
Emerald’s C Grade team was too strong for Healesville and dominated the game from start to finish.
Healesville struggled to convert the limited scoring opportunities and Emerald generated a number of turnovers to keep extending their lead throughout the game running out winners by 41 goals.
D Grade had another good performance this week, Emerald got the jump in the first quarter, but Healesville matched Emerald for the remainder of the game, but was unable to claw back the initial lead and went down by 10 goals.
Home games this coming week against Belgrave, netball and football from 10:30am with Ladies Day being celebrated, tickets available via Facebook.
Football
Senior Men Healesville 56 defeated by Emerald 86 Best: S Donkin, C Anderson, J Newsome, W Kristelly-Kelety, C Ballingall, S Gebert
Reserves Healesville 2 defeated by Emerald 177 Best: D Kerr, R Hargreaves, J Draper, C Boeder, T Campbell, J Poyton
Senior Women Healesville 82 defeated Monbulk 0 Best: D Carracun, A Frazzetto, S Morris, I Stock, S Potter, K Willemsen
Veterans Healesville 40 defeated by Narre Warren 76 Best: R Carruthers, R Emmett, B Bell, M Hay, R de Munk, C Adams
Netball
A Grade Healesville 31 defeated by Emerald 66 Best: B Erickson, J Agnew, J Milne
B Grade Healesville 21 defeated by Emerald 65 Best: C Haywood, C Bouma, H Blackney
C Grade Healesville 12 defeated by Emerald 53 Best: K Deuart, S Maile, E Cameron
D Grade Healesville 24 defeated by Emerald 34 Best: C Mecuri, S Maile, J Peterson
