By Anne-Marie Ebbels
On a beautiful Father’s Day, Healesville played in the Elimination Final against Seville and it was as expected after a close game two weeks ago between the two teams.
Healesville got the first goal on the board, but Seville hit back quickly with the teams going goal for goal in the first quarter. Seville went into the first break with a narrow five-point lead.
A similar story continued throughout the next two quarters with the two teams trading the lead with Seville being up by six points at the final break.
Healesville scored the first goal of the final quarter and the scores were locked.
Another two scoring shots put Healesville seven points in front.
Seville managed another minor score to bring the difference back to a single goal.
Some good defensive work by Healesville helped get the ball out of the danger area with another couple of minor scores while Seville managed to kick another major leaving the difference two points to Healesville.
In a nail-biting last two minutes, Healesville managed to defend the Seville goals and win by two points.
On Monday night Outer East Football and Netball League held their awards night for the Veterans, Women’s and Division 2 competitions.
The Healesville Women’s team had six players selected in the team of the year: Scarlett Potter, Paula Pavic, Cassy Wilsmore, Ishka-belle Stock, Sarah Frazzetto, and Danielle Carrucan.
Coach Mitch Hay was named as assistant coach for the team of the year.
Scarlett Potter also received top honours for the competition taking out the League’s best and fairest for the Division 1 Women’s competition on the back of outstanding and consistent season.
Next week Healesville are playing Emerald at Woori Yallock at 2:10 pm in the preliminary final.
