By Anne-Marie Ebbels
The women kicked off the weekend in fine style under lights at Belgrave on Friday night, they didn’t give Belgrave many scoring opportunities.
Healesville had good night in front of goal with some accurate kicking to score three straight goals to no score in the first quarter.
Belgrave provided a bit of resistance in the second quarter limiting Healesville to two goals and having a couple of scoring opportunities themselves.
Healesville went into the big break with a 29-point lead.
Healesville continued to be accurate in front of goal and kept Belgrave scoreless from the game and ran out big winners by 68 points.
Healesville headed down the Warby highway to Seville with the U18s starting proceedings jumping out to big lead by quarter time.
Healesville continued to control the game in the second half and scored four goals to one to go into the half time break with a 43-point lead.
After half time Healesville continued to make scoring difficult for Seville, while taking their opportunities to increase their lead with a final winning margin of 59 points.
The Reserves provided a nail-biter with game being very even in the first quarter with Seville going into the first break with a four-point lead.
Healesville gained the ascendancy in second quarter to go into the big break with a five-point lead.
Neither team gave an inch in the third quarter setting up an exciting last quarter with Seville having a one-point lead.
Seville managed to get the crucial goal to extend their lead to eight points and Healesville were unable to find a way to goal to get the lead, Seville won the game by eight-points.
In Seniors, Healesville had a fast start and got out to a 15-point lead at quarter time.
Seville hit back in the second quarter with four goals to Healesville’s one for Seville to go into half time with a 9-point lead.
Healesville struggled to find space in the second half with the Seville defence working hard for the Healesville runners to break the lines and Seville went into the final break 17 points ahead. An early goal by Healesville looked promising, but Seville quickly shutdown any hope of Healesville overrunning them with two quick goals to run out winners by 19 points.
In the netball it was a tough week for Healesville missing several players across all grades.
C Grade were no match for the stronger Seville team who dominated the game from the first centre pass.
Seville jumped out to big lead by quarter time of 19 goals and continued in that vein for the rest of the game to be big winners by 51 goals.
Seville got off to another quick start in the B Grade game with an 11-goals lead at quarter time.
Healesville didn’t have any answers to Seville quick transition down the court and Seville continued to increase their lead at each break to have a final winning margin of 55 goals.
In the A grade game, Healesville stuck with Seville in the first quarter reversing the trend of a slow start in previous weeks and were only 5 goals down at quarter time.
Seville came out hard in the second quarter scoring 20 goals to eight to go into the half time break 17 goals up.
In third quarter, Seville limited Healesville scoring opportunities with some strong defence.
The intensity of the game belied the scoreline with game seeming to be a lot closer than the scoreline suggested.
Seville were big winners by 48 goals.
Next week, the football kicks off from 12.20pm and netball from 11.20am, followed by a celebration of Daniel Plozza’s magnificent achievement breaking Tom Ayres club games record.
Football
Senior Men Healesville 50 defeated by Seville 69 Best: J Savage, C Warren, C Frazzetto, J Newsome, C Ballingall, B Murphy
Reserves Men Healesville 44 defeated by Seville 52 Best: K Stanyer, D Sissins, Z Fawdry, D Ebbels, L Chandler, M Renouf
Womens Healesville 70 defeated Belgrave 2 Best: I Stock, P Stock, E Cianci, C Wilsmore, M Cianci, I Watson
U18 Healesville 80 defeated Seville 21 Best: J Handasyde, R Cameron, C Hammond, G Hammond, R Bode
Netball
A Grade Healesville 49 defeated by Yarra Glen 66 Best: M Erickson, K Farrow, J Harris
B Grade Healesville 24 defeated by Seville 79 Best: H Blackney A McMaster, Ap Stanley
C Grade Healesville 5 defeated by Seville 56 Best: S Aloi, K Bromilow, E Birch
