In perfect conditions, Yarra Glen’s senior footy team hosted Seville and with a depleted outfit they faced a fired up opposition.
The Blues banged on five quick unanswered goals in the first 10 minutes.
The River Pigs then got themselves back in the game kicking four of the next five goals.
Some late lapses from Yarra Glen and some incredibly accurate kicking from Seville saw the Blues add three more goals.
The River Pigs played with great intensity in the second, lifting their tackle pressure and hard running, they outscored Seville to be just 19 points down at half time.
The third quarter saw a great contest with Yarra Glen just 12 points down late in the quarter.
A critical turnover and a late free kick allowed the Blues to get out to a 24 point lead at the last break.
When key forward, Josh Hawkins, who had six goals on the board went down with a knee injury, the River Pigs lost their spark as Seville lifted and go to add six goals whilst Yarra Glen only added a few points.
Final scores: Yarra Glen 14.8 to Seville 24.8.
Best for Yarra Glen: Josh Hawkins, Aussie Smith, Ben Ashton, Trent Russell, Mason Smith, John Pavic.
Goalkickers: Josh Hawkins 6, Aussie Smith 2, Sam Wood 2, Max DePina 2, Ben Ashton and Oscar Grenfell 1.
With the number of senior injuries and many of their own, the Yarra Glen Reserves did well to get 22 players together to take on the highly placed Seville Blues.
Despite the massive talent gap, the River Pig boys showed great spirit to hold Seville to just the one goal in the first quarter.
From the second quarter on, however, Seville had too much speed and strength for a tiring Yarra Glen outfit.
Ethan Murdock fought hard in the backline and Nick McKenzie was great but they were overpowered to go down 1.0 to 17.21.
Best players: Ethan Murdock, Nick McKenzie, Liam Watson, Dylan Jarvis, Ryan Strong, Hunter Grenfell.
Goalkicker was Callum Tucker.
The Under 18’s faced a strong Seville team and with reduced numbers it gave the quality Seville players more time and space to move in.
The Yarra Glen boys were good in the contest but struggled to maintain possession whilst their opposition teamed well to control play.
With some strong marking forwards Yarra Glen found it hard to restrict the Blues scoring.
Whilst they never gave up, Yarra Glen were well beaten, Yarra Glen 2.2 to Seville 28.13.
Best players: Charlie Wilks, Robert Pavic, Brody Adams, Lachlan Carter, Callum Sanders, Alastair Lowrie.
Goalkickers: Lachlan Rutherford and Jake Ferris.
The Yarra Glen netballers took on the might of Seville, with all their teams unbeaten and on top of the ladder.
The Yarra Glen A Grade girls were up against it with top shooter Maddy Hargrave and centre Alana McGurgan unable to play. Seville jumped out of blocks early and raced to a 41 to 12 lead by half time.
In the third quarter, the Yarra girls started connecting better and converting to match it with Seville.
They battled hard in the last but couldn’t close the gap to see Yarra Glen go down 27 to 65.
Best Players: Elise Dobson, Jasmine Evans, Imojean Parsons.
Yarra Glen B Grade started well with good defensive work having them within five goals at quarter time.
In the second and third quarters, Seville showed why they on top and unbeaten to be 30 goals up at the last break.
To Yarra Glen’s credit, they played some of their best netball in the last before going down, 33 to 68.
Best Players: Skye Corrigan, Imojean Parsons, Lauren Van Der Westhuizen.
The C Grade girls were competitive throughout the game.
Seville were just that bit better in all aspects of the game to consistently outscore Yarra Glen in each quarter.
Yarra Glen’s effort was first class but the odd skill error allowed Seville to end up winning by 24 goals.
Yarra Glen 28 to Seville 49
Best players: Meaghan Carter, Ash Shanks, Leah Haag.
With D Grade starting the day for Yarra Glen in sunny but cool conditions, the Yarra girls just couldn’t get warmed up to the contest in the first to be eight down at quarter time.
They struggled to warm to the task in the second as the ladder leading Seville girls kept Yarra Glen to one goal for the quarter.
An improved shooting performance in the second half quarter was let down by a number of turnovers that saw the Yarra Glen girls go down 10 to 48.
Best players: Ashleigh Wallace, Sam Chetcuti, Phoebe Boot.
Next week all the Yarra Glen teams travel to Belgrave in a must win encounter in the senior footy.
The Under 18’s play challenging match up against Pakenham, with all other teams including the Vets playing Belgrave.
