By Anne-Marie Ebbels
The second half of Round 5 had the majority of the club headed to Emerald and the Women’s team heading up to Olinda.
Playing conditions were better than expected no rain during the games at Emerald.
D Grade was the first to take the court in the netball, with a few players missing this week the team played in different positions than usual.
Healesville stuck with Emerald in the first quarter going into the break 3 goals down, Emerald took control of the game in the second quarter and extended their lead to 10 goals at half time.
Healesville struggled in the third quarter to score, but also restricted Emerald scoring opportunities.
Emerald ran out eventual winners by 19 goals.
It was a tough game for C Grade, Emerald came out in the first quarter and dominated the play which Healesville struggled to create scoring opportunities.
Emerald went into the half time break with a 13-goal lead.
Healesville had their highest scoring quarters in third quarter but Emerald managed to extend their lead to 19 goals.
At the final siren, Emerald were winners by 29 goals.
The young Healesville B Grade team had a tough first quarter against the more experienced Emerald team.
They hit back in the second quarter going almost goal for goal with Emerald.
Emerald came out in the third quarter and put their foot down with a 20 goal quarter to go into the final break with a 31 goal lead.
Emerald ran out winners by 48 goals.
In the final netball game of the day, A grade took on the ladder leaders Emerald.
Emerald took control right from the start of the game and starved Healesville of scoring opportunities, but Healesville made the most of them when they could.
It was the best game so far this season the Healesville team has played as they start to work well together as the new line-up starts to gel and find their best position.
Emerald ran out winners by 36 goals.
The Men Reserves had tug-of -war in the first half with Healesville going into quarter two points up and Emerald took the lead at half time with a eight point lead.
Emerald out-scored Healesville seven goals to two in the third quarter going into the final quarter with a 40-point lead.
Emerald continued to remain on top of the Healesville increasing their lead to a winning 49 points.
In the last game at Emerald, the Senior Men’s team came out and put the undefeated Emerald team under a lot of pressure resulting in a couple of turnovers to get the score on the board.
The first quarter was highly contested with both team scoring four goals.
The second quarter was much of a repeat of the first with Emerald going into half time with a 14-point lead.
Emerald kept Healesville scoreless in the third quarter, but Healesville only allowed Emerald to extend the lead to 23 points at the final change.
Healesville continued to apply the pressure in the final quarter, but the weight of scoring shot by Emerald saw them run out winners by 28 points.
The women’s played the late game at Olinda in the worst conditions of the day with rain for most of the game which resulted in challenging conditions in the low scoring game.
Healesville dominant the possession and held the ball in their forward for 90% of the game leading the game from start to finish in the slippery conditions.
Healesville remains undefeated so far this season, beating Olinda-Ferny Creek by 30 points.
Results
Netball
A Grade Healesville 40 defeated by Emerald 76 Best: B Erickson, K Farrow, J Agnew
B Grade Healesville 29 defeated by Emerald 77 Best: A McMaster, Z Boundy, H Blackney
C Grade Healesville 12 defeated by Emerald 41 Best: C Haywood, T Pinkster, K Deuart
D Grade Healesville 14 defeated by Emerald 33 Best: E Birch, J Petersen, J Watson
Football
Senior Mens Healesville 8.11 defeated by Emerald 12.21 Best: L Daly, W Kristelly-Kelety, D Plozza, M Renouf, M Donegan, N Mende
Reserve Mens Healesville 6.8 defeated by Emerald 14. 9 Best: J Draper, P Houlihan, C Boeder, R Hargreaves, B Anthanasopoulos, R Hay
Senior Women Healesville 4.7 defeated Olinda-Ferny Creek 0.1 Best: I Stock, S Morris, K Methven, E Cianci, I Renouf, D Carrucan
