By Anne-Marie Ebbels
All Healesville team were in action at home this week against Officer and ROC, except the Vets who travelled to Gembrook.
It was a tough day for all the netball grades with players missing due to sickness, so numerous players were required to play a couple of games.
The A Grade game scoreline belied how fierce the game was. Healesville matched the ROC toughness in the first quarter and were going goal for goal initially.
A couple of turnovers in the middle of the quarter saw ROC race to a 14-goal lead at quarter time.
The remaining quarters were much the same with the ROC height and pressure earning them turnovers which Healesville couldn’t win back.
Ultimately, ROC were winners by 54 goals.
In another tough game, Healesville B Grade were solid in the first quarter, but a blistering second quarter by ROC scoring 24 goals saw them go to the main break with a 35-goal lead.
Healesville managed to get on the scoreboard more often the second half, but ROC were relentless on their way to a 70-goal win.
The C grade team had a number of personnel changes to cover for players going up and found it hard to get into a rhythm during the game.
The defence end held up well, but Healesville couldn’t capitalise on the turnover generated in the defensive end.
ROC defeated Healesville by 36 goals.
In the worse of the weather conditions, the D Grade game started in the rain.
It was tough start with Healesville goalless in the first quarter.
The weather conditions improved, but ROC had the advantage throughout the game and ran out eventual winners by 32 goals.
The Officer Seniors were out of the block quickly in the first quarter and Healesville struggled to find any answer to stop the opposition scoring and Officer went into the first break with a healthy 25 point lead.
A reset a quarter time saw Healesville come out and start to win the ball and counteract the Officer runners scoring four goals to one in the second quarter narrowly the Officer lead to three points at half time.
The Healesville team continued to apply the pressure in the third quarter and kept Officer goalless to go into the final break 22 points up.
Officer dug deep in the final quarter and outscored Healesville.
Healesville hung on for an 11 point win.
The Reserves, after their win last week, had a game they would rather forget.
Healesville were outclassed by a young and fit Officer team.
Healesville were kept scoreless in the first half and final got onto the scoreboard in the third quarter.
Officer were winners by a massive 139 points.
After a 4-week break, Healesville played the late game at Gembrook.
Accurate kicking in the first half kept Healesville in the game against their more wayward opposition, going into the half time break one point up.
Gembrook dominated the play in the third quarter keeping Healesville scoreless and Gembrook went into the final break 21 points up.
Healesville worked hard in the final quarter and outscored the opposition, but couldn’t bridge the gap and eventually went down by 20 points.
The Women’s team played Olinda-Ferny Creek for the second time in three weeks.
Healesville continued to show why they are the league leaders and dominated the game from start to finish.
Danielle Carrucan kicked two goals to put herself second on the league goal kicking list for the Women’s Division One competition.
Healesville ran out winners by 32 points.
Results
Football
Veterans Healesville 4.3 defeated by Gembrook 6.11 Best N Whitmore, C Adams, M Hay, B Boote, D Creed, A Peters
Men Reserves Healesville 1.2 defeated by Officer 23.9 Best T Campbell. J Mansfield, R Hargreaves, C Boeder, S Larose, J Poyton
Men Seniors Healesville 10.12 defeated Officer 9.7 Best D Senior, M Jones, M Donegan, N Mende, L Oliver, S Gebert
Women Seniors Healesville 5.4 defeated Olinda 0.2 Best S Morris, E Cianci, C Wilsmore, I Stock, D Carrucan, I Renouf
Netball
A Grade Healesville 19 defeated by ROC 73 Best: J Agnew, J Milne, M Erickson
B Grade Healesville 16 defeated by ROC 86 Best: H Blackney, I Smith, A McMaster
C Grade Healesville 9 defeated by ROC 45 Best: T Pinkster, M Dougherty
D Grade Healesville 4 defeated by ROC 36 Best: J Petersen, S Aloi, E Birch
