By Anne-Marie Ebbels
The final home and away game meant travelling down the freeway to Hallam.
It was a must win game for the Senior Men’s team to ensure that they controlled their own destiny to make the finals and not rely on other results.
Hallam came out in the first quarter with nothing to lose and kicked three quick goals before Healesville scored a major.
Healesville hit back and in a high scoring first quarter went into quarter time five points down.
Healesville re-grouped at quarter time and made their move and kept Hallam scoreless in the second quarter and scored eight goals themselves to take control of the game.
A strong second half by Healesville saw them run out winners by 79 points with Sam Gebert finishing off in front of goal with 10 goals.
In Corey Lakey’s final game as coach for the Reserves, the team was keen to put in good performance to send him off.
Bolstered by the inclusion of a number of U17 players after their season ended the previous week, the Reserves got to work to put the win on the board.
After a tight first quarter, Healesville went into the first break eight points up.
The defence didn’t have to do much work for the remaining quarters as Healesville managed to keep Hallam goalless for the remaining three quarters and ran out winners by 37 points.
The future for Healesville looks bright with the U17s being among the best players for the day.
Netball B Grade were in the game at quarter time being two goals down.
Hallam came out and put on a strong defensive game which awarded them a number of turnovers to extend their lead to eight goals at the half time break.
As they have all season B grade kept fighting until the final siren to go down by 22 goals.
After a close game against Hallam, a couple of weeks ago D Grade were determined to turn the tables on the result this time around.
The game was tight the from the first whistle with the teams going goal for goal.
Healesville went into the first break two goals up and maintained that in the lead through to three quarter time.
Neither team had a bench to call on for the game meant players were rotated on court in the third quarter to rest the centre players.
Healesville managed to hold their nerve and extend their lead with Connie Mecuri finishing off in goal scoring 29 of the 32 goals for the game.
Healesville ran out winners by five goals.
Next week the Senior Men’s team are playing Seville in the Elimination Final this week at Don Road starting at 2:10pm.
Football
Men Seniors Healesville 147 defeated Hallam 68
Best: S Gebert, B Wilsmore, T Amarant, D Plozza, N Mende, S Donkin
Men Reserves Healesville 60 defeated Hallam 23 Best: T Barclay, B Rutley, C Boeder, L Warner, R Hargreaves, G Houlihan
Netball
B Grade: Healesville 24 defeated by Hallam 46
Best: H Blackney, C Haywood, C Bouma
D Grade: Healesville 32 defeated Hallam 27 Best: C Mecuri
