By Anne-Marie Ebbels
The Healesville men’s team played Emerald in the Preliminary final at Woori Yallock this weekend.
In the home and away games earlier in the season Emerald had beaten Healesville by five goals on both occasions.
The young Bloods team had steadily improved over the last few weeks with fighting wins over Seville by one and two points in recent weeks to give them some belief that beating Emerald was possible.
The first quarter was a tight affair with both teams getting on the scoreboard early.
Emerald took an eight-point lead into the first break.
The second quarter was equally tight with Healesville out scoring Emerald during the quarter to reduce the margin to just three points at half-time.
Emerald came out strong after half time and scored a couple of quick goals to extend their lead, Healesville couldn’t respond and went into the final break 17 points down.
The final quarter saw the Emerald strong defence not allow Healesville back into the game with Emerald having 15 shots on goal compared to Healesville’s eight.
Emerald ran out winners by 25 points.
League leading goal scorer, Sam Gebert had a good day scoring six of Healesville 12 goals on the back of some good work from the team across the half back line.
Men Seniors Healesville 80 defeated by Emerald 105 Best: S Gebert, C Warren, L Daly, D Plozza, N Mende, S Donkin
