Anne-Marie Ebbels and David Ball
This week Healesville and Yarra Glen played against each other to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Pride Round under sunny skies at Yarra Glen.
The netball game were all physicals affairs with C grade kicking off the day.
The Yarra Glen’s C grade girls were off to a great start showing some real dominance after keeping Healesville to only two goals in the first quarter.
The Yarra Glen girls lifted each quarter and continued their dominant display on court keeping Healesville to 11 goals for the game.
Tammie Milbourne’s continuous defensive efforts and hands over pressure created absolute havoc and was instrumental in Yarra Glen’s win.
Alex Bray was best player on court among Yarra Glen girls who was a shooting superstar, so efficient with ball in hand and shot 24 goals for the game.
Final scores, Yarra Glen 46 : 11 Healesville
In B Grade, it was a battle for fourth spot.
Yarra Glen started well to hold an 11 to 6 lead at quarter time.
They extended the lead by eight in the second quarter as Yarra Glen’s defensive pressure forced the Bloods to turnover the ball.
The Yarra Glen shooters converted well in the second half as the River Pig girls stretched the lead to see them victorious 50 to 34.
In the big A grade Pride Cup game, Yarra Glen were keen to win back the Pride Cup after going down in their previous two encounters.
The game started with high intensity as Healesville threw everything at Yarra Glen.
The Yarra Glen girls withstood the pressure and rebounded to lead 19 to 12 at quarter time.
By half time the lead had stretched to 12 and to 17 goals at the last break.
To Healesville credit they never gave up and matched it with Yarra Glen as both teams scored 13 goals each in the last quarter.
Final scores, Yarra Glen 66 : 49 Healesville.
It was great to see the netball Pride Cup return to Yarra Glen
The first quarter of the seniors football was very contested, and this showed on the scoreboard with limited scoring opportunities.
Healesville went into the first break with an eight-point lead.
Healesville took control in the second quarter and continue to repel the ball from half-back limiting Yarra Glen’s scoring opportunities going into the big break with 55-point lead.
The second continued much the same as the second quarter with Healesville running out winner by 87 points.
Healesville was clearly too good and with Aaron Edwards kicking seven goals they took out The Pride Cup to win 22.21 to Yarra Glen’s 10.6.
The Reserve was all one-way traffic with Healesville keeping Yarra Glen scoreless in the first half and going into the half-time break with a 115 point lead.
Tyler Tweedie led the goal kicking with 11 goals followed by Shane Mansfield with seven goals to post a final winning margin by 166 points.
The Healesville women won their game on a forfeit by Upwey-Tecoma, but have another opportunity to play this coming week on Friday night under lights at Belgrave.
