By Anne-Marie Ebbels
The U18s battled it out in the wet and windy conditions at Don Road on Friday night against Upwey-Tecoma.
The conditions meant the game was scrappy and low scoring with the wet a slippery ground and ball.
Healesville dominated the scoring in the first quarter going into the first break with an 11 point lead.
Accruate kicking in the second quarter increased Healesville’s lead to 15 points at half time.
Healesville continued to create scoring opportunities in the second half and ran out winners by 23 points.
The Women’s headed to Berwick Springs and played in very blustery conditions at the unprotected Berwick Springs ground.
In a dour first quarter neither team kicked a major and went in even at the first break.
Berwick Springs managed the only goal of the half to lead by four points at half time.
Another goalless quarter by either team in the third quarter and Berwick springs increased their lead by a point.
In the final quarter Healesville managed to score two goals and keep Berwick Spring goalless to run out winners by seven points.
The rest of the Healesville teams headed to a chilly and wet Alexandra for Round 14.
The Reserve had a dominant performance against Alexandra keeping them scoreless before half-time and leading by 38 points despite a number of key players missing due to injury. Healesville continued to out lay Alexandra to come away big winners by 72 points.
The seniors played the game with constant rain as the ground became muddier and conditions were very slippery.
Healesville got out to an early lead in the first quarter going into the first break 12 points up. Inaccuracy in front of goal in the second quarter by Healesville with 10 scoring shots to five, Alexandra went into the half time break 12 points behind.
Alexandra came out firing after half time and managed to claw the margin back to five points at three quarter time.
Healesville put in a strong final quarter to win the game by 30 points.
In the netball, the first quarter of the A grade game was tight with Healesville going into the first break with a two-goal lead.
The second quarter saw Healesville manufacture several turnovers to increase their lead to five goals at half time.
Healesville continued to extend their lead in the second half in the wet conditions and were winners by 12 goals.
Healesville played with the minimum seven players in B Grade in the consistent rain making the court and ball slippery.
The first quarter was tight with Alexandra going into the first break with a one goal lead.
Healesville worked hard int eh second quarter to go into the half time break with a two-goal lead.
Alexandra had a strong third quarter as the conditions started to take its toll on the unmanned Healesville team to go into the final break with a five-goal lead.
Healesville worked hard in the final quarter but couldn’t breach the gap despite winning the quarter with Alexandra running out winners by three goals.
C grade was a similar story to B grade with the minimum seven players and with players playing out of position took time for Healesville to get going in the first quarter with Alexandra getting out to seven goal lead at quarter time.
A strong second quarter by Healesville reduced the Alexandra lead to four goals at half time.
Healesville continued to keep up the pressure on Alexnadra in the third quarter to reduce the lead to a single goal at three quarter time.
The final quarter was tight with both teams turning over the ball, but Healesville couldn’t take advantage and went down by three goals.
Next week Healesville senior football and netball head to Alexandra while the women head south to Berwick Springs and the U18s play on Friday night at Don Road Complex.
Football
Senior Women Healesville 16 defeated Berwick Springs 9 Best: P Stock, P Pavic, C Wilsmore, S Potter, A Frazzetto, S Frazzetto
Senior Men Healesville 78 defeated Alexandra 38 Best: N Mende, B Murphy, T Barclay, L Greenwood, S Donkin, L Potts
Reserves Men Healesville 76 defeated Alexandra 4 Best: C Boeder, C McInnes, J Simnett, P Jones, K Brown, O Benedick
U18 Healesville 40 defeated Upwey-Tecoma 17 Best: R Bode, T Dunne, D Sikorski, O Moreton, K Barclay, L Senti
Netball
A Grade Healesville 54 defeated Alexandra 42 Best: M Erickson, B Erickson, J Harris
B Grade Healesville 34 defeated by Alexandra 37 Best: L Cole, E Duff-Smith, L Rogers
C Grade Healesville 20 defeated by Alexandra 23 Best: L Boundy, E Cameron, A Ebbels
