Played Sunday July 6th at Sir Richard Moore Sports Centre.
Railways 5.5 9.8 10.13 11.15 (81) Boulder 4.0 5.1 7.4 9.7 (61)
Goal Kickers Railways: Christian Robinson & Mick McLean 3, Ryan Booy, Tristan Nelson, Ryan Stubbs, Aaron Rymer & Sean O’Keeffe 1. Goal Kickers Boulder: Chris Maguire 3, Mana Blackman & Chayne George 2, Damian Dunlea & Adrian Hooks 1.
Best Players Railways: Sean O’Keeffe, Aaron Rymer, Christian Robinson, Rhett Foster, Brendan Sacilotto & Brodie Peterson. Best Players Boulder: Scott Worthington, Chayne George, Craig Mitchell, John Grandile, Jason Rowe & Adrian Hooks.
Railways took a step towards finals football, while Boulder surrendered second spot in a lackluster affair at headquarters. Railways set up victory with a dominant second quarter, but then did everything possible to keep Boulder interested thereafter but the Tigers weren’t up to task to fall 20 points in arrears of the Panthers. Sean O’Keeffe turned in another high quality performance, while Aaron Rymer was hard at every contest and provided plenty of opportunity for his teammates, while forwards Mick McLean and in particular Christian Robinson were very good kicking 3 each. The brightest light for the Tigers were the performance of Scott Worthington, in his debut league season he played this match like a seasoned campaigner and took and held marks beyond his size and reach, while playing mostly forward Chayne George had a good all round game and almost self propelled Boulder much further into the contest with a sparkling 10 minute burst in the 3rd, while the reliable Chris Maguire broke further ahead in the Leading Goal Kicking stakes with 3.
Played Sunday July 6th at Kambalda West Oval.
Kambalda 3.4 6.10 11.17 17.21 (123) Kalgoorlie 1.1 5.3 6.5 10.5 (65)
Goal Kickers Kambalda: Stephen Freemantle 4, Matt Johnston, Tyrone Ward, James Murray 3, Tim Fitzgerald 2, Sean Matheson, Lorrence Farmer 1. Goal Kickers Kalgoorlie: Matt Wellstead 3, Chris Brown, Ric Butterfield, Brent McMeeken, Wes Miller, Rhys O’Loughlin, David Whait & Shane Properjohn 1.
Best Players Kambalda: Matt Johnston, Tyrone Ward, Adam Jukes, Lincoln Rodney, Jay Fisher & Stephen Freemantle. Best Players Kalgoorlie: Wes Miller, Stephen Uebergang, Shane Properjohn, Steve Wilson, Dane Stewart & Nick Hay.
Kambalda’s resurgence gained more momentum with an easy 58 point victory over the Roos and in doing so pushed their way into second place, and a launch pad for that important double chance, while Kalgoorlie made finals a difficult proposition being 6 points behind 4th placed Railways with four games left for each side in the home and away. Kambalda blasted the contest away in a dominant 3rd quarter and as can be seen by the goal kickers created multiples over 5 very good players, while for Kalgoorlie this was improvement on their one goal effort the previous week but coach Shane Properjohn has not given the season up despite being puzzled by the Roos falling in and out of games.
The Ladder.
Mines Rovers 10 wins from 11 games 1 Forfeit 161.12% 40 points. Kambalda 6 wins from 12 games 98.16% 24 points. Boulder 5 wins 1 Draw from 12 games 98.97% 22 points. Railways 5 wins from 12 games 93.76% 20 points. Kalgoorlie 3 wins 1 Draw from 12 games 66.77% 14 points.
Leading Goal Kickers.
Chris Maguire (B) 42 Rob Hansen (M) 31 Damian Dunlea (B) 26 David Marinovich (R) 24 Brett Turner (M) 23 James Murray (Kamb) 22
General Bye This Weekend.
Under coach Tom Briggs the Goldfields will be searching for their 3rd B Section title in 5 years, and open up proceeding against Eastern Districts at Arena Joondalup this Thursday.
Squad is.
Mines Rovers: Cameron Allen, Nick Willis, Justin Langridge, Mitch Graham & Chris Brabazon. Kambalda: Matt Johnston, Tyrone Ward, Stephen Freemantle, Chris Skidmore & Jay Fisher. Boulder: Luke Ryan, John Grandile, Henry Papertalk, Jason Rowe & Chris Maguire. Railways: David Stubbs (Capt), Aaron Rymer (Vice-Capt), Justin Giles, Brodie Peterson, David Marinovich & James Langley. Kalgoorlie: Rhys O’Loughlin, Steven Wilson, Nathan Brown & Nick Hay. |