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CibbuanoDockers hold off Eagles
July 25th 2009 10:09
FREMANTLE has snapped a nine-game losing streak and maintained its recent dominance over West Coast with a hard-fought five-point win in the western derby at Subiaco Oval on Saturday afternoon.
The Dockers’ 10.11 (71) to 8.18 (66) victory was their fifth straight win over the Eagles.
The result sees Fremantle move off the bottom of the AFL ladder while West Coast has now lost its past four matches.
The win was soured somewhat for Fremantle with promising youngster Tim Ruffles suffering a knee injury late in the final term.
Aaron Sandilands was dominant in the ruck and won his first Ross Glenndinning Medal for his 31 hit outs and 30 possessions while skipper Matthew Pavlich made an impressive return from injury with a game-high 36 disposals and nine inside 50’s.
Paul Hasleby (33) was also influential while Jay van Berlo and Ruffles booted two goals apiece.
For the Eagles, Adam Selwood tried hard all day and racked up a team-high 28 disposals while Andrew Embley, Chris Masten and Tim Houlihan were busy contributors with 26 possessions each.
West Coast dominated general play early in the opening stanza but they failed to apply any scoreboard pressure.
They were made to pay with late goal from Antoni Grover and Sandilands giving the Dockers a 12-point lead at quarter-time.
The Eagles kicked the first two goals of the second term through Mark LeCras and Josh Kennedy to level the scores but the Dockers responded with majors from Hayden Ballantyne and van Berlo to skip out to an 11-point break.
But Fremantle’s work was quickly undone by veteran Dean Solomon who gave away an undisciplined free-kick while the Eagles were celebrating a goal to Adam Selwood.
Matt Rosa converted to give his side the lead before Nic Suban made David Wirrpanda pay for a poor kick-out by kicking truly to put the Dockers five points in front at the main break.
Both sides continually butchered the football in a third term that didn’t reach any great heights. The Eagles booted 1.5 to Fremantle’s 1.1 to reduce the deficit to just one-point at three-quarter time.
West Coast skipped out to a seven-point lead at the seven-minute mark of the final stanza when LeCras kicked his second.
The Eagles looked set to run away with the contest but Fremantle hit back with a 65m bomb from Clancee Pearce before van Berlo's second and a brilliant checkside goal from Ruffles gave the Dockers a handy buffer.
Ashley Hansen gave the Eagles a glimmer of hope, converting from close range to get his side to within five points with just over a minute left on the clock.
But just as West Coast started to stream forward, Greg Broughton produced a superb smother on Shannon Hurn before Ballantyne's tackle on Tom Swift sealed Fremantle’s fourth win of the season.
FREMANTLE: 3.4, 6.8, 7.9, 10.11 (71)
WEST COAST: 1.4, 5.9, 6.14, 8.18 (66)
GOALS: Fremantle: van Berlo 2, Ruffles 2, Mundy, Grover, Sandilands, Ballantyne, Suban, Pearce
West Coast: Le Cras 2, Ebert, Kennedy, A. Selwood, Rosa, Priddis, Hansen
BEST: Fremantle: Sandilands, Pavlich, Hasleby, Broughton, Suban, van Berlo
West Coast: A.Selwood, Embley, Masten, Houlihan, Glass, Lynch
INJURIES: Fremantle: Ruffles (knee)
West Coast: TBC
REPORTS: TBC
CHANGES: Fremantle Luke McPharlin (leg) replaced in selected side by Scott Thornton
UMPIRES: James, Margetts, Keating
CROWD: 39,536 at Subiaco Oval
The Dockers’ 10.11 (71) to 8.18 (66) victory was their fifth straight win over the Eagles.
The result sees Fremantle move off the bottom of the AFL ladder while West Coast has now lost its past four matches.
The win was soured somewhat for Fremantle with promising youngster Tim Ruffles suffering a knee injury late in the final term.
Aaron Sandilands was dominant in the ruck and won his first Ross Glenndinning Medal for his 31 hit outs and 30 possessions while skipper Matthew Pavlich made an impressive return from injury with a game-high 36 disposals and nine inside 50’s.
Paul Hasleby (33) was also influential while Jay van Berlo and Ruffles booted two goals apiece.
For the Eagles, Adam Selwood tried hard all day and racked up a team-high 28 disposals while Andrew Embley, Chris Masten and Tim Houlihan were busy contributors with 26 possessions each.
West Coast dominated general play early in the opening stanza but they failed to apply any scoreboard pressure.
They were made to pay with late goal from Antoni Grover and Sandilands giving the Dockers a 12-point lead at quarter-time.
The Eagles kicked the first two goals of the second term through Mark LeCras and Josh Kennedy to level the scores but the Dockers responded with majors from Hayden Ballantyne and van Berlo to skip out to an 11-point break.
But Fremantle’s work was quickly undone by veteran Dean Solomon who gave away an undisciplined free-kick while the Eagles were celebrating a goal to Adam Selwood.
Matt Rosa converted to give his side the lead before Nic Suban made David Wirrpanda pay for a poor kick-out by kicking truly to put the Dockers five points in front at the main break.
Both sides continually butchered the football in a third term that didn’t reach any great heights. The Eagles booted 1.5 to Fremantle’s 1.1 to reduce the deficit to just one-point at three-quarter time.
West Coast skipped out to a seven-point lead at the seven-minute mark of the final stanza when LeCras kicked his second.
The Eagles looked set to run away with the contest but Fremantle hit back with a 65m bomb from Clancee Pearce before van Berlo's second and a brilliant checkside goal from Ruffles gave the Dockers a handy buffer.
Ashley Hansen gave the Eagles a glimmer of hope, converting from close range to get his side to within five points with just over a minute left on the clock.
But just as West Coast started to stream forward, Greg Broughton produced a superb smother on Shannon Hurn before Ballantyne's tackle on Tom Swift sealed Fremantle’s fourth win of the season.
FREMANTLE: 3.4, 6.8, 7.9, 10.11 (71)
WEST COAST: 1.4, 5.9, 6.14, 8.18 (66)
GOALS: Fremantle: van Berlo 2, Ruffles 2, Mundy, Grover, Sandilands, Ballantyne, Suban, Pearce
West Coast: Le Cras 2, Ebert, Kennedy, A. Selwood, Rosa, Priddis, Hansen
BEST: Fremantle: Sandilands, Pavlich, Hasleby, Broughton, Suban, van Berlo
West Coast: A.Selwood, Embley, Masten, Houlihan, Glass, Lynch
INJURIES: Fremantle: Ruffles (knee)
West Coast: TBC
REPORTS: TBC
CHANGES: Fremantle Luke McPharlin (leg) replaced in selected side by Scott Thornton
UMPIRES: James, Margetts, Keating
CROWD: 39,536 at Subiaco Oval
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