by Booney » Sat Apr 05, 2008 5:14 pm
A solid contest at Alberton today.South holding out a fast finishing Magpie unti by 3 points.
South
16 9 105
Goals-Warren 5,Baird 3,Iljecsen 2(?)
Port
14 18 102
Goals-Maric,Rugolo,AhChee 2
With Port kicking to the Southern end in the 1st quarter with the help of a two to three goal breeze a few wasted opportunities saw South keep themselves in it.AhCheee was good across half forward for Port and Clayton was reaping the efforts of Maric in the ruck.Only Turner and Torney for South showed any resistance while Warren led Eichner around to kick 2 first quarter goals.Travis Baird looking dangerous with 1.
Jeremy CLayton missed an easy on the run shot at goal and the teams went to the qusrter time huddle at:
Port 4 6
South 3 1
At the start of the second quarter South goaled first after a big mark and goal from Dale Ellis while Turner and Torney continued to repel.In a good quarter Corey Achee kicked 2,
Shayne Biasci kicked an important running goal after Eichner burst from defence and Travis Baird acquainted himself to Jeremy Clayton,but the important player once more was Warren who,with two strong marks led Eichner a merry dance and kicked 2 more to have 4 at half time:
Port 8 8
South 8 4
After half time South came out firing kicking the first two goals into a slight breeze to take the lead from the Magpies.Nathan Krakouer,showing he might get called up to higher duties in the next week or two kicked a fantastic goal after losing a marking contest,then springing to his feet to take the ball away from the pack with pace and goal.South got out to a 3 goal lead but Port hit back through Vinnie Rugolo who kicked the first of his 2 goals,showing some park in the forward line in the process.Port's attack had to relinquish AhChee to defence to quell the influence of Warren,and although Warren kicked a goal AhChee was influental at full back and kept Port in the game.
Just as Port began to run Josh Thewlis took a strong mark and goaled to keep the 'Pies at bay:
South 13 6
Port 11 11
It appeared as though the game was out of Ports reach Baird kicked the first goal of the last quarter for South,taking them to an early 13 point lead in the last quarter.Rugolo goald again for Port and the 'Pies had plenty of chances.Hargraves (twice) CLayton and Biasci all missing kickable set shots while South went forward twice for goasl to Bachmann and Otten.A one on one contest developed on the outer wing and with Krakouer bouncing his way to half forward and looking to centre the ball Thewlis ran and chased hard to get Krakouer right on the attacking 50 arc and this appeared to be Ports last chance.But,late goals to Thurgood and Maric got Port back to within 3 points with only moments to go.Souths defence,well served by Torney,Bennett and Turner all day were under seige.A missed mark on the members wing from Dale Ellis gave Eichner the chance to deliver into Ports forward line,the barely sighted Harry Miller took an uncontested mark right in front of the main stand,as he went back to take his kick the final siren sounded.The distance porved to be too much for Miller who failed to register a score and South Adelaide earnt and well deserved the two points they took from Alberton today.
The mentor (Jack Cahill) took the points over his protege (Tim Ginever) and for once Jack made his way down the the away team rooms to sing a song he would never thought he would sing under the grandstand of Alberton Oval.
Poor kicking is poor football,Port's missed shots combined with Souths accuracy and dour defence proved the main points of the game.Ben Warren the difference with 5 goals.
Best:
South-Warren,Torney,Turner,Baird,Bachmann
Port-AhChee,Maric,Clayton,Thurgood,Krakouer.
If you want to go quickly, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.
