Well hello finals!
Finals are here for the Gippsland League, with teams playing their 18th and final round of the 2022 Gippsland League season last weekend.
Warragul squashed Bairnsdale’s hopes of adding a win to the board, in a match that went down to the wire.
Bairnsdale may have thought they could smell the sweet scent of victory as the Redlegs held the lead in the first half of the match, but Warragul wasn’t having that, coming in hard and fast in the final two quarters, walking away with a 36 to 34 win.
Sally Deller scored 23 for Bairnsdale on Saturday, while Ella Rees added 24 to Warragul’s score.
Leongatha beat Drouin 57 to 45.
Jess Edgar scored 29 for the Parrots, Hannah Flanders added 26 and Kate Sperling 2.
Drouin’s Stacie Gardiner totalled an impressive 38 goals and Ruby Pratt added seven.
Lauren Redpath was best on for Leongatha, with players Taylah Brown and Hannah Flanders also putting forward a good game.
Best on for Drouin was Ella Henderson, followed by notable performances from Kym Diston and April Bethune.
Moe copped a thrashing from Wonthaggi Power, going down 64 to 37.
Putting away 45 goals against Moe, Wonthaggi’s Courtney Brann was named the final round highest goal scorer.
Courtney Young added 19 to Wonthaggi Power’s score.
Jess McRae was best on field for Wonthaggi, with great play also from Ellie Bates and Young.
Moe’s best on was Laini Galea.
Is that a wound I see in Sale’s torso? Oh yes, that is the hole from where Morwell gutted the Magpies in a 68 to 22 beating.
Morwell’s Chloe Radford was best-on-court, with noteworthy performances from Claire Allison and Shannon Freeman.
Isla McCarthy was best on for Sale, with Sienna Wynd and Rachel Ronaldson named top performing players.
Unlike Morwell’s walloping of Sale, the game between Traralgon and Maffra was much more cut-throat.
After a 60-minute battle, Maffra walked away victorious, beating Traralgon 48 to 43.
