BOX HILL HAWKS v CASEY SCORPIONS at Box Hill City Oval - Seniors at 2.00 pm

CASEY SCORPIONS

Backs Lees Silvagni Martin

Half backs Wall Faulks Panozza

Centreline Bennell Matthews Stockdale *

Half forwards Chivers Newton Valenti

Forwards Liddle Waite Jamar

Followers Mohr MacReadie Blaser

Interchange (from) Collins Costigan Creed Johnson McGough McKenzie McNamara Scanlon Smith Taylor Virtue

BOX HILL HAWKS

Backs Dew Renouf Sierakowski

Half backs Whitecross Suckling Kiel

Centreline Breust Yze Lisle

Half forwards Iles Morton Taylor

Forwards Williams Bello Murphy

Followers Pedersen Tuck Walsh

Interchange (from) Cunningham * Curnow Fagan George Gibson McQueen-Miscamble Markovic Neil Peterson Smithwick

* 23rd man

Reserves at 11.20 am

CASEY SCORPIONS

Backs Virtue Crespin Taylor

Half backs MacLeod Zomer Terry

Centreline Sykes Collins Clay

Half forwards Dean Williams Singh

Forwards Creed Mildren Scanlon

Followers Patti Costigan Matheson

Interchange (from) J Bolton Blackie Granger Kelly J McNamara McDonald Mollica Moore Seeger Smith

Looks like they'll have to do it hard with just a couple of Demons after they sort out the interchanges and emergencies.

Looks like they'll have to do it hard with just a couple of Demons after they sort out the interchanges and emergencies.

Correct.

You can already scratch Bennell, Jamar and McKenzie and probably one more as an emergency.

It's a big day for the Scorps who go into their final home and away match undermanned again as a result of Melbourne's huge injury list. Only four Demons out there - PJ, Stef, Valenti and Zomer. As usual, the boys will give it their all. Good luck guys!

Unfortunately, the reserves were really struggling for numbers and the result was a predictable slaughter against the top side.

Casey Scorpions 0.2.2 1.7.13 2.9.21 2.10.22

Box Hill Hawks 4.3.27 6.6.42 15.10.100 24.18.162

Goals

Casey Scorpions Clay Wall

Box Hill Hawks Hoegel 7 Renton 6 Parker 3 Conyers Nye 2 Bull Dell Aquilla Marcius Peterson

Best

Casey Scorpions Patti Clay Matheson Wall Aziz McDonald

Box Hill Hawks Cross Kitchin Renton Marcius McGuinness Hoegel

Reported

S Grasser (Casey Scorpions) for allegedly striking J Cross (Box Hill Hawks) in the second quarter

Quarter Time: Box Hill Hawks with the breeze at their backs have jumped to a 17 point lead:

Casey Scorpions 2.2.14

Box Hill Hawks 5.1.31

Goals Matthews Silvagni

Half Time: Casey fought back in the second term and trail by just 8 points at the main break.

Casey Scorpions 2.2.14 6.3.39

Box Hill Hawks 5.1.31 7.5.47

Goals Silvagni 2 Chivers MacReadie Matthews Waite

Ben MacReadie, James Wall and the skipper Kyle Matthews the best for Casey.

Three Quarter Time: Box Hill broke away to a handy 27 point lead at the final break with former Demin Adem Yze showing his old class and youngster Jordan Lisle having 5 goals to this stage. Hawk Mark Williams booted three goals in the third quarter. James Taylor kicked two for the visitors.

Casey Scorpions 2.2.14 6.3.39 9.3.57

Box Hill Hawks 5.1.31 7.5.47 13.6.94

Goals Silvagni Taylor Waite 2 Chivers MacReadie Matthews

Kyle Matthews had a big quarter with a dozen touches while Paul Johnson and Shane Valenti best of the Dees.

I'm not sure which is the worst way to lose a game - a thrashing like the one suffered by the ressies or a 1 point loss which is the way Casey seniors went down today. A pretty courageous effort from a team that was yet again undermanned although in the end, it didn't make much difference because the Northern Bullant won their game which meant that either way Casey would finish in the bottom half of the eight. The day was also soured by the report to Pierce Liddle who earlier in the week was invited to the Northern Territory draft screening camp to be held in ealy October.

Casey Scorpions 2.2.14 6.3.39 9.3.57 14.5.89

Box Hill Hawks 5.1.31 7.5.47 12.10.82 13.12.90

Goals

Casey Scorpions McGough Silvagni Taylor Waite 2 Chivers Liddle MacReadie Martin Matthews Smith

Box Hill Hawks Lisle 5 Williams 3 Curnow Fagan Iles Suckling Taylor

Best

Casey Scorpions MacReadie Panozza Chivers Matthews Faulks Wall

Box Hill Hawks Lisle Williams Markovic Whitecross Curnow Tuck

Reported Pierce Liddle (Casey Scorpions) for allegedly charging Edward Curnow (Box Hill Hawks)

Melbourne player stats:-

Paul Johnson 11 kicks 6 handballs 1 mark 2 tackles 28 hit outs

Stefan Martin 3 kicks 9 handballs 4 marks 1 tackle 1 goal

Shane Valenti 6 kicks 10 handballs 4 marks 3 tackles

Trent Zomer 2 kicks 2 handballs 2 marks

You gotta love the Scorps. Fantastic effort from them in the last 6-8 weeks with so few of their MFC players available, and not a significant contribution from any who played against Box Hill by the look of it.

KC, do you have any idea how many Dees have qualified to help you guys out in the finals?

And did Newton not play? He wasn't in the Dees (was he emergency?), he's not on the injury list.

Edited August 30, 200916 yr by Akum

top effort from the boys, and casey i agree, i cant decide which is a worse way to lose, 140 points or 1 point...

my gut tells me 1 point at the death is much worse. but it is good to hear that other results mean this result will not affect the scorps final standing.

go scorps in the finals.

deanox from krakow.