KC from Casey

Halftime & Casey trail by 9 points 4.4.28 to 5.7.37 but Box Hill have been well on top with the Scorps lucky to be so close.

Skipper Evan Pannoza reported but not much in it. Box Hill lead by 8 points.

Box Hill 3.5.23 lead Casey 3.2.20 at quarter time.

After breaking away to a 13 point lead, Casey now just a point in front as Box Hill kick two goals.

The Russian kicks the first goal for Casey.

Final score in the Development League game: Casey Scorpions 5.2.32 12.4.76 17.6.108 22.8.140 Box Hill Hawks 0.1.1 2.2.14 6.5.41 8.7.55 Goals Casey Scorpions Hughes 6 Rosier 5 Lang 3 Anderson 2 Boland Corry Clay Meadows Neville Pollard Box Hill Hawks Miles 2 Crocker Eade Frank Goodwin Stewart Wilsen Best Casey Scorpions P Rosier Troutman Hill Roberts Hughes Drew Box Hill Hawks Cunningham Miles Thompson Collins Goodwin Weekes

Scorps well on top in the Development League game. Eleven goals up at ¾ time.

Box Hill Hawks v Casey Scorpions Saturday 24th August Box Hill City Oval at 2:00PM Box Hill Hawks Backs Boseley Litherland Duryea Half backs Wanganeen Cheney Duryea Kelly Centreline Shiels Ellis Iles Half forwards Lock Ceglar Osborne Forwards Spangher Grimley Retzlaff Followers Lowden Langford Simpkin Interchange (from) Cust Exon Gordon Graham Lawlor Mirra Murphy O'Donnell Summers* Casey Scorpions Backs J Tynan Davis Best Half backs L Tynan Sellar Jetta Centreline Barry Nicholls Magner Half forwards Petropoulos Smith Taggert Forwards Jamar Panozza Riseley Followers Gawn Gent Plummer Interchange (from) Corry Fowler Fusinato* Gillies Lang Lindsay Matthews Page Pollard * 23rd player AFL Victoria Development League Box Hill Hawks v Casey Scorpions Saturday 24th August Box Hill City Oval at 11:00AM Casey Scorpions Backs Corrigan Dearaugo Roberts Half backs McInnes Waters Clay Centreline Drew Pollard Corry Half forwards Matthews Lang P Rosier Forwards Troutman Fowler Hughes Followers Hill Boland Lindsay Interchange (from) Anderson Bull Godfrey Hillard Irwin Meadows Rutherford Stark Westrupp

Casey has a tough task ahead of it this Saturday when it travels to Box Hill in the battle for second place and a home final. A loss could see the Scorps finishing fourth and having to play an away final against Geelong. Key injuries, player eligibility and the retirement of Joel Macdonald have left Casey undermanned going into finals

On the subject of qualifying for the finals, by my reckoning there's a fair contingent of players already eligible if six games is the required number to qualify. There are another five who have played five games to date for Casey so it will be interesting to see where the following players are selected next week:- Jack Fitzpatrick, Jordie McKenzie, Cam Pedersen, Luke Tapscott and Jimmy Toumpas.

The Development League game was there to be won with Casey kicking with the aid of the wind in the last quarter. They scored 1.6.12 to 2.0.12 and lost by 5 points. CaseyScorpions 2.1.13 5.5.35 5.6.36 6.12.48 PortMelbourne 1.2.8 3.3.21 5.11.41 7.11.53 Goals Casey Scorpions Fowler Hughes 2 Pollard Riseley Port Melbourne Johnston 2 McTaggart Muling Pitt Thornton Whelan Best Casey Scorpion Lindsay Pollard Troutman Waters P Rosier Riseley Port Melbourne Burstin Muling Papaleo Gordon Hammond Smith

Goal on the siren to Mitch Gent and its all over - a 10 goal final quarter. Casey Scorpions 5.0.30 8.3.51 13.6.84 23.11.149 Bendigo Gold 1.4.10 2.4.16 2.7.19 2.8.20 Goals Casey Scorpions Best Taggert 5 Gawn Rodan 3 Gent Macdonald 2 Bail Page Smith Bendigo Gold McInnes Toman Best Casey Scorpions Magner Gawn Rodan Toumpas Macdonald Best Bendigo Gold Magin Aarts Heavyside Stroobants Kelm Beck Stats: Magner 51 Toumpas 32 Gent Nicholson 30 The team chairs retiree Joel Macdonald off the ground. Pity the crowd here is so small because he deserves to be applauded by more than the handful who turned up to watch today.

Best (also his fifth) scores and the lead is out to 123. That makes it a 9 goal quarter matching Casey's 9 in the final term last week at Frankston.

Rory Taggert scores another (his fifth) to put himself in contention for an AFL debut next week.

Page from a free and a 50 metre penalty puts Casey 105 in front and Joel Macdonald marks to make it 111.

Rodan runs from half back and goals after 5 bounces.

Gawn goals from a free. The lead is now 91 points.

Taggert gets Casey over the 100 point mark with another goal.

Jimmy's putting on a classy display today. Gets the ball often and delivers it well. Make no mistake, he's all class. Joel Macdonald who has had a good game goals from an angle. Casey by 79 points.

First goal to Casey 14.7.91 to Bendigo 2.7.19.

Three Quarter Time: Casey 13.6.84 to Bendigo 2.7.19 James Magner is having a great game picking up countless possessions despite hurting himself during that quarter. He may have been slightly winded because he's back on the ground.

Courageous mark to Max Gawn who passes it to Taggert who kicks a nice goal from an angle.

Best scores his third after receiving a pass from Rodan who had a long run down the ground. The lead is up to 59 points.

Gawn is going through a purple patch. This time he marks and goals to put his team in front by 52 points.

Max Gawn accepts a pass and runs into an open goal for a major. Casey Scorpions 10.4.64 to Bendigo 2.6.18.