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Very much the normal wind affected game with Sandy scoring the first goal of the half and Matthew Bate responding for Casey. The Scorps are defending well into the strong breeze and if they keep this up they should take the game out.

Half Time Casey Scorpions 1.4.10 4.6.30 Sandringham 4.1.25 4.4.28 Goalkickers Bate Blease McDonald Petterd Half time disposal stats leaders for Casey are James Wall (19), Sam Blease (18) and Matthew Warnock (14).

Sam Blease puts Casey in front.

Only four points in it after a goal to Ricky Petterd.

Quarter Time Casey Scorpions 1.4.10 Sandringham 4.1.25

Goal to Tom McDonald after a 50 metre penalty.

Twenty-five minutes in - Sandy 3.1.19 to Casey 0.4.4.

Sandy with the wind lead 1.1.7 to 0.3.3.

A strong north wind affected the reserves game and will have an influence on the main game. Sandy has plenty of Saints including early draft picks in their lineup. Scorps got up to win the Ressies by 26 points after being down at half time. A slashing third quarter saw them into the lead at the last break. A six goal last quarter saw them coast home. Casey Reserves Casey Scorpions 0.2.2 5.4.34 9.8.62 15.10.100 Sandringham 5.4.34 7.9.51 8.11.59 10.14.74 Goals Casey Scorpions Hill 4 Pollard Riseley Waite 3 Carew McShane Sandringham Michaliades 4 Crocker Jones 2 Cahill Jetta Best Casey Scorpions Baumgartner McShane Pollard Riseley Bolton Allen Sandringham Michaliades Ferguson Wade Andrews Smith-Cameron Crocker

SANDRINGHAM v CASEY SCORPIONS Sunday 5th June Trevor Barker Beach Oval at 2:00 PM SANDRINGHAM Backs Waller Walsh Fleming Half backs Eddy Archer Andreoli Centreline Winmar Magner Ferraro Half forwards Irving Stanley Cathcart Forwards Lourey Boland Johnson Follower Koschitzke Gram Smith Interchange (from) Brown* Dore Clarke Crocker Ferguson Gamble Hallahan McQualter Michaliades CASEY SCORPIONS Backs Stockdale Warnock Davis Half backs Lees Mohr Panozza Centreline Bate Collins J Wall Half forwards McGough Petterd Dunn Forwards Maric Cook Fevola Followers Campbell McNamara Blease Interchange (from) Edwards* Fieldsend Gent Johnston McDonald Petropoulos Tynan Waite * 23rd player SANDRINGHAM v CASEY SCORPIONS Reserve Grade Sunday 5th June Trevor Barker Beach Oval at 11:00 AM SANDRINGHAM Backs Smith-Cameron Plostins Mavric Half backs Wade Orr McBain Centreline Grant Andrews Stapleton Half forwards Meehan Cahill Shakallis Forwards Jetta McMahon Newton Followers D Jones De Blecourt Rist Interchange (from) Crocker Dore Ferguson Hallahan Michaliades Sikora CASEY SCORPIONS Backs Corry Salton Bolton Half backs Riseley Hill Dearaugo Centreline Allen Bell Weekes Half forwards Petropoulos Purves Baumgartner Forwards Dowse Waite Lindsay Followers Cleven McShane Tynan Interchange (from) Carew Clay T Costigan Minahan Patti Pendlebury Pollard Purdy

Disappointing finish. Ran out of legs. Casey Scorpions 0.1.1 7.4.46 9.7.61 10.8.68 Williamstown 4.5.29 7.7.49 11.12.78 15.18.108 Goals Casey Scorpions Fevola 3 Howe 2 Blease Collins Cook Scully Stockdale Williamstown Grant 4 Hooper 3 Cordy Jolley 2 Barlow Dahlhaus Hahn Stack Best Casey Scorpions Gawn Howe Collins Mohr Davis Scully Williamstown Mulligan Johnson Stack Jolley Barlow Djerrkura

Willy by 4 goals - hard to won from here.

Last three goals to Willy - Casey 17 points down at 3/4 time. Willy 11.12.78 Casey 9.7.61

A dour struggle with Casey 2 points up.

Stats at half time - Scully & Blease 12 disposals and Gawn 23 hitouts and 11 possessions.

Half Time Williamstown 7.7.49 Casey Scorpions 7.4.46 Fev got in among it late in the quarter and the Scorps were momentarily in front.

Goal to Michael Stockdale. The difference is just 5 points.

Howe goal - 10 points down.

Scully gets the first goal and Cook another but Willy scored one in between.

No positives from the first quarter. Williamstown 4.5.29 to Casey Scorpions 0.1.1

Good to see Tom Scully warming up for his first game for the season even if it's for Casey and not Melbourne. If he's up to it he'll get more than the obligatory half a game that many get when returning from long term injury. In the ressies, the Seagulls ran away with it in the end. Casey Scorpions 4.0.24 8.1.49 9.4.58 13.5.83 Williamstown 5.6.36 10.9.69 19.11.125 23.13.151 Goals Casey Scorpions Waite 7 Hill Petropoulos 2 Bell Purves Williamstown Gray 4 Conway Cravino Kefford 3 Johannisen Morris Purton-Smith 2 Caruso Carr Fogarty Panos Best Casey Scorpions Waite Riseley Hill Bolton Weekes Salton Williamstown Carr Caruso Cravino Conway Rampe Grossman

Some changes to the Williamstown line up made necessay by the withdrawal from the Bulldogs of Ryan Hargrave and Brodie Moles due to injury. This means that Brian Lake and Lindsay Gilbee come out of today's Seagulls' team. In the reserves Williamstown leads 10.9.69 to Casey Scorpions 8.1.49 at half time.

WILLIAMSTOWN vs. CASEY SCORPIONS (Reserve Grade) Saturday 28th May Avalon Airport Oval, Werribee at 11:00 AM WILLIAMSTOWN Backs McCallum Smith Rampe Half backs Tutt Grossman Schofield Centreline Stretton Cravino Johannisen Half forwards Fogarty Skinner Veszpremi Forwards Purton-Smith Panos McHarg Followers Prato Carr Woods Interchange (from) Caruso Conway Giles Gray Hevern Kefford Knight Lawson J Morris Ryan Walters Wilson CASEY SCORPIONS Backs Corry Hill Dowse Half backs Bolton Patti Salton Centreline Weekes Petropoulos McShane Half forwards Riseley Purdy Lindsay Forwards Pollard Waite Purves Followers Cleven Bell Baumgartner Interchange (from) Allen Carew Clay T Costigan Dearaugo Minahan Pendlebury J Roberts

And Peter German wouldn't be [censored] himself. He's a cool customer.

I must add that the VFL reserves fixture is an absolute nightmare to work out. The Casey Scorpions have already had one bye earlier in the season and have a bye this week and again next week. That's three byes in their first eight rounds. They played their first and only home game for the season a fortnight ago when they beat Frankston by over 100 points. Their next two games after the byes are away from home so they don't play their second home game for the year until the mid-point of the season in round 11. The reserves have played five games this year, two of them against the Northern Bullants and, of course, both of them have been away games. Even in tomorrow's practice game against Cranbourne at Casey Fields there's no home ground advantage because the two clubs share the venue although there has been some controversy locally about that because the powers that be want the Cranbourne team to play on ovals other than the main ground. I don't want to buy into that particular issue but it's good to see the two clubs co-operating in holding this game and I wish that there was more of it in the area. The two byes in a row would have severely hampered the return of players coming back from injury like Jordie McKenzie, Robert Campbell and youngsters Troy Davis and Cameron Johnston so it's good to have a local club like Cranbourne coming in to lend support. Over the years of VFL alignments with both Sandringham and Casey, many players began their rehabilitation from injuries in the reserves sides and rather than dump alignments, we will be better off strengthening the local areas and teams in order to improve the standards of our lists and our support base.