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Demons fight back

Dale Fletcher

South’s Bevan Neil tackles Federal’s Jason Wilson Picture: MICHAEL POTTS

FEDERAL have claimed theCentral Australian FootballLeague Premier League minorpremiership with a hard-fought 18-point win againstSouth at Traeger Park onSaturday.

The Demons kicked fourunanswered final quartergoals to run away with a 10.14(74) to 8.8 (56) victory.

South had momentum formost of the match and took a10-point lead into the finalbreak, but simply ran out ofgas.

The Kangaroos, minus keyplayers Toshie Kunoth andDustin Briscoe, jumped theDemons to lead by threepoints at the first change.

But, it was a four goals toone third quarter whichsparked the game into theKangaroos’ favour.

The defending premiers,who were missing BradleyTurner and lost NathanMutch to a calf injury in theopening minutes, rose to thechallenge and peppered thegoals during the final 30 min-utes.

Jai Pumphrey was every-where for the Demons, whileKangaroos captain CharlieMaher again led from thefront, with Caleb Hart a pillarin defence and up forward.

Pioneer gained a mentaledge against Rovers with a16-point win at Albrecht Ovalon Sunday.

The Eagles came from onepoint behind at three quartertime to record a 14.9 (93) to 12.5(77) win.

Both sides will meet again in

this week’s qualiyfing final.

Ltyentye Apurte finishedtheir 2012 season on a high,defeating finals-boundAnmatjere by five points on

Sunday at Traeger Park.

The Saints held a two-goallead at quarter time and nevergave up thier advantage, win-ning 12.7 (79) to 10.14 (74).

Hodgins’s titleDRAG RACING

DAN Hodgins hastaken out the TopComp at the AliceSprings Titles on theweekend.

Hodgins was toogood for Mark Probstand won with a betterreaction time.

Lathan McNicholltook out the JuniorDragster with a 16.20dial-in, to defeatLachlan Cole.

Johnson Berniewon the Street Carevent with a 14.10 dial-in, defeating AshleyTurnbull.

In Street Bike,Darren Savage tookthe honours againstDave McKenna.

Sean Baney wonthe Super Street com-

petition with an 11.10dial-in, to defeatGlenis Wilkins.

Ray Baney won theSuper Sedan section,with a dial-in time of11.29, defeating LennyCole.

Modified Elimin-ator champion wentto Gavin Chisnell,who was too good forNicki Bowen.

Best Reaction Timew e n t t o L a t h a nMcNicholl with 0.002,w h i l e t h e B e s tBurnout was per-f o r m e d b y M i c kPfitzner, Best Pres-ented was GavinChisnell and the MostOutstanding Racerw a s M a l a c h iMcMurtrie.

Leaders show strengthNETBALL

Steve Menzies

Lasseters Seasons’ Ra Schwalger looks to find a teammatePicture: MICHAEL POTTS

THE top three sidesshowed the clear differ-ence in class in theM c D o n a l d ’ s A l i c eSprings Netball Associ-ation A-grade games atthe Pat GallagherCentre on Saturday.

Wests’ Gillen Clubdefeated Neata GlassGiants 51-29 in theclosest game of the day.

There were only 11goals the difference atthe final change but anear-perfect shootingterm by KathlineCarlile, with supportfrom Dani Wenske,when Wests goaled 86per cent of their shots,made sure the pointswere safe.

Better shooting wasthe story of the game asWests’ led 12-5 at quar-ter time despite havingfewer shorts thanGiants for the period.

Giants fought backand performed better inthe second and thirdquarters, winning thepenultimate term, butWests’ always held theedge even though JessJohannsen was restedfor the second half.

Kathleen Carlile,after playing the firsthalf at wing attack andthe third term at goalattack, was moved togoal shooter for the fin-al term.

And shoot goals shedid — 12 of them at 92per cent as Wests’ ran

away with the game.Sundowners Gapview

scored 30 goals or moreagainst competitionleader Federal TrustyGlass for the fourthtime this season.

But they could notprevent Federal fromrunning away with thebiggest win of the day —69-33.

Federal, with TeganHatzimihail in close toher best dominatingform scoring 14 goals at93 per cent, took controlfrom the first whistle

and led 20-7 at quartertime.

Joanna Sheridan andCrystal Dixon took it inturns, swapping at halft i m e , t o p a r t n e rHatzimihail and itmade little differencewho was in the circle asthe goals kept mount-ing up.

Although it was an-other big loss by Sun-downers, they didenough to stay ahead ofGiants by 3.5 per cent,with two games left inthe season, in the battle

for the wooden spoon.Reigning premier

Memo Rovers didenough to overcome theLasseters Seasons op-position and the cold, ast h e t e m p e r a t u r edropped from the day’shigh of 18.1C at 3.11pmtowards the overnightsingle digit.

They won 58-29 in agame where neitherplayed to their poten-tial.

Seasons, alreadywithout key players MaiS e g i a n d S a n d y

Warner, suffered afurther blow on the eveof the game when CodieFord injured her backand could not play.

But the side battledwith what they had and,at times, again showedthe ability to competeagainst the best.

Rovers showed theirclass and, despite KatiePickett uncharacterist-ically missing her firstsix shots, took earlycontrol and, oncePickett regained herusual accuracy, Roverssteamed ahead.

The Rovers defenceof Carlie Martin andGeogia Brunsdon, withcentre court supportfrom Nicole Ashworthand Shannan Rosier,proved a formidablebarrier cutting offmany of Seasons at-tacking moves.

This was especially soin the second quarter,when Seasons had onlyseven shots for fourgoals, so despite the de-fence of Raewyn Bealeand Loata Quami keep-ing Rovers to 12 goalsthe game had slippedaway.

A highlight of thegame was when Roverswing attack KelseyRodda passed the ballbetween the legs ofSeasons defenderRaewyn Beale to setJemma Pringle up toscore the first goal ofthe final term.

Women’s roundproves successRUGBY LEAGUE

CENTRAL Austral-

ian Rugby Football

League (CARFL) had

a successful Women

In League round on

Sunday.

The Austag game

was cancelled due to a

lack of players but the

VIP area, barbecue

and raffle raised close

to $1500, which will be

donated to the Glenn

McGrath Foundation.

Women In League

round sub-committee

member Rebecca

Randall thanks every-

one for their support.

She said: ‘‘It was a

really good day and

everyone I spoke to

had fun.

‘‘Hopefully we can

put on a bigger and

better Women In

League round next

year.

‘‘A big thank you to

Danielle Logan, Jodie

Summers, Karen

Kent, Aaron Blacker,

S h e l l y C a s p a n i ,

Nathan Coelli, all the

local businesses that

got involved and to

everyone else who

helped us on the day.’’

It was the first time

CARFL had a Women

In League round,

which pays tribute to

role women play in

rugby league.

Statistics for the

month of AugustAverage daily max temp: 22.6C

Average daily min temp: 6.0C

Record highest temp: 35.2C on 22/08/2009

Record lowest temp: -4.1 on 16/08/2002

Average monthly rainfall: 9.3mm

Highest monthly rainfall: 114.1 in 1947

Rainfall this month: 0mm

Total rainfall last month: 0mm

Total rainfall this year: 138.8mm

Total rainfall last year: 386.4mm

Record annual rainfall: 782.5 in 1974

Sunrise: 7.01am Sunset: 6.17pm

Outlook issued by the Bureau of Meteorology forTuesday: Fine

Forecast:

Tue 14: 26(1) Wed 15: 28(3) Thu 16: 25(4) Fri 17: 26(3)