FOR the second time this season, Lockington Bamawm United has scored a 20-plus goal win against White Hills in the Bendigo Bank Heathcote District Football Netball League’s senior footy competition.
In round eight, LBU marked a 133-point win at White Hills.
It was a stronger White Hills line-up which faced LBU in the return meeting, but the Cats dominated on their patch at Lockington’s Nichol Trading Oval.
LBU led 52-8 at quarter-time and held a 69-point buffer by half-time.
An unbeaten LBU showed its ruthlessness as it scored 7.2 and held the Demons to just three behinds in the third term.
Thomas Leech and Anthony McMahon kicked four goals apiece and Jarod Bacon and Patrick Gardiner added three majors each as the Cats won 179 to 45.
The competition’s leading goalkicker, Jed Lamb led the White Hills attack on two goals.
Best for LBU were Jeremy Mundie, McMahon, Liam Main, Leech, Jesse and Brodie Collins.
On a tough afternoon for the Demons, coach Sam Kerridge, Tate Mifka, Hayden Wright, Doolan Nihill, Mat Cox and Blake Hogan were best.
The defeat meant the Demons dropped from the third rung to the fourth.
A seven-goal haul by in-form key forward Dylan Klemm was a highlight of North Bendigo’s victory at Elmore.
Klemm’s athleticism, strong marking and accurate goalkicking trouble the Bloods all match.
The Bulldogs led 41-7 at quarter-time after Klemm kicked three goals in a brilliant start to the contest.
The high workrate and skill of Manny Thalasinos, Aarryn Craig, Harry O’Meara and ruckman Jeremy Lambden at centre breaks and stoppages set up a lot of the Bulldogs’ attacks.
North Bendigo led 66-15 at half-time against an Elmore line-up which strung together great passages of play at times from half-back to attack, but was let down by missed shots on goal.
A list of nine goalkickers for North Bendigo in the 157-28 victory included Aarryn Craig and Jack Francis on three; and Ryan Alford, Jonas Somerville and Zaiyden Richards on two each.
Goalkickers for the Bloods were the hard-working James Harney, Dylan Oaff and Nic Palmer.
Best for the Bulldogs were Klemm, Craig, Thalasinos, O’Meara, Jordan Ford and Ryan Alford.
Matt Nettleford, Zac Laffy, Sam Lees, James Harney, Zack Holmberg and Joseph Harney were Elmore’s best.
Mount Pleasant gun forwards Ben Weightman and Rhys Deacon dominated in the Blues win against Heathcote at Toolleen.
Weightman kicked a match-high seven goals as Deacon, five; and Daniel Whiting, four, capped off the Blues’ dominance in the on-ball and midfield duels.
Mounts showed it has plenty of goalkicking power as 11 players kicked at least a goal in the 175 to 34 victory.
Jack Brooks and Thomas Pain led the Saints attack on two goals apiece.
Liam Collins won plenty of the ball for the Blues to be best afield as Deacon, Jesse Tuohey, Weightman, Adam Baird and Billy Mahony also starred.
Billy Price, Pain, Jack Paisley, Will Long, Joseph Beedle and Brayden Klemke played well for the Saints.
Huntly won all quarters on its way to a 113-38 win against Leitchville Gunbower at Specialist Breeders Australia Oval in Huntly’s Strauch Reserve.
The in-form Ryan Semmel kicked five goals and was again among Huntly’s best.
The Hawks led 66-20 at half-time, but Leitchville Gunbower worked hard to score three goals in the second half against an inaccurate Huntly which added 6.11.
Kyle Hawken kicked three goals for the Hawks as Jaydon Cowling and Jake Semmel added two.
The talented Billy Hawken booted three goals for the Bombers against the Hawks and James Barrat chipped in with two.
Huntly’s best were Kyle Hawken, Ryan Semmel, Tyler Miles, Jay McDonald, Bryce Laird and Jake Semmel.
Billy Hawken, Oskar Smartt, Josh Hawken, Lee Pollock, Nathan McLellan and James Barrat were Leitchville Gunbower’s best.
Colbinabbin had the bye.
Heathcote DFNL senior footy ladder:
Lockington Bamawm United 308 per cent, 48 points; Colbinabbin 178, 36; North Bendigo 131, 36; White Hills 120, 36; Mount Pleasant 118, 32; Huntly 104, 22; Elmore 54, 16; Heathcote 63, 10; Leitchville Gunbower 32, 4.
Leading goalkickers:
58 Jed Lamb, WH; 40 Ben Weightman, MP; 33 Jarod Bacon, LBU; 31 Dylan Klemm, NB; 30 James Harney, E; 28 Thomas Leech, LBU; 26 Shane Harris, NB; 25 Rhys Deacon, MP; 23 Lachlan Collins, LBU; 23 Stephen Tuohey, C; 22 Ryan Semmel, Huntly; 21 James McPhee, LBU; 20 Jed Brain, C; 19 Mitch Dole, WH; 18 Anthony McMahon, LBU; 17 Aarryn Craig, NB; Patrick Gardiner, LBU.
A highlight of next Saturday’s 16th round will be North Bendigo up against Lockington Bamawm United on the Bulldogs’ turf at Hibo Hotel Oval in Atkins Street.
The fierce rivalry between Colbinabbin and Mount Pleasant will be renewed on the Grasshoppers’ ground at Colbinabbin’s M.J. Morgan Reserve.
White Hills takes on Huntly in the Demons’ den at Tint A Car Oval in Scott Street.
Heathcote and Elmore clash at Pigeon Park in Heathcote’s Barrack Reserve.
Leitchville Gunbower has the bye.
Written by Nathan Dole.