Gold Coast star Jamie Stanton has celebrated her fiftieth AFLW recreation in magnificent trend by kicking six objectives within the Suns’ record-breaking 73-point win over West Coast at Carrara.
The Suns not solely kicked their greatest rating within the 15.9 (99) to 4.2 (26) hammering on Saturday, but additionally the third greatest in league historical past.
The remaining margin was additionally Gold Coast’s largest – comfortably surpassing their earlier better of 34 factors in opposition to Sydney final season.
In reality, by half-time, Gold Coast had already surpassed their earlier greatest rating of seven.7 (49) as they discovered themselves on 8.5 (53) and 51 factors away from West Coast, who needed to wait till the seven-minute mark of the third time period to kick their first purpose.
Stanton had not kicked a number of objectives in a recreation in any of her first 49 matches, but after 12 minutes the previous Lion and Kangaroo had three to her identify in a flash.
She headed into the match with simply eight profession objectives and emerged from it as simply the fifth participant in AFLW historical past to kick 5 objectives or extra in a match, falling one wanting Brooke Lochland’s all-time file of seven majors.
Gold Coast kicked the primary 9 objectives of the match, three of which had been booted by Jacqueline Dupuy (19 disposals) who teamed up with Stanton and captain Tara Bohanna (4 objectives) to kind an ominous attacking triumvirate.
But the ahead line wasn’t the one space the place the Suns dominated the Eagles, who had been fully outplayed all around the park.
Gold Coast smashed West Coast in disposals (295-182), contested possessions (141-88), clearances (43-16) and inside 50s (52-18) to make sure the lopsided scoreline.
The chief instigators behind that obliteration had been star midfielders Claudia Whitfort, who completed with 33 disposals (15 contested), six clearances and a purpose, and Charlie Rowbottom who registered 33 touches (24 contested), 10 tackles and a whopping 16 clearances.
Compounding the consequence for West Coast was Eleanor Hartill struggling a concussion and spending majority of the second half on the bench.
The loss was the Eagles’ eighth in a row and the struggling membership has now misplaced 31 of their 37 matches since coming into the competitors in 2020.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
