DEER Park coasted to an impressive 61-point win over Hoppers Crossing on Saturday in the Western Region Football League.
Daniel Nelson was a star for Deer Park, booting four majors to be the leading goal scorer on the ground.
He was well supported by Dean Stankovic, Teghan Henderson, Sam Maitland and Luke Summers who also contributed as multiple goal scorers.
Scoring wasn’t as easy to come by for the Warriors, who kicked just one goal in the first quarter and none in the third quarter as the Deer Park defence proved too strong.
Despite the loss, Scott Greenhough worked hard and was named best on ground for Hoppers Crossing in the 17.12 (114) to 7.11 (53) loss.
The Warriors now sit third on the WRFL ladder and will take on seventh placed St Albans this week while Deer Park will meet Sunshine.
THE Kangaroos will be no push over though after a seven-goal final term lifted them to an impressive win against Albion.
Despite remaining in front for the majority of the match, Sunshine wasn’t able to shake Albion for the first three quarters with the lead continually ballooning out past 20, only for it to be reeled in just as quick.
However, something clicked for Sunshine in the final quarter as a scoring blitz blew the game open and secured the 17.14 (116) to 9.9 (63) win.
Thomas Miller proved to be a handful for the Albion defenders throughout the afternoon, booting four goals while Patrick Wiggins contributed with three.
For Albion, Kym Taylor was the only multiple goal scorer with two.
Saturday’s win lifts the Kangaroos to fifth on the WRFL ladder with an 8-6 win/loss record for the season.
They remain two games behind Port Melbourne in fourth.
THE Werribee Race Club is the big winner after Racing Victoria last week announced transfer venues for four Victorian tracks that are unable to host programmed meetings in the short to medium term future.
The affected venues are Moe, Sale, Yarra Valley and Ballarat with the transfers required due to major renovations, infrastructure maintenance and the impact of weather and winter racing.
The decision means Werribee will add an additional two meetings to its already impressive upcoming card.
Punters will be greeted with an eight-race card this Thursday 26 July with the first race set to jump at 12.05pm.
General manager of the Werribee Race Club and Werribee International Horse Centre Ross Kendell said the additional meetings were a great indication that the racetrack was performing well and that the course was an important venue within Victoria because it was able to handle additional meetings when required.
The second meeting will take place on Thursday 23 August.
ROUND 20 of the Footscray Cycling Club’s Winter Road Season was held around the Kirksbridge circuit with birthday boy Dom Dudkiewicz giving himself a present by taking out the A-Grade race.
Early in the contest Ben Johnson upped the pace and put riders into the gutter in an attempt to break up the field. At this time Geelong rider Eric Holt took a nasty fall after his handlebars snapped with veteran rider Bob Shannon and international Malaysian rider Muhammed Suardi both crashing out in the aftermath.
After the front bunch of Dudkiewicz, Johnson, Jason Costin, Tom Paton, Miles DaCosta and Ben O’Leary waited a little while for any riders to catch the remaining riders swapped turns at a high pace for the next few laps, with Johnson attacking on the last lap and Dudkiewicz bridging across. The pair established a 200-metre lead with Dudkiewicz taking the sprint from Johnson and Jason Costin taking the bunch sprint and third place.
