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22 May, 2025
Sharp shrugs off peristant tagger
FOR 30 minutes, there was a real contest in Saturday’s Loddon Valley football clash between top side Bridgewater and Calivil. Mean Machine coach Lachie Sharp was being held and checked by a dogged Lewis Fisher. There were scraps and scrapes and...
FOR 30 minutes, there was a real contest in Saturday’s Loddon Valley football clash between top side Bridgewater and Calivil.
Mean Machine coach Lachie Sharp was being held and checked by a dogged Lewis Fisher.
There were scraps and scrapes and off-line shots at goal as players tried to judge the wind.
Early goals to Henry McCarthy and Lewis Williams actually had the Demons briefly ahead.
They would end the day with two goals each as would Bridgewater veteran Tyler Estrada who kicked his team’s first major.
Sharp had just one goal at the first change. Then Conway, Derrick and Martyn found their grove and Sharp shrugged off Fisher.
The coach had three goals within five minutes mid-way through the second term and was headed to 10 for the day.
Calivil’s defence was weakened when Mitch Stephens was moved into the forward zone, carrying a sore knee.
The Demons did rally with the wind in the third quarter as Sam Green and Jayden Leach continued to put in around the ground. But inaccuracy quickly diminished any chance of a comeback against a more polished Bridgewater. Another bright spot for Calivil was youngster Brodie Wagner who popped up in good defensive passages in the game.