House benefit within the remaining spherical causes devastation for the Tassie Tigers and elation for the Brisbane Blaze, as the ultimate spots are booked for this weekend’s Street to Hobart finals sequence.
Right here’s the way it went down within the remaining spherical.
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HC MELBOURNE
Aisling Utri’s double within the third quarter was sufficient to seal a 2-0 win over the Tassie Tigers however her heroics got here slightly too late for HC Melbourne, who couldn’t surpass NSW Satisfaction on the ladies’s standings to leap from fifth spot and safe the final finals place in Hobart. It’s a case of de ja vu for Melbourne, who simply missed out on a spot within the finals in 2023. They end up the season with three wins in seven matches.
Melbourne shook up the boys’s competitors a match later with a dominant 6-3 win over the Tassie Tigers. The three-goal differential noticed Tassie pack their luggage and exit the competitors, whereas Melbourne jumped Perth to finish the common spherical in second on the standings and arrange a semi-final berth towards the WA outfit. Ben White’s double opened and closed the scoring on an evening the place Melbourne fired, as he shot up the goal-scoring leaderboard to finish the common season with 5 objectives. Cooper Burns’s aim off the penalty nook within the second quarter handed him his fourth aim of the season earlier than the crew heads to Hobart this weekend.
TASSIE TIGERS
A sensational comeback season for the Tassie Tigers ladies relieved a number of the stress within the remaining spherical as they entered the match towards Melbourne, having secured a spot within the finals. However they nonetheless had all of it to play for as they tried to arrange a beneficial semi-final berth of their house metropolis. The away aspect struggled to get a aim on the board in Victoria which has set them up for a brutal match towards the unbeaten Perth Thundersticks on Saturday afternoon. It’s not ultimate for Tassie, but they’ll have the house crowd behind them as they get pleasure from their first Liberty Hockey One League finals berth.
The house-final dream got here to an finish in Melbourne for Tassie Tigers males, as they crashed to a 3-6 loss towards HC Melbourne and needed to depend on Brisbane dropping their remaining match towards Adelaide on Saturday night time. Tassie hometown hero Eddie Ockenden and Ehren Hazell levelled the scores at three-all towards Melbourne within the second quarter in a valiant bid to save lots of their season, however a firing Melbourne aspect doubled the scores by the forty eighth minute and finally handed Tassie a aim differential that was too nice and ended their season.
HC MELBOURNE WOMEN: 2 (Aisling Utri 36’ & 36’)
TASSIE TIGERS WOMEN: 0
State Netball and Hockey Centre, Melbourne
HC MELBOURNE MEN: 6 (Ben White 10’ & 48’, Craig Marais 17’, Cooper Burns 20’, Connor Tuddenham 38’, Peter Scott 45’)
TASSIE TIGERS MEN: 3 (Jack Welch 15’, Eddie Ockenden 21’, Ehren Hazell 21’)
State Netball and Hockey Centre, Melbourne
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BRISBANE BLAZE
The Brisbane Blaze bounced again from a spherical six loss to document their fourth win of the season with a 5-3 victory over Adelaide in Queensland. Lately retired Hockeyroo Renee Taylor had Brisbane on the board contained in the opening three minutes as they raced to safe second on the standings and a beneficial semi-final berth. However it was former Hockeyroo Savannah Fitzpatrick’s hattrick that noticed Brisbane blaze forward to a 4-1 lead with time ticking on the clock. Hockeyroos star Steph Kershaw sealed the win as they arrange a blockbuster match-up towards the NSW Satisfaction within the second semi-final on Saturday.
Elliot Dale single-handedly did sufficient for Brisbane, with an incredible aim and a conversion within the opening 11 minutes to save lots of the defending champions’ season and guide a last-minute semi-final spot in Hobart. Their 2-0 win over Adelaide was sufficient to see Tassie knocked out of the competitors in what can solely be described as a determined late-season revival for the Blaze. By the top of spherical 4, Brisbane wanted to win all of their remaining matches and have outcomes go their approach, to save lots of a winless opening 4 rounds after a bye. Fortuitously, three wins on the trot and Tassies’ three-goal loss to Melbourne on Friday night time noticed Brisbane by means of to the finals with a semi-final berth towards the desk toppers Canberra Chill on Saturday.
ADELAIDE FIRE
The Adelaide Hearth has had a tricky 2024, with either side dropping their remaining common match by two objectives in Queensland. The Hearth ladies put up a stable efficiency towards the defending champions as their worldwide star signing Margot van Geffen starred within the third quarter in a bid to safe their first win of the season. However it wasn’t to be for both aspect as they each positioned seventh from seven groups to complete their season in final place. Regardless of the outcomes, Landon Morley definitely fired this season within the males’s competitors, ending the common season first equal within the main aim scorer standings with seven objectives.
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BRISBANE BLAZE WOMEN: 5 (Renee Taylor 3’, Savannah Fitzpatrick 39’, 49’, 49’, Stephanie Kershaw 58’)
ADELAIDE FIRE WOMEN: 3 (Zara Pelham 32’, Margot van Geffen 43’ & 43’)
Queensland State Hockey Centre
BRISBANE BLAZE MEN: 2 (Elliot Dale 10’, 11’)
ADELAIDE FIRE MEN: 0
Queensland State Hockey Centre
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NSW PRIDE
Abby Wilson’s hattrick saved NSW finals hopes on Sunday afternoon in Goulburn, because the Satisfaction clung on to fourth spot with their 3-0 win over Canberra. The hockey-loving nation crowd turned out to cheer on the Satisfaction, who confronted a must-win match to safe their place over HC Melbourne, and Wilson began her cost early, scoring only a minute after hit off. The Satisfaction will probably be pulling out all of their shares this weekend as they look ahead to a rematch towards the defending champion Brisbane Blaze within the second ladies’s semi-final of the day in Hobart on Saturday.
Within the males’s match, NSW placed on a daring efficiency to problem Canberra. Miles Davis opened the scoring proper on the buzzer of the primary quarter earlier than Canberra bounced again within the first minute of the second to take a 2-1 lead. They levelled by means of Dylan Downey’s aim not lengthy after but it surely wasn’t sufficient as they exited the season in sixth. It’s been a season of rebuilding for the Satisfaction, who took on a brand new teaching crew final minute and suffered many ups and downs as they now look forward to the 2025 season.
CANBERRA CHILL
The Canberra Chill ladies fell to a 3-goal loss towards the Satisfaction as they struggled to attain a aim of their final sport of the season. With the season all however over and their Finals hopes off the desk, Canberra headed to Goulburn eager for a win to complete 2024. However a motivated Satisfaction outfit prevailed within the nation city at hand the Chill their fourth-straight loss and finish the season for final 12 months’s finalists.
Aiden Dooley’s seventh aim of the season noticed him equal first spot on the main aim scorer standings, whereas additionally securing a much-needed confidence-boosting 3-2 win for his aspect as they now flip their consideration to the finals. Ending the common season on 25 factors, after going by means of the opening 5 rounds unbeaten, Canberra have solely misplaced as soon as in seven matches to safe a semi-final berth towards the defending champions Brisbane who’ve scraped into the finals. In knockout phases although it may be anybody’s sport and so they’ll must rise beneath the stress of a giant event to make the grand remaining.
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NSW PRIDE WOMEN: 3 (Abby Wilson 1’, 40’, 40’)
CANBERRA CHILL WOMEN: 0
Goulburn Hockey Complicated, NSW
NSW PRIDE MEN: 2 (Miles Davis 15’, Dylan Downey 22’)
CANBERRA CHILL MEN: 3 (Hayden Dillon 16’, 16’, Aiden Dooley 39’)
Goulburn Hockey Complicated, NSW
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ROAD TO HOBART SEMI-FINAL MATCH-UPS & TIMES
Saturday, November 30 – Tasmanian Hockey Centre
(All occasions AEDT)
11.00am – Males’s Semi-Remaining 1 – Canberra Chill v Brisbane Blaze
12.30pm – Girls’s Semi-Remaining 1 – Perth Thundersticks v Tassie Tigers
2.30pm – Males’s Semi-Remaining 2 – HC Melbourne v Perth Thundersticks
4.00pm – Girls’s Semi-Remaining 2 – Brisbane Blaze v NSW Satisfaction
