ROUND THIRTEEN
Saturday 3rd of June.

PORT 4.5 7.9 9.11 10.17 (77)
GLENELG 3.2 4.3 4.5 5.9 (39)

Glenelg at least battled this one out, without ever really looking a chance to win the match. Simon Nicholas, Ben Moore and Michael Raidis all made their long awaited return from injury, and should be better for the run when the Tigers tackle North at Prospect next Saturday, in an attempt ot get off the bottom of the ladder.
The match report is extracted from"The Sunday Mail."

Corey turns Port's fortunes.

By Doug Robertson.
Port Adelaide worked its way towards better form and showed its best four-quarter touch against wasteful Glenelg at Brighton Road yesterday.
The more methodical Magpies were never seriously threatened during the physical encounter, made more difficult by the slippery conditions and muddied centre square at Glenelg Oval. Port ran out comfortable winners, but the scoreboard probably did not indicate the full control it enjoyed.
That's not to say the Tigers did not stick it out to the end - they did. But poor skills and the lack of a consistent forward target cost the lowly side dearly.
Port's Corey AchChee thrashed high-marking Glenelg spear head David Hams, who was kept scoreless and took his first mark early in the third term. AcChee put in almost the perfect backman's performance with glittering skills more akin to the fine weather of finals time.
The smooth moving SANFL full back quickly eliminated Hams as a scoring avenue, then slipped into his seemingly relaxed yet rebounding form which gave Port a regular springboard from defence. With Nigel Fiegert - who put in his strongest performance of the season - the no frills Danny Morgan, Tom Carr, Paul Northeast and Mark Clayton, AhCee held Glenelg to an embarrassingly low goals score of five - after the Tigersbooted 3.2 in a hard fought first term.
At the other end, Port's emerging full forward Phil Smith did as he pleased.
Bleesed by much better delivery and an abundance of skills, the bulky forward destroyed Glenelg of his own boot. Smith's 5.5 from 13 possesions was almost enough to beat the opposition on its own.
Glenelg was competitive at the ball and Paul Sherwood had a brilliant day out at centre-half back, mostly on the dangerous Brett Chalmers. But the weight of Port's work off the ball provided an abundance of easy turnovers which which turned half chances into cutting opportunities.
It was the hardest that Port had worked of the ball for at least a month. While it was seldom pretty - yet at times polished - it was just the tonic coach Stephen Williams wanted to lift the Magpies out of their usual mid-season slump.
"(Ruckman) Mick Spanagel (18 hitouts) got his hand to the ballin most of the centre contestswhich got us rolling but the desperation which had been lacking a bit lately was back," Williams said.
"Glenelg play a fairly negating sort of game and drag you back a little bit, so it was a good result under those conditions."
Glenelg was unsettled with Mark Harwood (back) and Matthew Shir (thigh) withdrawn late but it started in good passion. Alistair Burke, Ben Moore, Nick Chigwidden and Martin Mellody started with fore in the midfield, but Glenelg had too many talented players who drifted in and out of the play.
Coach Tony McGuinness kept his charges behind closed doors for almost 30 minutes afterwards. The bottom side, Glenelg was well beaten but did fight it out with physical courage.

BEST PLAYERS: Sherwood, Chigwidden, Burke, Golding, Hele, Mellody, Nicholas.
SCORERS: McEntee 2.1, Pearce, Nichloas, Hosking 1.0, Sherwood 0.2, Chigwidden, Cook 0.1, rushed 0.4.
INJURIES: Harwood (back) replaced in selected side by Venables, Shir (thigh) replaced in selected side by Cook..
CROWD: 2112.

RESERVES: Port 8.17 (65) d Glenelg 4.10 (34)
UNDER 19: Port 11.11 (74) d Glenelg 5.4 (34)
UNDER 17: Port 11.8 (74) d Glenelg 5.7 (37)