Round Eleven of 2001 Season

Sturt have punished a lack-lustre West Adelaide combination to the tune of 90 points. Sturt came out firing bombing away at the goals with Stephen White providing a great tall presence and forward pocket Brodie Atkinson always looking dangerous. Sturt's on ball brigade of Damian Squire, Tim Weatherald and Bruce Lennon ran riot throughout the match amassing 104 possessions between them. In the second quarter the Double Blues broke the Bloods' backs by adding 5.5 to 3.3, courtesy of some great drive form the midfield and tough defence led by Dean Woosnam, 29 possessions from a half back flank, consistent contributor Toby Thurstans and the rebounding Seamus Maloney who notched up 21 possessions before going off before three quarter time. Such was Sturt's dominace Brett Howman, who had not scored a goal in his previous 26 games, managed to score a major playing from the back pocket. The half time break did nothing to stop Sturt's run as the Double Blues bombarded the forward line to add 7.7 to West's 1.2. Big Aaron Bishop came on the ground in bursts all day and provided a great presence in the third quareter taking a few good grabs and through consistent teamwork the team provided plenty of scoring opportunities which were capitalised on by players including Julian Burton, Stephen White, Bruce Lennon and Tim Weatherald. The goal of the day came at the 12 minute mark where the ball was being thrown in inside of West's forward 50, Conway tapped the ball to the ball to Andrew Whiteman who played on and handpassd over to Damian Squire who inturn ran to the half backline and handballed over to Michael Curtis, he broke one tackle, sped past another player and handballed to Whiteman again who tapped the ball back to Curtis who then finally handballed to White just outside the 50m line, White proced to have a bounce then run and kick a sensational goal from just inside 50. The final term was a formality but the Blues still piled on the goals thanks largely to a dominating midfield and effective forward line to run out 90 point winners.

BEST

Sturt: Weatherald, Lennon, Squire, Woosnam, Maloney, White, Atkinson, Thurstans.

West: Richardson, Barrett, Pohlner, Howard, Symes.

SCORERS

Sturt: White 5.3, Atkinson 3.3, Burton 3.2, Weatherald, Lennon 3.0, Wicks 2.1, Squire 1.2, Woosnam, Schulz, Howman, Magarey 1.0, Whiteman, Klun 0.2, rushed 0.2.

West: Richardson 5.2, Malinovski 2.1, Mellor 2.0, Symes 1.0, Cassisi 0.2, Hahn, Howard, Hollands, Symes, Pohlner 0.1, rushed 0.1.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
Sturt:	6.4 (40)	11.9 (75)	18.16 (124)	24.17 (161)
West:	2.4 (16)	5.7 (37)	6.9 (45)	10.11 (71)