Port Adelaide ahead Indy Tahau has set an AFLW goal-kicking file because the Energy upset arch rivals Adelaide by seven factors in a feisty Friday evening fixture.
Tahau slotted two objectives in a 7.10 (52) to six.9 (45) victory at Norwood Oval — the Energy’s first win over the Crows in 4 matches.
Tahau has now kicked 23 objectives this season — essentially the most of any participant in an AFLW home-and-away season.
The Energy dynamo equalled Melbourne’s Eden Zanker’s general season file with 23 majors in 2023, which included three objectives in three finals.
Tahau, a premiership participant with the Brisbane Lions who joined Port in 2022 and a yr later suffered an damage requiring a knee reconstruction, snapped a goal-of-the-year contender throughout a valuable win.
The Energy climbed to tenth on the ladder, only one win behind the seventh-placed Crows, with one recreation remaining earlier than finals.
Adelaide, with Grace Kelly booting two objectives, skipped to a nine-point quarter-time lead, 3.3 to 2.0.
However the Crows misplaced Niamh Kelly to concussion — the Irish expertise left the sphere after an unintentional head conflict in a heated push-and-shove following Adelaide’s opening purpose.
The Crows, led by midfield star Ebony Marinoff’s 10 disposals, had been remarkably environment friendly — they scored from all six of their entries inside their attacking 50-metre zone.
However Port saved in contact on the scoreboard with Tahau slotting a surprising snap when pinned on a boundary line some 30m out.
Within the second quarter, the floodgates opened with 4 consecutive Port objectives in lower than eight minutes of play.
They outscored the Crows 4.2 to 0.3 within the time period, with Tahau once more featured in a scoring spree capped by an Abbey Dowrick purpose.
Dowrick delivered the Energy a 14-point benefit, 6.2 to three.6 on the half-time siren, when one more melee between the rivals ensued.
Port logged the only real purpose in a tense third time period, stretching to a commanding 23-point break at three-quarter time, 7.6 to three.7.
However the Crows, after objectives from Anne Hatchard and Rachelle Martin, snuck inside 13 factors with 9 minutes remaining.
And one other late main from Caitlin Gould decreased Adelaide’s deficit to only seven factors with 90 seconds left, however neither facet scored once more.
AAP
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