The Eden Whalers seniors provided little resistance to the Merimbula Diggers on Saturday.
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Played at the Eden Cricket Ground, the visitors cruised to a 100-point victory, taking the spoils 17-15-117 to 3-3-21.
Merimbula’s rising rep talent Will Regan was a gun with the boot, slotting five goals for the Diggers outfit on the day, but he was far from the sole goal-scorer.
The Merimbula club fronted four main attackers with Lance Musgrave and Caleb Higgins both bagging three goals apiece, while Ash Postance kicked two.
The Diggers, who are really shaking the senior tree this year, fired out of the blocks to take a 20-point lead over their hosts, keeping the Whalers restricted to just two behinds in the first period.
The Whalers have never, not once, been a club to just lie down and give up and Saturday continued in the same fashion with the Eden club battling for points.
Ben Thomas kicked two for the hosts, while the third goal came from Jack Gray on the day.
Two of the goals came in the second quarter as the Whalers matched their hosts on the scoreboard with Merimbula just nudging ahead by a few behinds.
It was in the third quarter the score began to blowout as the visitors piled on four goals and kept the hosts quiet to extend the lead 62-15 at the three-quarter break.
The Whalers kicked their final goal in the last period, but the Diggers found a second wind and really began piling on the pressure, which translated into nine goals and a series of behinds to close out the game almost 100 points up.
In the women’s encounter, play almost entirely went Eden’s way as the Whalers raced away to a 13-5-83 to 2-0-12 victory.
Kamilla Grubesic was the main destroyer with the boot as the Eden forward slotted a kick through the big posts nine times on Saturday.
Eden mounted surging pressure on the Merimbula back line and goals were scored by four separate players on the day.
Rhiannon Richardson bagged two, while Tammy Whitford and Anna Crawford each slotted one goal for the home side.
Merimbula were able to put two goals through, but just couldn’t return much fire against the overwhelming presence of the Eden roster.
The Panthers had the bye in senior play over the weekend.
This weekend, the Diggers will get the bye, while the Pambula senior outfit play host to the Tathra Sea Eagles at the Pambula Sporting Complex.
The Pambula ladies host Bega on Saturday, while the Diggers ladies take on Bermagui at Berrambool.