Battle royale for top-five spots

With finals approaching in Mininera and District Football League any of the top six teams could win the premiership.

It is a circumstance primed to set up for a great finals program.

Last weekend’s home-andaway games produced wins for Glenthompson-dunkeld, Caramut, Great Western, Lismorederrinallum, Tatyoon and Wickliffe-lake Bolac.

This week Tatyoon has the big job of taking on Great Western, but the Hawks will be full of confidence and up for the contest after handing Penshurst its second loss for the season, albeit by only five points.

Tatyoon came out strongly in the first quarter, establishing an early lead, but Penshurst reeled the Hawks back to go into half time trailing by four points.

Tatyoon held on throughout the second half and secured the win, producing six single goal scorers. Sean Mcdougall collected consecutive best-on-ground honours.

Mcdougall had help from Sam Thompson and William Lawrie and their team will be keen to keep the good run going.

Great Western had another good win at the weekend, this time over Hawkesdale-macarthur.

There was only two points in the contest at quarter time but this was the only time the Eagles came close.

For the rest of the day the Lions gradually pulled away to end up with an 82-point win.

Gerrard Cunningham added another four goals to his tally for the winners, while Jeremy Cronin, Lachlan Malloy and Thomas Cairns did their fair share around the ground.

Penshurst will look to redeem last week’s performance when it hosts Woorndoo-mortlake.

Woorndoo-mortlake is also coming off a loss, to the tune of 20 points, to Wickliffe-lake Bolac.

The Tigers are fighting to keep their spot in the top five and will look to take this game on and show that they are legitimate contenders. Players such as Edward Gubbins, Damian Pemberton and Jesse Johnson all played well last week and will look to do so again against the Bombers.

Penshurst had a slow start against Tatyoon and chased its opponents all game.

The side will be keen to come out of the blocks a bit stronger this week against the good-starting Tigers.

Matthew Rentsch, Sam Weston, and Campbell Watt were all among the best for the Bombers and in a must-win game this week they will want to again perform strongly.

In other games, Glenthompson-dunkeld hosts Hawkesdale-macarthur, Wickliffe-lake Bolac should have little trouble when it plays Caramut, Ararat Eagles travel to Mininera to take on SMW Rovers and Moyston-willaura plays Lismore-derrinallum.