WAFLW Preliminary Final Match Report

Swan Districts gave themselves every chance of a second straight WAFLW Grand Final appearance with a tremendous first half performance on Sunday, but they couldn’t quite maintain it against Claremont.

Swans booked their place in Sunday's preliminary final at Revo Fitness Stadium on the back of a five-point first semi-final victory against reigning premiers Peel Thunder.

The black-and-whites had already played in two of the first three WAFLW Grand Finals as well and led by 15 points at half-time on Sunday on the back of four goals to one in the first half.

However, the Tigers ended up kicking the only five goals after half-time to win 6.9 (45) to 4.3 (27) and book a place in this Saturday's Grand Final against East Fremantle and end the season of Swans.

Swan Districts' goals came from Tara Stribley, Courtney Zappara, Taylah Edwards and Hope Ugle-Hayward.

Ruby Mahony finished with 18 possessions, four marks and four tackles for Swans while Isabella Edgley gathered 15 touches, Jaime Henry 14, Natalie House 13 and Demi Liddle 13 to go with 12 hit outs, four marks, four tackles and three inside-50 entries.

The Grand Final spot was on the line when the game started on Sunday afternoon at Revo Fitness Stadium and while Claremont had the first couple of shots on goal, it was Swan Districts who kicked the first goal.

That came courtesy of Taylah Edwards at the 16-minute mark of the opening quarter before Claremont immediately responded thanks to Katherine Bennett.

Swans added their second before quarter-time, though, when Tara Stribley kicked truly and that saw last year's Grand Finalists lead by four points at the first change.

The prospects of Swan Districts getting to a second straight WAFLW Grand Final then became a distinct possibility with the black-and-whites kicking the first two goals of the second quarter thanks to Courtney Zappara and Hope Ugle-Hayward.

That saw Swans leading by 17 points and they still led by 15 at the main break having held Claremont to just the one goal in the entire first half.

Claremont needed to respond coming out of the main break if they still wanted to reach their first WAFLW Grand Final.

While the Tigers did miss their first couple of shots in the third quarter, a goal to Bennett at the seven-minute mark brought the margin back to seven points.

Then shortly before three quarter-time the Tigers got their third goal of the game thanks to Brooke Whyte and that meant scores were all square with a quarter to play and the Grand Final spot up for grabs.

Claremont then dominated the last quarter starting with a goal to Sarah Garstone that saw them grab the lead.

Ella Slocombe kicked another at the 13-minute mark and then Mikayla Western kicked truly to close the game to give Claremont the 6.9 (45) to 4.3 (27) win to guarantee them a spot in the Grand Final against East Fremantle.

Meanwhile, Swan Districts also took part in the WAFLW Reserves preliminary final on Sunday at Revo Fitness Stadium.

The Swans' reserves just came up short with the Tigers also winning that match up 4.8 (32) to 3.5 (23) to advance to the Grand Final against East Fremantle.

The goals from Swan Districts were kicked by Gemma Hill, Riley Hall and Chloe Spence.