Round 9 WAFLW Match Report

Swan Districts continued its hot form in the WAFLW competition having now won four straight matches following a strong 29-point victory at Steel Blue Oval against Peel Thunder.

Swans might have lost their opening four games of the WAFLW season, but came into Sunday's clash at Steel Blue Oval having won the past three games against a Peel team that had been struggling in recent times.

The trend continued at Bassendean on Sunday and it was Swans who made the fast start with seven scoring shots to one in the first quarter, and converting those to three goals to one.

Swans went on with the job from there to end up winning 9.9 (63) to 5.4 (34) on home turf on Sunday afternoon.

The victory improves Swan Districts to a 4-4 record this WAFLW season to be just half a game now behind both the third placed Subiaco and fourth placed East Fremantle.

Swan Districts came into the contest on a three-game winning streak and kept that momentum rolling in a dominant start to Sunday's clash with Peel at Steel Blue Oval.

Swans had the first seven scores of the contest including goals to Courtney Zappara, Abbygail Bushby and another to Zappara. Peel did get a goal just before quarter-time through Tanisha Anderson but still Swan Districts were leading by 16 points.

The second quarter followed a similar tune with Swans remaining in charge for much of it but after three behinds, it was the Thunder who kicked the first goal at the 12-minute mark with it coming from Makinley Minchin.

Swans responded with Bushby kicking her second but the Thunder got another just before half-time through Minchin to cut the Swan Districts lead to 13 points at the long break.

Swan Districts pushed its lead back out to 19 points with a goal to Cassie McWilliam to start the second half but the Thunder were staying in touch and got one back with a second of the day to Anderson.

Swans finished the quarter strongly, though, including a third goal to Zappara and another to Bushby to see their lead grow to 24 points by three quarter-time.

Peel did get one back from Holly Bilcich to open the final term but Swans answered through McWilliam and then closed the game with another to Lily Paterson to secure the eventual 29-point victory to make it four wins on the trot.

Courtney Zappara continued her brilliant recent form for Swan Districts kicking three goals from 11 possessions, six marks and three tackles with Abbygail Bushby superb as well with three goals from 22 disposals.

Cassie McWilliam also stepped up to kick two goals from 10 kicks and four marks for the black-and-whites.

Captain Jess Cox finished with 20 possessions as well for Swans with Jaime Henry gathering 18 touches, Hope Ugle-Hayward 17, Ruby Mahony 16 and Kayley King 14 along with four tackles.

Meanwhile, East Perth also downed Swan Districts 8.2 (50) to 2.5 (17) in Round 9 of the Rogers Cup Youth Girls competition.

Swans' goals came from Alana Papalia and Brooke Edwards.