WAFL Round 14 Match Report v Subiaco

Swan Districts earned revenge on Subiaco for the loss earlier this season with Tom Edwards playing the hero with four goals in the last quarter for the two-point victory at Steel Blue Oval on Sunday.

It's remarkable how things turn out and back in Round 7 at Leederville Oval, Subiaco held out Swan Districts for the four-point victory when Edwards was unable to convert a late shot on goal for Swans.

However, Swans and Edwards got the ultimate revenge on Sunday at Steel Blue Oval. It was a fascinating contest all afternoon but in the end it was the four goals that Edwards kicked all in the final quarter that proved the difference.

Swan Districts would end up holding on for the 11.5 (71) to 10.9 (69) victory at home to improve to a 5-8 record on the season to be three games behind the now 8-5 Subiaco in fifth spot.

It took almost 10 minutes for the first goal of the game and that came courtesy of Swan Districts captain Chris Jones. It took another seven minutes for the next goal and that also went to a Swans forward, this time Jesse Palmer.

Subiaco did manage to get on the board just before quarter-time through Ben Sokol despite the close checking of Jehb O'Donohue to cut the Swan Districts lead to five points.

Opportunist Ben Golding snapped quickly in congestion to give Subiaco the first goal of the second quarter to put the Lions up by a point before Jackson McLachlan responded for Swans following a 50m penalty.

Ryan Kemp then extended the lead for the black-and-whites and it was still a 10-point advantage for the home team when Jones added his second of the day just before the major break.

Jones then kicked a third to start the second half to stretch Swan Districts' lead to 15 points. It then got out to a game high 22 with Palmer adding his second shortly after and Subiaco needed to respond.

The Lions did hit back with the last three goals of the quarter including the first two from Koltyn Tholstrup before another to captain Leigh Kitchin to make it a three-point ball game at the last change.

The story of the last quarter then became emerging Swan Districts forward Tom Edwards. He kicked two quick goals inside the first five minutes but Subiaco was able to respond with goals to Kyle Stainsby, Jordan Faraone and Taj Schofield.

That put the Lions four points in front heading into time-on, but Edwards was far from done. He kicked two more goals for Swan Districts in the space of three minutes and that proved enough to secure the win.

Subiaco did get one more goal late which was a terrific kick from the boundary on the run from Schofield, but Swans held on for the memorable two-point victory.

Tom Edwards actually spent a lot of the game up the ground for Swan Districts and even behind the ball for a period, but he went back to his usual role inside-50 in the last quarter and proved to be the match winner.

He ended up kicking all four of his team's goals in the final term to also end the game with 24 possessions and seven marks.

Captain Chris Jones also kicked three goals for Swans with Jesse Palmer adding two.

Aidan Clarke finished with 28 possessions in the win for Swan Districts with another powerful performance in the midfield while Tobe Watson was terrific down back ending up with 26 touches and six marks.

Jarvis Pina gave great run out of the back-line as well with 24 disposals with Jackson McLachlan collecting 22 touches, Lachlan Riley 20, Josh Cipro 20, Anthony Stephens 19 and Jesse Turner 19 as he tried to shake off the tag from Subiaco's Rylie Morgan.

Meanwhile, Round 14 of the Reserves saw Swan Districts and Subiaco play out a thriller at Steel Blue Oval with Swans ending up prevailing 8.6 (54) to 6.13 (49) against the Lions.

Swans came from 13 points down at three quarter-time to kick four goals to one to score the win with Henrick Alforque kicking three goals and Ayden Cartwright two. Mitch Bain collected 34 possessions, Tarir Bayok 21, Cartwright 21, Luke Kelly 21 (14 tackles) and Jacob Sideris 20.

Then in Round 14 of the Colts, Swan Districts went down to Subiaco 15.5 (95) to 10.5 (65) at Steel Blue Oval. 

Otis Harvey finished up kicking three goals for Swan Districts, Harrison Creighton two and Blake Kelly two. Riley Hardeman gathered 26 possessions, Tom Cathcart 20, Kelly 19, Harvey 18, James Sullivan 18 and Chayse Martinson 16 to go with 13 tackles.