The 2025 VFLW Season Summary

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ROUND 12 vs Hawks

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NEW: Kayla Peake, 29, 156, North Melbourne-Werribee/Greenvale

25 EFC games: Ash Melnikas (84 total in the VFLW)
50 VFLW games: El Chaston (40 with us)

As highlighted previously in the Squad thread, emergencies Eden Grant + Madi Spring-Brown + Shauna McElligott are all from the Bendigo Pioneers.

Radio 3DJR was glooming:

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Just in case you thought we had any chance…

BOX HILL HAWKS vs ESSENDON
FIELD UMPIRE: Lachlan “High and Tight” Flinn

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Five minutes of desperate defence; first time we go forward is to a Manfre leading mark. Great tackle by Bernardi and then the pass to Liv.

Goal from 35m

6-0

This is how you kick a footy.

Video at https://x.com/VFL/status/1943848420965270005

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Ump gifts Hawks a goal from zero opportunity. They’ll need to pay 50+ such frees to be consistent.

And yes, it was THAT ump.

6-6

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Peake first game first goal!

Toe-tap in the square.

14-7

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Ava high-tackled, gets the free. I sing WHERE’S HER HEAD UMP!

Still glooming:

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Bernardi goals on the run.

20-7

Though the score was very similar last week!

Video at https://x.com/VFL/status/1943851224689750109

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22-13

You get the feeling the next goal is really important, don’t you Blitz?

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Tia spear to Bernardi!

Wobbler but good!!!

28-13

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34-13

And that’s halftime.

So bloody good; so far moreso than the Norf game, and that was one of our greatest wins of all time.

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Peake on the full from pocket snap.

But Ava cleans up and GOAL!!!

She gets high-fived off the ground.

40-13

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Ava to the square, Liv versus two, GOAL!!!

47-19

Girl oh girl (and them) wowee.

Video at https://x.com/VFL/status/1943867480952164358

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3QT huddle: lots of talk about the Hawks needing to do weird stuff to win. We believe we can get scores from stoppages, and are happy to slow it a bit.

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GOAL!!!

55-33, we win

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That was Jordan’s best game for us by a distance. But…

BEST: Chaston, Jordan, McDonald, Bernardi, MFord, Thompson

Port are not guaranteeing themselves finals…

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A two-headed Tasmanian

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Players to kick a goal on EFC debut:

• 2018 - Alex Quigley
• Danielle Ponter
• Valerie Moreau
• 2019 - Shae Audley
• Ally Anderson
• Freda Puruntatameri
• 2022 - Renee Tierney
• Olivia Manfre
• Makaylah Appleby
• Stephanie Asciak
• 2023 - Caitlin Sargent
• Zoe Hurrell
• Paige Scott
• 2024 - Emily Gough
• Bailey Hunt
• Emily Tassiopoulos
• Christina Bernardi
• Sarah Perkins
• 2025 - Maggie O’Connell
• Grace Belloni
• KAYLA PEAKE