THE WINLESS start to the season for Laurimar’s women continued in round 5, going down by three goals to Diamond Creek in cold conditions.
Hosting the second of three Friday night fixtures for the season at Laurimar Reserve, the Power held the early ascendancy, matching the intensity of the Creekers who were coming off the bye.
The usual suspects Tara Dyer and Sarah Campbell were clearly the best players on the ground in the first quarter, but the home side couldn’t capitalise in their forward 50 entries.
The Power trailed at the first break by seven points after a late major to the visitors, and the scoreboard stayed much the same through the middle quarters of the game.
They got on the board with a behind to Rai Chambers in the final quarter, but didn’t put any further damage on the scoreboard as Diamond Creek kicked another to seal a handy win.
Aside from Dyer and Campbell, Rebecca Liversidge played well to put together one of her best games for the season, while Brittany Zahra, Lara Hecker and Courtney Dark also fought hard and were named in the Power’s best.
Laurimar has the bye next week before travelling up Plenty Road the following Sunday to play Whittlesea, who had a bye of their own at the weekend.
The Eagles will host Wallan when they return to the field this week and will be hoping to extend their unbeaten start to the season against the Magpies.
