Gold Coast Suns thrash West Coast Eagles by 73 points, wins for Geelong and Brisbane as AFLW round two continues

Gold Coast star Jamie Stanton has celebrated her fiftieth AFLW match in magnificent style by kicking six objectives within the Suns’ record-breaking 73-point win over West Coast at Carrara.

The Suns not solely kicked their highest rating within the 15.9 (99) to 4.2 (26) hammering on Saturday, but in addition the third largest in league historical past.

The ultimate margin was additionally Gold Coast’s largest, comfortably surpassing their earlier better of 34 factors in opposition to Sydney final season.

Stanton had not kicked a number of objectives in any of her earlier AFLW matches, but after 12 minutes the previous Lion and Kangaroo had three to her title in a flash.

She headed into the match with simply eight profession objectives and emerged from it as simply the fifth participant in AFLW historical past to kick 5 objectives or extra in a match, falling one wanting Brooke Lochland’s all-time report of seven majors.

Gold Coast kicked the primary 9 objectives of the match, three of which have been booted by Jacqueline Dupuy (19 disposals).

Dupuy teamed up with Stanton and captain Tara Bohanna (4 objectives) to kind an ominous attacking triumvirate.

However the ahead line was not the one space the place the Suns dominated the Eagles, who have been utterly outplayed all around the park.

Gold Coast smashed West Coast in disposals (295-182), contested possessions (141-88), clearances (43-16) and inside 50s (52-18) to make sure the lopsided scoreline.

The defeat was the Eagles’ eighth in a row and the struggling membership has now misplaced 31 of their 37 matches since coming into the competitors in 2020.

Geelong joined Adelaide within the ranks of unbeaten groups, with a 27-point win over the Sydney Swans at North Sydney Oval, 10.8 (68) to five.11 (41).

The Cats blew the sport open within the first quarter, kicking 5 objectives with out reply. The Swans managed to interrupt even for the remainder of the sport, however the injury had been performed.

The guests smashed Sydney at clearances, 36-25, however Sydney managed extra inside 50s (38-34), though they have been unable to transform.

For Geelong, Chloe Scheer booted 5 objectives, whereas Aliesha Newman led the best way for the Swans with three majors.

Within the different recreation, the Brisbane Lions rebounded from an upset loss to Richmond in spherical one, crushing Port Adelaide by 50 factors at Alberton Oval, 11.10 (76) to 4.2 (26).

Dakota Davidson kicked 4 objectives for the Lions, whereas right here teammates Analea McKee and Sophie Conway had two every.

Port Adelaide had no a number of goalkickers for the day.

AAP