Port Lincoln football
IN what were perfect conditions and with a great surface at Poole Oval, Marble Range made less mistakes than Boston to win comfortably in quite a good game of football, which was an easy game for the umpires to umpire.
Scott Charman won the centre bounces for the Rangers and it was the Rangers who goaled first after Boyd West, in the back pocket with a good attack on the ball, got the ball to Matt Parker and he slotted it through and moments later Tynan Keeley, with good ball skills, snapped the Rangers' second.
James Bascomb, Arbon and Monfries were early under pressure in Boston's backline when Keeley read the ball well as Boston kicked across goal, and kicked his second goal for the quarter.
With 10 minutes left in the quarter Boston got their act together. Sunny Singh took a great mark that inspired his team as Hywood mark and goaled.
Paul Theodosiou worked hard in his forward line but his kicking for goal let him down.
David Goddard worked hard in the centre area but at the quarter break the Rangers were seven points in front.
Sunny Singh started to work himself into the game but his disposal let him down for Boston.
Matt Parker, after a strong mark in the goal square, kicked the Rangers' first goal in the quarter after Chad Owen missed an easy shot.
Jake Sampson, with exceptional foot skills, left or right, kept pushing the ball into his forward line as the quarter became a dour battle with both sides wasting opportunities in front of goal.
Parker kicked his second goal after some good work from West and at half time Boston hadn't kicked a goal since the first quarter and were giving a lot of unnecessary frees away with silly tackles.
Marble Range, on the other hand, were terrible in front of goal, kicking two goals and five points.
The second half started well for the Rangers with Chad Owen and Zac Calderwood kicking goals.
Paul Theodosiou kicked an easy goal for Boston after Tyler for the Rangers was penalised 25 metres.
Boyd West was pushed onto the ball and had immediate success as he and Jake Sampson combined to get the ball to Tynan Keeley and with a strong mark in the square he goaled.
Warwick Monfries was still trying hard, Sam North had worked himself into the game for Boston, and his captain Rhys Marsh and Adam Hywood were pushing the ball forward but were getting repelled by Levi Smith and Damon Scott along with Ryan Gurtin.
Late in the quarter Paul Theodosiou, after a good mark 20 metres out, missed badly to see the Rangers with a comfortable lead at three quarter time.
The last quarter started well for Boston as Rhys Marsh goaled from a strong mark.
He was once again involved as he got the ball to Theodosiou but he once again blotted his good play with bad kicking.
Chris Brooks took a good one handed mark after a great pass from Zac Calderwood to kick his first goal after working hard all day at centre half forward for the Rangers.
Richard Myers went into ruck while Tyler Dennis went to full back and had a couple of good runs down the ground, driving the Rangers into attack but the Tigers' back line in Paech, Monfries and Arbon were still battling hard for their team, but there was relentless pressure from the Rangers.
Sampson, West and Todd Owen kept pushing the ball forward for Wake and Keeley to combine and Wake goaled.
Boston were still attacking as the final siren sounded to see the Rangers run out comfortable winners.
Marble Range had a number of good players for the day: Scott and Smith in the back lines, Jake Sampson's ball skills were great to watch, Tynan Keeley up forward is a star in the making and the Rangers' three tough nuts in Brayden Calderwood, Ryan Gurtin and Boyd West.
Boston's best were Jack Arbon and Warwick Monfries, who battled hard all day, David Goddard, Adam Hywood, Sunny Singh and Paul Theodosiou who could have been the match winner if he could have kicked straight.
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