{"id":36329,"date":"2013-06-16T23:38:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-16T13:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=36329"},"modified":"2020-12-18T11:15:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:15:52","slug":"saints-scrape-home-against-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2013\/06\/16\/saints-scrape-home-against-suns\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints Scrape Home Against Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The South Burnett Saints are now equal eighth on the 2013 Darling Downs AFL competition ladder after a narrow single point victory over the Chinchilla Suns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

June 16, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

The South Burnett Saints – hot on the heels of testing Premiership favourites Toowoomba in Round 8 of the Darling Downs AFL competition – this week fought back to record a gutsy one-point victory over the Chinchilla Suns.<\/p>\n

The battle between the two newcomers to the competition was fought out at the Suns’ home ground at the Chinchilla Showgrounds on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Saints surged away at the start to lead 4.7 (31) to 2.1 (13) at the end of the first quarter.<\/p>\n

Greater accuracy could have blown this lead out even further and would have prevented Chinchilla making a game of it in the windy conditions.<\/p>\n

But at the main break, Chinchilla had taken the lead: 8.2 (50) to 5.11 (41).<\/p>\n

The Suns went into the last quarter still in the lead, 11.5 (71) to 8.18 (66) with South Burnett clawing its way back to within a goal by a string of behinds.<\/p>\n

The Saints finally hit their target in the last quarter, kicking four goals to Chinchilla’s three and finishing 12.20 (92) to 14.7 (91).<\/p>\n

Goal kickers for the Saints were Adam Bowater 3, Michael Jarvis 2, Brad Edwards 2, Paul Pressnell, Aidan Brennan, Ty Snow, Joshua Miller and Lucas Walsh.<\/p>\n

Best players were Dylan Bowater, Nathan Trace, Alexander Totton, Nathan Emmerson, Jack Lewis-Korver and Ty Snow.<\/p>\n

The Saints’ next game is a home game against Highfields on Saturday (June 22) from 2:30pm at Lyle Vidler Oval in Kingaroy.<\/p>\n