IK’s winning margin no guide to tight contest

TO LOOK at it, with a 104-point margin at the end of the day, you’d have every right to say Inverloch-Kongwak had an easy win over Kooweerup on Saturday at Inverloch.

However, they still had to do all the hard things, particularly as the game was willing in the first quarter, to stop a spirited opposition from getting into the game.

By the end of that first term, IK had a hard-earned three goals to nil on the board, with Nick Baltas opening their account after a nice mark and Lachie Scott linking up with Will Hams for the next but it was Oscar Toussaint who delivered the coup de grace with a perfect tackle at half forward and then a long bomb for a goal to give his team just reward for effort.

Both teams went to the first huddle full of hope and Kooweerup continued to challenge their hosts in an even second quarter, putting on two goals to three to be trailing by four at half time.

Caleb Milojevic and Matthew Voss were providing plenty of drive and their ruckmen were putting in at the stoppages, applying plenty of pressure to IK’s half back line.

It was the same again in the third quarter, fairly even in general play but with Inverloch again adding three goals to two.

There was no sign at all of what was to unfold in the last, a precession of 10 goal eight points to the Inverloch scoring zone against a solitary point by the Demons.