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Round 9: Box Hill vs Williamstown - Live Score Update: FULL TIME

Round 9: Box Hill vs Williamstown - Live Score Update: 3 QRT TIME

Round 9: Box Hill vs Williamstown - Live Score Update: HALF TIME

Round 9: Box Hill vs Williamstown - Live Score Update: QRT TIME

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@HawkTalkPod @BoxHillHawks So I can’t help but notice almost no media for Box Hill Hawks this year?! Could this be an opportunity for an official partnership? Nick/Tizz: I’m sure you’re flat out, plenty of content opportunities though, surely!

Continuing to recall some of @BoxHillHawks more memorable moments as we count down to our 100th clash with Williamstown on 22nd May; I’ll end this series with a re-post of Game Number 5 of my most exciting Box Hill Hawks games from a few weeks ago. Interestingly Friday night won’t be the first time the White Horses/Mustangs/Hawks and the Seagulls have played under lights – in the late 1950s both the VFA and VFL had a short and ultimately ill-fated experiment playing nights games at the Lakeside Oval, South Melbourne and Box Hill and Williamstown clashed in Round Seven 1957 under the not-too-bright lights that the technology of the era was able to provide. On that occasion, the Seagulls won easily, so here’s hoping for a different result second time around. First Preliminary Final 2018 Box Hill 13.13(91) def Williamstown 13.12(90) at Port Melbourne. The third act of the wild ride that was the Box Hill Hawks 2018 Finals campaign was played out against old foes Williamstown with a berth in the Grand Final at stake. The Seagulls held sway for most of the first half but the Hawks surged late and a long floating kick from Will Hams deep into the second quarter levelled the scores at the main break. Williamstown opened the third quarter with three quick goals to open up a game high 17 point lead but Box Hill was not to be denied. Five of the next six goals were scored by the Hawks, including a brilliant left foot snap by Anthony Brolic from the boundary line, to see Box Hill turn for home with a slender five point lead. When Dylan Moore marked and goaled early in the last quarter, it seemed the Hawks were slowly gaining control. But Williamstown was not done with yet, scoring two of the next three goals to narrow the margin to 3 points. Frustratingly Box Hill controlled the play for the next ten minutes but could only add five consecutive behinds, stretching the Hawks lead to 8 points. As often happens under these circumstances, the Seagulls swept forwards once to goal at the 26 minute mark and narrow the margin to 2 points. There followed some desperate defensive acts by Box Hill but Williamstown managed to beat the zone defence one last time and their forward Thorpe marked 30 metres out in the right forward pocket. His set shot was narrow and missed by a whisker. As Conor Glass took the kick in for Box Hill the siren sounded, handing the Hawks a memorable one point victory and a place in its fourth Grand Final in six years.

Continuing to recall some of @BoxHillHawks more memorable moments as we count down to our 100th clash with Williamstown on 22nd May. First Preliminary Final 2014 Box Hill 15.10(100) def Williamstown 14.9(93) at Port Melbourne. Another epic finals clash between the old rivals; this one given a bit of additional spice by Williamstown’s pre-game protestations against the eligibility of Hawthorn ruckman Ben McEvoy to play in the VFL Preliminary Final. The VFL rules clearly stated that, with Hawthorn’s season still alive (and on its way to an AFL Premiership), that Box Hill had unrestricted access to Hawthorn listed players not playing in the AFL so the appeal hearing was dismissed and amounted to naught. This game was tight and tense all day with the Hawks holding a narrow five point buffer at the final change. The Seagulls challenged repeatedly in the final term but when Luke Lowden nailed a beautiful left foot set shot from the boundary line to put the Hawks two goals clear at the 23 minute mark, it looked like the game was close to being safe for Box Hill. Then Williamstown goaled twice to level the scores and was again thrusting forwards when Ayden Kennedy marked strongly at half back to repel the attack; at the same time sustaining a serious leg injury. The game was stopped for several minutes while the unfortunate Kennedy was stretchered from the field. Miraculously from the restart, Box Hill swept immediately into attack for Xavier Murphy to goal on the run at the thirty minute mark. The Hawks maintained the ball in its forward line for most of the remaining time; McEvoy marked strongly more than once to repel the Seagulls and Nik Papadopoulos kicked an “important point” to make the game safe. Lowden scored four goals and Murphy three; but ironically McEvoy was named as Box Hill’s best. Box Hill had qualified for consecutive Grand Finals for the first time since joining the VFA in 1951.

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Continuing to recall some of @BoxHillHawks more memorable moments as we count down to our 100th clash with Williamstown on 22nd May. Second Qualifying Final 2013 Box Hill Hawks 13.8(86) def Williamstown 7.14(56) at Box Hill City Oval. The Hawks march towards the 2013 Premiership started with a tense Qualifying Final win over the Seagulls at City Oval before a big Finals crowd. For three quarters the two combatants were locked in an arm wrestle with the margin between them in single figures at each change. Kicking to the Whitehorse Road goals, Box Hill started the final term with a lead of just three points. During the first eighteen minutes neither team managed to score a major but Williamstown was clearly winning the territory battle – Hawks defenders such as Kyle Cheney, acting captain David Mirra and Tom Gordon desperately repelled attack after attack. Finally, Liam Tobin marked 55 metres out at half forward and, with a slight breeze at his back and ice in his veins, nailed a beautiful set shot. This opened the floodgates. Jon Simpkin kicked long to the goal square; on the wind the ball carried the Williamstown defender for Bryce Retzlaff to mark at the back and goal. Shortly after Sam Grimley marked and goaled twice in one minute and it was game over. Box Hill had outscored Williamstown in the last quarter 5.1(31) to four behinds. Tobin and Grimley both scored three goals but it was Cheney, who had held the defence together when the game was on the line, who was named best for the Hawks. Three weeks later, after a comfortable win over Werribee in the Preliminary Final and leading Geelong from start-to-finish in the Grand Final, the Box Hill Hawks had claimed a second VFL Premiership.

Continuing to recall some of @BoxHillHawks more memorable moments as we count down to our 100th clash with Williamstown on 22nd May. Round Eleven 2012 Box Hill Hawks 12.15(87) def Williamstown 12.9(81) at Williamstown Recreation Reserve. This mid-season game, which had been tight all day, is remembered due to a bizarre finish – a final quarter which inexplicably went for almost 38 minutes and resulted in the game ending in near darkness. A total of nine goals were scored in the final term – five to the Hawks and four to the Seagulls – but without any major delays due to injury or the like it was difficult to understand how the timekeepers calculated that so much time-on was needed. As the time clock passed thirty-five minutes and Box Hill clung grimly to a six point lead in the gathering gloom, ABC Television commentators were heard wondering why the lights hadn’t been turned on and if the umpires had it in their power to request that the red match ball be exchanged for a yellow one. Finally, after what seemed an eternity for Box Hill to cling to its narrow lead, the siren sounded as Box Hill repelled one final Seagulls attack. Amos Frank (4 goals), young defender Dave Mirra and Luke Andrews were amongst the best for the Hawks.

Continuing to recall some of @BoxHillHawks more memorable moments as we count down to our 100th clash with Williamstown on 22nd May. Round Seven 1993 Box Hill 20.13(133) def Williamstown 16.20(116) at Williamstown Recreation Reserve. and Round Eighteen 1993 Box Hill 13.15(93) def Williamstown 14.6(90) at Box Hill City Oval. The Mustangs two clashes with the Seagulls in 1993 were “the tale of two Erwins” – with brothers Mark and Michael Erwin (sons of Mick Erwin) impacting each game in significant ways. In the Round Seven game at Williamstown, Mark Erwin produced one of the great individual performances by a Box Hill player to boot nine goals from the half-forward flank as the Mustangs held sway for most of the game to run out seventeen point victors over the Seagulls. The final home and away game of the season was nip and tuck all day. With Box Hill trailing by three points deep in the final quarter Michael Erwin nailed a long running shot on goal at the northern goals of City Oval from about 50 metres out to give the Mustangs the lead; it was the final disposal of the game as the siren sounded immediately upon the ball being bounced in the centre.

Continuing to recall some of @BoxHillHawks more memorable moments as we count down to our 100th clash with Williamstown on 22nd May. Round Eleven 1989 Box Hill 14.6(90) drew with Williamstown 13.12(90) at Williamstown Recreation Reserve. and Qualifying Final 1989 Box Hill 17.9(111) def Williamstown 14.15(89) at Port Melbourne. Following Division Two Premierships in 1984 and 1986; Box Hill cemented its place in the higher Division and began a steady climb up the ladder. In 1989 Peter Francis joined the Club as Captain-Coach and brought with him fellow Fitzroy players Michael Reeves and Grant Lawrie. In short Box Hill was ready to challenge for its first major division finals berth in three decades. In Round Eleven the Mustangs, with one loss for the season to date, travelled to Williamstown to take on the undefeated Seagulls. While many outside observers saw the task as being well beyond Box Hill; the game was drawn, and the Mustangs emerged with great credit. Paul Bolton (6 goals) and David Buttifant (5 goals) dominated the key forward positions and scored all but three of Box Hill’s goals between them. In the dying seconds Bolton marked in the goal square, only for the umpire to rule he had pushed his opponent in the back. With a final five in operation, Box Hill (third) again found itself facing Williamstown (second) in the first week of the Finals. Again, Box Hill was considered a rank outsider, but trailed by just one goal at half time thanks to its accuracy in front of goal (10.1). With a four goals to one third quarter, the Mustangs edged clear by 15 points at three quarter time, and broke the game open by scoring the first three goals of the final term – to Simon Hogan, Jarrod O’Neill and then a 60 metres torpedo by Matt O’Brien – which opened up a big enough buffer to defend a late Williamstown rally. Paul Bolton, with four goals from centre half-forward, played one of his finest games for the Club and young full back David Banfield played a crucial role by keeping the Seagulls full forward Ian Rickman goalless in the second half. It was Box Hill’s first ever victory over Williamstown in a Final. The Mustangs of 1989 would eventually finish third – equaling its best VFA result to that time – and was only defeated by the two Grand Finalists, Coburg and Williamstown, during the season.

All associated with the Box Hill Hawks Football Club extend their sympathy to Ian’s wife, Carol, and his family at this time. Box Hill Hawks players will wear black armbands in this Saturday’s match against Richmond as a mark of respect.

Ian retained an active interest in the Club over the years and was a regular at our Life Members luncheons and on other home match days where he could often be found watching the game from the South Pavilion balcony.

Vale Ian Bates The Box Hill Hawks Football Club are deeply saddened by the passing of champion Ian Bates; a life member of the Box Hill Hawks Football Club, member of the Club’s Team of the Century (half-forward flank) and an inaugural inductee into the Club’s Hall of Fame

@PaulAmy375 How did Chubba never play VFL footy?

A great VAFA premiership to be celebrated this Saturday, with a 25-year reunion of Marcellin's A Grade title. Marcellin dodged relegation in 2000 over the Old Melburnians affair and rose to the 2001 premiership under coach Simon Dalrymple. The great Bernard Dinneen kicked four.

Read up on how each AFL listed player did in the VFL for @BoxHillHawks last weekend 👇 hawthornfc.com.au/news/2008294/v…

Continuing to recall some of @BoxHillHawks more memorable moments as we count down to our 100th clash with Williamstown on 22nd May. Round Thirteen 1978 Box Hill 25.16(166) def Williamstown 17.17(119) at Box Hill City Oval. Sunday 9th July, 1978 has become a moment in time in the history of the Box Hill Football Club and stories abound of the events of that day. Like the tales of many legends, exaggeration has crept in over the years. Yes, Box Hill had gone 33 games without a win (with a draw in game 29 of the sequence). It has been said that Box Hill, last on the ladder, defeated Williamstown which was sitting on top. In fact the Seagulls were going through one of the periodic down periods in its long history and had fallen to second last on the Division Two ladder. Going into this Round Thirteen match, Williamstown had lost eight consecutive games; it’s last win against Box Hill in Round Four. Box Hill could never go into a game in those days as favourite but it would have known that playing Williamstown on its home ground was its best chance to break the drought. It is true that a television crew from the ABC current affairs program This Day Tonight was at the ground to film a largely sympathetic story about Victoria’s least successful Football Club. Interviews were conducted with Box Hill officials and the general theme was to discover why these selfless individuals continued to front up to help the Club when confronted by defeat after defeat. What was the catalyst of the events that followed? Was it Box Hill realising that this game was its big chance to break the drought? Was it the humiliation of the forthcoming television story that would reveal the Club’s plight to a wide audience? Was it Williamstown being unprepared for the onslaught that would follow? Or was it a combination of all of this? Whatever the reason, the Mustangs hit the ground at a gallop not seen before or since. Box Hill won the toss and the Mustangs kicked to the Whitehorse Road goals with the aid of a fresh breeze providing an advantage of three or four goals. In the opening minutes the teams traded goals. Suddenly the Mustangs exploded and in around fifteen minutes scored ten unanswered goals; during this period Williamstown hardly seemed to touch the ball. As goal followed goal, the roar of the small crowd got louder and louder. The first quarter went 39 minutes as Box Hill goaled again just before the siren. Unbelievably the quarter-time score was Box Hill 14.3(87) to Williamstown 4.4(28); the lead 59 points. With the wind in the second quarter, Williamstown narrowed the half time margin to 8 goals. By this stage word had got around the local area that something remarkable was happening at City Oval and the crowd had grown noticeably. Legend has it that the crowd was 10,000 but realistically the crowd at the start of the game of around 750 had grown to 2,000 or so. The Mustangs effectively killed off the contest in the third quarter; by scoring 5.8 to Williamstown’s 3.1 the lead was stretched to 67 points at three-quarter time. The last quarter was a formality although Williamstown narrowed the margin with the wind at its back. Half way through the final term the long-forgotten chant of “Box Hill – Box Hill” went up amongst the Mustangs supporters on the terraces. Mustangs players were seen to joke and laugh in the final minutes as the celebrations started early, gifting Williamstown consolation goals. For a few seconds silence greeted the sound of the final siren confirming a 47 point victory; it seemed that the crowd was stunned by what had occurred. Then wild cheering broke out as Coach Keith Smith and the interchange players ran onto the ground. The group lifted Captain Keith Ralph (7 goals) to their shoulders and chaired him off, singing the Club song as they walked up the race. Surrounded by members and supporters, the song was sung again in the rooms as it had never been sung before. At last the long drought was over; 721 days – just nine days less than two years – after last tasting success, the Mustangs were winners again. Box Hill’s score of 25.16(166) that day remains its all-time high against Williamstown and it’s first quarter score of 14.3(87) is still the Club record across 75 seasons of VFA/VFL football.

The injury update you've all been waiting for... 😅 🔗 hawthornfc.com.au/news/2008289

Congratulations to Bodie Ryan on making his debut for the Hawks on Thursday night against the Dockers!