Suns dominate third term to beat Eagles

Gold Coast co-captain Jarrod Witts enactment connected a rucking session arsenic the Suns overpowered West Coast successful the 3rd word for a 37-point AFL win.

After a choky archetypal half, the Suns piled connected six goals to 1 successful the 3rd 4th and won 17.10 (112) to 12.3 (75).

Gold Coast’s Jarrod Witts shows his delight aft scoring a extremity against the Eagles. Credit: AAP

The Suns are 4-3, with each their wins astatine home.

Witts dominated young Eagles ruckman Bailey Williams, racking up 47 hitouts and 10 clearances arsenic Suns midfielders Noah Anderson and Matt Rowell successful peculiar fed disconnected his work.

When Eagles revelation Jake Waterman kicked his 4th extremity 5 minutes into the past quarter, they had chopped the pb to 22 points and remained successful the hunt.

Liam Ryan, playing his archetypal AFL lucifer since circular 3 past season, reduced the borderline to a gettable 18 points with 5 minutes left.

But the Suns replied instantly done Jed Walter to corroborate the win, with some sides kicking 4 goals successful the last term.

While veterans Elliott Yeo and Jeremy McGovern impressed, West Coast were intelligibly astatine a disadvantage without in-form young weapon Harley Reid, who was managed for the AFL’s longest roadworthy trip.

In his 2nd game, Suns youngster Jake Rogers stood retired with 22 possessions, a extremity and 4 people assists.

West Coast bounced the location side, with Yeo mounting up the opening extremity from the archetypal bounce.

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Yeo kicked a extremity himself and Waterman brought up his first, for 3 goals successful 5 minutes.

Witts past stopped the rot, winning a escaped footwear from a ruck contention and putting the Suns connected the board.

While Gold Coast lone managed 1 people wrong 50, they kicked different extremity and trailed by lone 4 points astatine the archetypal break.

The pb changed hands 7 times successful the 2nd word and erstwhile Jamie Cripps kicked his archetypal extremity a infinitesimal aft the agelong break, the Eagles were successful beforehand again.

But that was each for the Eagles arsenic the Suns took power and dominated the remainder of the 4th for a game-winning pb astatine the past change.

-AAP

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