Round 2 of the Mortgage Choice Hills Football League sees the Woods travel to Balhannah Oval to play the Onkaparinga Valley Football Club. Round details are as follows:
📅 Saturday, April 13
🏉 Blackwood FC vs Onkaparinga Valley FC
⏰ MC 8.45 am | JC 9.55 am | SC 11.10 am | B Grade 12.40 pm | A Grade 2.30 pm
📍 Balhannah Oval
Balhannah Oval
History book
Blackwood has played Onkaparinga Valley thirteen times at Balhannah Oval since 2006 with a 69.23 winning percentage with the last five at the venue between the sides resulting in Blackwood wins. In the 13 games at the venue between the sides since 2013, Blackwood has scored 146.123 (999) at 54.28% accuracy compared to Onkaparinga Valley who have scored 106.129 (765) at 45.11% accuracy
The largest victory came in Round 7 of 2008 when the Woods defeated the Bulldogs by 93 points with Nathan Mitchell and Jordan Wood kicking four majors each whilst Paul Magarey was named best player. The last defeat to the Dogs at Balhannah came in 2013 when the Dave Benson coached side went down by 29 points on a cold and wet day.
Last five matches at Balhannah Oval
– Round 12 2018: Blackwood 14.16 (100) defeated Onkaparinga Valley 9.7 (61)
– Round 14 2017: Blackwood 8.10 (58) defeated Onkaparinga Valley 6.9 (45)
– Round 6 2016: Blackwood 13.6 (84) defeated Onkaparinga Valley 9.10 (64)
– Round 8 2015: Blackwood 8.9 (57) defeated Onkaparinga Valley 4.14 (38)
– Round 9 2014: Blackwood 19.6 (120) defeated Onkaparinga Valley 9.7 (61)
The opposition
Round 1 saw Onkaparinga Valley record a 31 point away victory over the Echunga Demons. Winning every quarter, the Dogs kicked accurately in front of the big sticks (78.95 percent) with Jake Adcock, Tom Mayo and Andy Vines all kicking three majors. Their better players on the day were midfielder Damian Green, defender Zac Georg-Dent, midfielder Tom Mayo, wingman Joe Beilby and full-back Nathan Cox.
In 2018, the Bulldogs finished in seventh position on the ladder winning four of 14 matches. Across the season they had the worst ranked attack in the competition averaging only 49.7 points (next closest was Lobethal at 53.3) whilst they had the second worst defence conceding on average 87.2 points (only Lobethal conceded more 96.7)
They had 38 different players pull on the Guernsey during 2018 with only four players (Cornish, Dean, Fanning and Friend) play all 18 matches. Their leading goal kicker was Michael Leonard with 25 majors whilst Zac Georg-Dent featured in the better players in 56.25 percent of matches (9 from 17).
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