Glenelg sinks Port Adelaide at Alberton with Luke Reynolds booting six goals in a 35-point win.
Glenelg sinks Port Adelaide at Alberton with Luke Reynolds booting six goals in a 35-point win.
The worm has turned for Glenelg, sending Port Adelaide to SANFL’s bottom two with a second consecutive win full of poise and precision at Alberton Oval on Saturday.
Port has a list littered with AFL performers but it was roughed up by the Bays with Luke Reynolds booting six including four in the final term of a 35-point win.
Glenelg 16.7 (103) struck Port 9.14 (68) with a five-goal second quarter. Mark Stone’s men answered every challenge in a high octane third term that saw Lachy Hosie and Josh Scott boot their third goals in dominant showings.
Kane Farrell’s third, Bill Frampton’s second, consolations from Jake Neade and Jimmy Toumpas for Port were cancelled out by Reynolds’ final term fireworks against his former side.
Deprived of 193cm Jarrod Lienert, Port boss Matt Lokan was forced to move Emmanuel Irra to rangy Hosie while Riley Bonner was employed as a key defender as Reynolds and Hosie ran riot.
Ruckman Billy Frampton (19 hit-outs) offered one positive in a disappointing defeat - instrumental in Port’s first goal five minutes into the second quarter. Port’s best passage of play for the game saw Jake Patmore use his speed on the break from centre wing to find Frampton who booted the host’s fifth. However, Frampton’s display wasn’t nearly enough to keep Port afloat.
Quiet Neade, Aidyn Johnson and Dom Barry weren’t able to demonstrate causes for AFL recalls but Jimmy Toumpas was Port’s hardest worker with 32 touches.
Stone had the luxury of Max Proud, Carl Nicholson and Chris Curran formed a wall across half back that repelled the Magpies all day.
Will Snelling and skipper Steve Summerton prevailed in close but Port was exposed in defence and in transition by the Bays through Nicholson, Zac Hawkins, Tom Schott and Jonty Scharenberg.
Port never recovered from a 0.6 first term from 15 inside 50 entries.
Hosie’s brilliant snap and goal from right forward pocket at the Scott Hodges end contrasted with Port’s first term inaccuracy.
SCOREBOARD
GLENELG 3.3 8.3 12.6 16.7 (103)
PORT 0.6 3.8 5.9 9.14 (68)
BEST
Glenelg: Scott, Curran, Reynolds, Nicholson, Hawkins, Scharenberg, Schott, Proud
Port: Toumpas, Summerton, Snelling, Frampton, Ladhams, Farrell, Patmore, Hewett
GOALS
Glenelg: Reynolds 6, Hosie 3, Scott 3, Bailey, Nicholson, Koster, Ubergang
Port: Farrell 3, Frampton 2, Patmore, Morgan, Toumpas, Neade
UMPIRES — Morgan, Schramm, Sboro
CROWD:1608 at Alberton Oval.