Hard-fought win gives Boomers first double

The Eaton Boomers recorded consecutive victories for the first time in season 2020, with a hard-fought win over Donnybrook at Glen Huon Reserve on Saturday. Donnybrook came out of the blocks and skipped out to a nine point quarter time lead, with inaccurate kicking threatening to spoil Eaton’s afternoon, but the Dons struggled to maintain their intensity and endured a goalless second quarter, while improved accuracy gave Eaton a half-time lead. The Boomers maintained their lead for the remainder of the afternoon, with both sides going goalless in a physical and defensive final quarter as Donnybrook looked to contain the Boomers’ run and reduce the deficit. Donnybrook coach Julian Burgess was disappointed with his side’s inability to produce a four quarter effort. “Matt Sporn was probably our best player on the day, Chris Atthowe had a good first half but he died like most of our boys did,” he said. “Sporny was probably the only one that played well for four quarters.” “They really hurt us from the back half, so we just need to tidy up a few things with our forwards and get them working harder on their defence.” Boomers coach Darren Rigby said the win was pleasing as it was his team’s best execution of his style to date this season. “We are starting to play a reasonable standard of football,” he said. “It has been a work in progress I suppose, but we have a desired game style and plan and we have been working on that at training and I think on the weekend was the best we have been able to execute that to this point.“I think we can continue to improve from there.” Rigby was also happy with the contribution of his younger players in the victory, with scoreboard impact from Jordan Falco and Josh Scott a highlight. “I think a lot of our kids stood up,” he said. “Josh Scott went hard at the ball and had good use of the ball, Brandon Janssen played out of the backline and gave good run and delivery off half-back, so that was really, really good.”