By Jonty Ralphsmith<\/p>\n
Casey has swept aside Carlton VFL by 108 points in a monstrous win to strengthen its push for a top-10 spot.<\/p>\n
A crucial game for two finals aspirants, the Demons made a statement in a six-goal-to-one second quarter, running out winners 22.18(150) to 6.6(42).<\/p>\n
First-year AFL forward Aidan Johnson kicked five goals, including three in the early stages to help Casey break the game open.<\/p>\n
Mitch Hardie\u2019s sterling season continued, kicking 3.3 from 26 disposals and seemingly involved in most of Casey\u2019s scores, while Luker Kentfield also got scoreboard reward, finishing with four goals.<\/p>\n
In defence, AFL-listed Blake Howes led the way; VFL captain Deakyn Smith played one of his best games of the season and Riley Bonner was typically trusty.<\/p>\n
Losses to North Melbourne VFL and Coburg across the weekend helped the Demons open up a four-point and percentage buffer between itself and North with four rounds to play.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Casey\u2019s VFLW side was beaten 12.12(84) to 3.2(20) against top of the table North Melbourne.<\/p>\n
The Dees\u2019 men will be favoured to beat 20th-placed Sandringham at Casey Fields on Sunday morning, while the 11th-placed women will be searching to close out their season on a high note at ETU Stadium against Port Melbourne on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jonty Ralphsmith Casey has swept aside Carlton VFL by 108 points in a monstrous win to strengthen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-10263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}