Full match coverage and stats<\/a><\/p>\nThe Crows’ third win on the trot improved their record to 5-2, while the Swans slipped to 4-3 on the back of their third loss in a row.<\/p>\n
With Adelaide clinging to a six-point three-quarter time lead, neither side could find a goal in a tense final term until Chloe Molloy stepped up with just under five minutes remaining.<\/p>\n
The superstar forward’s second goal of the day set up a frantic finale, with the home side managing to hold out several late attacks to clinch a memorable victory.<\/p>\n
Marinoff was superb in her milestone match with 24 possessions, 14 tackles and seven clearances, as was Niamh Kelly, who led her side with 29 touches and a goal.<\/p>\n
Laura Gardiner was brilliant for the Swans with a game-high 34 disposals and a goal, and was pivotal to getting her team going after a fast start to the home side.<\/p>\n
The Crows flew out of the blocks with the first two goals of the game, including a ripper on the run from Niamh Kelly, with the Irish star in everything early.<\/p>\n
But the Swans quickly ratcheted up the pressure led by Gardiner, who had 10 possessions, five clearances and laid six tackles in a blistering opening term.<\/p>\n
She capped her superb start with a cool set goal that levelled the scores at the first break after she earnt a holding the ball free kick.<\/p>\n
Danielle Ponter converted on the run early in the second quarter, but the hard-working visitors gained the ascendancy, causing plenty of turnovers in dangerous spots, Cynthia Hamilton and Molloy kicking truly to put their side up by five points at the main break.<\/p>\n
Montana Ham’s speed on the wing was a feature throughout and was on show again early in the third term when her run and searching, long ball inside 50 set up Alexia Hamilton’s goal.<\/p>\n
Little separated the sides in an enthralling third term, with Anne Hatchard’s ice cool set shot after the siren handing Adelaide a six-point lead and setting up a grandstand finish.<\/p>\n
ADELAIDE\u00a0 \u00a02.1 3.3 6.3 6.5 (41)
SYDNEY\u00a0 \u00a0 2.1 4.2 5.3 6.3 (39)<\/p>\n
GOALS
Adelaide: Ponter, Kustermann, N Kelly, G Kelly, Hatchard, Jones
Sydney: Molloy 2, A Hamilton, C Hamilton, Gardiner, Cooper<\/p>\n
BEST
Adelaide: N Kelly, Marinoff, Newman, Goodwin, G Kelly, Boileau
Sydney: Gardiner, Ham, Molloy, Kennedy, Fish, A Hamilton<\/p>\n
INJURIES
Adelaide: Nil
Sydney: Nil<\/p>\n
Reports: Nil<\/p>\n
Crowd: TBC at Unley Oval\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adelaide has held off Sydney to notch its fifth win of the season By Jason Phelan at Thomas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-174648","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174648","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=174648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}