Ash Riddell also had her sixth 40-plus disosals game – five of them this season – as the Kangaroos dominated from the start on Sunday at North Hobart Oval and won 9.13 (67) to 3.3 (21).<\/p>\n
North will become the first AFL or AFLW team to win 24-straight games if they beat Hawthorn next Friday night, in the last round before the finals.<\/p>\n
They equalled the mark set by Geelong through the 1952-53 VFL seasons.<\/p>\n
But the win came at a cost, with Vicki Wall helped from the field in the last term suffering a left leg injury.<\/p>\n
Saints mainstay Paige Trudgeon was also hurt in the final quarter.<\/p>\n
Riddell, who set the AFLW record of 45 disposals earlier this month, ran amok again in the midfield and had 42 possessions.<\/p>\n
Jas Garner also starred with 10 clearances and 30 possessions, while key forward Emma King kicked three first-half goals.<\/p>\n
North have kicked at least 50 points in all 11 games this season and boast a whopping percentage of 317.9.<\/p>\n
They have been unbeaten in 25 games since losing the 2023 grand final. The only blemish was last season’s round-two draw with Geelong.<\/p>\n
The loss ended St Kilda’s six-game win streak and put a dent in their percentage as they try to make the finals for the first time.<\/p>\n
They now must beat the Western Bulldogs at home next Sunday to stay in the top eight.<\/p>\n
The Kangaroos rested key players Emma Kearney and Jenna Bruton, given the five-day break to the Hawthorn game, while Ella Slocombe made her senior debut.<\/p>\n
Slocombe was prominent early as North kicked the first two goals and held the Saints to their first scoreless opening term of the season.<\/p>\n
St Kilda upped their workrate in the second quarter and that led to Jesse Wardlaw kicking a goal midway through the term.<\/p>\n
But North kicked four goals to two and the game was over at halftime with their lead at 38 points.<\/p>\n
Serene Watson had a team-high 21 possessions for the Saints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ash Riddell also had her sixth 40-plus disosals game – five of them this season – as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-241313","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241313","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=241313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}