{"id":285759,"date":"2025-11-15T08:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285759\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T08:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T08:16:10","slug":"melbourne-into-aflw-preliminary-final-as-kate-hore-inspires-comeback-win-over-adelaide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/285759\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne into AFLW preliminary final as Kate Hore inspires comeback win over Adelaide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Captain Kate Hore has booted three goals as Melbourne overcame a 13-point half-time deficit to notch an 11-point win over Adelaide in their AFLW semifinal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Coach Mick Stinear was in tears after the full-time siren sounded on the Demons&#8217; 9.6 (60) to 7.7 (49) victory at Princes Park on Saturday, which launched them into the preliminary final to face undefeated North Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Hore also had 26 disposals, while fellow midfielder Shelley Heath (24 touches, six clearances) and speedy winger Elizabeth McNamara (25 disposals) were also prominent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Defender Tahlia Gillard produced two epic goal-saving chasedown tackles in the second half \u2014 denying Niamh Kelly late in the third, then Chelsea Randall&#8217;s three-bounce surge in the dying seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Ebony Marinoff (27 touches, one goal) and Niamh Kelly (23, one) were prolific for the Crows, who couldn&#8217;t cope with Melbourne&#8217;s relentless second-half pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Dees burst out of the blocks with the opening two goals inside the first four minutes, their outside run causing issues for Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Crows stemmed some of the bleeding and registered their first major in the 15th minute through Caitlin Gould, but Melbourne still had the momentum \u2014 and a 12-point lead \u2014 when Maggie Mahoney snapped truly on the quarter-time siren.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2025-11-15\/the-songs-behind-carlton-hawthorn-aflw-semi-final\/106013354\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Untouched&#8217; or &#8216;Dark Horse&#8217;: The songs behind today&#8217;s semifinal<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Before each game, the sides will blast a song to get their energy up, each emblematic of their seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Adelaide seized control \u2014 and the lead \u2014 with a 5.2 to 1.1 second term, capped by Danielle Ponter&#8217;s strong mark and goal right on the half-time horn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Demons threw Tayla Harris into ruck to start the third, which gave them renewed energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Blaithin Macklin&#8217;s first goal of the season was followed by a brilliant boundary-side dribbler from Hore, which put Melbourne back in front.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The scores were level at three-quarter-time before Hore gave the Dees the lead for good with her third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Gould dropped a chest mark 25 metres out, epitomising a quarter of wasted opportunities for the Crows, who had 13-4 inside-50s for the term but were outscored 3.3 to 1.2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The defeat ended Adelaide&#8217;s run of five successive preliminary final appearances, as well as Matthew Clarke&#8217;s tenure as Adelaide coach with a 65-27 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Captain Kate Hore has booted three goals as Melbourne overcame a 13-point half-time deficit to notch an 11-point&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3443,25914,25912,64,63,6856,6092,24706,16308,6854,647,85],"class_list":["post-285759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-adelaide","tag-afl-womens","tag-aflw","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-carlton","tag-crows","tag-demons","tag-finals","tag-hawthorn","tag-melbourne","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285759","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=285759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}