{"id":286441,"date":"2025-11-15T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286441\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T15:47:17","slug":"aflw-finals-2025-kate-hore-performance-for-melbourne-demons-against-adelaide-crows-preliminary-finals-equation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/286441\/","title":{"rendered":"AFLW finals 2025 | Kate Hore performance for Melbourne Demons against Adelaide Crows; preliminary finals equation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Melbourne<\/a> has set up a date with the Kangaroos in an AFLW<\/a> preliminary final after a 11-point victory over Adelaide.<\/p>\n

Demons skipper Kate Hore was the star for her side, finishing with three goals which included one perfect grubber from the right pocket.<\/p>\n

Hore’s goal came in the third quarter with the Demons down by five points. An inside 50 came Melbourne’s way with Adelaide’s Chelsea Biddell spoiling the ball towards the boundary.<\/p>\n

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However, Hore gave chase, picking up the loose ball and kicking it along the ground with a banana effort. The skipper then put her hands in the air in celebration with her side one point ahead.<\/p>\n

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Kate Hore celebrates during Melbourne’s semi-final.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

At the end of the third quarter, both sides were even on 41 points.<\/p>\n

The Crows went ahead first with a rushed behind before Hore had her third goal. Melbourne’s Ryleigh Wotherspoon and Georgia Campbell then kicked goals to put the result beyond doubt.<\/p>\n

A consolation goal came late through Adelaide’s Ebony Marinoff with the Demons winning 9.6 (60) – 7.7 (49).<\/p>\n

Maggie Mahony was the second top goalscorer for Melbourne. Marinoff (27) and Hore (26) were top of the disposal count.<\/p>\n

In the other Saturday night fixture, Carlton accounted for Hawthorn easily with a 11.13 (79) – 4.9 (33) win.<\/p>\n

It was a night for the McKays with Sophie kicking three goals while Abbie had 25 disposals. Blues teammate Mimi Hill tipped the possession count with 27.<\/p>\n

Carlton was out to a fast start, leading with 31 unanswered points at the first term.<\/p>\n

Hawthorn managed to fight back and score 16 points to the Blues’ 12 in the second quarter. However, Carlton flicked a switch again, leading 10.10 (70) – 2.6 (18) going into the final term.<\/p>\n

The Blues will play Brisbane in the other preliminary final. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melbourne has set up a date with the Kangaroos in an AFLW preliminary final after a 11-point victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-286441","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\/286441","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=286441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}