{"id":301430,"date":"2025-11-22T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301430\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T12:24:08","slug":"afl-womens-preliminary-finals-scores-stats-results-and-highlights-north-melbourne-kangaroos-def-melbourne-demons-brisbane-lions-def-carlton-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/301430\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Women\u2019s Preliminary Finals scores, stats, results and highlights, North Melbourne Kangaroos def Melbourne Demons, Brisbane Lions def Carlton Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Melbourne has avoided a major preliminary final upset, earning a shot at a second straight flag by coming back to beat Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>And for the third straight year they\u2019ll battle Brisbane for the premiership, after the 2023 champs took care of business against Carlton.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025 AFLW Grand Final is locked in for Saturday November 29 at 7:45pm AEDT from Ikon Park.<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest AFL news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=AFLArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" title=\"www.foxsports.com.au\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WHAT&#8217;S GAMBLING REALLY COSTING YOU? Set a deposit limit. For Free and confidential support call 1800 858 858 or visit gamblinghelponline.org.au.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions were the last team to beat North Melbourne, in that 2023 decider, while the Kangaroos got revenge last year.<\/p>\n<p>Brisbane beat Carlton 10.7 (67) to 5.2 (32) on Saturday night to book a remarkable fourth consecutive AFLW Grand Final appearance.<\/p>\n<p>While the Blues were solid early, kicking the only goal of the first quarter, the Lions kicked seven goals to two in the second half to run away with the prelim.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Kangaroos had won 25 straight games coming into Saturday afternoon\u2019s first contest and were massive favourites to continue their AFL\/AFLW-record streak.<\/p>\n<p>But the Demons led at every change and were threatening one of the great footy finals upsets, on the level of Essendon-Carlton in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the reigning premiers steadied in the last quarter with Blaithin Bogue and Jasmine Garner kicking the match-winning goals, on route to a 6.10 (46) to 5.6 (36) triumph.<\/p>\n<p>The Kangaroos\u2019 26-game winning streak began in Round 3 of the 2024 season when they beat Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Melbourne has avoided a major preliminary final upset, earning a shot at a second straight flag by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-301430","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\/301430","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=301430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}