{"id":70170,"date":"2025-08-15T12:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70170\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T12:12:07","slug":"saints-hold-off-bombers-in-thriller-to-extend-winning-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/70170\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints hold off Bombers in thriller to extend winning run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Saints have held on to beat the Bombers in a thriller\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                            By Phoebe McWilliams at Marvel Stadium\n                            <\/p>\n<p>                                Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera celebrates a goal during St Kilda&#8217;s clash against Essendon in round 23, 2025. Picture: AFL Photos<\/p>\n<p>ST KILDA has claimed a fourth straight win, holding off Essendon by two points in a thriller at Marvel Stadium on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>In a contest that was close throughout, the Saints claimed an 11.11 (77) to 11.9 (75) victory for their ninth win of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>BOMBERS v SAINTS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afl.com.au\/afl\/matches\/7154\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Full match coverage and stats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The loss was the Bombers&#8217; 11th straight as their tough finish to the season continued.<\/p>\n<p>Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera (24 disposals and a goal) starred again for the Saints, while Jack Steele (27 and seven clearances) and Rowan Marshall (18 and a goal) were good.<\/p>\n<p>Mason Redman (36 disposals) and Andrew McGrath (35) led the way for the injury-hit Bombers, with the former missing with a flying shot from outside 50 with just seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>More to come<\/p>\n<p>ESSENDON\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.2\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a05.6\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a08.7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a011.9 (75)<br \/>ST KILDA\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a01.3\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a05.5\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a09.7\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a011.11 (77) \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GOALS<br \/>Essendon: McMahon 3, Perkins 2, Langford 2, Wright, Unwin, Menzie, Lual<br \/>St Kilda: Sharman 3, Higgins 3, Wood 2, Wilson, Wanganeen-Milera, Marshall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Saints have held on to beat the Bombers in a thriller By Phoebe McWilliams at Marvel Stadium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":["post-70170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70170","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=70170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}