{"id":963937,"date":"2026-11-14T07:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T07:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/963937\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T07:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T07:52:13","slug":"geelong-ruck-piper-dunlop-stretchered-from-field-in-aflw-semifinal-with-sydney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/963937\/","title":{"rendered":"Geelong ruck Piper Dunlop stretchered from field in AFLW semifinal with Sydney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Geelong Cats ruck Piper Dunlop has been stretchered from the field on a motorised cart in concerning scenes during her side&#8217;s AFLW semifinal clash with the Sydney Swans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Dunlop went down after a head clash with Sydney&#8217;s Tanya Kennedy during the third quarter at Kardinia Park.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">She initially returned to her feet before becoming unsteady and falling on the edge of the centre circle, caught by Sydney&#8217;s Lexi Hamilton before trainers sprinted onto the ground to attend to her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The game was stopped for nine minutes as medical staff gathered on the field, Dunlop eventually leaving the field on the motorised cart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Swans went on to win by 3 points, withstanding a late Cats surge to qualify for their first-ever preliminary final.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Chloe Molloy kicked three goals for Sydney in the 8.2 (50) to 7.5 (47) victory.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Geelong Cats ruck Piper Dunlop has been stretchered from the field on a motorised cart in concerning scenes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":963938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25912,64,63,531494,531492,2475,531493,40356,531496,531495,5096,3899,192488,531497,11094,85,21453,531491],"class_list":["post-963937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aflw","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-blues-vs-hawks","tag-carlton-vs-hawthorn","tag-cats","tag-cats-vs-swans","tag-chloe-molloy","tag-chloe-scheer","tag-georgie-prespakis","tag-head-knock","tag-injury","tag-maddie-quinn","tag-piper-dunlop","tag-semi-finals","tag-sports","tag-swans","tag-sydney-vs-geelong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963937","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=963937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}