Cable Beach take down rivals Broome Towns in West Kimberley Football League round four

It was a close match between rivals Broome Towns and Cable Beach on Thursday night, May 21 as the two top of the ladder teams clashed in round four of the West Kimberley Football League. Cable Beach’s Sonny Dann kicked the first goal of the night as the two teams went head-to-head at Nipper Roe Oval but Towns’ surged to the lead quickly after with three goals in a row from Chad Burns and Sean Gregory. Adriano Green and Harry Harman struck back for Cable Beach in the second term scoring a goal each, but their efforts were nullified by Towns’ Kade Lines who kicked two within the last two minutes before the long break. Towns continued their surge in the third quarter with Kade Lines kicking another and Riley Duncan kicking two but Cable Beach managed a couple of their own thanks to Jordan King and Bailey Osbourne at the pointy end of the term. Towns continued to add to their lead early in the final quarter with goals from Brayden Tolentino and Geoffrey Saunders. But in a late comeback, Cable Beach pulled out all the stops to kick five goals and take the lead for the first time in the match. King led the charge with three goals to help steal the win out from under Towns by just three points, 10.6 (66) to 10.3 (63). Cable Beach’s King led the scoring for the match with four goals followed by Towns’ Lines on three goals. The Broome Towns and Cable Beach women’s teams also clashed at Nipper Roe Oval on Thursday night. It was a low-scoring first term with neither side being able to break through their rivals’ defence to make a major score. However Cable Beach entered the first break ahead by two points. Cable Beach’s Prue Davies scored the first goal of the night in the second term to push her side into the lead, but Towns’ Imogen Greenhalgh scored one of her own later in the term to keep the score neck and neck, 1.4 (10) to 1.3 (9). The play opened up in the third quarter with Cable Beach’s Leja Roe leading a scoring charge with two goals with Davis, Katherine Dann and Isobel Varney backing her up with one goal each. Towns’ Hayley Crute also scored but Cable Beach exited the term with a 25-point lead. In the final term the scoring ground to a halt with neither side able to score a goal, leaving Cable Beach to take home a solid win, 6.6 (42) to 2.6 (18). Cable Beach’s Davies and Roe led the goal-scoring for the match with two goals each while Crute and Greenhalgh led the scoring for Towns with one goal each.