Last week, with ball in hand and the goals within range, David Mirra sized up a special albeit negligible milestone. For one of the VFL’s premier backmen, more used to saving goals as opposed to kicking them, six-pointers come once in a blue moon. In his 122-game career Mirra has kicked just the five majors…
You won’t find Lauren Costello’s name in the upper reaches of Box Hill’s VFL Women’s possession winners. She’s yet to kick a goal in 2017 and she’s not a highlight reel specky machine. Yet the wiry defender has come to embody her team’s determination to succeed. Costello is the player who will commit herself to…
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Box Hill’s winning run has crashed to a disappointing end as the Hawks lost their second clash of the season with traditional rivals Geelong by 14 points. The Hawks opened up a 13-point quarter time buffer but the good news stopped there as Geelong wore Box Hill down and took the lead after the half…
The high flying, free scoring Box Hill Hawks have survived a third quarter scare, moving to within touching distance of a guaranteed top-two finish and the all-important home final. In a rich vein of form of late, the Hawks added Geelong to their list of recent scalps, running out 52-point winners on a windswept afternoon…
With back-to-back wins in the bag, the VFL Women’s Hawks hit their blockbuster Round 11 clash with Geelong on a roll. Box Hill and Geelong have long been rivals and that enmity is only stronger in VFL Women’s. Both sides are playing their inaugural season and these clashes will only become more and more anticipated…
Chris Newman has a selection dilemma of the best kind this weekend. The first year senior coach has to balance and fit in a glut of returning AFL listed talent and a spate of well-performed Box Hill listed youngsters in what shapes as the strongest side Box Hill will have fielded all season. Jack in…
Can our VFL Women’s make it three-in-a-row in their Round 11 clash against traditional rivals Geelong? After breaking their duck against the Seaford Tigerettes, the Hawks put together their most complete performance yet against the Cranbourne Eagles in Round 10. Controlling play for much of the match and adjusting to both their opposition and tricky…
WHERE: Box Hill City Oval WHEN: Saturday, 2:10pm COVERAGE: LIVE – Channel 7 from 2pm 3WBC Radio – 94.1FM LAST FIVE MEETINGS Round 4, 2017: Geelong 8.5 (53) defeated by Box Hill Hawks 14.11 (95) at Simonds Stadium Round 11, 2016: Geelong…
The development path of a key position tall is often a long and winding one. For a young forward especially, you’re often at the mercy of things out of your control: ball movement, execution of the kick coming in and the relative physical maturity of your opponent. In these cases the player, coaches, Club and…
