Gippsland Times | Woodside ended Heyfield’s North Gippsland football season in the most serious of ways.

The Wildcats won Sunday’s first semi-final by 65 points, 13.11 (89) to 3.6 (24).

Played at Glengarry, the wind was ferocious, but Woodside withstood that deterrence to run home a clear winner.

Out of the gate, it was still going to take some time to get use to and given that each side’s season was on the line only meant that a true battle was going to come to fruition, giving no inch either way and no room for failure.

Little dents were seen on the scoreboard during this opening term with midfielders tussling about and difficulty shown extending the ball marginally forward afield.

The Kangaroos managed to lay the opening punch that would give them the boosted confidence they would need to knock-off a difficult outfit like Woodside.

The first quarter concluded, through all its turbulence, with Heyfield ahead 1.2 (8) to 0.1 (1). That was a far cry from the Roos’ opening quarter blitz of eight goals to nothing against Sale City the week prior in the elimination final, but for all who watched on given how the day had played out so far, this could just be the standard that was to be throughout.

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