2025 VFL Round 2: Box Hill v North Melbourne Reserves

This is the match report for the match played on 29 March 2025 between Box Hill and North Melbourne Reserves during round 2 of the 2025 VFL season. Box Hill hosted North Melbourne Reserves at Box Hill City Oval. Callum Porter captained the hosts with Stuart Horner as vice-captain. Darcy MacPherson captained the visitors. The hosts were coached by Zane Littlejohn and the visitors were coached by Tom Lynch.

As a result of this match, Box Hill were then 4th on the ladder (up from 8th) and North Melbourne Reserves were then 13th on the ladder (down from 9th) by the end of the round.

Match Details

Season: 2025 VFL Season
Round: Round 2
Teams: Box Hill v North Melbourne Reserves
Date: Saturday 29 March 2025
Time: 2:05 PM
Venue: Box Hill City Oval

Match Results

Outcome: Box Hill def. North Melbourne Reserves
Score: 14.8.92 - 12.11.83

Quarter Breakdown

	Q1			Q2			Q3			Q4			Final
Box Hill	1	.	4	6	.	4	9	.	5	14	.	8	14	.	8	(92)
North Melbourne Reserves	4	.	3	6	.	6	11	.	10	12	.	11	12	.	11	(83)
Margin	NMLR by 17			NMLR by 2			NMLR by 17			BOXH by 9			BOXH by 9
Duration	26:18			30:46			31:54			29:42			1:58:40

Honour Roll

Coaches: Zane Littlejohn (Box Hill), Tom Lynch (North Melbourne Reserves)
Captains: Callum Porter (Box Hill), Darcy MacPherson (North Melbourne Reserves)
Vice-Captains: Stuart Horner (Box Hill), unknown (North Melbourne Reserves)

Player Statistics

Box Hill

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
71	Amoroso, Seb	?	?	0	2	5	3	2	0	0	3	1	?	1	0	0	0
32	Anderson, Cody	?	?	0	1	13	7	6	2	0	3	0	?	0	0	1	2
70	Arundell, Jake	?	?	0	0	7	3	4	3	0	0	0	?	0	0	0	0
58	Bianco, Trent	?	?	0	0	24	12	12	3	0	1	4	?	1	0	3	7
53	Declase, Kye	?	?	2	1	13	10	3	3	0	1	2	?	0	0	0	3
8	Frost, Sam	?	?	0	0	11	7	4	5	0	0	1	?	0	3	2	1
41	Hill, Matt	?	?	0	0	9	4	5	1	0	2	2	?	0	0	1	2
62	Horner, Stuart (vc)	?	?	0	0	14	6	8	4	0	2	1	?	1	0	2	2
44	Hustwaite, Henry	?	?	0	0	38	17	21	3	0	6	12	?	3	1	1	9
42	Macdonald, Bailey	?	?	0	0	7	3	4	1	0	3	0	?	0	0	2	0
27	McCabe, Will	?	?	1	0	8	4	4	3	0	0	0	?	0	0	0	2
21	Mraz, Noah	?	?	0	0	13	8	5	1	0	1	0	?	1	3	4	0
55	Porter, Callum (c)	?	?	1	2	20	14	6	3	0	2	2	?	2	0	0	8
73	Preston, Corey	?	?	0	0	7	4	3	0	0	5	2	?	0	0	1	3
38	Ramsden, Max	?	?	2	0	12	7	5	2	9	3	2	?	1	3	1	1
7	Reeves, Ned	?	?	2	1	18	12	6	3	34	1	7	?	4	2	1	3
26	Ryan, Bodie	?	?	0	0	17	14	3	4	0	2	1	?	0	5	6	1
67	Sammartino, Jack	?	?	1	0	14	6	8	1	0	6	3	?	1	0	1	1
39	Scaife, Jasper	?	?	3	0	8	6	2	6	2	2	1	?	1	3	0	1
29	Serong, Jai	?	?	0	0	23	16	7	8	0	4	0	?	0	1	7	1
65	Stanley, Ethan	?	?	2	0	18	11	7	2	0	2	7	?	2	0	5	4
59	Stefanakis, Andreas	?	?	0	0	6	2	4	1	0	1	0	?	1	1	0	2
54	Ward, Lane	?	?	0	0	15	8	7	3	0	2	1	?	0	2	0	1
Rushed					?
Total (23 players)				14	8	320	184	136	62	45	52	49	0+	19	24	38	54

North Melbourne Reserves

#	Player	Pos.	ToG%	GL	BH	DI	KI	HB	MK	HO	TA	CL	CR	FF	FA	RF	IF
27	Bergman, Miller	?	?	0	0	16	9	7	4	0	4	0	?	0	1	3	2
49	Butler, Louis	?	?	0	0	13	7	6	4	0	2	1	?	1	0	0	1
61	Cappellari, Tom	?	?	0	0	6	5	1	3	0	2	1	?	1	0	0	3
42	Dawson, Kallan	?	?	0	0	11	6	5	3	0	1	0	?	0	1	2	2
18	Dawson, Wil	?	?	0	0	13	10	3	5	0	1	0	?	1	0	4	1
7	Duursma, Zane	?	?	1	0	10	6	4	1	0	1	2	?	2	1	2	3
16	Fisher, Zac	?	?	0	0	9	6	3	2	0	1	0	?	1	0	2	0
40	Ford, Eddie	?	?	2	1	6	4	2	2	0	0	0	?	0	1	0	1
22	Goad, Taylor	?	?	0	0	8	5	3	2	8	1	1	?	0	6	1	2
37	Harvey, Cooper	?	?	1	1	9	6	3	3	0	2	0	?	1	0	0	1
53	Hopkins, Ben	?	?	0	0	18	10	8	6	0	1	0	?	0	0	2	3
64	Keast, Mathew	?	?	0	0	18	10	8	1	0	3	1	?	1	0	2	3
70	Lowe, Oliver	?	?	0	0	18	12	6	4	0	2	1	?	0	0	2	3
50	MacPherson, Darcy (c)	?	?	0	0	23	14	9	3	0	8	4	?	2	3	3	6
39	Maley, Finnbar	?	?	2	1	7	6	1	4	0	4	1	?	1	0	0	2
23	Payne, Geordie	?	?	2	2	7	6	1	1	0	7	1	?	4	1	0	2
51	Stevens, Bode	?	?	0	0	16	9	7	2	0	5	5	?	1	1	1	4
36	Stevens, River	?	?	0	0	8	6	2	4	0	1	0	?	0	0	0	2
79	Tarrant, James	?	?	3	0	9	7	2	3	0	1	0	?	3	0	0	1
43	Teakle, Brynn	?	?	1	4	16	11	5	5	21	3	2	?	2	0	2	3
80	Tomlinson, Adam	?	?	0	0	27	21	6	7	0	1	0	?	1	4	6	3
14	Urquhart, Luke	?	?	0	0	12	7	5	2	0	1	4	?	0	0	1	0
35	Whitlock, Matt	?	?	0	0	27	16	11	7	0	0	0	?	2	0	7	3
Rushed					?
Total (23 players)				12	11	307	199	108	78	29	52	24	0+	24	19	40	51

Legend

ToG%: Time-on-Ground Percentage, GL: Goals, BH: Behinds, DI: Disposals, KI: Kicks, HB: Handballs, MK: Marks, HO: Hitouts, TA: Tackles, CL: Clearances, CR: Clangers, FF: Free Kicks For, FA: Free Kicks Against, RF: Rebounds Inside 50, IF: Inside 50s

Score Timeline

Quarter	Team	Scoring Event	Score			Time
Q1	NMLR	Cooper Harvey behind	0.0.0	-	0.1.1	01:01
	NMLR	Eddie Ford behind	0.0.0	-	0.2.2	04:32
	NMLR	Eddie Ford goal	0.0.0	-	1.2.8	07:12
	NMLR	Zane Duursma goal	0.0.0	-	2.2.14	08:23
	BOXH	Rushed behind	0.1.1	-	2.2.14	12:28
	BOXH	Callum Porter behind	0.2.2	-	2.2.14	15:54
	NMLR	Rushed behind	0.2.2	-	2.3.15	17:17
	BOXH	Kye Declase behind	0.3.3	-	2.3.15	18:31
	NMLR	Geordie Payne goal	0.3.3	-	3.3.21	20:14
	BOXH	Callum Porter behind	0.4.4	-	3.3.21	22:22
	NMLR	Finnbar Maley goal	0.4.4	-	4.3.27	24:23
	BOXH	Jasper Scaife goal	1.4.10	-	4.3.27	26:07
Q2	BOXH	Kye Declase goal	2.4.16	-	4.3.27	00:28
	NMLR	Finnbar Maley goal	2.4.16	-	5.3.33	02:39
	NMLR	Geordie Payne behind	2.4.16	-	5.4.34	03:51
	NMLR	Eddie Ford goal	2.4.16	-	6.4.40	06:56
	NMLR	Finnbar Maley behind	2.4.16	-	6.5.41	09:37
	BOXH	Will McCabe goal	3.4.22	-	6.5.41	10:42
	BOXH	Max Ramsden goal	4.4.28	-	6.5.41	15:57
	BOXH	Ned Reeves goal	5.4.34	-	6.5.41	22:04
	NMLR	Brynn Teakle behind	5.4.34	-	6.6.42	25:17
	BOXH	Jack Sammartino goal	6.4.40	-	6.6.42	28:55
Q3	NMLR	Brynn Teakle behind	6.4.40	-	6.7.43	02:27
	NMLR	Rushed behind	6.4.40	-	6.8.44	04:21
	BOXH	Max Ramsden goal	7.4.46	-	6.8.44	05:49
	NMLR	Geordie Payne goal	7.4.46	-	7.8.50	07:59
	NMLR	James Tarrant goal	7.4.46	-	8.8.56	12:35
	NMLR	Geordie Payne behind	7.4.46	-	8.9.57	17:12
	NMLR	James Tarrant goal	7.4.46	-	9.9.63	18:21
	NMLR	Brynn Teakle goal	7.4.46	-	10.9.69	20:16
	NMLR	James Tarrant goal	7.4.46	-	11.9.75	24:32
	BOXH	Ethan Stanley goal	8.4.52	-	11.9.75	26:31
	BOXH	Kye Declase goal	9.4.58	-	11.9.75	28:27
	BOXH	Cody Anderson behind	9.5.59	-	11.9.75	30:44
	NMLR	Brynn Teakle behind	9.5.59	-	11.10.76	31:30
Q4	BOXH	Ned Reeves goal	10.5.65	-	11.10.76	03:58
	NMLR	Cooper Harvey goal	10.5.65	-	12.10.82	06:53
	BOXH	Ned Reeves behind	10.6.66	-	12.10.82	09:34
	BOXH	Seb Amoroso behind	10.7.67	-	12.10.82	11:54
	NMLR	Brynn Teakle behind	10.7.67	-	12.11.83	15:33
	BOXH	Ethan Stanley goal	11.7.73	-	12.11.83	18:12
	BOXH	Seb Amoroso behind	11.8.74	-	12.11.83	19:21
	BOXH	Callum Porter goal	12.8.80	-	12.11.83	20:05
	BOXH	Jasper Scaife goal	13.8.86	-	12.11.83	21:27
	BOXH	Jasper Scaife goal	14.8.92	-	12.11.83	24:31

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