AUSSIE RULES
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PORT Macquarie Magpies captain Jesse Schmidt booted six goals as the Pies demolished Grafton 31.19.205 to 0.1.1 on Saturday.
It shaped as a danger game for the Pies after other teams in the competition had already put on similar scorelines against the struggling Tigers, but from mid-way through the first quarter the result was never in doubt.
The Pies led by 41 points at quarter time, 83 at half-time and144 at three-quarter time before eventually emerging 204-point victors.
Luke Twynstra kicked four goals, Angus Scott, Craig Dicker and Brice Hayward collected three, while Dylan Beasley, Taylor Stone and Billy Hutton booted two each.
Mark Charalambous, Riley Irwin, Fraser Carroll, James Nelson, Luke Long and Jordan Morris all kicked a goal each.
Coach Anthony Beasley said the most pleasing aspect of the win was that his players didn't get too greedy. They had 14 different goal kickers.
"That sometimes happens in one-sided games, you get defenders up front wanting to kick goals and that didn't happen," he said.
"Grafton were really light-on so it's difficult to talk too much about it."
After coaching for the past three years Beasley said it was easily the biggest win he had been associated with.
"A lot of teams come up against undermanned sides and get blindsided a bit, but we stuck to the game plan and shared the ball around so that was pleasing."
He knows they will face a tougher task when they clash with Coffs Breakers next Saturday.
"If we can get a couple of wins in the next two weeks, everyone might start and sit up and take notice of us, but I'm happy if they don't and we can go under the radar."