FOR the second round in a row Jeparit-Rainbow faced a top of the table clash, but this time the side came undone thanks to a second-half blitz from Kalkee.
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Jeparit-Rainbow held onto a slight advantage after both the first and second quarters, leading 5.7 (37) to 4.5 (29) at half-time.
Kalkee kicked three goals in the space of six minutes in the second quarter to hold a lead before goals to Peter Weir and Sam Cranna at the end of the quarter put the Storm up.
Daniel Batson kicked two goals for the Storm to start the third quarter, giving the side a healthy 20-point advantage.
From then on it was hard going for the Storm, who came into the clash as the league’s top side.
Kalkee went on a rampage, kicking the last nine goals of the game, with the run starting at the 11th minute of the third quarter.
Jeparit-Rainbow could only managed three behinds in the final term.
Simon Hobbs was prolific for the Kees, and put the game to bed with three goals in the final term. He finished with five for the day.
Kalkee surged to a win which shakes up the league’s top three, taking the victory 13.13 (91) to 7.12 (54).
Kees co-coach Stuart Farr said his side’s second half performance was pleasing.
“They would have considered themselves unlucky not to be further up at half-time but the way we came out in the second half was great,” he said. “The game was up for grabs and to our credit we came out firing. The young guys were really pleasing too coming up against a strong-bodied side.
“They marked well in their forward line in the first half but once we cut their supply down we took over the game. They are a quality side and took us a little while to get on top.
“We were able to lift our pressure in the second half and take it to another level.”
Farr said Simon Hobbs stepped up and players around him followed.
“Hobbs was a bit quiet in the first half but that fourth quarter was one of the best quarters of football I’d seen for a while,” Farr said. “He set the standard and the boys all followed his lead. He kicked five goals for the game while on the ball and just willed himself into the contest.”
Kalkee now jumps into second on the ladder, with Harrow-Balmoral on top and the Storm in third. All sides are on 32 points and separated by percentage.
“Every game is super important and we are all separated by percentage at the moment, so regardless of who we play we have to get the four points,” Farr said.
Storm coach Tim Inkster said he hoped his side had learnt some lessons from the contest.
“We were lucky to be in the game for as long as we were, we were pretty ordinary all day to be honest,” he said.
“They outworked us with their two-way running in numbers. They went inside fifty about 40 times in the second half so it wasn’t much of a response from our boys unfortunately.
“We had to play everyone before we really knew where we were at and we are starting to find out pretty quickly. We were pretty slow and not fit enough so we need to build on that.
“It’s a bit of a wake up call. There was a period last year the side lost a few in a row so we are trying to avoid that. We need to respond against Natimuk United now.”
