TAMWORTH Swans lit up Muswellbrook's Werraman Field Saturday night as it raced to an 18-point win over the Cats in the first ever Tamworth AFL night game.
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The TAFL competition leaders overran the bigger Cats on their huge home ground to win 8.6 54 to 5.6 36.
In Gunnedah the Bulldogs scored an 88-point win over the New England Nomads.
Stacey Gogos led the way with five goals for the Bulldogs while David Snook (three), Mark Ewington and Richard Kingswood kicked multiple goals.
Shannon Jeffries, Dean Patten, Travis Walls, Dave Pate, Scott Woolford and Jon Middlebrook were best for the 'Dogs while Dion Brooks, Jay Dunne, Michael Spencer, Joel Weber, Tom Perry, Craig Fraser and Russell Strong tried to inspire the Nomads.
The win moved Gunnedah into outright second, one win adrift of the Swans who had too many legs for the Cats.
"Our blokes just wanted the ball and played the ball," Swans coach Garry Harriott said.
"The boys ran as one and out ran the Cats. They (Muswellbrook) didn't have the legs on that big ground. It is a big ground and we just moved the ball wide."
Harriott gave his award to halfback flanker Dane Miller but said Damian Wendt copped heaps but kept going while Nathan Jecks, Luke "Spider" McGrath, Gary Fox, Jason and Patrick Egan were his best.
"That was Nathan Jecks' last game for us, he's heading to New Zealand," he said.
Justin Pallot and Anthony Allwell also kicked three goals apiece for the Swans who now have two weekends off for a bye and then the long weekend.
Cats spokesman Stephen Wain said the undermanned Cats were out-gunned by the Swans in a physical and fiery encounter.
Adam White, Steve Brown, Dave Howard, Mick Baxter and Brian Scott were best for the Cats.
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