“It was a win,” Services captain-coach Kimmy McLean said of the 3-nil result.

Emily Griffiths, Michelle Aslin and Gabbi D’Ambros found the back of the net in a performance that had its bright moments.

“We had some good patches,” McLean said.

“But we were reactive, not proactive.” 

The intensity just wasn’t there.

“We were just a step behind most of the game,” she said.

She said Kate Perrett was good for them along with Heather Carr.

The latter did a lot of attacking.

Tudors were behind from the whistle.

They played with 10 for the first 10 minutes, with Natalie Willis tied up at the netball carnival across at the Sports Dome.

That 10 included a few backing up from second grade with players out injured and playing catch-up soccer games.

With regular keeper Em Jarrett one of those away, Amy Everleigh filled in in goals and did a great job.

“Amy made some fantastic saves and we were only 1-0 down at half-time,” Tudors’ Helen Willis said.

It was a bit of an unlucky goal, they felt.

Willis was pretty happy with their structure throughout the game.

They just ran out of legs towards the end, not having any subs.

“We created some good attacking opportunities throughout the game, building on the good work coming from the defence linking into the midfield,” Willis said.

“We just lacked the finishing up the front.” 

“Sarah Willis and Vicki Miller controlled the midfield well as our defensive midfielders.

“Sarah put a lot of pressure on the Services’ midfield, making some great tackles and distributing well.”

Sophie Littlejohns and Mel Morgan also had great games.

“Sophie was always in good space coming out of defence and marked up really well all game and Mel did lots of running, creating space going forward and defending well,” Willis said.

“Nic Dron was also very solid as usual as attacking midfielder and really hassled the Services attack.” 

Their two 12-year-olds, Dakota Barnett-Suey and Maya Olrich, also both put in a huge effort.

“They will just keep getting better and better,” she said.