Dan Overeem came within one goal of Dean Hoy’s Tamworth Kangaroos goal-kicking record when he booted 14 majors in a 223-point thumping of Moree at No.1 Oval on Saturday.
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Had Overeem kicked straighter in the final quarter he would have beaten the record.
Kangaroos coach Tony Bishop believes that Overeem may have also beaten the league’s goal-kicking record for a match had he been on target more in the last quarter. That record stood at “17 or 18”, he said.
He said the veteran had six shots at goal in the final quarter but only converted two of them, after kicking 12 goals and no behinds in the first three quarters.
“At 36 years old, I reckon that’s a fairly good performance,” Bishop said, adding that Overeem was the Kangaroos and the league’s all-time leading goal-scorer.
We'll take that win.
- Tony Bishop
“And they’re not a chance of catching him in a hurry if he keeps kicking bags like he has this year,” he said.
Overeem has booted 28 goals in five matches this season.
It was the Kangaroos’ third win of the year, and followed a 169-point away loss to Gunnedah the previous round.
The final score was 37.26-248 to 3.7-25.
Bishop said Moree did not have a bench and fielded “a lot of teenagers”.
But after enduring what he described as the club’s worst start to a season, he said: “We’ll take that win.”
He added: “We needed this win. We were struggling to get a side earlier in the week and we pulled it together.”
In Inverell, the Saints beat the Swans 22.17-149 to 3.10-28. While in Armidale the Nomads downed the Bulldogs 14.9-93 to 9.16-70.