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Port Adelaide has produced 19 magical minutes to sink Geelong by 38 factors and climb to the highest of the AFL ladder.
The Energy weathered an early storm earlier than blowing away the reigning premiers in a third-term blitz of their 16.14 (110) to 11.6 (72) triumph on the Adelaide Oval on Thursday night time.
Port, extending its club-record successful streak to 11 video games, replaces Collingwood in prime spot.
And coach Ken Hinkley’s outfit, with 12 wins and two losses, will hold prime billing for at the very least every week, with the Magpies (11-2) having a bye this weekend.
The Cats (six wins, seven losses) retain ninth spot however might slip as little as twelfth by the top of the weekend.
Port slipped 21 factors behind within the second quarter and have been 13 factors down three minutes into the third time period.
However an inconceivable Sam Powell-Pepper aim – a dribbling effort from the boundary line – sparked a match-defining scoring spree.
Powell-Pepper’s strike was the primary of seven consecutive Energy targets in a 19-minute burst that turned their deficit right into a 30-point benefit.
Port forwards Jeremy Finlayson (4 targets) and Todd Marshall (three targets) have been excellent, whereas utility Dan Houston (31 disposals) continued his wonderful type.
Appearing captain Ollie Wines (28 touches), Zak Butters (23, one aim) and Connor Rozee (25) have been additionally influential.
Geelong’s Gary Rohan additionally booted three targets, all within the first quarter, whereas Zach Guthrie (26 possessions), Max Holmes (24), Mitch Duncan (20) and Isaac Smith (20) have been chief ball winners for the guests.
The Cats, with Rohan scoring his three majors, booted 6.2 to 2.6 in a formidable opening time period.
They usually maintained a 21-point lead halfway by way of the second quarter earlier than Energy, with former Geelong utility Quinton Narkle outstanding, hit again.
Narkle, delisted by the Cats on the finish of final season, was a mid-season draftee by Port and a late inclusion into their crew, changing the in poor health Junior Rioli.
The 25-year-old made essentially the most of his call-up, snapping his first aim in Port colors and having eight disposals for the quarter – he completed with two majors.
Narkle’s preliminary strike was quickly adopted by a Finlayson conversion that lowered Geelong’s benefit to seven factors at half-time, 7.3 to five.8.
Port went 13 factors down within the third earlier than clicking into prime gear with seven unanswered targets in 19 sensible minutes.
After trailing by 17 at three-quarter-time, Geelong crept inside 12 factors early within the ultimate time period.
Powell-Pepper then once more stole the highlight.
With brute power, he shrugged a Guthrie sort out and snapped precisely to set off a ultimate Energy flourish during which it scored the final 4 targets.
-AAP