ROUND 19
Saturday 11th of August.

STURT 4.3 9.5 14.6 17.10 (112)
GLENELG 2.2 4.4 9.4 13.7 (85)

Blues' twin peaks make their mark as Bays battle on.

By David Valente.
Fourteen minutes into the third quarter, when Sturt had scored 5 goals to Glenelg's 1 for the term, the match at Unley Oval was effectively over.
Slipping into nuetral, the Blues seemed to agree - but fortunately for the sizable crowd that filled the teraces, no-one bothered to tell the Tigers.
Glenelg, despite playing a strong skillful brand of football, was a whopping 9 goals down - paying the price for a damaging 20-minute lapse in the second stanza - but refused to break and was fighting back ferociously. Sturt had scored 10 of the previous 11 goals and had the invaluable advantage of accurate disposal and genuine tall, marking targets in attack with Stephen White (10 grabs) and Julian Burton (9).
And it seemed the Blues new it because the intensity and spark that had epitomised their first half boiled away as Glenelg seized the initiative.
After scoring only one goal since the opening minutes of the second term, the Tigers piled on four unanswered majors in 10 minutes to close the gap to a respectable - if not attainable - 5 goals at the last break. The visitors moved from a defensive, flooding first half play, trying to strangle the delivery to White and Burton, to a genuine attacking posture and reaped the rewards.
While they had no targets like Sturt boasted, the tall Blues defendersChris Threadgold, Mark Conway and Seamus Maloney controlling the air and Andrew Whiteman doing a superb job controlling the spirited Sam logan, Glenelg kept the scoreboard moving with its runners, particularly Alistair Burke and Kane Cornes.
Bit in keeping Logan to only 3 goals after he stunned Port Adelaide with 6 the previous week, the 23 year old Whiteman confirmed the wisdom of moving him from following to key defensive work.
In round 18 coach Phil Carman gave him the job on South Adelaide's unpredictable Derek Murray and he proved just as effective then, signalling his suitability to the nullifying role and his return to fitness from a frustrating shoulder injury.
"He's proved very, very good in that role," Carman said.
"He was in the (1998) grand final side then he injured his shoulder and did not play a lot of good footy but he's back to his best now." Sturt revelled in the perfect conditions on its home soil, playing a more balanced, direct, slick brand of football while Glenelg - though certainly blessed by the talents of Kane Cornes, Matthew Bode, Matthew Golding and Cameron Venables - made its mark through persistence.
But even that is a cause for celebration at Brighton Road.
Glenelg is now a far more complete unit and, in running out Saturday's game with fire and focus, showed it has the discipline to harnass its previously wasted talants.

BEST PLAYERS: Golding, Burke, Bode, Cornes, Venables, Logan.
SCORERS: Logan 3.1, McEntee 2.1, Cornes, Burke 2.0, Venables, Shir 1.1, Vlatko, Mckenzie 1.0, Howard, maher 0.1, rushed 0.1.
INJURIES: Smith (mild concussion.
CROWD: 2737.