Gallery | Shepparton East and Nagambie continue hot start to 2025 Kyabram District League

Both sides secured dominant round one wins and continued with their hot form on Saturday.

Last year’s grand finalist Shepparton East blitzed Tallygaroopna at Central Park Recreation Reserve.

The Eagles kept the Redlegs to one goal to halftime, while piling on 119 points themselves.

Shepparton East sharpshooter Jake Sutherland impressed on his home deck, booting a bag of 10 goals.

Ruckman Mitch Pottenger earned best-on-ground honours for the Eagles after his performance against Tallygaroopna ruck Nick Megarrity.

After losing star ruck Tom McCluskey during the off-season, Shepparton East’s Pottenger has stood up to fill the void.

The Eagles’ avalanche of attack continued in the second half as they romped to a massive 204-point victory.

The final score finished 32.22 (214) to 1.4 (10).

While Shepparton East did its work at home, Nagambie produced it on the road as the Lakers downed Longwood.

Nagambie coach Harley Taylor-Lloyd said he was happy with how his players fared during the stifling weather on Saturday.

“It was a very hot day and tested our conditioning,” Taylor-Lloyd said.

“By half-time, I think everyone would have been happy to call it off.

“It was a good outcome in the end, obviously the scoreboard was about 10 goals, but we had a couple of injuries and took our foot off the gas at the end and they probably kicked the last three or four goals of the game.”

Nagambie’s second 50-point-plus victory for the season has the Lakers sitting pretty at the top end of the ladder.

Taylor-Lloyd said the matches haven’t come against easy-beat opposition either.

“What has impressed me most is, I like to think, we have beaten two sides (Violet Town and Longwood) that would be thinking and would have recruited to be top six sides,” he said.

“We have weathered a storm at half-time in both games.

“The heat has been on, we have been challenged and we have been able to kick on after quarter time.”

In a dominant victory, Taylor-Lloyd said there were some clear stars in the red, white and black.

“Trent Laverie was best-on by far, he has been really, really good across the first two rounds and was clearly best-on,” he said.

“Blake Laverie came in for his first game of the year - Trent’s brother - and was really good across half-forward.

“The two McKinnon brothers came in for their first game and they were super, Lucas (three goals) is a centre half-forward and Blake is a half-back flanker.

“They were probably the four or five that were really impressive, but we got some games into our younger guys as well.”

Nagambie ended up winning the match, 11.6 (72) to 19.15 (129).

In other round two results, Avenel defeated Rushworth by 25 points on the road while Girgarre beat Merrigum by 84 points at home.

On Sunday, Violet Town bounced back from its round one defeat to demolish Undera at home 25.14 (164) to 13.11 (89).

The result for Stanhope’s clash against reigning premier Murchison-Toolamba wasn’t available at time of print.

Lancaster had the bye.