The women’s side nailed a perfect away double, beating Blayney 4–0 on Saturday and Millthorpe 5–1 on Sunday, under coach Mitchell Thompson.

“We travelled to a freezing cold Blayney to take on a physical and determined team,” Thompson said.

In the early going, Blayney pressed with sharp through balls, but the back line and goalkeeper Linda Woods held firm.

“In terrible conditions the Blayney girls came out hard and had us under pressure with some great through balls, only to be covered by our brick wall with great defence and solid saves from Linda in goal,” Thompson said.

Momentum swung and a slick turn set up a cracking finish from Tayla Tarrant to open the scoring.

“After weathering the storm we turned momentum and attacked with a great turn and a cracking goal from Tay,” Thompson said.

After the break, the visitors clicked into their passing rhythm and took control of midfield.

“After half-time we found our passing game and controlled the midfield,” Thompson said.

A brief sub saw Jasmine Dowd throw on a jumper, then return warm and firing to bag a quick brace from clever lead-up play by Courtney Booth.

“A short substitute for Jaz to put on a jumper under her playing shirt saw her come back on warm and firing to score two quick goals from some great lead-up play from Courtney B.”

Jaca Ridgeon iced it with a late strike to make it 4–0, and Players’ Player went to Booth for her all-round impact.

“Another goal from Jaca on full time sealed the win.”

Thompson praised the grit and set sights on backing up the next day, saying, “great, hard-fought win by the girls who dug deep in terrible conditions”.

“The girls will need to rest up for our double-header game tomorrow at Millthorpe.”

Less than 24 hours later, the team hit the road again with 12 players, sore but chasing the sweep.

“We took 12 girls to Millthorpe on Sunday,” Thompson said.

“They were tired and sore but ready to take two wins from the weekend.”

It was still icy, though not as brutal as the day before.

“It was cold but definitely not as cold as Blayney the previous day,” Thompson said.

A slow start saw Millthorpe score inside five minutes.

“The girls started slow, conceding the only goal to Millthorpe within the first five minutes.”

That jab snapped the side into gear.

“But that woke us up and the girls came back firing,” Thompson said.

Millthorpe’s very young side stood tall and blocked a stack of efforts as the shots kept coming.

“Millthorpe stood strong, and props to their very young side for defending a lot of our shots on goal,” Thompson said.

By half-time it was 3–1 thanks to two from Tarrant and one from Booth.

“Two goals from Tayla Tarrant and one from Courtney Booth had us heading into half-time at 3–1.”

With only one substitute, they regrouped and dug in for the next 45.

“We regrouped at half-time, the girls were struggling with only one sub but dug deep for the next 45.”

Holly Gorham added a tidy finish and Booth buried a penalty to close it out 5–1.

“A goal to Holly Gorham and a penalty to Courtney Booth sealed the game at 5–1.”

Two wins, both away and both in the cold, has the group buzzing for the run home.

“A massive effort from the girls to take two from two wins, both away and freezing,” Thompson said.

“The girls will take a massive amount of confidence from this leading into our last two rounds and then into the finals,” he said.