KOROIT is celebrating a remarkable A grade netball grand final win.
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The Saints won an overtime thriller 50-49 against a gallant Hamilton Kangaroos in front of a huge crowd at Reid Oval on Saturday.
A Kelsey Lewis long-range goal tied scores at 40-all at full time, sending the game into extra time.
The Saints got as much as three goals up in extra time but the Kangaroos fought back to tie scores at 49-all with less than a minute to play in the 14-minute period.
Saint Carley Thomas scored the winner before the Roos had one last chance to draw level again but missed.
It was a see-sawing battle worthy of grand final day.
Koroit, celebrating midcourter Kate Dobson's 300th game, started strongly.
The Saints led 16-9 at quarter-time and stretched that lead to as much as eight goals in the second quarter.
But the Kangaroos showed their mettle to peg it back to three goals late in the term before Thomas dropped three, including one on the siren, to give the Saints a six-goal buffer at the main break.
Koroit extended its margin to 10 goals in the third term before Hamilton Kangaroos strung seven goals in a row to bridge the gap to three.
As was the case all game, the Saints rallied to be six up at the final change.
The Kangaroos started strongly in the final term as the Saints got the yips in the goal ring.
Scores were tied at 37-all with a tick over five minutes to play.
Clare Crawford put the Roos in front for the first time in the game with four minutes left.
But the Saints skipped out to a two-goal lead before Lewis' heroics sent the game into extra time and a fitting finale for a grand final epic.