CAMPERDOWN coach Phil Carse has labelled the Magpies’ seven-point come-from-behind win against Terang Mortlake “a get out of jail escape”.
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The Magpies rallied from five goals down midway through the third term to notch their sixth victory of the Hampden league season on Saturday.
Carse said the 12.14 (86) to 12.7 (79) result was a wake-up call for the fourth-placed Pies, who are stuck in a finals logjam with up to four sides.
“The change happened at the 20-minute mark of the third quarter,” he said.
“We were over five goals down and managed to kick two late goals to end the third quarter to stem the tide and give ourselves belief.
“We played the last quarter on our terms.”
The Magpies kicked 4.6 to 1.1 in the fourth quarter and hit the front after Henry Green and Grant Place kicked behinds. A Riley Arnold major with two minutes to play sealed the result.
Camperdown jumped to fourth spot, replacing South Warrnambool, which dropped to fifth.
Carse said the evenness of the competition meant the Pies could ill-afford to fall to the lowly Bloods.
“It was our first eight-point game, as I like to call them, in the last half of the season,” he said.
The returning Luke Clarke was the Magpies’ best playing across half-back and Sam Cardinal kicked three goals in his best performance of the season.
Bloods assistant coach Chris Bant was their best.