TNL: Northern Hawks thump Arrows, remain unbeaten

Having overcome the perennial finalists by just one point in the season's opening round, the Hawks put the youth-heavy Arrows to the sword at the Silverdome to win 81-49.

The result leaves the 2018 premiers at 7-0 heading into Sunday's home clash with Kingston, where coach Ruth Tuohy will look for more consistency ahead of next Friday's Northern derby with Cavaliers.

"I think we were happy with the outcome, it's just about us sticking to our gameplan consistently for 15 minutes at a time," Tuohy said.

"We're probably looking for a more consistent game each quarter, but we're still very happy with the outcome because it is a big change from when we played them last.

"Arrows are a very different team, they've got a lot of younger 19s players so I think we just need to take each team as it comes.

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"We hadn't seen that particular Arrows team since the first game of the season, which was March, so we've learnt and changed a lot from then and I think that shows that we're doing things that we'd like to at this stage with our game plan."

Star shooter Ash Mawer enjoyed a great game against gun defender Zoe Gough to lead the Hawks to a big total while mid-courters Jame Symons, Steph Walker and Clare McKimmie all impressed.

The Hawks' next challenge will be to back up their performance against a top-four Kingston outfit.

"We've had a really good week where we've tried to [manage] the girls' workload to prepare for this because I don't think we've ever had a double-header backed by a double-header and then a Friday game," Tuohy said.

"Kingston is another team we haven't played since March, so we'll just focus on our gameplan and put our focus where we need to."

In the under-19s, a topsy-turvy contest saw the Hawks fight back from a 14-goal deficit at three-quarter time before losing 44-39.