Newcomb reserves player Jim Hall has avoided a trip to the tribunal, accepting a three-match suspension for an incident in the closing stages of Saturday’s win over Anglesea at Ellimatta Reserve.
Hall was reported on the day for a strike on Roo Sean Hermann, with AFL Barwon’s Match Review Panel grading it as intentional conduct, high impact and high contact, drawing a four-match suspension.
The early guilty plea reduces the ban to three games.
In a statement released by Newcomb on Sunday morning after images of the incident circulated on social media on Saturday morning, Power president Matt Farrow said: “The club maintains a zero-tolerance stance on violence. Any behaviour that falls short of the standards expected of our players, officials, and supporters will not be accepted either on or off the field under any circumstances.”
In other incidents assessed in the Bellarine, Modewarre’s Tom Duncan was cleared of a sling tackle on Ocean Grove’s Ben Coote in the second quarter of the Warriors’ win.
While no charges were laid out of a melee in the clash between Portarlington and Surf Coast.
In the GDFNL, Inverleigh recruit Zac Plant has been offered a reprimand for making careless contact with an umpire during the third quarter of the Hawks’ win over his former club, Thomson, at Godfrey Street.
While in the GFNL, North Shore duo Bailey Shelley and Jack McQuitty had no case to answer for alleged incidents in the loss to St Albans.
The news was the same for Geelong West’s Noah Allen from the Giants’ loss to Leopold after it was alleged he made unreasonable or unnecessary contact to the face of Lions star Darby Henderson.
A melee from the West-Leopold clash also resulted in no reports.
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