Turvey Park ensured they enter the 2020 season full of optimism after finishing the year with their third straight victory on Saturday.
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The Bulldogs continued their strong finish to the season with an eight goal win over Narrandera, 18.8 (116) to 10.8 (68) at Maher Oval.
It also ensured Turvey Park celebrated club stalwart Chris Cerato's 200th game with a win.
Turvey Park got on top early and by half-time had opened up a six-goal lead. Narrandera never gave up and won the third term before the Bulldogs finished the job off in the last quarter.
Brad Ashcroft (seven goals) and Clint Shields (five goals) had big days up forward, while Nathan Byrne continued his fine season with another strong display in the ruck.
Turvey Park co-coach Mark Carroll was rapt to finish the year with their seventh win.
"It was great to finish the year off like that. It would have been a bit frustrating had we have got done after the last couple of weeks," Carroll said.
"I'm very pleased with the boys. They played good footy. Narrandera came to play and it was tough. They were up and about at times but we seemed to have the answers today, to be honest.
"Probably 12 to 18 months ago Turvey were a bit like Narrandera. They gave everything but were not quite there."
Turvey Park finished the year with wins over Wagga Tigers, Collingullie-Glenfield Park and Narrandera to finish in sixth position and two games outside the five.
But Carroll believes the time is right for the Bulldogs' season to end.
"It seems like it's been a short year but it's been a long year when you think about it and the young boys have played a lot of tough footy," he said.
"It would have been nice to get to finals but I think they have probably had enough. They're young boys and there were more niggling injuries today, to go with the boys that are already out. If you're playing finals, you want to hitting it full of steam and although we've finished the year off well, I think we've probably had enough."
Steve Irons was best for Narrandera in his 200th game, while Jordan Hedington put in another strong display for the Eagles.
While Narrandera finished eighth, it was a year of considerable improvement. They won three games and broke the club's drought, that spanned more than two years.
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