TEEGAN Ward has scored plenty of pressure goals in her career, but her clinical finish with 94 seconds left in Sunday's Bathurst District Football women's premier league grand final ranks amongst her finest.
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It handed Panorama FC a surprise 3-2 victory over Abercrombie at Proctor Park.
"I just wanted to make sure that I got it on target. I'm usually okay, half-half, under pressure, I just try not to think about it really," Ward said.
"I'm actually just surprised I was there because I hurt my groin in the first 10 minutes."
This season was Ward's first with Panorama, but she brought with her the experience of having played in the National Premier Leagues competition for Western NSW.
She scored a hat-trick in Panorama's 3-1 preliminary final win over defending premiers CSU and when Ward scored in the 51st minute of Sunday's decider to give her side a 2-0 lead, things were looking good.
But Abercrombie showed why they were the minor premiers as they lifted and fought back to lock it up at 2-all with 17 minutes remaining.
As the clocked ticked down extra-time looked on the cards but when a Laura Risch chip bounced over the head of the Abercrombie defence, Ward swooped.
She burst into the box and from the right side and placed her shot into the top of the net to clinch Panorama's second women's premier league crown.
"It was just amazing," Ward said.
While delighted to win, Ward paid tribute to a valiant Abercrombie.
"To be honest, they've had an amazing season and nearly won all their games. They're just a great bunch of girls, credit to them for the second half," she said.
"They were the minor premiers and we knew we were in for it, we knew that we were the underdogs and I think that lifted us. It was a fire-cracker up the bum really when they scored, we knew we had to pull something out."
