A TREMENDOUS effort in the second half has seen Myrtleford Savoy comprehensively take down Wodonga Heart in their division one women’s match on Sunday.

After conceding a goal early, Myrtleford fought back hard to eventually run out winners 3-1.

Savoy’s defence rallied after Heart’s Gemma Berto found the back of the net, while a massive individual effort from Gabby Paglia on the goal line prevented a two-goal deficit.

Level at half-time, Myrtleford pushed back in a major way, with goals coming from Paglia and Lily Notrianni.

Co-coach Tom Scott said he and fellow co-coach Will Robinson-Dunn were impressed with the fight displayed on the weekend.

“It’s something we’ve been working on pretty much all season,” Scott said.

“We moved a couple of players around in positions we’ve been thinking about for the last couple of weeks, I think we’ve found a formation and line-up we’re relatively happy with.

“We were able to score pretty efficiently, that’s something we’ve been lacking, so to be able to get on the scoreboard three times in one game is a really good step forward and something we’re really excited about.

“Heart had the chance to go two or three goals up within the first half, but our defence and Jess (Stringer), our keeper, we were able to lock them out and keep them out and keep them out of the box.

“We were really impressed.”

Savoy face top team Melrose FC in their midweek clash tonight (Wednesday, June 19), and Scott was realistic about their chances.

“We know that Melrose and Hotspurs are probably the most likely to be there in the last game in September, so we know what it’s going to be like,” he said.

“We just look at it as another opportunity to see what our skills can do against a higher position.

“We have the weekend bye so that’s another chance to recoup before we have a relatively okay run of games.

“We've got Albury City then maybe Boomers or Twin City after that, so we have a relatively good month of football coming up.

“We get this challenge out of the way, we see what we can do, and we’ll go from there.”