Sydney fought off a scrappy West Coast to hand the Eagles a fourth consecutive AFLW loss in a 13-point win at Henson Park.

Rising star Ally Morphett's brilliance steered the Swans to a 5.4 (34) to 2.9 (21) victory in their first-ever AFLW meeting with the Eagles on Sunday.

The 19-year-old led her team's hitouts with 33 to the Eagles' combined 17, and gathered 20 disposals and 10 clearances.

Swans co-captain Chloe Molloy lit up the 4595-strong crowd with a 40m goal to open the game, as well as snapping a major from the left pocket to start the second term.

Cynthia Hamilton (one goal) and Bella Smith (two) were also among the Swans' contributors to the scoreboard.

The Eagles went goalless in the first stanza before Kellie Gibson finally broke through to give her side their first major just 30 seconds before halftime, reducing the margin to 14 points.

Shaking off a right ankle injury, Eagles captain Emma Swanson breathed new life into her side with a brilliant snap goal from the boundary line to open the third quarter.

Swanson was typically crucial for her side, collecting 22 disposals but couldn't haul her team over the line.

A scare went through the Swans camp when Molloy left the ground with a potential elbow injury.

She returned to the fray soon after but the Eagles continued to claw back into the contest.

An electric effort from Smith, who kicked her second major of the game just 15 seconds into the fourth quarter, extended the Swans' lead to two goals.

In a setback for the Eagles, defender Evangeline Gooch was taken off the ground with an arm injury.

Dana Hooker's inaccuracy in front of goal was costly for the Eagles, with Henson Park erupting into a roar for Sydney as they closed in on their second-ever AFLW victory.

Sydney (2-2) travel to Victoria to take on ninth-placed Carlton next round, while West Coast (0-4) host 13-placed Port Adelaide.

Lions keep their strong record against North intact

The Brisbane Lions' undefeated AFLW record over North Melbourne remains intact after they stormed home for an enthralling two-point victory.

Down by 18 points at halftime, the Lions kicked four goals to one after the main break to pinch a 5.5 (35) to 5.3 (33) victory in Launceston.

Emma Kearney was paid a free kick in the dying seconds but North's captain was 60m out from the Kangaroos' goal and her shot dropped well short.

The Lions' theme song had already started playing as Kearney attempted what would have been the greatest goal in AFLW history.

It was a heartbreaking loss for North, who seemed destined to move to 4-0 this season and remain undefeated in Tasmania.

The Lions had won all previous matches against North dating back to 2021.

Shannon Campbell, best-on-ground as a defender in the Lions' grand final defeat to Melbourne last year, kicked the matchwinning goal on her 27th birthday.

Her snap in the dying stages put the Lions in front for the first time since early in the match, coming only minutes after she dropped a regulation mark in the goalsquare.

The Lions turned the match around after being belted in the midfield in the first half as North's stars Ash Riddell and Jasmine Garner led the way.

League best-and-fairest Ally Anderson was everywhere for the Lions after halftime, while Lily Postlethwaite and captain Bre Koenen slotted important goals in the third quarter.

North's Nicole Bresnehan missed the entire second half with a suspected ankle injury.

The result leaves North and the Lions at 3-1, with reigning premiers Melbourne and perennial powerhouse Adelaide the only undefeated teams this season.

St Kilda have kicked five unanswered goals in the final quarter to claim their first win of the AFLW season with a come-from-behind 12-point victory over Collingwood.

The Saints trailed by 26 points during the third quarter but stormed home to secure a 7.5 (47) to 5.5 (35) triumph at RSEA Park on Sunday.

Ex-Magpies midfielder Jaimee Lambert (18 disposals, three clearances) starred against her former club, with Olivia Vesely (19, four) and Georgia Patrikios (15, five) also influential.

Lambert and Patrikios were among St Kilda's seven goal-kickers.

"It was pretty insane," Saints star and former Collingwood captain Steph Chiocci told the Seven Network.

"It was a game of ebbs and flows and momentum … but we had a lot of faith in our fitness and what we had to do.

"We had to tidy up a few things and it was pretty impressive."

Saints victory leaves Collingwood's finals hopes on the edge

St Kilda's first-ever AFLW win over Collingwood relieved some pressure on coach Nick Dal Santo, who now has a 6-18 record at the helm.

The result was a huge blow to the Magpies' finals hopes, leaving them with just one win from four rounds.

It could have been even worse, with Bri Davey sending a huge scare through the camp when she hobbled off with an ankle injury during the third quarter.

She spent more than 10 minutes off the ground but returned to play out the match and finished with 16 disposals.

Davey has been one of Collingwood's best players this season after missing almost all of 2022 with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.

"Any time a player's coming back from a long-term injury and they go down, it's a bit of a heart-in-mouth situation," Collingwood assistant coach Jordan Roughead told the Seven Network.

"But they (club medical staff) were pretty quick to tell us she was all good to go back out there."

St Kilda had only registered one goal until Nat Exon added a second in the dying stages of the third quarter to cut the margin to 20 points at the final change.

Even then, victory seemed highly unlikely.

But Patrikios and Nicola Xenos breathed life into the contest with quick goals early in the last quarter to spark the home side's match-winning surge.

The Saints piled on 5.2 from 11 forward entries in the final term while keeping Collingwood scoreless.

Brittany Bonnici (22 disposals, five clearances), Sabrina Frederick (16, five, one goal) and Sarah Rowe (17 touches) were among the Magpies' best.

Ex-Saints player Tarni White kicked two goals for Collingwood against her former side.

Dons surge into the top-eight with comfortable win over Freo

AFLW expansion club Essendon surged into the top-eight after securing a third win from four starts with a 20-point victory over Fremantle.

Despite starting in the competition two years after their opponents, the Bombers showed up the Dockers in an impressive display at Windy Hill on Sunday.

Essendon trailed at halftime but kicked five goals to two after the main break to run out winners 7.8 (50) to 4.6 (30), continuing the Bombers' rise in just their second season in the competition.

Co-captain Bonnie Toogood starred with two goals and a game-high 22 possessions and Jacqui Vogt also stepped up with two majors.

"It's unbelievable here at Windy, to play a heartland venue," Toogood said.

"To see the Reynolds Stand packed like that, it's fantastic.

"Us engaging Essendon fans of women's footy is phenomenal and it's good to get the win, that's for sure.

"We needed to bring it (the game) back on our terms in the stoppage and start getting it moving our way and then we could get our forwards to go to work."

Essendon was comfortably the best performed of the four new teams last season, finishing with four wins and well ahead of Sydney, Hawthorn and Port Adelaide.

The Bombers finished 10th last year but could be on track to make the top-eight almost halfway through this season.

Fremantle, a foundation club in 2017, continued their hot-and-cold start to this season to be 2-2 having not been able to string together consecutive wins yet.

Angelique Stannett was the Dockers' only multiple goal-kicker with two, while Emma O'Driscoll was their leading possession winner with 22.

Fremantle will return to Melbourne for a clash with Richmond next Friday, while Essendon will face Collingwood at Punt Rd on Saturday just hours before the AFL men's grand final.

Suns survive Bulldogs scare to keep their season on track

Gold Coast are ready to shake off their rank outsider status after surviving an almighty scare from the Western Bulldogs in a thrilling four-quarter AFLW arm wrestle.

Withstanding a late-term surge from the visitors to snatch their third consecutive win on Sunday, the Suns stood up in their second meeting with the Bulldogs to win 7.6 (48) to 7.2 (44) at Carrara.

True to form, Charlie Rowbottom (28 disposals, seven clearances) starred for the Suns while Lucy Single diligently played a tagging role on Ellie Blackburn, limiting the Bulldogs skipper to 20 disposals and three score involvements.

Alice Edmonds (27 hit-outs, 15 disposals) was prominent in the ruck for the Bulldogs, standing up after losing Celine Moody to a shoulder injury.

A free kick for tripping to Kirsten McLeod opened the game and gave the Bulldogs their first major, though Suns defender Vivien Saad was adamant the ball was touched.

Without a score review system, the Bulldogs were awarded the six points before Brianna McFarlane (two goals) put another major on the scoreboard.

The hosts found an immediate response when Gaelic football convert Niamh McLaughlin snatched her first AFLW goal to reduce the margin to six points before quarter time.

Inaccuracy cost both sides in a goalless 10 minutes in the second quarter, before Suns skipper Tara Bohanna (two goals) ran away from a pack of Bulldogs and kicked truly for a one-point lead.

With already 10 goals in the season to her name, Jamie Stanton built on Bohanna's work and added two majors in as many minutes.

McFarlane capitalised on a downed Suns defender in Lauren Ahrens to reduce the margin to eight points, but her goal was countered by a terrific snap from Jac Dupuy, who took possession from a ball-up a minute before the halftime siren.

The arm wrestle continued into the third quarter, with both sides kicking two goals apiece to go into the final term with the Suns' lead 13 points.

A mammoth effort by Deanna Berry (one goal) and Kirsty Lamb (two) kept the Bulldogs alive as the deficit shrank to just one-point with 10 minutes to go.

But though dogged by wayward kicking, the Suns held on to finish four points up.

Gold Coast (3-1) fly south to face the undefeated Adelaide Crows while the Bulldogs (0-4) return home to a redeveloped Whitten Oval for the first time since season six to host St Kilda.

The Bulldogs will be without forward Gemma Lagioia, who was taken out in the third quarter with a concussion.

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