Hawthorn have come from behind to defeat Geelong by one point in another Easter Monday classic.
The Hawks trailed by six points with less than two minutes remaining but Mitch Lewis took a big mark and kicked truly before Jack Gunston managed to scrap home a point with less than 15 seconds remaining.
Geelong forward Shannon Neale thought he might have won it for the Cats after putting his side up with a clutch goal.
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But the Hawks won the next centre clearance and the ball ended up in Lewis’ hands and levelled it up.
The Cats won the final centre clearance, but Hawks skipper James Sicily took a contested mark and then quickly switched as the Hawks surged forward.
The ball bounced around before Gunston managed to throw his boot at the loose ball and hit the post to kick the best point of his career.
Gunston had earlier left the field with a hamstring issue, but managed to return.
“Gunners just whispered in my ear, ‘that’s the best point I’ve ever kicked’,” Lewis told Channel 7 after the match.
“Obviously he was a little bit sore but for him to come back and play on Tom Stewart in that last quarter and keep him quiet, and then do that, it was pretty special.”
Gunston allayed fears of a hamstring injury, by saying he think he cramped in the third quarter when he appeared to pull up short.
“I think it’s cramp, probably I put a bit of mayo on it,” he said with a laugh.
On the match-winning moments, Gunston said: “I hate points, but it was a nice one … it was pretty frantic there just trying get it forward, get a boot on the ball and hit the post.”
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