Connor Rozee was at his damaging best and good mate Zak Butters continued his white-hot form. Finlayson saw off a quarter of direct opponents in Josh Weddle,Jack Scrimshaw,Sam Frost and James Black to boot 4.2 in the first term – his two misses were a poster and a snap that missed by centimetres – propelling Port to 42-point quarter-time advantage.
Todd Marshall,who kicked one major for the term while deftly setting up two of Finlayson’s,added another two of his own to start the second term and finished with five in his return from concussion.
Jason Horne-Francis bombed a beauty from 55 and Finlayson soccered through his fifth as Port strengthened their stranglehold on the match.
The Power’s 18.9 first-half haul was their biggest ever and the largest by any side since 2012.
The margin swelled to 96 points when crafty Junior Rioli snapped his fourth before the Hawks,contemptuously treated like witches hats to that point,lifted big time.
Dylan Moore’s move into the middle inspired the visitors in the third as Jarman Impey also got busy against his old side.
Mitch Lewis broke the shackles with three second-half majors as Hawthorn,with James Worpel prolific,turned the tables by roasting Port at the contest and in the centre square with lethal use of handball against the grain.
BREUST BRINGS UP 500
Three-time premiership-winning great Luke Breust started the weekend on 499 career goals before hitting both behind posts at the River End with his first two attempts of the day.
The veteran sharpshooter and acting skipper straightened up later in that opening stanza,going 1-2 via hands with Tyler Brockman to snap truly from 45 metres and bring up goal 500. Breust,who finished with five majors in the losing cause,became the seventh Hawk – after Jason Dunstall,Leigh Matthews,Peter Hudson,Michael Moncrieff,Lance Franklin and Jarryd Roughead – to crack that magical milestone.
KOSI’S CRACKER
With Hawthorn still searching for their first goal,Jacob Koschitzke did his best to lift his side,soaring high to pouch a majestic mark.
Midway through the first quarter on the outer wing,Koschitzke left Trent McKenzie in his wake and stood on Aliir Aliir’s head to snare a beauty.
It was a rare and fleeting shining light in a dark half for the Hawks.
PORT ADELAIDE 9.3 16.9 21.12 23.13 (151)
HAWTHORN 2.3 3.5 8.8 14.12 (96)
GOALS
Port Adelaide: Marshall 5,Finlayson 5,Rioli 4,Houston 2,Byrne-Jones,Horne-Francis,Butters,Burton,Wines,Rozee,McEntee
Hawthorn: Breust 5,Lewis 3,Macdonald,Newcombe,Amon,Impey,Butler,Brockman
BEST
Port Adelaide: Rozee,Finlayson,Marshall,Butters,Rioli,Houston,Wines
Hawthorn: Worpel,Breust,Impey,Lewis,Moore,Hardwick
UMPIRES Haussen,Deboy,Heffernan,Tee
CROWD 34,234 at Adelaide Oval
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