Coming off the back of just their second loss of the season, the Scorpions arrived looking to reassert their dominance in round 11.  

While the home side looked as though it could go toe-to-toe with the Melbourne-aligned Scorpions early in the first term, a spate of concussions crippled the North Ballarat bench.  

In the first  20 minutes of the fixture Daniel Cox, Ben Lusby and tall forward Matthew Eagles were all forced from the ground, unable to take part in the rest of the game.

With North Ballarat ruckman Orren Stephenson forced to watch on from the sidelines with a knee injury, the Scorpions proceeded to kick away from the undersized Roosters in the second term to head into the main change with a comfortable 65 point buffer.

Kicking three goals to Casey’s four, North Ballarat was able to stop the bleeding for much of the third term, however the Roosters began to run out of steam in the final quarter as the well drilled Scorpions continued to run in numbers until the final siren.

As well as kicking three goals and being named best afield, young forward Sam Hooper was one of three players to be reported after making head high contact with an opponent during a wayward spoil attempt.

Meanwhile Rowan Marshall was valiant for the Roosters all afternoon, taking the bulk of the ruck duties for the clash.

Roosters coach Marc Grieg described the match as “frustrating” after a month in which his men had shown consistent improvement.

“To lose three in the first quarter, it just flattens you,” Grieg said.  “There are little things (we did wrong) but certainly the effort was there for most of the game.”

The bottom of the ladder Roosters will now look ahead to their fixture against the second last Frankston.  A decision on each of the concussed trio will be made later in the week.

In better news for the Roosters, big man Stephenson is likely to miss between two and four weeks, after initial fears suggested the veteran would see up to 12 weeks on the sidelines.