
Netball: Steel fall to slick Swifts
It is time to officially rule a line through the Steel's transtasman league play-off hopes after the southern side were out-muscled and out-thought by the NSW Swifts
It is time to officially rule a line through the Steel's transtasman league play-off hopes after the southern side were out-muscled and out-thought by the NSW Swifts
It was always going to be a tough assignment for the Mainland Tactix.
It was an unhappy return to her home court for the transtasman netball league's first 100-gamer, Laura Langman, as the Magic outshone the Mystics in Hamilton last night.
Energetic midcourter Laura Langman will fittingly become the first player to record 100 ANZ Championship games this weekend.
The Central Pulse have leapt clear of the mid-table congestion in the transtasman league standings to break into the top four with a patient win over the Southern Steel in Invercargill last night.
The Mystics were forced to look to the past to help engineer a victory over the lowly Mainland Tactix last night.
Temepara Bailey returns to play for the Mystics in tonight's bottom-of-the-table ANZ championship netball match against the Tactix.
Tina Ball was milking at her father's farm, about 12km from her Paparoa home, when a neighbour called to tell her that her house was on fire.
After struggling to slot into her new team earlier in the season, Silver Ferns star Laura Langman has looked a lot more comfortable in the Auckland set-up in recent weeks.
No one seems to quite know how to spell your name: you're Catherine on Twitter and Cathrine in sport. What's with the E?
Mystics star Cathrine Latu produced a 100 per cent shooting effort to eclipse the competition's most prolific shooter, Steel import Jhaniele Fowler-Reid.
The pressure on 18-year-old Jamie-Lee Price to declare her national allegiance will intensify after the youngster played a starring role in the Magic's 17-goal rout.
Grace Rasmussen encapsulates why the new-look Magic have still got the magic.
Netball coach Norma Plummer was so shaken by the sinister tone to threats made against her she beefed up security for a recent trip to Dunedin.
One of the most tiresome lines a sports fan can hear is "it's just sport", writes Dana Johannsen.
A two-point shot may be introduced to seven-a-side netball if rule trials in New Zealand later this year prove successful.
Dunedin Police have been called in to investigate death threats made against controversial netball coach Norma Plummer.
The Mystics have revived their ANZ Championship season with a spectacular extra time victory over reigning premiers the Adelaide Thunderbirds tonight.
The Steel have helped restore some pride for New Zealand netball with a dramatic win against the Fever at Dunedin's Edgar Centre yesterday.