Netball Round Up - Week 2

Sussex County Cup - Worthing B 19 Hurst A 26

This was expected to be a very one sided affair following Hurst’s thrashing of Worthing’s A team last year in the same competition however Worthing’s B team went out, determined to prove they were worthy opponents.

The focus in training this week was defense and it was delightful as the coach to see the players all working hard to put into practice the work done on Monday. We took an early lead but Hurst pulled back and at quarter time we were two goals down. The team was left the same with the starting 7 realising that fitness is still an area that needs work. The instructions remained the same, look after the ball and remain tight in defense across all areas of the court.

Hurst came out hard in the 2nd quarter having made a couple of changes and where we started to tire, they started to take the game away and the 2nd quarter ended 16 – 10.

We made three changes at half time, moving Rachel Piper to C replacing Erin Collier, Jodie Beaney came on at WA, replacing Sian Rance and Yasmin O’Brian on at WD. The instruction was to continue to defend hard.

We had an excellent third quarter winning the quarter 6 -2 bringing the deficit back to two goals and all to play for in the last quarter.

The first 5 mins of the last quarter was manic with lost possession from both teams, unfortunately our shots did not go in initially and Hurst started to stretch their slender lead – the game ended 19-26. It was an excellent performance from the 2nd team and one that with luck would have seen them going through to the next round.

Down to the 1st team to beat Bhasvic B next week in the cup.