College steady the ship with comeback victory

College Old Girls climbed back into the top four, coming from behind to beat Feilding 50-49 at the Arena on Tuesday night in a scrappy game.

College had been looking good in the premier club netball competition, but dropped their past two games, so they returned to form in a tight win over Feilding.

Feilding will be frustrated about letting their lead slip and when they made a late effort to try and take the lead, errors and turnovers cost them.

Feilding looked good at the start of the game and were up 18-14 at quartertime. But mistakes started creeping in and before you knew it College were level at 23-all, scoring seven unanswered goals at one point, then kicked on to lead 30-26 at halftime.

Kuini Chase and Billie-jean Lambert were the chief disrupters for College in defence and when Feilding were trying to push the passes to catch up, the two College defenders would strike.

Once COG were in the lead they tried to settle things down and consolidate their lead.

Manta Maxwell was in great form back at the shooting end for College after having to play defence last week.

Feilding mounted a late comeback, but there were a couple of crucial turnovers that cost them, but they did manage to get within one goal by the end.

Centre Brenna Romley was one of Feilding’s best, adding come spark on attack, Emma Sharland was good on defence and Kesa

Talka was their best option in the shooting circle.

Palmerston High School

Feilding A2 North Girls’

had their second win in a row, as they punished lowly 54-28.

Feilding couldn’t get their the ball to their shooters and always struggled to keep up.

Feilding spent most of the second quarter stuck on five goals as Girls’ High scored 12 unanswered goals, going from a 13-15 lead to 25-5 and the game was won.

Girls’ High were up 31-12 at halftime, then made a few changes at the break with the game in the bag. Girls’ High threw away a bit of ball of their own, but weren’t under any real pressure.

Lin Tokalautawa was busy at goal keep for Girls’ High, Sia Muilaga was a threat on attack and Maya Jones warmed into her work in a half at centre.

Feilding’s defence was solid with goal keep Darnelle Nugento’leary working hard, but it was at the other end where the problems where, with mistakes plaguing them. Kayla Hemopo also had a good game at goal defence, then wing defence. had to work hard for their 57-52 win over

Manukura Black Rahui.

Rahui kept up with them the whole way, trailing just 26-25 at halftime, but it was the third quarter that made the difference for Manukura, as they outscored Rahui 19-14 in that spell, which gave them breathing space.

Emily Autagavaia had a productive night shooting for Manukura again with 48 from 62.

kept cruising along with another big win, this time 75-40 over

The two middle quarters were close, but otherwise Massey blew the schoolgirl Manukura team out in the first and last spells.

Massey outscored them 22-9 in the first as they went on to lead 36-22 at halftime, then after a close third quarter, Massey won the fourth spell 23-7, making sure Manukura had no chance of chasing them.

Massey Manukura Red.