Fast5 Netball World Series Results - Day Two

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Fast5 Netball World Series Results - Day Two

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GAME SCHEDULE - Fast5 World Netball Series 2012

FRIDAY
Centre Pass Time Game Team 1 Score Score Team2
5pm 1 Jamaica 25 34 South Africa
5.45pm 2 England 29 27 Australia
6.30pm 3 NZ 38 38 Jamaica
7.15pm 4 Malawi 33 15 Australia
8pm 5 England 41 27 South Africa
8.45pm 6 Jamaica 32 31 Malawi
9.30pm 7 NZ 31 23 Australia

SATURDAY
Centre Pass Time Game Team 1 Score Score Team2
4.15pm 8 England 39 28 Jamaica
5pm 9 NZ 44 24 Malawi
5.45pm 10 Australia 27 28 South Africa
6.30pm 11 England 23 27 Malawi
7.15pm 12 NZ 52 19 South Africa
8pm 13 Australia 33 34 Jamaica
8.45pm 14 South Africa 48 34 Malawi
9.30pm 15 NZ 47 31 England

SUNDAY
Centre Pass Time* Game Team 1 Score Score Team2
3.15pm 16 semi-final 1 - 1st -
Fast5 Ferns semi-final 1 - 4th
Jamaica
4pm 17 semi final 2 - 2nd - England Semi-final 2 - 3rd
South Africa
4.45pm 18 Play-off for 5th/6th Malawi Play-off for 5th/6th Australia
5.30 to 6.30pm Entertainment
6.40pm 19 Play-off
Loser Semi 1 Play-off
Loser Semi 2
7.30pm 20 GRAND FINAL
Winner Semi 1 GRAND FINAL
Winner Semi 2

Fast5 Ferns, Jamaican Sunshine Girls, England Fives and SPAR Proteas to compete in Semi-Finals

Unbeaten in five games, the Fast Ferns will go into the semifinals of the Fast5 World Netball Series as title favourites after a confident 47-31 victory over England tonight.

Notching up three wins in a day, the Ferns will now meet Jamaica tomorrow - the team they drew with in their opening game and opponents Ferns captain Laura Langman knows will be dangerous.

"They are extremely athletic, with springs in their heels; they're short and sharp and we need to be able to take the hits and deliver our passes," Langman says.

Jamaica secured their semifinal spot when Jhanielle Fowler sunk a penalty goal right on the full-time whistle, beating the hapless young Australians 34-33.

"Fowler can tick up some ones and twos pretty quickly," Langman says. "So our defenders will have to get their jumping shoes on."

South Africa will meet England in the other semifinal tomorrow after they knocked out perpetual African rivals Malawai in their last game of the night.

Langman had hoped New Zealand would win at least two of their three games today, and was impressed with the way the Ferns held out fitness-wise.

"Across the whole tournament we've had a really great balance of fun and paying attention to doing the job. It's been a very long year and if we went into it with the same intensity as a test series we would be tired little campers by now," she says.

The English Fives and Fast Ferns were almost goal for goal for the first six minutes, until Maria Tutaia slotted a supershot on the whistle to lead 13-10. English defenders Lindsay Keable and Stacey Francis made life uncomfortable for the Ferns shooters in the second quarter, but it was the same story at the opposite end, and the New Zealanders stayed ahead, 18-14 at halftime.

Two Harrison Hoists in quick succession left England struggling to find the hoop - English Fives coach Anna Mayes later questioning whether the ball was illegally tipped back through the net - but Jo Harten's six-point stunner on the three-quarter time whistle put England in front for the first time, 28-27.

But once again the New Zealanders made the most of their power play and poured on a further 19 points, to England's four.

English Fives coach Anna Mayes was still happy with her side's performance, their second loss of the tournament.

"I felt like we were more clinical, we worked the ball better in terms of angles and defensively I felt like we came out with some really good ball. Unfortunately a few errors crept in and obviously in their power play they really capitalised on those six-pointers."

The South Africans knew before their match with Malawi that they had to win to progress through to tomorrow's top four, and they played like a team on a vital mission.

Leading by just two at halftime, they played their power play hand to perfection - goal shoot Chrisna Bootha going on a shooting spree, scoring 22 of their 26 points in the third quarter.

The adored Malawi Queens couldn't recover from the 43-28 deficit, even with a power play, and the Proteas emerged victorious, 48-34.

Bootha described the win as the Proteas' best performance of the tournament so far: "We knew what we had to do when we came out on court, and we played the ball nicely and made very few unforced errors.

"It's so good being able to go out and shoot with confidence, knowing your whole team is behind you."

Bootha hoped the South Africans, who've been receiving coaching help from former Silver Ferns coach Yvonne Willering, would meet England in the semis. "We've played them in training, so essentially we've played them twice and we know more about their game."

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