Minnows St Lucia registered their first victory of the weeklong Americas Netball Qualifiers right here Friday evening after taking down winless Antigua and Barbuda 54-32 within the battle of the cellar dwellers.
Having misplaced their first video games, St Lucia have been a lot the higher group of their contest contained in the Nationwide Indoor Sports activities Centre as they led 15-8 on the finish of the primary quarter, 30-18 at half time and 43-25 on the completion of the third quarter.
Head coach, Jamaican Minneth Reynolds was completely happy that her group was in a position to get a win on the scoreboard.
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“It was a very good group effort, we performed good all through the court docket, in assault in addition to defence,” mirrored Reynolds, a former Jamaica Sunshine Ladies head coach.
“They’ve determined that they don’t need to return to St Lucia and not using a win, in order that they gave it their all tonight (Friday) they usually got here out victorious,” she added.
The elated Reynolds additionally famous that one of many areas the technical workers labored for the sport was the group’s potential to take care of possession of the ball and making the fitting choices for passing.
However all in all she believes it was a grand alternative for her gamers to be taught from.
“I believe it’s a very good studying expertise, they’ll solely be taught from this and there are a number of positives to take from this match they usually can solely return to St Lucia now and construct on the positives for the subsequent competitors.”
In the meantime, Jamaica’s Sunshine Ladies delayed Barbados’ qualification to the South Africa Netball World Cup following a complete 75-37 victory.
The Jamaicans led 19-14 on the finish of the primary quarter, earlier than growing the margin to 19 (43-24) on the half-time break and 63-32 on the completion of the third quarter.
Barbados will now try to safe their place in South Africa subsequent summer season once they face the winless Antigua and Barbuda.
Grenada additionally returned to successful methods after beating the USA 58-36, whereas St Vincent and the Grenadines acquired the higher of the Cayman Islands 69-45.
On Saturday’s closing day of the week-long qualifiers, Jamaica face Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados entertain Antigua and Barbuda, The Cayman Islands host St Lucia, and St Vincent and the Grenadines face Grenada.
Jamaica have already certified for the match in Cape City and they are going to be accompanied by Trinidad and Tobago, with Barbados poised to assert the ultimate berth.