Yell 23 V 36 Challengers
It was an even start to Challengers vs Yell game with both teams working hard to get the first point. With fantastic interceptions from Challengers C it meant they were able to steal from a Yell centre and get it. Despite this Yells GK and GD worked tirelessly against Challengers shooters to get rebounds this then meant the quarter finished 8-6 in Yells favour.
The second quarter saw Challengers mid court linking well together to move the ball up the court to feed into their shooters. Yells C and WA found it hard to get the ball past Challengers strong defence and into GS and GA resulting in it being 14-15 to Challengers at half time.
Strong interceptions from Challengers kept Yell fighting for the ball. Challengers GAs on point shooting meant they dominated the beginning of this quarter. Some excellent interceptions from Yells GD meant that Yell were still in the game however going into the last quarter it was 21-26 to Challengers.
With some changes Yell needed time to settle into the last quarter which gave Challengers shooters the chance to pull ahead more and take the win of 23-36. Yell fought hard until the end. Players of the match were Valerie Anderson for Challengers and Carly Smith for Yell.