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HEARTS 70 VS ACES 36
A wonderful interclub game.
Some wonderful defensive work from Pippa Kelly Katia Cardin and Kate really helped control the game and put pressure on the wonderful aces shooters and attackers. Beautiful intercepts and works from all three.
Sarah Henderson as usual managed the game amazingly in centre. Working the ball up and down court and picking up some loose balls.
Shannon Hall Natalie Jayne Lauren Goymer working the ball around the final third and circle ensuring we worked the ball closer to the post.
Really lovely to see what we are working on in training come in to the games.

Thank you Aces for a wonderful 2nd game of the season. We look forward to our face off next year🫶🏻

Written by Molly – Hearts Captain

Win for Hearts♥️🏆
Hearts secured a strong 62–44 victory over Raiders Bolts, delivering a confident and controlled performance across all areas of the court. The attacking circle worked with impressive fluidity, using a varied mix of passes to move the ball quickly and convert from each centre pass with ease. Raiders struggled to disrupt the smooth transition through court

In the centre court, Hearts controlled space, with clear channels and transitioned through court with speed. The team’s movement and vision through midcourt allowed them to dictate play and maintain momentum throughout the match.

Defensively, Hearts were equally sharp. They read the game brilliantly, picking off loose or misplaced balls and turning them into valuable turnovers. Their pressure and anticipation were crucial in widening the score margin.

The second half brought an unfortunate loss of a player for Raiders after a nasty finger dislocation. Despite being reduced to six players, they showed great resilience and continued to put up a strong fight, challenging Hearts right to the final whistle.

It was also great to have injured Jodie on the sidelines offering support, giving the team an extra boost. Shannon’s standout performance earned her Players’ Player, well-deserved for her consistency, speed and impact on court.

Overall, it was a composed, well-rounded display and a fully deserved win for Hearts

Written by Lauren – Player.

Aces 24 – 48 Panthers
Aces faced a tough challenge against Panthers, but despite the final score of 48-24, the team put in a performance to be proud of.
Panthers had a strong set of players, yet Aces stayed composed and showed real fight. Our defence worked hard to disrupt Panthers’ flow, and midcourt & shooters worked the ball patiently around the opposition’s feisty defence.
We went into this game knowing we wanted to play at our own pace, and kept a positive attitude throughout. A solid effort and a great step forward for the team!

Written by Grace C – Player

♣️Clubs 50 – Ryland 54
Clubs took on the young and fit Ryland on Sunday and narrowly missed out on the win.

Q1 saw us start out steady and scared to make any large moves given the slippery court!!! Needless to say we started a little messy and took a minute to settle down …

Going into Q2 we calmed down and worked the ball through court. Libby, Mary and George worked tirelessly in defence while feeding up to Lorraine and chlo leaping around in centre court!

We started Q3 11 goals down !!! And WOW what a come back we made!!! The feeds into Jennette worked beautifully 😍 , whose shooting was as accurate as ever leading us to finish with just a 1 goal difference!!!
This quarter was superb! And really showed what we are capable of and what has been working well from training.

Going into Q4 the nippy little Ryland team just nicked the win and capitalised on our loose balls!!

Overall a great game with great atmosphere ✨✨ looking forward to working together in training and getting them next time 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

Written by Olivia – Player

Queens vs Redditch pearls 34-31

Game started well with a strong first two quarters. Queens defence were able to intercept and turn over possession reading the oppositions moves well. Sophie as a WA had great feeds into the circle utilising the low balls practiced in this weeks training, which worked well against the tall defenders. Frankie and Ame working well as GA and GS, constantly moving and reworking the ball not rushing or giving into defensive pressure allowing us to start with high scores. As a team we worked together keeping the game slow and controlled to maintain possession (and trying to stay upright on slippy grounds).

Despite high efforts, lack of subs, tired legs (and a few falls) got the better of us allowing the other team to catch up. Despite a loss in score, as a team we should not be disheartened as we still showed great technical skill and teamwork.

Working on maintaining energy and driving to create space will hopefully give us the edge to come back stronger at the next match.

Written by Fran – Player

This week it was a tough match against Blackbird Divas. With mostly wins under our belts for the past few seasons we went into the match rather comfortable despite deep down knowing this may well be a challenge.
We started off very strong, putting pressure on Blackbirds and leading in the first quarter. However, unfortunately, we couldn’t keep this pace up and quickly Blackbirds got momentum and our lead had gone. We kept it fairly close for a while and fought hard but in the third quarter our positive mindset and energy dropped, and before we knew it they had a comfortable lead. The final score was 47-27 to Blackbird Divas. We put up a good fight and played some great netball, but also have come away with knowing what we need to work on to get stronger as a team.
Well played all and particularly to Katie Brown for getting captains player!

Written by Rose – Player

Hearts vs CBH
Score: 50 – 40

Sorry for the delay – better late than never!

Hearts match was a wet one from start to finish, so our first win was not getting injured on the slippery courts (despite Shan’s best ice skating efforts! ⛸)

With the court and ball slippery, Molly’s pre-game pep talk encouraged us to play a controlled steady game, with limited overheads (unless they were on, which of course some were – can’t resist a Nat special if it’s on!). The wet weather lead to some really strategic play throughout the court. 🌧

The shooters did really well to change direction and stand their ground without slipping over. The opposition commented throughout the game on Molly’s great hold and meeting the ball when those overs did inevitably come. Jodie created much needed space in the D, and both worked really well together with some smashing shooting.

Shan didn’t get the memo to take it easy – she was on another level (thankfully not on the floor! 😂); she bought the energy and was awarded a well-earned player of the match. Both her, and Sarah at C, had some great feeds into the D and worked really well with the shooters, always there when needed but not getting in the way. Sarah’s fitness, as usual, never faltered!

Kate was a strong yet steadying presence in WD, supporting for an attacking reset if needed, swooping in for some fabulous interceptions, and always being in perfect position for a defensive backline.

Our guest star this week was Edie, who played a fantastic 1/2 game as GD. It’s always a pleasure playing with Edie, she’s a super strong circle defender and slots right into the team. She reads the game excellently, and it felt like a lovely partnership – we did a few sneaky ‘switches’ which resulted in some turnovers. 🥳

Finally, shout out to Nat for playing GD in the second ½, which just goes to show how versatile our team is! It was really enjoyable having her orchestrate the game from the defensive end; blocking the GA out of the circle, calling directions on the zone, ‘switching’ in the D, plus we got some nice turn overs that capitalized on. 🎉

Overall, I think our fitness, fab teamwork, communication, and encouraging attitude are some of our greatest strengths, and these gave us the edge to adapt to the rainy conditions better than the opposition. Go team! 💪🏼

Written by Katia – Player

Aces took on BDR.
We went into the match anticipating a tough battle as often BDR have the ability to get under our skin and not let us play our usual game.
However, we got off to a great start; flowing the ball down the court and popping it into Chloe Evans who was holding her space beautifully. Before we knew it we had a brilliant lead and hoped to sit comfortably for the win.
But unfortunately after the first quarter they re-set and as anticipated, they flipped the momentum and had us running around them. Gradually they pulled back the lead and eventually took the lead in the third quarter. We utilised some tactical changes and went into the final quarter just one goal down. With some final changes of position we went into the final quarter positive, knowing we just had to play our game as we did in the final quarter. And amazing, we did just that. We got our momentum back, keeping possession on our centre passes and some fantastic turnovers on theirs by Leah Wood and Katie Brown. As a result the score was 49 to 42 to us at the final whistle. A huge thankyou so Millie Byrne for playing up – you really wouldn’t have known you’re not in our squad!! And a very well deserved captains player to Chloe.

Written by Rose – Player

Woohoo!!! What a game 😃 okay so we lost, but hey, it was worth the rain and the slippery balls just to have Leanne as GS AND get player!!!! @⁨Leanne Hudson⁩ you were amazing. Thank you so much for rearranging your plans today for us, we couldn’t have done it without you ❤️
To everyone else, you were incredible! Mary you are mental! Nothing phases you when it comes to defending and how you stay on two feet is something to behold!

To work on at training is driving forward for the ball and not being too static; tricky in wet conditions. Also to always keep our eye on the ball/game. We lost few where we had intercepted but wasn’t watching the ball to pick it up.

Well done everyone! We will smash them on the reverse fixture- nasty vixens!

Final score 39-30 to Vixens

Written by Lorraine – Captain

👑 Queens 28-29 Redditch Rubies 🛑
A very strong Queens squad took to the court this morning in some cold, misty weather and were ahead the whole game until the very final couple of minutes 🥹😩

Every player played their strongest game and worked seamlessly as a team; patient play gave us a lead of 13-7 in the first quarter and this continued throughout with very sparse moments of panic and waiting for the right person in the right space before letting the ball go 🧘‍♀️ Queens really deserved the win so it was a little heart wrenching to watch it just slip away in the last moment, but equally, this was the strongest Queens have played, and we are taking away some really positive points (being patient with the ball, patience against a very physical team, always backing each other up, lots of forced errors and no moments of panic!)

As always, everyone played their own position on court to a T – defence saw Luc, Beth, Fran and Stace take flying intercepts and rebounds from post to convert into goals for Queens. Defence master Stacey played a few roles (GD, WA and WD) and executed all of them with ease 😍

Attack worked equally brilliantly with Ximena, Frankie and Amy slotting in extremely well together and using the opposition’s height to our advantage by dropping the ball into the circle successfully multiple times, which led us to getting a good lead in the first half, and when Redditch took their defence up a notch in the second half, all the girls stayed calm and collected and played the ball around beautifully. Our centre Katie linked the attack and defence fantastically!

Some things for us to take away from this; how successful our patient play was and dropping the ball into the circle, and this translates to playing the game that’s in front of us and knowing and executing what is working well on the day. Next steps for Queens are to learn and practice the stages of defence across the whole court and use this in matches! 💖

The biggest shout out of all goes to our newest teammate, Fran, (who shall now be known as “Tigger”!) who played her first match with Queens and was awarded POM – absolutely well deserved for tireless defence, forcing numerous errors for the opposition and those absolute springs in her shoes! 👏🏼 👑

Written by Frankie – Captain