Our cental match venue, Tudor Grange, Redditch, notified the league that there wasn’t anyone to open up, with less than 24 hours notice!!!

Flooded courts prevented Team Clubs from playing their match but Spades and Diamonds succeeded with 2 wins!

Spades played Jaguar 1.
It was a close match all the way through to the the last minute. Closely contested between both teams. A lot of interceptions in both defence and centre court from Spades who capitalised and took the win 38-36
POM went to Suzanne Perkins 👏 Diamonds played against Hotshot Hornets 3 today. The play was exceptional, good control, hardly any footwork in difficult playing conditions and ♦️ won 43-22 POM was Chiara Chambers.

A little delayed but just wanted to say well done to Aces on their win against Ryland last Sunday: It was evident that once Aces calmed down in the second half, and made a couple of changes, they took more control of the game. It is always easy to get caught up in the other teams speed instead of playing ‘your’ game. It flowed more, and there were more directional movements when needed. Great defence work in the D with some great turnovers resulting in goals! Well done Aces.

On a beautiful, sunny October morn we saw Teams Hearts and Aces in action.

Hearts played against Stratford Thunderbirds B, a young feisty team who are reputed for their aggressive style of play! Tbirds came out of the blocks running and soon gained an 8 goal lead by end of Q1. A change of positions on Hearts saw them pull it back and by half time Hearts were behind by just 3 goals. A 3 goal lead was maintained by Tbirds into the final quarter, they were getting flustered when Hearts were scoring well achieving 13 goals to their 6. Final score ❤ 44 Tbirds 40
Aces were against a long established Blackbird Divas team. Aces welcomed back a couple of players and also played a player up. This resulted in a change of dynamics on court, with the lack of training as a squad showing. By end of Q1 Aces were trailing by just 5 goals but by half time 11 goals, Q3 15 goals and finally a 20 goal deficit 16-36. I am sure with everyone now back and committing to training Aces can build back up and turn it around.

Some fantastic netball today: our young Diamonds played the established Redditch Rubies and lost by just 10 goals 35-45. I hear they played really well: I was umpiring Clubs v Hotshot Hornets at the same time and they had a fabulous game, winning 79-21. Some loopy passes so maybe we need Elaine shouting ‘no overheads’ from the sideline! Nevertheless the team gelled well with a couple of new players. Team Spades played a lovely game against Droitwich Diamonds, winning 68-21. Passing up and down court was controlled and confident with excellent shooting and defending in both Ds. A much better game than their previous one where they struggled in the first quarter. It may have had something to do with doing a good warm up this time! The final game of the day was Hearts v Panthers
1, which was always going to be a tight one, but we won 51-44. Fast pace game with fluidity up and down court and gelling well with a new player on court too! Don’t turn your back on the ball and keep fighting until the end! Well done teams, a great morning of netball xx

There will be NO training Monday 19th September 2022 as we say our final goodbyes to her Majesty.

Aces v OBs today, Hannah from Spades played up and was fabulous. Without her Aces would only have had 6 players! Where were all Aces, we really needed subs! The girls played their socks off, Q1 Aces were in the lead 12-7 but OBs gained the lead in Q2 and by the end the score was 35-43. Well played ladies and thank you Hannah.

it was an honour to receive awards on behalf of Team Spades and Team Aces, winning their divisions in previous winter and summer seasons. Trophies were also presented for the most voted for ‘players of the match’ for the whole league. Thrilled for two of our players to be awarded: congratulations Lauren Goymer in division 1 and Olivia Hunt in division 2!!! Our club is very special. ♦️♣️❤♠️A

With black ribbons attached to our dresses, and a minutes silence to remember our great Queen, today’s netball began with a closely contested game for Spades. Most of the girls had been away from netball for several weeks due to exams then 6 weeks enjoying time off from school, the first match was going to be tough. Nevertheless they only lost by 2 goals against Firefox Sparks 34-32. Team Clubs had a fabulous win against Kingsley 66-14, movement around the court was excellent. Team Diamonds made their debut with an excellent win 63-21 against Droitwich. These girls spent the summer league helping two of our teams out but now they are proving they are a force to be reckoned with this winter season.

The winter league kicked off with team Hearts playing the feisty Stratford Thunderbirds. It was goal for goal mostly but at one point Hearts galloped in front by 4 goals after some great interceptions by the defence. The shooting was amazing and our GS Molly and GA Lauren were on fire in the D. Well deserved player of the match going to Molly Harrison. The final score 60-59 to Hearts ♥️ . Team Aces were missing several of their normal players due to injury, holiday or other commitments. They were blessed to have the addition of a new player and two players from our other teams, one of them being awarded player of the match, well done Lorraine Bennett. The final score 46-29 to Ryland Raiders.