N.Z. wins first netball test

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33676, 28 October 1974, Page 24

N.Z. wins first netball test

(N.Z.P.A. Statf Correspondent) STOKE ON TRENT. The New Zealand women’s netball team won its first test match against England by 53 goals to 46.

But with a score of 34-all at the end of the third quarter the luck would have gone either way, the team’s coach, Mrs L. Muir, said after the match.

“Our team pulled away to a seven-goal lead by the middle of the last quarter. The girls beat England because they worked as a unit right to the end. “The English players became harrassed by each other towards the end and failed to work together. The most outstanding New Zealand player was Frances Granger (goal attack) who scored 32 goals. Beth Carnie (goal shoot) scored 21.” The centre, Christine Pietzner, “played a good steady game and the girls playing defence were excellent.

“Marilyn Munro (goal keeper), Lyn Gunson (wing defence) and Yvonne Willering (goal defence), who made

up the defence, deserved extra credit because our opposition was so much older and more- experienced,” Mrs Muir said.

“I was a little worried at tho third quarter because the girls are used to two 20rninute periods and are not really tuned in to playing in quarters. But they reallychanged to top gear at the end and the English team couldn’t fight back.

“It was a fantastic game — a great crowd pleaser,” Mrs Muir added.

Br;d?e. — Australia defeated New Zealand, 278-219, in a contract bridge test match in Auckland. The contest of 120 deals was spread over two days. Golf.—Holes-in-one were scored on successive days at the Waitikici Golf Club last week. B. McGarry scored an ace using a 3 wood on the par three 204-yard third hoe, and the other was recorded by P. Bume„tf, using a 6 iron, on the 152-yard seventeenth.