2018 Netball New Zealand Super Club

The 2018 Netball New Zealand Super Club was the second edition of Netball New Zealand's invitational tournament. With a team coached by Yvette McCausland-Durie, captained by Katrina Grant and featuring Karin Burger, Aliyah Dunn, Ameliaranne Ekenasio, Sulu Fitzpatrick and Claire Kersten, Central Pulse finished the tournament as winners after defeating Mainland Tactix 61–56 in the final.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} All the matches were hosted at the Trafalgar Centre in Nelson between 19 August and 24 August 2018. All the matches were broadcast live on Sky Sport (New Zealand). The tournament also featured two-points for long shots as previously used in Fast5 netball.^[6][7][8][9]

2018 Netball New Zealand Super Club
League	Netball New Zealand Super Club
Sport	Netball
Duration	19 August–24 August 2018
Number of teams	8
TV partner(s)	Sky Sport (New Zealand)
Winners	Central Pulse
Runners-up	Mainland Tactix

Teams

The tournament featured eight teams. These included the top three from the 2018 ANZ Premiership season – Southern Steel, Central Pulse and Mainland Tactix.^{[6][7][8][9][10][11]}

Team	League
Central Pulse	ANZ Premiership
Gauteng Jaguars	Netball League (South Africa)
Marama Vou	(Note 1)
New South Wales Institute of Sport	(Note 2)
Mainland Tactix	ANZ Premiership
UWS Sirens[12][13][14][15]	Netball Superleague
Southern Steel	ANZ Premiership
Singapore Sneakers	Netball Super League (Singapore)

Notes

^1 Marama Vou were a Pacific Islander representative team organised by Netball Fiji and featuring players from Fiji, Samoa and New Zealand. Vicki Wilson was the team's head coach. Frances Solia served as team mentor.^[7][16][17]

^2 The New South Wales Institute of Sport team was effectively a combined Netball New South Wales Waratahs and Canberra Giants team.^[18]

Group A

Matches

Day 1

19 August 2018	Mainland Tactix	86–51	Sneakers
6.40pm	Kate Beveridge  36/45 (80%) Jess Prosser  23/36 (64%) Brooke Leaver  9/18 (50%) Hannah Glen  8/10 (80%)	Stats	Pei Ying Wong  17/31 (55%) Amorangi Malesala  13/20 (65%) Xin Yi Liu  0/4 (0%)

19 August 2018	Southern Steel	61–65	Gauteng Jaguars
8.30pm	Jennifer O'Connell  28/36 (78%) Georgia Heffernan  12/26 (46%) Olivia Bates  8/18 (44%)	Report Stats	Ine-Marí Venter  40/48 (83%) Chantelle Swart  16/26 (62%)

Sources:^[19][20][21]

Day 2

20 August 2018	Mainland Tactix	64–36	Gauteng Jaguars
4.50pm	Ellie Bird  28/37 (76%) Jess Prosser  14/19 (74%) Brooke Leaver  12/21 (57%) Hannah Glen  4/6 (67%)	Stats	Ine-Marí Venter  21/36 (58%) Chantelle Swart  6/9 (67%) Danielle Van Zyl  3/5 (60%) Chante Louw  2/3 (67%)

20 August 2018	Southern Steel	80–52	Sneakers
6.40pm	Jennifer O'Connell  40/51 (78%) Georgia Heffernan  24/38 (63%) Olivia Bates  5/11 (45%) Jess Allan  2/4 (50%)	Report Stats	Xin Yi Liu  13/22 (59%) Pei Ying Wong  12/27 (44%) Amorangi Malesala  8/15 (53%)

Sources:^[22][23][24]

Day 3

21 August 2018	Gauteng Jaguars	72–47	Sneakers
3.00pm	Ine-Marí Venter  38/42 (90%) Chante Louw  11/15 (73%) Danielle Van Zyl  10/28 (36%)	Stats	Amorangi Malesala  18/29 (62%) Xin Yi Liu  6/12 (50%) Pei Ying Wong  5/13 (38%)

21 August 2018	Southern Steel	66–51	Mainland Tactix
8.30pm	Jennifer O'Connell  44/51 (86%) Olivia Bates  9/13 (69%) Georgia Heffernan  7/13 (54%)	Report Stats	Ellie Bird  20/27 (74%) Brooke Leaver  11/21 (52%) Kate Beveridge  10/13 (77%) Jess Prosser  2/3 (67%)

Source:^[25]

Final ladder

Group A
Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	%	BP	Pts
1	Southern Steel	3	2	0	1	207	168	123.2	1	7
2	Mainland Tactix	3	2	0	1	201	153	131.4	0	6
3	Gauteng Jaguars	3	2	0	1	173	172	100.6	0	6
4	Sneakers	3	0	0	3	150	238	63.0	0	0

  Qualified for Semi-finals
  5th/8th place classification

Source:^[6]

Group B

Matches

Day 1

19 August 2018	NSWIS	71–51	Marama Vou
3.00pm	Georgia Marshall  27/35 (77%) Kelly Singleton  15/24 (63%) Ang Frketic  10/15 (67%) Matisse Letherbarrow  3/4 (75%)	Stats	Laisani Waqa  20/30 (67%) Alyssa-Jean Savelio  15/24 (63%) Kayla Kiss  5/7 (71%)

19 August 2018	Central Pulse	66–33	UWS Sirens
4.50pm	Aliyah Dunn  29/44 (66%) Saviour Tui  14/36 (39%) Mila Reuelu-Buchanan  0/1 (0%)	Stats	Bethan Goodwin  17/27 (63%) Emma Barrie  4/4 (100%) Laura Towell  4/6 (67%) Monica Falkner  4/8 (50%)

Sources:^[17][19][20]

Day 2

20 August 2018	UWS Sirens	57–60	Marama Vou
3.00pm	Bethan Goodwin  20/24 (83%) Monica Falkner  19/33 (58%) Laura Towell  4/6 (67%)	Report Stats	Laisani Waqa  13/18 (72%) Alyssa-Jean Savelio  23/40 (58%) Kayla Kiss  4/7 (57%)

20 August 2018	Central Pulse	49–50	NSWIS
8.30pm	Aliyah Dunn  21/26 (81%) Ameliaranne Ekenasio  11/32 (34%) Saviour Tui  3/5 (60%)	Stats	Georgia Marshall  24/33 (73%) Kelly Singleton  9/14 (64%) Matisse Letherbarrow  7/10 (70%)

Sources:^[22][23][24]

Day 3

21 August 2018	NSWIS	57–49	UWS Sirens
4.50pm	Georgia Marshall  29/36 (81%) Kelly Singleton  9/13 (69%) Ang Frketic  6/8 (75%) Matisse Letherbarrow  4/5 (80%)	Stats	Monica Falkner  21/35 (60%) Bethan Goodwin  14/21 (67%) Laura Towell  3/5 (60%)

21 August 2018	Central Pulse	81–35	Marama Vou
6.40pm	Aliyah Dunn  20/29 (69%) Ameliaranne Ekenasio  26/39 (67%) Saviour Tui  10/15 (67%) Tiana Metuarau  6/10 (60%)	Report Stats	Laisani Waqa  13/20 (65%) Alyssa-Jean Savelio  11/22 (50%) Kayla Kiss  0/3 (0%)

Source:^[25]

Final ladder

Group B
Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	%	BP	Pts
1	Central Pulse	3	2	0	1	196	118	166.1	1	7
2	NSWIS	3	3	0	0	178	149	119.5	0	9
3	Marama Vou	3	1	0	2	146	209	69.9	0	3
4	UWS Sirens	3	0	0	3	139	183	76.0	0	0

  Qualified for Semi-finals
  5th/8th place classification

Source:^[6]

5th/8th place classification

Semi-finals

23 August 2018	Marama Vou	84–66	Sneakers
3.00pm	Laisani Waqa  42/49 (86%) Alyssa-Jean Savelio  22/33 (67%) Kayla Kiss  2/4 (50%)	Report Stats	Pei Ying Wong  22/36 (61%) Xin Yi Liu  14/23 (61%) Amorangi Malesala  7/16 (44%)

23 August 2018	UWS Sirens	46–39	Gauteng Jaguars
4.50pm	Monica Falkner  22/31 (71%) Bethan Goodwin  9/15 (60%) Emma Barrie  5/5 (100%) Laura Towell  1/3 (33%)	Stats	Ine-Marí Venter  31/36 (86%) Chantelle Swart  4/7 (57%) Danielle Van Zyl  1/8 (13%)

7th/8th place match

24 August 2018	Sneakers	60–57	Gauteng Jaguars
3.00pm	Amorangi Malesala  27/42 (64%) Pei Ying Wong  11/25 (44%)	Stats	Chante Louw  25/31 (81%) Ine-Marí Venter  18/29 (62%) Chantelle Swart  6/15 (40%) Danielle Van Zyl  3/5 (60%)

5th/6th place match

24 August 2018	UWS Sirens	66–57	Marama Vou
4.50pm	Bethan Goodwin  34/45 (76%) Monica Falkner  23/31 (74%)	Stats	Laisani Waqa  26/33 (79%) Alyssa-Jean Savelio  16/24 (67%) Kayla Kiss  1/2 (50%)

1st/4th Play offs

Semi-finals

23 August 2018	Mainland Tactix	64–62	NSWIS
6.40pm	Ellie Bird  30/40 (75%) Kate Beveridge  16/22 (73%) Brooke Leaver  3/4 (75%)	Stats	Georgia Marshall  27/34 (79%) Kelly Singleton  22/28 (79%)

23 August 2018	Central Pulse	64–55	Southern Steel
8.30pm	Aliyah Dunn  34/39 (87%) Ameliaranne Ekenasio  18/26 (69%) Tiana Metuarau  3/6 (50%)	Stats	Jennifer O'Connell  28/35 (80%) Georgia Heffernan  13/26 (50%) Olivia Bates  4/8 (50%)

Sources:^[26]

Third place play-off

24 August 2018 6.40pm	Report Stats	Southern Steel	54–45	NSWIS			Sky Sport
		Scoring by quarter: 11–7, 26–22, 36–35, 54–45
		Jennifer O'Connell  31/34 (91%) Georgia Heffernan  12/21 (57%) Jess Allan  4/5 (80%) Olivia Bates  2/7 (29%) Shannon Francois  1/1 (100%)		Matisse Letherbarrow  16/22 (73%) Georgia Marshall  14/19 (74%) Kelly Singleton  8/15 (53%)

Final

24 August 2018 8.30pm		Central Pulse	61–56	Mainland Tactix			Sky Sport
		Aliyah Dunn  35/39 (90%) Ameliaranne Ekenasio  16/30 (53%) Tiana Metuarau  2/2 (100%)		Ellie Bird  30/38 (79%) Kate Beveridge  15/19 (79%) Brooke Leaver  4/8 (50%)

Sources:^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Final standings

Rank	Team
	Central Pulse
	Mainland Tactix
	Southern Steel
4th	NSWIS
5th	UWS Sirens
6th	Marama Vou
7th	Sneakers
8th	Gauteng Jaguars

Source:^[1]

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