Malawi National Netball Team influential shooter, Mwawi Kumwenda, inspired her Australian club, Melbourne Vixens, back to the top of Australia\u2019s Suncorp Super Netball with a 71-50 win over Adelaide Thunderbirds at Margaret Court Arena on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Mwawi top-scored in the game with 48 goals that translated into a 91 percent conversation rate.<\/p>\n
After GWS Giants opened the door for them with a shock loss at home to Queensland Firebirds on Friday night, Vixens stormed through that opening with a comprehensive start-to-finish display.<\/p>\n
According to heraldsun. com.au, <\/em>it was not Vixens\u2019 most complete performance of the season with the determined Thunderbirds making life hard early on in what was their second-last match of the season.<\/p>\n But having lost to Giants last week, Coach, Simone McKinnis, said it was just important to get back to winning ways.<\/p>\n \u201cThey were all pretty disappointed (after last week) and it took them a couple of days. You could see that they were a little bit flat at training on Wednesday, but come Friday I felt, \u2018yep, OK, they are on with it now. That is netball, you have got to be able to win, able to lose, but get on with it,\u201d McKinnis said.<\/p>\n It took only 10 seconds for Vixens to take the lead from the opening throw through Mwawi and they held that one-goal margin at quarter time despite missing four of their 21 shots and Thunderbirds going at 100 per cent.<\/p>\n But by half-time, McKinnis\u2019 team had been rewarded for its midcourt dominance, with the lead having blown out to five goals\u2014although that margin had been as much as nine.<\/p>\n Wing attack Liz Watson was instrumental, and ended the match with 27 assists, but goal keeper Emily Mannix and goal defence Jo Weston provided a fortress at the back, forcing Thunderbirds into an attacking reshuffle midway through the second quarter.<\/p>\n That momentum carried on after the main break, with Vixens extending the gap to 12 goals by three-quarter time before blowing it out to 21 against the labouring visitors.<\/p>\n Mannix was named Most Valuable Player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malawi National Netball Team influential shooter, Mwawi Kumwenda, inspired her Australian club, Melbourne Vixens, back to the top of Australia\u2019s Suncorp Super Netball with a 71-50 win over Adelaide Thunderbirds at Margaret Court Arena on Saturday. Mwawi top-scored in the game with 48 goals that translated into a 91 percent conversation rate. After GWS Giants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46884,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46883\/revisions\/46884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}