Local netballers Lauren Ngwira and Sharo Kaiche returned home from the United Kingdom on Monday after featuring for Hertfordshire Mavericks during a day-long British Fast5 All-Stars Tournament last Saturday.<\/p>\n
The pair featured for the team as All-Star guests whereas compatriot and netball icon, Mary Waya, was engaged as Mavericks\u2019 shooters\u2019 coach.<\/p>\n
Waya, while in transit in South Africa yesterday, said she would grant The Daily Times <\/em>an interview upon returning home.<\/p>\n Both players could not be reached for a comment.<\/p>\n Thunder Coach, Christina Mkwanda-Nsinji, confirmed that their player, Kaiche, was back.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will meet her over the weekend so that she can share with us on how she faired during the trip,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Netball Association of Malawi (Nam) General Secretary, Carol Bapu, said Mavericks had written the association recommending the trios\u2019 participation in the Fast5 competition.<\/p>\n \u201cSo far, that is the report that we have received,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n During the tournament, Loughborough Lightning were crowned inaugural champions after beating Team Bath 35-33 in a gripping final which went down to the wire at The O2.<\/p>\n Mavericks started the campaign strongly when they beat Surrey Storm 20-11.<\/p>\n In the second match, Mavericks lost to Severn Stars 8-24 before going down 5-26 to Team Bath in the third game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Local netballers Lauren Ngwira and Sharo Kaiche returned home from the United Kingdom on Monday after featuring for Hertfordshire Mavericks during a day-long British Fast5 All-Stars Tournament last Saturday. The pair featured for the team as All-Star guests whereas compatriot and netball icon, Mary Waya, was engaged as Mavericks\u2019 shooters\u2019 coach. Waya, while in transit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54251","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\/54251","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=54251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54255,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54251\/revisions\/54255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}