Malawi national netball team, fired up by star-shooter, Mwawi Kumwenda, beat Fiji 67-52 at the on-going Taini Jamison Trophy Netball Tournament in Auckland, New Zealand Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Australia-based shooter was named player of the match at North Shore Events Centre, where on Wednesday, the Queens lost 75-42 to New Zealand in the opener for the warm up tournament for the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, the world\u2019s sixth-positioned Malawi dominated the first-half against the 12th-ranked Fijians, according to www.au.sports.yahoo. com. <\/em><\/p>\n The Queens usually beat all teams that are ranked below them but struggle against top ranked opposition such as fourth-placed Jamaica, who they date today at the same venue.<\/p>\n During yesterday\u2019s game, the Queens went ahead 20-11 in the first-quarter, and 40-21 at half-time.<\/p>\n The website adds that Malawi were clinical in converting a wealth of turnover balls into goals via shooters Kumwenda and Sindi Simtowe.<\/p>\n Fiji, coached by former New Zealand Assistant Coach Vicki Wilson, launched a third-quarter comeback.<\/p>\n A tighter mid-court defensive effort, and some impressive work from goal-keeper Episake Kahatoka was well finished by shooters, Asa Rusivakula and Alesi Paul, who nailed 15 from 20 attempts to Malawi\u2019s nine from nine.<\/p>\n Leading 49-36 at the final break, Malawi reasserted some control to take the last quarter 18-16 and close out with the win.<\/p>\n Kumwenda again dominated the scoring for Malawi, sinking 54 from 63 while Rusivakula impressed with 32 from 35.<\/p>\n In the previous game played on Wednesday, Fiji lost 83-38 to Jamaica who went on to beat New Zealand 59-51 yesterday.<\/p>\n All the four teams continue their final shakedown before next month\u2019s Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n Malawi starting 7: <\/strong>Kumwenda (GS), Simtowe (GA), Bridget Kumwenda (C),Thandie Galeta (WA) Joana Kachilika (WD) Towera Vinkhumbo (GD) Lauren Ngwira (GK).<\/p>\n Fiji starting 7: <\/strong>GS M. Rusivakula, GA A. Rusivakula, WA Cirikisuva, C Waqainabete, WD Sawana, GD Naqiri, GK Kahatoka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Malawi national netball team, fired up by star-shooter, Mwawi Kumwenda, beat Fiji 67-52 at the on-going Taini Jamison Trophy Netball Tournament in Auckland, New Zealand Thursday. The Australia-based shooter was named player of the match at North Shore Events Centre, where on Wednesday, the Queens lost 75-42 to New Zealand in the opener for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":62715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62790","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\/62790","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=62790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62796,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62790\/revisions\/62796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}