{"id":74100,"date":"2019-02-06T10:51:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T08:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=74100"},"modified":"2019-02-06T10:51:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T08:51:41","slug":"joyce-mvula-prevails-over-loreen-ngwira","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/02\/06\/joyce-mvula-prevails-over-loreen-ngwira\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Mvula prevails over Loreen Ngwira"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Peter Kanjere: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shooter Joyce Mvula prevailed over compatriot Loreen Ngwira when their respective teams battled for England\u2019s Vitality Netball Superleague honours on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mvula, whose parent club is Lilongwe\u2019s Blue Eagles Sisters, steered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchesterthunder.co.uk\/\">Manchester Thunder<\/a> to a 62-47 win over defender Ngwira\u2019s London Pulse.<\/p>\n<p>Ngwira seemed to have caged Mvula in the early stages of the game but tactical changes saw the shooter steering Thunder to victory.<\/p>\n<p>Ngwira\u2019s manager, Natalie Swift, Tuesday confirmed that her client had mixed fortunes in the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cShe kept Joyce very quiet and did a good job. Manchester Thunder then put on Ellie Cardwell who matched Loreen in height, but Loreen still stayed strong.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLoreen was substituted in the third quarter, but then introduced back in the last quarter. London Pulse could not quite maintain shooting consistency and Manchester Thunder went on to win,\u201d<\/em> Swift said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It was Ngwira\u2019s second game since switching from another English team, Northumbria, while Mvula is into her second season with Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>The former Tigresses player (Ngwira) made a debut for Pulse last week in a 51-49 win over Severn Stars.<\/p>\n<p>Thunder are on second place of the 10-member log table with nine points from three games whereas Pulse sit second from bottom with three points from four matches.<\/p>\n<p>Both players are regulars for the Malawi netball Queens, who will participate in the World Championship to take place in London in August 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s<a href=\"https:\/\/melbournevixens.com.au\/\"> Melbourne Vixens<\/a>\u2019 star Mwawi Kumwenda is another foreign-based Malawian netballer she will miss the world event due to injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Kanjere: Shooter Joyce Mvula prevailed over compatriot Loreen Ngwira when their respective teams battled for England\u2019s Vitality Netball Superleague honours on Monday night. Mvula, whose parent club is Lilongwe\u2019s Blue Eagles Sisters, steered Manchester Thunder to a 62-47 win over defender Ngwira\u2019s London Pulse. Ngwira seemed to have caged Mvula in the early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74100","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\/74100","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=74100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74105,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74100\/revisions\/74105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}