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Netball and Tournament News |  Superleague - round 13 lucky for some! Northern Thunder and Glasgow Wildcats thoroughly enjoyed round 13 of the Co-operative Netball Superleague action as the teams notched up decisive and important wins. Confident and convincing performances saw the sides leave the court with 2 points a piece.Glasgow Wildcats doubled their win tally for the season beating Loughborough Lightning in front of their home crowd. Head coach Denise Holland was esctatic with a display that proved training hard can pay off if players believe that they can perform at the highest level.Team Northumbria took the points against a mis-firing Celtic Dragons side to reclaim the 6th place in the table that the Scottish side had briefly occupied on Saturday. Leeds Carnegie, suffering a shortage of key personel, were given a thorough workout by Hertfordshire Mavericks who leapfrogged the beaten team to go back to third place in the rankings.Fifth-place Northern Thunder faced the table-topping and undefeated challengers for the Superleague title Surrey Storm in the televised game from Bury on Monday night. They moved into an uncatchable lead early on and the resulting impressive win moves them level on points with Mavericks, but have an ace up their sleeves with a game in hand . |  Netball Pod - The Latest Listen to the latest Netball Pod now!Show 2 of 2010 is live!This week the pod talks transfer window in The Co-operative Netball Superleague looking at the ins and outs, eyeing up the movers and shakers.It also hones in on this season's shooting stats. Leeds Carnegie's hotshot Carla Dziwoki chats about netting the perfect 100 percent as England Under 19 assistant coach Jess Garland talks Netball Europe and with her other hat on TeamBath. There’s all the news from around the globe, including what's happening Stateside and a quick look ahead to the start of the ANZ Championships.To round things off nicely we also get the lowdown on Celebrity Netball 7’s featuring the cast of Shameless, Miss Frank among others, and we introduce our new quiz for our pundits. Surrey Storm’s Jaime Galley and Hertfordshire Mavericks’ Stef Bello play Lady Pod Pod!Don’t miss the latest show at www.thenetballpod.com |  ... back to Superleague It was a busy return to the bread and butter of the Co-operative Netball Superleague after the international break. Surrey Storm maintained their unbeaten run with a tough work out against Hertfordshire Mavericks. Geva Mentor and Sonia Mkoloma made their final appearances before heading off to the ANZ, coach Mary Beardwood apparently ruling out a return should Storm make it to the Grand Final. It was a great defensive performance by both sides as Storm pushed on to win 39-31.Glasgow Wildcats had a weekend of two halves. On Saturday they played well in the second half of the match against Northern Thunder, who are the ones to watch in the Superleague according to England head coach Sue Hawkins. A rolling Thunder side are a sight to behold and efficiently bagged the two points against the fast finishing Wildcats.It was different story for the Glasgow side on Sunday when Team Northumbria arrived to get the fixture from round 5 completed. Northumbria had lost to an impressive TeamBath squad run-out in Newcastle the night before. Wildcats had their captain Lesley MacDonald back under the posts, and maybe that was inspiration enough for them to nail their first win of the season in emphatic style 53-40.The final match of round 11, the televised match on Sky Sports 4 on Thursday 4th March provided something special. Leeds Carnegie's first TV home match of the term was against Celtic Dragons and the score belies how tight the match was. The highlight was the perfect performance by Australian shooter Carla Dziwoki. Thirty times she hoisted the ball high and thirty times it sank through the net. Superleague is starting to live up to its hyperbole. | The Netball Pod Returns The Netball Pod is back, Thursday 25th February, bringing Netball fans across the world a full round up of The Co-operative International Netball Series as well as a look ahead to Rounds 11 and 12 of The Co-operative Netball Superleague. Guest panelists include Sue Hawkins, Sonia Mkoloma and Sara Bayman and host Lisa O'Sullivan will be getting answers to all those questions Netball fans are dying to ask following England's defeat to Australia at the final test match at The O2 on Tuesday. Fans will also get to listen to an exclusive comment from Dame Kelly Holmes. Dame Kelly presented the winning trophy at The O2, have a look know at our International Series picture gallery! The Netball Pod is available to download for free so visit www.thenetballpod.com now to get exclusive snippets from your favourite Netball stars and get ready to download the full Netball Pod Thursday 25th February from 12 noon. |  Jade Clarke 'megs' Eboni Beckford-Chambers Check out Jade Clarke getting the better of Eboni Beckford-Chambers on YouTube Jade bounced the ball through Eboni's legs at the Valentine's Day Northern Thunder v TeamBath fixture, much to the delight of the crowd and Northern Thunder players! Have a look now and add to the 550+ people that have already taken a peek.Click on the image to view :-) |
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