West Coast Fever have stored a cool head to chop down the Giants 84-65 in Tremendous Netball’s season opener.
The Giants’ house crowd stored the strain on at Sydney’s Ken Rosewall Enviornment on Saturday towards a Fever facet that received each clashes between the groups final season, and solely missed out on the grand closing by a single objective.
The guests started to dominate as the primary quarter progressed, the lacklustre Giants defence spitting up the ball time after time to lethal Fever objective shooter Jhaniele Fowler-Nembhard.
The Jamaican famous person completed with 70 of her group’s 84 targets in a dominant efficiency.
They could have been trailing on the scoreboard, however a backwards step objective from Jo Harten within the second quarter confirmed off the partnership between the Giants captain and dynamic objective assault Sophie Dwyer.
A fluid West Coast assault offered loads of ammunition to arrange a halftime rating of 45-34.
Regardless of the Fever making a lot much less use of the Tremendous Shot – they scored 4 targets from 9 makes an attempt in comparison with the Giants’ 14 from 23 – they nonetheless managed to return out practically 20 targets on high.
Trailing 67-50 on the closing change, the Giants fought exhausting in a fourth quarter that ended 17-15 within the Fever’s favour.