Tara Murray
The City West Falcons built nicely to come away with another win in the Victorian Netball League championship division.
Having played on Sunday, the Falcons had a short turnaround to Wednesday night’s match against the North East Blaze.
The short break didn’t do anything to hold the Falcons momentum, winning 71-54.
Falcons coach Marg Lind walked away pretty happy with the win against the fourth placed Blaze, which has a couple of teams in hot pursuit.
“We built across the course of the game,” she said.” We had a few errors here and there and gave them the opportunity to stay in the game longer.
“It as a pretty good performance over all.”
Lind said the short break meant they didn’t have the opportunity to work on anything that they wanted to in between games.”
The Falcons looked to use their options again with all 10 players getting on court.
Jane Cook was again the star in goals with 47 goals.
The match up of the night was the battle between sisters, Sienna and Nyah Allen.
Lind said they weren’t anticipating that match up.
“I think Sienna would have got on top, it was a really good game by her,” she said.
“We didn’t expect that we thought they would go with their other goaling option or Nyah in goal attack, we were a bit worried and didn’t think it was ideal
“It was played in such good spirit and Sienna was awesome and had the upper hand as the older sister.”
Lind said the pleasing thing it was another strong cross court performance from the group, which has had just one loss for the season.
She said they again tried to get plenty of court time into Soli Ropati in her return from injury as they make sure she is qualified for finals
“Soli fits like a glove,” she said. “The defensive end really consolidated while the offensive end is high scoring and are working really hard on the centre pass and overall linking up really nicely.”
Lind said now with a full week between games they would look to work on more things to have more tricks up their bags for finals.
She said they would also be working hard to make sure Ropati and Kim Borger in championship division and Olivia Cameron, in division 1, got qualified for finals.
The Falcons division 1 team suffered a two goal loss to the Blaze after a poor shooting performance, which will harm the side’s chance of a top two spot.
The under-19s won by the same margin and are now in the box seat for a top two spot.
The Falcons next week face Melbourne University, with the club’s championships side coming off four straight wins.
Lind said it would be a challenging game.
