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After a week of reflection, Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel returned to the winner’s circle with an emphatic 71-62 win over Robinhood Stars in Invercargill on Sunday.
Rugby and netball are starkly contrasting sporting codes but physiotherapist Andrew Mackintosh is discovering plenty of similarities.
If the Southern Steel’s season opener against the Tactix was a game to remember, tonight’s clash against the Mystics was one to forget, and quickly.
Ali Wilshier’s comeback from a serious knee injury started long before she even emerged from the operating theatre.
The Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel enjoyed the luxury of giving all players court-time after delivering an emphatic season-opening 71-54 win over the Trident Homes Tactix in Christchurch on Sunday.
While the threat of unexpected interruption lurks, Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel captain Shannon Saunders is taking a determined approach to this season’s ANZ Premiership from the outset.
As she heads into her sixth season as head coach of the Southern Steel, Reinga Bloxham is as excited about the challenge as ever.
Mitigating risk as the Omicron virus continues to spread has prompted the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel to change venues for two of its ANZ Premiership home games this season.
Te Huinga Reo Selby-Rickit was in Ōtaki on a course in 2017 when someone asked her if her team was okay. They showed her a Stuff article with a photo of the Steel team van on its side in Christchurch.
It’s an A+ on the report card for Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel’s trio of young training partners.
Testing the mettle of combinations in the heat of battle will be a key focus for the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel in its pre-season encounters next week.
The Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel netball team is hopeful its preseason games can continue.
There will be no easing into the new season for the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel’s class of 2022.
The spotlight will be on grassroots netball at the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel’s final home game of the regular season on Saturday.
The Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel will be without the services of star shooter George Fisher for Monday night’s ANZ Premiership game against the Splice Construction Magic.
In a telling final few minutes, Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel completed a dramatic come-from-behind rally to clinch the points in a hard-fought 47-45 win over The Good Oil Tactix in Nelson on Monday.
An epic decider is looming in the battle for South Island netball supremacy and Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel head coach Reinga Bloxham wouldn’t have it any other way.
A sharp shot isn’t the only thing in common for a key trio within the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel team.
On the back of a composed performance, the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel have held on for a significant victory over the second-placed Northern Mystics.
Sarahpheinna Woulf travelled over 3000km to find what she was searching for – a renewed passion for the game of netball.
