Dar Es Salaam — THE national netball team, Taifa Queens today recorded their first victory in the ongoing Six Nations Cup at the Toa Payoh Sports Hall in Singapore, with a 43-32 win over Canada. It was also the first victory for Taifa Queens outside Africa.
Queens are now positioned third in the competition table with two points from three outings while Northern Ireland are leading followed by Scotland, both on six points from three matches but the former are ahead on goal difference.
According to reports from Singapore, Taifa Queens moved the ball slickly down court, though struggled at times with the height and accuracy of Canada's shooters.
Tanzanian centre Faraja Malaki was in the thick of the action throughout, switching play and keeping her opponent guessing and overturning possession. Canada was down by seven points at the break (15-22).
Canada brought Jessie Evans into their central role. Despite Canada having a higher shooting percentage, they were unable to turn it around and will now regroup and focus on the challenge of the Scotland on Friday.
The national team captain, Jacqueline Sikozi was very pleased with her team's result saying "We lost our first two matches because we did not have any experience, but now we are good enough to win and we did that today.
I think we can do well against Malaysia tomorrow." Taifa Queens head coach Mary Protas was encouraged by the performance of her team saying, "It was a nice game for both sides today and our girls tried to play their best.
We have noted some small mistakes, but they did a commendable job taking into account this being their maiden assignment outside Africa."
Taifa Queens will tomorrow lined up to play Malaysia in the fourth edition of the Nations Cup which is expected to wind up on Saturday.
Taifa Queens lost their opening match against Northern Ireland and a game against Scotland.
Source:allafrica.com/
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