Australian netball great Sharelle McMahon is still struggling to believe she will become the fifth female athlete immortalised with a statue in Victoria.
Netball Australia has ordered the Melbourne Vixens to pay more than $56,000 with a further $25,000 suspended for not playing in a scheduled game in Perth last season.
For all the scandal and drama around the West Coast Fever v Melbourne Vixens match-up,their delayed game on Thursday night was an uneventful win for the WA side.
Collingwood have again silenced cross-town rivals the Vixens with a 52-48 win at Netball SA stadium in the second Victorian derby moved this season.
The Swifts showed why they are top of the ladder on Saturday while Collingwood’s Geva Mentor readied herself for a career milestone.
Adelaide Thunderbirds defender Shamera Sterling proved the difference as her club denied Collingwood victory in their Super Netball clash in Adelaide on Sunday.
On the face of it,the Vixens broke the rules by not fielding a team in a scheduled match. That they have appeared to have been able to do this without any form of censure beggars belief.
The round-eight clash between the Fever and Vixens was called off after three Vixens players were denied entry into WA because they had spent time in NSW during the bye round.
The Vixens salvaged their percentage with two super shots but on the final siren last year’s wooden spoon winners had defeated the reigning premiers by 16 points.
The NSW Swifts “rediscovered themselves”,running over the top of a fumbly Collingwood to win by nine goals,after Vixen Rahni Samason went from injury substitute to player of the match against the Firebirds.
The Melbourne Vixens finished strongly after the Lightning took an early advantage,but just came up short in a Mother’s Day thriller at John Cain Arena.