Morobe, Central and NCD dominate the netball courts

MOROBE, Central and host NCD remain undefeated in their respective netball matches in the 4th PNG Games played over the past three days.
The girls from Wopa country beat West New Britain and then collected easy points on forfeiture following East Sepik’s withdrawal from the Games.
Central hammered Manus 48-11 and then escaped a near defeat at the hands of the girls from Flying Fox country, Madang 30-29.
Morobe and Central are both in Pool A, and it will be interesting to see them play each other this morning.
Team NCD recorded two impressive wins yesterday but thrashed New Ireland 56-15 and knocked-out Western Fly 34-24.
Netball tournament director Pole Kassman confirmed last night that these three teams were undefeated and were highly favoured to dominate the finals.
She said there was a lot of talented players out in provinces who had shown potential to become representative netballers.
Kassman, who is also the president of Port Moresby Netball Association, said her pick of the tournament was Team Simbu.
Majority of the players are basketballers who are trying out netball.
“Netball is not popular  in Simbu but we are pleased that these players have decided to try it out and were nominated for the PNG Games,” she said.
Kassman said Simbu and New Ireland are two new teams but they have performed exceptionally well despite they lost their matches against other teams.
Meanwhile the full results of yesterday matches are as follows: Pool A (Round 3) Morobe 40 bt WNB 30, Eastern Highlands 30 bt ESP 0, Madang 39 bt Simbu 8 and Central 48 bt Manus 11,  Round 4: Morobe 20 bt East Sepik 0, Central 30 bt Madang 29 West New Britain 34 bt Manus 19 andEastern Highlands 34 bt Simbu 13 Results for Pool 2 (Round 3) Western Highlands 32 bt Gulf 24, Western 35 bt Oro 28
NCD 56 bt New Ireland 15 and Milne Bay 27 bt Bougainville 25, (Round 4) Western Highlands 36 bt Oro 33, New Ireland 34 bt Milne Bay 26, Gulf 34 bt Bougainville 29 and NCD 34 bt Western 24.