Posts Tagged "ANZ Championship"

Netball championship Magic for Irene van Dyke

By , 23 Jul 2012
 

The Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic made netball history on a number of fronts yesterday, when they defeated the Melbourne Vixens 41-38 to claim the ANZ Championship title.

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Vixens score comeback victory over Firebirds

By , 30 Apr 2012
 

The Melbourne Vixens could be easily be renamed The Comeback Queens, after yesterday’s nail biting win over reigning premiers Queensland Firebirds.

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Melbourne Vixens steal win in thriller at home

By , 23 Apr 2012
 

It was a game the Melbourne Vixens were destined to win and Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic destined to drop. Sounds simple?

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Thunderbirds crash as Vixens claim top spot

By , 18 Apr 2012
 

What promised to be a see-sawing, tightly contested match between the top two Australian teams in this year’s ANZ Netball Championship became a one-sided display by the 2009 premiers Melbourne Vixens.

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Melbourne Vixens extinguish Firebirds’ flame

By , 4 Apr 2012
 

In the wake of last season’s undefeated title-winning season, the dominant Queensland Firebirds were again tipped as ANZ Netball Championship front-runners, paving a path towards back-to-back championships.

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Why netball is ignored by the Olympics

By , 28 Mar 2012
 

The 2012 ANZ Championship will kick off this weekend with reining premiers the Queensland Firebirds hoping to go back-to-back come May. The question is, what is netball’s place in world sport?

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ANZ 2012 Netball Championship review

By , 20 Mar 2012
 

Only days away from the opening round of the 2012 ANZ Championship season here is a run down on every team.

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2012 ANZ Championship netball preview

By , 7 Mar 2012
 

After a longer than usual off-season, the 2012 ANZ Championship is less than a month away. And I have decided to throw out some out-there predictions, and some not so out-there predictions.

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Robert Wright: the changing face of netball

By , 21 Jun 2011
 

Netball is perhaps the most female orientated sport in Australia, so it would be a surprise to many that one of the most successful netball coaches is actually a male.

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Queensland Firebirds crowned ANZ Champions

By , 23 May 2011
 

The Queensland Firebirds took out the ANZ Championship grand final last night with the help of an explosive third quarter, beating the Northern Mystics 57-44.

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Firebirds complete netball sweep

By , 1 May 2011
 

Queensland Firebirds completed a regular-season sweep of the trans-Tasman netball league on Saturday but questions linger about their title credentials without skipper Lauren Nourse.

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ANZ Championship set for dream finals

By , 27 Apr 2011
 

With one regular season round remaining in the ANZ Championship, the stars have aligned to give the competition some final round games and a finals series that the AFL and NRL would dream for.

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Queensland Firebirds continue unbeaten run

By , 1 Mar 2011
 

The Queensland Firebirds have continued their perfect trans-Tasman netball competition start with a thumping 62-38 victory over the struggling West Coast Fever at Challenge Stadium on Monday night.

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Netball is on the rise (again) in Australia

By , 15 Jul 2010
 

Over 9,300 people turned up to the Adelaide Entertainment Centre on Sunday to see the mighty Thunderbirds defeat the Waikato/BOP Magic and win the ANZ championship.

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Swifts to battle it out against the Magic

By , 1 Jul 2010
 

Sydney Swifts and Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic will battle it out this Sunday at Newcastle Entertainment Centre for a spot in the ANZ Championship Grand Final against the Adelaide Thunderbirds.

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Can the Thunderbirds go all the way this year?

By , 14 Jun 2010
 

With the Adelaide Thunderbirds confirming a finals birth with a solid win over the West Coast Fever (54-45), a question keeps coming up in my mind: can Adelaide’s game plan win them their first ANZ Championship?

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Queensland rises and rocks the competition

By , 26 Apr 2010
 

The Queensland Firebirds celebrated their “most satisfying” moment in the trans-Tasman netball league by humiliating Melbourne before promising more to come.

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Vixens lift trans-Tasman netball trophy

By , 27 Jul 2009
 

Sharelle McMahon provided the scare, the spark and the shooting firepower to lift the Melbourne Vixens to their first trans-Tasman netball championship on Sunday.

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Netball resists expansion despite boom

By , 24 Jul 2009
 

Netball’s trans-Tasman competition will resist rushing expansion or full professionalism for players despite a boom season which will culminate in a sellout grand final on Sunday.

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Vixens crush Magic to earn grand final berth

By , 13 Jul 2009
 

Minor premiers Melbourne Vixens cruised through to the trans-Tasman netball competition grand final with a crushing 58-43 major semi-final win over Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic at Melbourne’s Hisense Arena on Sunday.

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