England matched the joint-highest score of the competition so far as they swept Samoa aside to complete their Group D campaign with three wins from three at the Vitality Netball World Cup.
The 90-24 victory came after what coach Tracey Neville admitted had been an ‘emotional’ evening after Layla Guscoth was ruled out of the remainder of the tournament with a ruptured Achilles, sustained in yesterday’s win over Scotland.
The Roses now progress to the next phase of the competition with a 100% record, as do New Zealand, who were equally as dominant as they beat Singapore 89-21 today.
Uganda won the battle with Scotland to finish second in Group D, beating the Thistles 52-43 in what is the tightest winning margin of the competition so far.
Individual match reports from all the session 5 matches are available below:
New Zealand 89-21 Singapore (Group B)
England 90-24 Samoa (Group D)
Malawi 65-41 Barbados (Group B)
Uganda 52-43 Scotland (Group D)
The latest preliminaries stage 1 group tables are available here.
Upcoming:
The preliminaries stage 1 conclude with this afternoon’s session 6, in which Australia play Sri Lanka, Jamaica and South Africa meet, Northern Ireland face Zimbabwe and Trinidad and Tobago are up against Fiji. Fixtures for the next stage of the competition will be confirmed at the completion of session 6 matches.
The full tournament schedule is available to view here.
Courtesy of Netball World Cup
