Guyana succumb to USA 82-25

Jul 19, 2012 Sports

– Coach says retaining ball possession is a weak area for Guyana

By Juanita Hooper in Trinidad and Tobago
Guyana’s National Netballers last evening went down fighting to the United States of America (USA) netball team, this time 82-25 in the American Federation of Netball Association (AFNA) at the Jean Pierre Complex, Port-of-Spain.
Camille Henry of the USA looped in 18 goals for her team, while R. Davis-Francis netted one in the first quarter to take an early 13 points lead against the Guyanese who had 6 points. Angeline McCarthy netted 5 goals out of her 8 attempts, while Simonica Fanfair scored 1 from her 3 attempts (score 19-6).
The Americans extended the lead by 17 points in the second quarter when Henry credited her team 17 goals from a 19 shooting attempt. Guyana’s McCarthy entered 6 goals to the account which was not competitive with the Americans. Fanfair following the footsteps of her team mate, managing to score 2 from her 4 attempts. The score was now 36-14 at the end of the quarter.
The remaining two quarters saw the Americans adding a total of 46 goals as Guyana scored 11 more to conclude the game as the losers, 82-25.
Speaking with Coach Lavern Thomas-Fraser on the team after the game, this publication was made to understand that team have to adjust their game in order to come out victorious in the tournament and one key ingredient necessary to do so is retaining ball possession in the game. “They need to work at retaining possession of the ball as much as possible and to do this we need to capitalize on the fact that the umpires are not hurrying their calls in terms of the minutes of time you keep the ball.”
Indicating the challenges the coach added the players had to be reminded far too often on the adjustment of the game, “We have been accustomed that you must pass the ball in three seconds but somehow the three seconds we play at home is a lot shorter. So we have been finding it a real challenge to make the adjustments.”
She continued, “This could have been seen in the first half of the game where the players were taking their time and by time the second half they kind of fell back into their normal role, so they had to be reminded ever so often that we are trying to work at something different.”

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