{"id":29861,"date":"2016-10-30T02:39:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T02:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/fast5-ferns-earn-place-in-final-with-massive\/"},"modified":"2016-10-30T02:39:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T02:39:15","slug":"fast5-ferns-earn-place-in-final-with-massive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/fast5-ferns-earn-place-in-final-with-massive\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast5 Ferns earn place in final with massive performance against Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The Fast5 Ferns will have the chance to compete for their sixth World Series title after first-quarter scoring blitz led them to a 52-27 win over Malawi.}<\/p>\n<p>In their final match of round robin play at the Fast5 Netball World Series in Melbourne on Sunday, the New Zealand team wasted no time in getting points on the board.<\/p>\n<p>In the opening quarter, shooters Maria Tutaia and Te Paea Selby-Rickit combining for 14 points, including four three-pointers.<\/p>\n<p>Leading 14-6 after one period of play, the Ferns looked to lift the tempo and get the ball to their shooters quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Locked in from deep, Tutaia continued to launch from the three-point zone and, with the help of some quality ball movement, guided the Ferns to a 25-12 lead at half time.<\/p>\n<p>The Ferns&#8217; half time score was just one point short of their final score against Jamaica earlier in the day, when they won 26-16.<\/p>\n<p>The score at the break was an ominous one for Malawi, who had struggled to stay with the New Zealanders, as the Ferns had their double-points power play in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Tutaia made the gap even wider, opening the power play with a goal from the three-point zone, pushing the score to 31-12 in seconds.<\/p>\n<p>With three minutes still to play in the quarter and the Ferns draining another two shots from the three-point zone, Malawi found themselves 28 points adrift and began to launch long shots themselves.<\/p>\n<p>However, they were unable to have any success in the quarter and the Ferns took full advantage to go into the final period with an impressive 47-15 lead.<\/p>\n<p>With all the work to do and the power play coming their way, Malawi needed a massive final quarter to claim their spot in the final.<\/p>\n<p>However, they were unable to get close to the New Zealand side, who took out a 25-point win.<\/p>\n<p>The Fast5 Ferns will go on to play Australia at 9:25pm (NZ time) this evening in the final.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16039 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1477802919353.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Tutaia shot well against Jamaica on Sunday.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Fast5 Ferns will have the chance to compete for their sixth World Series title after first-quarter scoring blitz led them to a 52-27 win over Malawi.} In their final match of round robin play at the Fast5 Netball World Series in Melbourne on Sunday, the New Zealand team wasted no time in getting points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100],"byline":[2728],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","byline-stuff"],"bylines":[{"id":2728,"name":"Stuff","slug":"stuff","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2728,"name":"Stuff","slug":"stuff","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29861"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29861"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}