Goal-shoot­er Adasha Nor­ton brought the heat for Fire Ser­vice to get them past TSTT to ad­vance in the Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion knock­out com­pe­ti­tion in the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League on Tues­day evening.

It was the lone match of the four clash­es sched­uled that evening which saw ac­tion at the Cen­tre of Ex­cel­lence in Ma­coya, Tu­na­puna and the lead­ing Fire Ser­vice team sealed a 24-19 vic­to­ry in the first round of the knock­out.

Al­so vic­to­ri­ous that evening were Po­lice X and Y teams and Jabloteh, which won by de­fault af­ter their re­spec­tive op­po­nents Bermudez, the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) and the Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC) Sparks, did not show up.

In the fi­nal match card­ed in the 20-minute-a-half com­pe­ti­tion, Nor­ton was up for the task and net­ted 23 goals from 33 at­tempts to help the fire­women progress af­ter lead­ing at half­time, 15-11.

TSTT tried dif­fer­ent shoot­ing com­bi­na­tions, open­ing with duo Can­dace Gibbs (8/12) as the goal-shoot­er and, Jo­ce­lyn Mar­celle (5/6) as the goal-at­tack. Lat­er re­plac­ing Mar­celle with Kani­ka Paul-Payne (6/10), who had opened in the de­fen­sive end.

How­ev­er, the change did not bore fruit as TSTT had hoped and the "Tele­phone Girls" were elim­i­nat­ed.

Fire, which emerged the league cham­pi­on on the week­end af­ter de­feat­ing Open Cam­pus of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), 39-24, moves on to meet Po­lice Y, in the first semi­fi­nal at 7.10 pm. The oth­er semi­fi­nal­ist will be de­ter­mined from the win­ners of the ear­li­er quar­ter­fi­nal match­es be­tween De­fence Force and Po­lice X at 5.30 pm and Open Cam­pus ver­sus Jabloteh at 6.20 pm. That semi­fi­nal pass­es off at 8 pm as teams bat­tled to get in­to Sat­ur­day's fi­nal.

Re­sults

TSTT 19 (Can­dace Gibbs 8/12, Jo­ce­lyn Mar­celle 5/6, Kani­ka Paul-Payne 6/10) vs Fire 24 (Adasha Nor­ton 23/33, Pearl St John 1/8). Half­time: 15-11 (Fire).