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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Norton pushes Fire home

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Rachael Thompson-King
1807 days ago
20200813
TSTT goal-defence Chanteal Perry-McEwan gets up high to block the shot of goal-attack Pearl St John while her goal-shooter Adasha Norton, right, looks on during the first round of the Championship Division knockout competition of the Courts All Sectors Netball League at the Centre of Excellence in Macoya, Tunapuna on Tuesday. Fire won 24-19. Fire moves on to play Police Y.

TSTT goal-defence Chanteal Perry-McEwan gets up high to block the shot of goal-attack Pearl St John while her goal-shooter Adasha Norton, right, looks on during the first round of the Championship Division knockout competition of the Courts All Sectors Netball League at the Centre of Excellence in Macoya, Tunapuna on Tuesday. Fire won 24-19. Fire moves on to play Police Y.

Anthony Harris

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).


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