T&T stand­out net­ball goal at­tack, Saman­tha Wal­lace has sound­ed out a warn­ing to her op­po­nents in the 2020 Aus­tralian Sun­corp Su­per Net­ball League which start­ed the first week of Au­gust fol­low­ing the de­lay caused by the coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic.

Wal­lace, 26, now in her fourth straight sea­son with the club af­ter two years com­pet­ing in the Eng­land Vi­tal­i­ty Net­ball League is off to a slow start scor­ing-wise by her lofty stan­dards with 68 goals, in­clu­sive of ten Su­per Shots (two goals)

How­ev­er, while ad­mit­ting she has not been at her best yet, the T&T in­ter­na­tion­al and reign­ing Sun­corp Su­per Net­ball League fi­nals’ “Most Valu­able Play­er” awardee af­ter lead­ing her club past Sun­shine Coast Light­ning in last No­vem­ber’s fi­nal, said she plans on get­ting much bet­ter, soon­er rather than lat­er to help her team con­tin­ue their per­fect start to their ti­tle de­fence..

In the open­ing round of match­es, Wal­lace con­vert­ed 33 of 40 at­tempts, in­clud­ing six of 13 Su­per Shots as the Swifts edged Gi­ants Net­ball 63-61.

This was fol­lowed by an­oth­er nail-bit­ing en­counter, a 73-72 tri­umph over West Coast Fever with Wal­lace, for­mer­ly of the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) and Eng­land’s benecos Mav­er­icks con­tribut­ing 20 goals from 25 at­tempts, punc­tu­at­ed by two from five from Su­per Shot (two points) range.

And on Wednes­day last, Wal­lace again had a valu­able in­put as she led all scor­ers in the Swifts 66-51 blow-out of Ade­laide Thun­der­birds with 27 goals from 30 at­tempts, with two of from long range.

Up next is a block­buster Grand Fi­nal re­match ver­sus the Sun­shine Coast Light­ning in Queens­land to­mor­row which marks the first of three games in sev­en days for the Swifts which will bat­tle Queens­land Fire­birds on Tues­day and the Colling­wood Mag­pies on Au­gust 22.

Speak­ing ahead of a well-de­served off-day on Fri­day, Wal­lace said, “It’s was not my best game for the sea­son, but we won to main­tain our per­fect start and that’s the most im­por­tant thing for me.”

She added,” Un-char­ac­ter­is­ti­cal­ly I’ve had a slow start to the sea­son, but while I am not pleased with my game as yet I did saw some im­prove­ments in my last two out­ings and the pos­i­tive thing is I can on­ly get bet­ter with more work in train­ing, which I in­tend to do start­ing this week­end.

As a team, Wal­lace, a na­tive of To­co added, “We are very de­light­ed to be 3-0 along with the Mel­bourne Vix­ens at the top of the ta­ble, but we know we still haven’t played our best net­ball as yet, and we still have a lot of stuff to work on. The Light­ning has al­ways been tough op­po­nents and I’m ex­pect­ing noth­ing dif­fer­ent from them this sea­son as well. It’s go­ing to be a close bat­tle and will come down to the team that ex­e­cutes their game plan or makes the least er­rors on the day."