In a telling final few minutes, Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel completed a dramatic come-from-behind rally to clinch the points in a hard-fought 47-45 win over The Good Oil Tactix in Nelson on Monday.
Having to work hard for their points, The Good Oil Tactix breathed a sigh of relief after fending off a fast-finishing Te Wānanga o Raukawa Pulse 55-52 in Christchurch on Saturday.
The Good Oil Tactix defender Karin Burger expects the “banter” with former team-mates to be dialled up this week as she prepares to take on her old team in a crunch ANZ Premiership match.
The Robinhood Stars have regained their imposing winning form – but they needed extra time to do it against The Good Oil Tactix, holding them out 57-56 at Auckland’s Pulman Arena.
As we approach the mid-way point of the 2021 ANZ Premiership we talk to The Good Oil Tactix coach Marianne Delaney-Hoshek and get her thoughts on how her charges are tracking.
Old rivalries were renewed and fortunes reversed when The Good Oil Tactix handed the Ascot Park Hotel Southern Steel a 60-50 defeat in the cauldron of ILT Stadium Southland on Monday night.
In a position she had never played in, for a team she never expected to hear from, Samon Nathan has made The Good Oil Tactix her side with wing attack her favoured position and Christchurch her home.
