The Australian U21 netball team, consisting of seven AIS scholarship holders, has won its opening test match against Jamaica 60-27 at the G.C. Foster College.

The Australian team proved far superior against their Jamaican counterparts with the Institutes Amy Steel, Courtney Tairi, Kim Borger and Laura Scherian among the best players on court.

Shooting Statistics
Kim Borger 24/31 77%
Ashlee Howard 16/19 84%

Warm Up Game

The Australian team played a warm up match prior to the first test against Jamaica. The Aussies took on the former Jamaican Superleague champions Jamalco going down 41 -45.

Australian coach Simone McKinnis said: "It was a really tough game but it was also a good game for us because it was the sort of game that we needed as part of our preparations for the first test match against Jamaica. I think at times we played well and at times we had lapses where we didn't play well and we will be looking at these faults going into this series against the Jamaicans.”

Shooting Statistics
Kim Borger 14/20 70%
Sophie Croft 5/5 100%
Ashlee Howard 6/12 50%