Final
- Wood has her first miss for the game on the buzzer. Swifts win by 38 goals.
May 7 11:42 PM - CENTRAL: 41
NEW SOUTH WALES: 79
End of Regulation
May 7 11:42 PM - Layton is having a wonderful game. She has 6 intercepts and 7 deflections. Her defensive pressure is causing the Central Pulse to hesitate on passes into the circle.
Pulse 40, Swifts 79 4th - 14:12May 7 11:41 PM - Thwaites has beaten her goaling PB. She has now shot 49 goals for the match.
Pulse 37, Swifts 77 4th - 11:20May 7 11:38 PM - A great baseline cut by Wood and Thwaites feeds it to her perfectly. The Swifts take out a 40 goal lead.
Pulse 35, Swifts 76 4th - 10:03May 7 11:37 PM - Stephanie Wood is showing that she is able to match it. Putting up a long shot. She sits at 11 from 11 attempts.
Pulse 33, Swifts 73 4th - 8:21May 7 11:35 PM - Swifts make a change. Kaitlyn Bryce has taken the court at WA in place of Kim Green.
Pulse 33, Swifts 72 4th - 7:32May 7 11:34 PM - Thwaites is having a great day in GS. She is hitting her shots from all around the circle. She has shot 44 goals so far.
Pulse 33, Swifts 71 4th - 6:56May 7 11:33 PM - Kim Green hits the court hard but bounces back up. Showing her toughness.
Pulse 32, Swifts 70 4th - 6:10May 7 11:32 PM - A lovely long goal by Wells. Pulse are keeping their heads up and playing out the game.
Pulse 32, Swifts 68 4th - 5:19May 7 11:32 PM - The Swifts have just beaten their highest score against the Central Pulse. 63 was the previous record.
Pulse 29, Swifts 64 4th - 2:37May 7 11:28 PM - Messer has gone to the bench and Karaka has come into GD. Maia Wilson has replaced Amaru-Tibble at GS for the Pulse. Swifts have swapped Hadley and Langman in C and WD.
Pulse 27, Swifts 64 4th - 1:23May 7 11:27 PM - The Swifts take the first centre pass of the last quarter.
Pulse 27, Swifts 62 4th - 0:40May 7 11:26 PM - CENTRAL: 27
NEW SOUTH WALES: 61
End of 3rd
May 7 11:22 PM - Thwaites can do no wrong. Off balance and trying not to fall out of court she flicks the ball up to the ring for another goal. 38 from 39 attempts.
Pulse 27, Swifts 60 3rd - 14:27May 7 11:21 PM - Thwaites is very comfortable out there. She is scoring from long distance with ease. The Swifts are up by 31 goals late in the 3rd quarter.
Pulse 26, Swifts 59 3rd - 13:33May 7 11:20 PM - Another lovely intercept by Grant and Pulse are able to convert.
Pulse 26, Swifts 56 3rd - 12:05May 7 11:18 PM - Another change by the Pulse. Messer is going to GD and Kersten comes on in WD.
Pulse 24, Swifts 54 3rd - 9:58May 7 11:16 PM - A win in defence for Katrina Grant but the Swifts manage another turnover and Wood is able to convert.
Pulse 22, Swifts 53 3rd - 8:57May 7 11:14 PM - Central Pulse call time and Chelsea Locke goes to the bench. Samon Nathan takes on the WA bib.
Pulse 22, Swifts 52 3rd - 8:30May 7 11:14 PM - Unfortunately the Pulse look rather flat footed and the Swifts are able to show off with some lovely passing. The lead is now out to 26 goals.
Pulse 22, Swifts 49 3rd - 6:18May 7 11:11 PM - Green and Thwaites combine with lovely passing and then the feed to Wood is too good for the Pulse defenders.
Pulse 22, Swifts 47 3rd - 5:26May 7 11:11 PM - Wood scores her first goal for the match. Swifts increase their lead to 22.
Pulse 21, Swifts 42 3rd - 2:53May 7 11:08 PM - Swifts take the first centre pass. No changes for the Pulse but the Swifts have brought Stephanie into the GA position and Abbey McCulloch into GD.
Pulse 20, Swifts 40 3rd - 1:10May 7 11:06 PM - Layton has a last ditch intercept just before the siren. The lead is now 20 goals for the Swifts.
Pulse 19, Swifts 40 3rd - 0:14May 7 11:05 PM - CENTRAL: 19
NEW SOUTH WALES: 39
Halftime
May 7 10:53 PM - An 18 goal lead now. The Pulse will need to re-assess their plans at the half time break.
Pulse 18, Swifts 38 2nd - 14:14May 7 10:52 PM - Unfortunately for the Pulse simple errors are catching them out. They are wasting some great opportunities to convert from turnovers at this stage.
Pulse 18, Swifts 35 2nd - 13:13May 7 10:51 PM - Layton takes a risk and runs out of the circle. A great deflection but unfortunately the ball goes off court.
Pulse 18, Swifts 33 2nd - 11:42May 7 10:49 PM - Thwaites scores again. She's sitting on 19 from 20 attempts. Great feeding around the circle is making her job look easy.
Pulse 18, Swifts 31 2nd - 9:55May 7 10:47 PM - Thwaites receives a lovely feed and is able to increase the Swifts lead.
Pulse 16, Swifts 30 2nd - 7:58May 7 10:45 PM - Langman, Hadley and Green steady for the Swifts and have assisted with great hands.
Pulse 15, Swifts 29 2nd - 6:56May 7 10:44 PM - The passing early in the second quarter is a little messy. The ball has been turned over a number of times. Scoring has slowed up at this stage.
Pulse 14, Swifts 27 2nd - 5:51May 7 10:43 PM - Langman with a rare bad pass sees the ball go out of bounds. Pulse are leading the scoring 3-1 so far this quarter.
Pulse 14, Swifts 23 2nd - 4:01May 7 10:41 PM - Lovely intercept by Grant. Pulse are able to move the ball to Amaru-Tibble to score early in the second quarter.
Pulse 13, Swifts 22 2nd - 2:03May 7 10:39 PM - Maia Wilson has gone to the bench and Amaru-Tibble takes on the GS bib for Central Pulse. Grant and Karaka swap the defensive bibs.
Pulse 12, Swifts 21 2nd - 1:17May 7 10:39 PM - CENTRAL: 11
NEW SOUTH WALES: 21
End of 1st
May 7 10:33 PM - A positive for the Pulse is the very accurate shooting from Wilson and Wells. Chelsea Locke is finding the WA role very challenging today coming up against Laura Langman. If she can find some clearance the feeding into the goal circle will be a lot easie
Pulse 11, Swifts 20 1st - 14:30May 7 10:33 PM - Pulse attempt to move the ball fast through the mid court but are only caught out with messy passing ending up with the ball going off the court.
Pulse 10, Swifts 17 1st - 12:41May 7 10:31 PM - Hadley is moving the ball around the circle as though she has no opposition. Very quickly the Swifts have been able to take a 7 goal lead.
Pulse 8, Swifts 16 1st - 11:47May 7 10:30 PM - Thwaites with a long shot to give the Swifts a 6 goal lead. Pulse are finding it tough to move the ball through the mid court.
Pulse 7, Swifts 14 1st - 10:11May 7 10:28 PM - Pettitt shows great patience in the circle and Thwaites leads under the post beautifully.
Pulse 7, Swifts 12 1st - 9:16May 7 10:27 PM - Pulse lucky with a messy pass by the Swifts being converted.
Pulse 7, Swifts 10 1st - 8:15May 7 10:26 PM - Strong passing by Green and the Swifts are able to convert again.
Pulse 5, Swifts 8 1st - 6:41May 7 10:25 PM - Pettitt sits on 100�ith 4 from 4 so far. Swifts have been able to break the centre pass.
Pulse 4, Swifts 6 1st - 5:11May 7 10:23 PM - Both Pulse defenders are put out of play and Thwaites hands off to Pettitt for Swifts 3rd goal.
Pulse 3, Swifts 5 1st - 4:27May 7 10:23 PM - Wells sits at 2 for 2. Pulse take the lead however the scores are still going with the centre pass.
Pulse 3, Swifts 2 1st - 2:59May 7 10:21 PM - Karaka with a lovely intercept. A bad pass sees Swifts back in control of the ball. Unfortunately another unforced error sends it back to the Pulse scoring end.
Pulse 2, Swifts 1 1st - 2:25May 7 10:20 PM - CENTRAL: 0
NEW SOUTH WALES: 0
1st Quarter - 0:01
May 7 10:18 PM
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