The Australian Diamonds continued to show their dominance in opposition to the Spar Proteas as they beat them 65-42 to say the sequence 3-nil in Adelaide, South Australia, on Sunday, 12 October 2025.
The Proteas needed to put the frustration of the earlier match in Wollongong behind them as they got here into the ultimate recreation of the sequence. With the Aussie Diamonds having already clinched the sequence, a win for South Africa would enhance their confidence.
“Firstly, we wish to congratulate Australia on their unbelievable efficiency. Coming again to us, I imagine that there have been moments that I believe we had been proper on level and doing a terrific job on assaults principally – now we have numerous work that lies forward of us, we nonetheless have rather a lot to do.”
Spar Proteas Head Coach Jenny van Dyk
South Africa began off very robust on this match and made certain that they stored the Aussies on the again foot – a job they managed to take care of for the higher a part of the quarter; nonetheless, it was the World Champs that pulled away within the final three minutes, scoring seven targets with no response from their opponents. Aussie Diamonds took the quarter 20-11.
The Proteas began the second quarter a bit stronger, utilizing velocity to their benefit – the target was to cut back the rating deficit and take the sport to Australia, who weren’t sitting again both.
Head Coach Jenny van Dyk made two tactical modifications mid-quarter with the introduction of Owethu Ngubane for Kamogelo Masego and Juanita van Tonder made her debut, changing Nicola Smith as a goalkeeper.
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Australia’s dominance and expertise continued as they took the quarter 19-9. The hosts went into half-time main the match 39-20.
The beginning of the championship quarter noticed van Dyk result in just a few modifications to the workforce with Rolene Streutker and Refiloe Nketsa taking courtroom.
South Africa held their very own as they took the quarter 12-10; nonetheless, this was not sufficient as Australia nonetheless loved a 49-32 lead.
The Proteas put up a struggle within the closing quarter, however a dominant and bodily Aussie Diamonds scored 16 targets to the ten scored by South Africa within the final quarter-hour to provide the world’s finest netball nation a powerful 65-42 victory.
“We’re trying ahead to getting again residence and begin engaged on areas of enchancment.”
“A variety of our recognized areas of enhancements want numerous work and never fast fixes. That is one thing that we have to work on and drill into our gamers,” stated Van Dyk.
“We learnt rather a lot about our gamers, the place they’re robust, how they adapt, and the way we have to handle them. This sequence was an enormous eye-opener for us, an enormous studying expertise, and train as nicely.”
2025 Australia vs South Africa 3-Take a look at Sequence Fixtures and Outcomes
Sat, 4 Oct: Australia 64-53 South Africa (Purple Vitality Stadium, Bendigo)
Wed, 8 Oct: Australia 67-40 South Africa (Wollongong Leisure Centre, Wollongong)
Solar, 12 Oct: Australia 65-42 South Africa (Adelaide Leisure Centre, Adelaide)
Closing Take a look at Quarter Rating Breakdown
Q1: South Africa 11-20 Australia
Q2: South Africa 20-39 Australia
Q3: South Africa 32-49 Australia
This autumn: South Africa 42-65 Australia
Spar Proteas Beginning VII for the Closing Take a look at Match
GS – Élmere van der Berg
GA – Kamogelo Maseko
WA – Khanyisa Chawane (c)
C – Tarle Mathe
WD – Shadine van der Merwe
GD – Sanmarie Visser
GK – Nicola Smith
Taking pictures Stats
Élmere van der Berg 20/21 (91%)
Kamogelo Maseko 4/4 (100%)
Owethu Ngubane 3/6 (50%)
Rolene Streukter 15/22 (68%)
Unique Copy: Netball SA, with modifying by gsport
Essential Photograph Caption: The spear tip of the South African assault Élmere van der Berg caught in mid-air motion with the Aussie Diamond defence. Australia continued to show their dominance in opposition to the Spar Proteas, beating the guests 65-42 to say the sequence 3-nil in Adelaide, South Australia, on Sunday, 12 October 2025. All Pictures: Lauren Morgan/Netball Australia
Photograph 2 Caption: Proteas SA skipper and Wing Assault participant Khanyisa Maseko flies by means of the air as South Africa look to leverage an occasion of possession.
Photograph 3 Caption: Coach Van Dyk marked the tour as a studying expertise, saying that the workforce seems to be ahead to getting again residence to start out engaged on areas of enchancment.
