Lytton in for tough time against wounded YMP

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YMP can be expected to come out firing on all cylinders at the YMCA tomorrow morning, as they look to bounce back from their shock loss to Gisborne Girls’ High School Senior A on Wednesday night.

The defending premiers were outplayed in the final quarter of a close match and the students deservedly took the honours.

Tomorrow at 10am YMP Sunshine Brewery will look for redemption when they take on Lytton Senior A.

“YMP will be smarting from their loss to Girls’ High and I expect them to come out firing,” netball commentator Sherrill Beale said.

“Lytton will need to bring their top game tomorrow morning.”

YMP coach Ingrid Brown said her team trained well on Thursday night.

“We know what we want to do tomorrow and we’ll implement a few strategies we have been working on, she said.

“We have a light bench at the moment and we’re hoping the girls we have available will go out there and play well.”

Lytton coach Ronnie Martin said that if meeting YMP on the rebound was not tough enough, she had three players unavailable tomorrow.

“I think it will be a very tough outing for the girls,” she said.

“But I hope that they play as well as they can and concentrate on their own game, and not so much about who they are playing.”

Lytton sit at the bottom of the points table in premier grade, in stark contrast to last season, when they were one of the top-performing teams.

YMP and Taste One High School Old Girls remain on top of the table on 24 points.

They are followed by Whangara on 17, Girls’ High 13, Claydens Waikohu 12, Horouta Gold 8 and Lytton 5.