Essex won all six games in the Essex Met League at Redbridge Sports Centre today – reports to follow. For the first time this season all six teams won their games at Redbridge Sports Centre this week. The B,D and E teams all now top their respective leagues and with four games to go could all win titles.

Essex Open A 44 Romford 39
Having lost their previous league game Essex got back to winning ways with a narrow victory over Romford. In a closely fought game the first quarter was finely balanced with neither team able to gain the initiative. Going into the second quarter with the scores level at 12-12 Essex slipped behind and allowed Romford to take a four goal advantage to lead 23-19 at the half time interval.

The third quarter proved to be decisive as Essex played their best
netball of the game and managed to overturn the deficit to take a
narrow two point lead. Whilst the last quarter was fairly even Essex
were in no mood to give up their hard won advantage and at the end of
the game held a five point lead. They now sit third in the Division 1
table.
Stewart, Tynan, Mead, Linham, Gibson, Cambell,Humphries,
Jackson, Morgan-Smith

Essex Open B 66 Plessey 32

Essex B consolidated
their position at the top of Division 4 with a comfortable victory over
Plessey. From the outset Plessey were unable to contain Essex who
played their usual free flowing netball to create numerous scoring
opportunities for Rebecca Wilks and Rochelle Reynolds – Blanche to take advantage of. The game was all over in the first quarter as Essex raced to a 20-6 lead. With Ellie Masters making an excellent debut the Essex centre court totally dominated the game. To their credit Plessey never gave up and continued to fight hard.

By half time however Essex had extended their advantage to lead 34-16. Essex were in no mood to ease up and the second half followed a similar pattern to the first and Essex finished the game with a comfortable 66-32 victory.

Dawkins,
Livingstone, Masters, K Wilks, Maddison, R Wilks, Reynolds – Blanche

Essex Open C 23 Oakwood 21

The closest game of the day involved Essex Open C narrowly defeating Oakwood by two goals. The first quarter was extremely tight with goals hard to come by. At the end of the first quarter Essex led 6-5. In the second quarter Essex gained a slight initiative as they dominated the centre court and managed to extend their lead to 13-10. Just as it looked as if Essex were going to push on they were pegged back by Oakwood and at the end of the third quarter
were only two goals in front leading 18-16.

The last quarter was extremely tight and the game was in the balance right up until the final whistle. However at the end of the game Essex had maintained their two goal advantage in a game in which they were always in front but had never managed to extend their lead by more than three goals.
J Wilks, P Idoku, Murphy , Masters, Mann, Kerr, Fray, Kenny

Other results
Possibly the best result of the day was the D team who had an
excellent 69-37 victory over Romford. This was a top of the table clash
with their being only 1 point separating the teams at the top of
Division 8 prior to the start of the game. The E team continued their
excellent season with a 62-8 victory over Yaks and now seem to have an unassailable lead at the top of Division 10. The F team completed a
great day for the club with a 24-12 victory over Phoenix Flames.