{"id":189461,"date":"2025-10-04T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189461\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T11:19:07","slug":"diamonds-defeat-proteas-64-53-in-first-netball-test-in-bendigo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189461\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds defeat Proteas 64-53 in first netball Test in Bendigo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Australia has overcome a promising start from South Africa to win 64-53 in the first netball Test in Bendigo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Diamonds were tested by the Proteas in the opening quarter, with scores level 14-14 at the first break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The world champions then lifted a gear in the second quarter to lead 34-26 at half-time, before closing out the match in the final two terms, despite a spirited display from the visitors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Sophie Garbin led the scoring for the Diamonds, shooting 34 goals from 38 attempts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Teammate Kiera Austin added 16 from 19 attempts on goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Proteas star Elmer\u00e9 van der Berg managed 37 goals from 42 attempts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The three-Test series now moves to Wollongong on Wednesday, before concluding in Adelaide on October 12.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia has overcome a promising start from South Africa to win 64-53 in the first netball Test in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,63655,24718,9736,44,87875,1183,231],"class_list":["post-189461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bendigo","tag-diamonds","tag-netball","tag-news","tag-proteas","tag-south-africa","tag-test"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}