{"id":207299,"date":"2025-10-12T07:12:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207299\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:12:14","slug":"australias-diamonds-defeat-south-africas-proteas-65-42-in-third-netball-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207299\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s Diamonds defeat South Africa&#8217;s Proteas 65-42 in third netball Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Australia has scored a convincing 65-42 victory over South Africa in the third and final netball Test at Adelaide Entertainment Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Diamonds won the opening two Tests against the Proteas and a strong start in Sunday&#8217;s encounter helped the world champions complete a 3-0 series result.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">They led 20-11 at the first break and extended their advantage on the scoreboard to 39-20 at half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Proteas, though, refused to give up in the third quarter and were rewarded for their efforts when they outscored the Diamonds 12-10 in the term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">But the Diamonds had too much class in the final quarter to ice a comfortable win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Sophie Garbin shot 29 goals from 31 attempts for the victors, while teammate Lucy Austin (18 from 22) was also prominent in attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Elmer\u00e9 van der Berg led the scoring for the Proteas with 20 goals from 22 attempts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The Diamonds will quickly turn their attention to the Constellation Cup, where they will face arch rivals New Zealand in four Tests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The first Test will be played at Melbourne&#8217;s John Cain Arena on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia has scored a convincing 65-42 victory over South Africa in the third and final netball Test at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,24718,9736,1736,44,87875,99059,1183,231,128206,20591],"class_list":["post-207299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-diamonds","tag-netball","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-proteas","tag-silver-ferns","tag-south-africa","tag-test","tag-third-test","tag-world-champions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207299","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=207299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}