{"id":465986,"date":"2026-02-08T07:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465986\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T07:30:09","slug":"australia-diamonds-vs-jamaica-sunshine-girls-live-blog-match-report-perth-latest-news-teams-starting-seven-what-time-does-game-two-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465986\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Diamonds vs Jamaica Sunshine Girls, live blog, match report, Perth, latest news, teams, starting seven, what time does game two start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world No.1 Australian Diamonds will look to wrap up their netball Test series against Jamaica with a win in Perth on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Off the back of Thursday\u2019s 31-goal demolition, Australia will take the same 12 players into game two hoping to seal a series win ahead of the final test in Melbourne next week.<\/p>\n<p>Watch every match of the series, available with no ad-breaks during play on <a href=\"https:\/\/kayosports.com.au\/freebies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Kayo Freebies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And while it\u2019s the same squad, coach Stacey Marinkovich is set to shake up her starting seven off the back of goaler Cara Koenen\u2019s starring second half.<\/p>\n<p>Koenen finished game one\u2019s top scorer with 25 goals at 93% in a strong push for just her fourth Diamonds start in more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>In that time, teammate Sophie Garbin has started 13 times to cement herself as Australia\u2019s number one goal shooter.<\/p>\n<p>Jamaica meantime are set to be boosted by the return of Super Netball star Kadie-Ann Dehaney, who didn\u2019t feature in the 72-41 loss in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>And without her, it was left to Thunderbirds star Latanya Wilson to try and lift her side in defence \u2013 finishing with a game-high eight gains.<\/p>\n<p>Diamonds vs Jamaica &#8211; Game 1 Highlights | 17:46<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s always one of the biggest supporters \u2013 even not being on court she supports the girls. She leads in terms of her direction,\u201d Jamaica coach Sasher-Gaye Henry praised of Dehaney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the type of experience we want \u2013 and the guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Game two will be played at RAC Arena in Perth, with the first centre pass from 7.30pm AEDT.<\/p>\n<p>If you can\u2019t see the blog, <a href=\"https:\/\/go.arena.im\/embed?publisher=fox-sports-australia&amp;event=6KU2dQZ&amp;token=null&amp;v=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world No.1 Australian Diamonds will look to wrap up their netball Test series against Jamaica with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3443,64,63,689,120199,9203,238404,2105,128436,238402,238401,647,44,677,46,238399,23508,238400,38704,120195,1124,122932,238403,60611,660,3439],"class_list":{"0":"post-465986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-adelaide","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","12":"tag-cara-koenen","13":"tag-catherine-healey","14":"tag-diamonds-shake","15":"tag-getty-images-inc","16":"tag-goal-shooter","17":"tag-kadie-ann-dehaney","18":"tag-latanya-wilson","19":"tag-melbourne","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-oceania","22":"tag-perth","23":"tag-rare-start","24":"tag-sarah","25":"tag-sasher-gaye-henry","26":"tag-series-win","27":"tag-sophie-garbin","28":"tag-south-australia","29":"tag-stacey-marinkovich","30":"tag-star-pushes","31":"tag-three-match-series","32":"tag-victoria","33":"tag-western-australia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465986","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=465986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}