New Zealand face an early test of their Commonwealth Games medal prospects, when they take on Jamaica in pool play at Glasgow.<\/p>\n
The Silver Ferns ran out convincing 74-44 winners over hosts Scotland in their opening game and the OVO Hydro, but the ‘Calypso Queens’ present a much tougher challenge, with only two teams progressing from each pool to the semifinals.<\/p>\n
Jamaica took silver at Birmingham four years ago, defeating the Kiwis 67-51 in the semis, and overcame the Ferns 60-55 for bronze at Gold Coast 2018.<\/p>\n
They opened their Glasgow account with an 81-22 win over Trinidad & Tobago.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, swimmer Hazel Ouwehand – bronze medallist over 50m butterfly – will race the same stroke over 100 metres. The NZ men face Cayman Islands and Scotland, with a 3×3 basketball semifinal spot at stake, while gymnasts Daniel Stoddart and Courtney McGregor contest the individual all-round finals.<\/p>\n
Kiwis are also active at boxing and bowls.<\/p>\n
Women’s 100m freestyle heats – Chelsey Edwards, Zoe Pederson 9.30pm<\/p>\n
Women’s 100m butterfly heats – Hazel Ouwehand 10.48pm<\/p>\n
Women’s bantamweight 54kg R16 – Greer Hall v Botswana 10.45pm<\/p>\n
Men’s welterweight 65kg R16 – Connor Campbell v Australia 12.45am<\/p>\n
Men pool – NZ v Cayman Islands 10.30pm<\/p>\n
Men’s individual all-round final – Daniel Stoddart 11pm<\/p>\n
Women’s pairs – Katelyn Inch & Selina Goddard v Fiji 11.45pm<\/p>\n
Men pool – NZ v Scotland 4am<\/p>\n
Women’s individual all-round final – Courtney McGregor 5am<\/p>\n
Men’s singles – Shannon McIlroy v South Africa 6am<\/p>\n
Para mixed pairs B2-B3 – Kerrin Wheeler\/Colin Wheeler & Sonya Woodrow\/Kimberly Carraher v South Africa 7.25am<\/p>\n
Men’s bantamweight 55kg R16 – Alex Mukaka v Mauritius 6.45am<\/p>\n
Women’s 100m freestyle SF – Chelsey Edwards, Zoe Pederson 6.47am<\/p>\n
Women’s 100m butterfly SF – Hazel Ouwehand 7.34am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand face an early test of their Commonwealth Games medal prospects, when they take on Jamaica in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-544586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}