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Kate Heffernan (left) drives on to the ball from her sister, Georgia, during the Southern Steel’s game against the Northern Mystics in Dunedin on Sunday. PHOTOS: MICHAEL BRADLEY PHOTOGRAPHY Rightly so — the Southern Steel coach had just led her team to their first victory against the Northern Mystics since April 17, 2022. They did it in emphatic fashion with a 47-43 victory over the ANZ Premiership defending champions at the Edgar Centre on Sunday to win the Georgina Salter Memorial Trophy.

"I actually feel amazing," Bloxham told the Otago Daily Times after the game. "There’s been times where we let ourselves down, but ..



. I really felt like we took control of that game right from the start. "I feel immensely proud of us being able to bring the trophy back here and hold on to it.

" Defensively, it was the best performance of the season for the Steel who recorded 14 gains, 12 deflections, seven intercepts and three defensive rebounds. Then there is the collective effort they showed to grind the Mystics into mistakes that do not show up on the statistics sheet. "I’m super proud of the defensive effort that we put out there.

"It just gives them confidence in some of the things that we’ve been talking about. "The girls really did their homework really well this week and we were really specific about what we wanted to target. "I think that’s really pleasing as a coach when you can see that out there in real time .

.. and them pulling it off.

" Southern Steel coach Reinga .

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