Jamaica’s Under-21 netballers made it two from two with a comfortable 65-30 win over host Scotland in Group C action at the World Youth Netball Championship in Glasgow, Scotland, yesterday.

The young Sunshine Girls are atop the group with maximum points following their opening 64-20 win over Samoa, on Friday.

Jamaica will be in action again today at 6: 45 am when they take on a Cayman Island outfit which was trounced 21-73 by Scotland on Friday.

Head coach Oberon Pitterson-Nattie was pleased with the performance towards the end in a game they led from start to finish.

Jamaica took a 10-point first-quarter lead, 24-14, and increased that to 16 points at the half-time break leading 33-17. By the time the end of the third quarter was complete, Jamaica had opened up a massive 27-point gap, leading 50-23. They outscored Scotland 15-7 in the fourth quarter for the comfortable win.

“It didn’t start that well as we wanted to… a little shaky, some unforced errors, but I thought they collected themselves and did what they normally do,” said Pitterson-Nattie, in a post-match interview posted on the official website of the championships.

“Playing a team like New Zealand or Australia, we definitely want to start strong so that we don’t make too many errors.”

“We stuck together as a team and teamwork was the key today and we all played our part,” said captain Vangelee Williams.

With two games left of the group stages, Williams was confident in her expectations.

“We’re very much confident. We’e pretty sure we’ll win.”

Jamaica, the bronze medallist from the last championship, are drawn in Pool C alongside Scotland, Cayman Islands, Wales and Samoa.

The 20 competing countries are Australia, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, England, Fiji, Israel, Jamaica, Malta, Namibia, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Republic of Ireland, Samoa, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, and Wales.

The World Youth Netball Championships will comprise 70 games, held over a 10-day period. Every team will be guaranteed to play seven games, and every team will be awarded a placing from first to 20th as a result.

In the preliminary games, the 20 teams will be divided into four pools of five teams and will play a single round robin, until the semi-finals and final games to determine a winner.

Meanwhile, defending champions Australia got off to a flying start demolishing newcomer Israel 123-6 on Friday, while England trounced Republic of Ireland 108-9, and followed that up with an 82-27 win over Singapore yesterday.

New Zealand flogged Bermuda 107-16 on Friday and returned yesterday with a 94-6 mauling of Malta. Trinidad and Tobago won the clash of the Caribbean teams, beating Bermuda 47-31. Barbados whipped the Republic of Ireland 84-5; Wales got the better of Samoa 65-31, and South Africa beat Fiji 64-32, also yesterday.

— Howard Walker