Jamaica’s Sunshine Girls will hope to rebound against Uganda in the Commonwealth Games netball competition on Monday after they went down by five goals, 48-53, to New Zealand in their second Pool B Preliminary Round game at the Hyra Arena in Glasgow, Scotland.

A day after the Jamaicans beat Trinidad and Tobago 81-22 in their opening game, they were held in check by New Zealand who took a measure of revenge after losing to them in the semi-finals four years ago.

Led by Grace Nweke, who scored 47 goals from 56 attempts, New Zealand led by two goals after the first quarter, 14-12; they were up by one goal, 26-25, at halftime; and were ahead 39-35 going into the final period.

Romelda Aiken scored 34 goals from 38 attempts and Shanice Beckford scored 14 from 15 attempts for the Jamaicans.

Uganda are ahead of Jamaica in the Pool B tables after winning both of their games played so far, 59-50 over Wales and 80-36 over Trinidad and Tobago.

-Paul A Reid