Fire Ser­vices will be look­ing to rule in the Fast5 com­pe­ti­tion, set to un­fold in the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League on Sat­ur­day at the East­ern Re­gion­al In­door Sports Are­na in Tacarigua.

Last Sat­ur­day, the fire of­fi­cers dom­i­nat­ed the Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion's Steve Sargeant Chal­lenge to re­tain the knock­out ti­tle af­ter de­feat­ing the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) in the fi­nal, 41-27.

The shoot­ing com­bi­na­tion of goal-shoot­er (GS) Afeisha Noel and goal-at­tack (GA) Joelisa Coop­er were un­stop­pable, lead­ing Fire to its third crown of the sea­son, al­ready cop­ping the round-robin league and open­ing day knock­out tour­na­ment.

Noel was in top form con­nect­ing 29 goals from 34 at­tempts, while Coop­er fed her shoot­er well while con­nect­ing 12 of 13 tries for the Fire team, which led 23-13 at half­time.

Goal-shoot­er Shaniya Mor­gan (8/12) and goal-at­tack Kali­fa Mc­Collin Lopez (8/9) opened shoot­ing in the cir­cle for UTT be­fore Kathy-Ann Gra­ham (11/15) re­placed the for­mer in the bib but it was not enough to bounce back, falling away by 14 goals in the 20-minute-a-half com­pe­ti­tion.

Ear­li­er teams in the Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion, bat­tled in the Jean Pierre Chal­lenge (15 min­utes a half) and it was Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion (UTC) Sparks, boost­ed by the shoot­ing of Lil­i­ah Matthews with 20 in 26, nar­row­ly de­feat­ing Fire, 22-20, in the fi­nal.

For Fire, Nari­ba Grant was the lead­ing scor­er with 12 goals in 17 at­tempts.

On Tues­day, the Uni­ver­si­ty of South­ern Caribbean (USC) emerged the win­ner of the Al­ter­na­tive Di­vi­sion knock­out com­pet­ing af­ter edg­ing MIC Tigers, 15-14 in the fi­nal.

Thurs­day, teams in the Retro Di­vi­sion will com­pete for their knock­out crown.

On Sat­ur­day, teams in both the Cham­pi­onship and Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sions will be back on the court, com­pet­ing for their re­spec­tive Fast5 ti­tles.

Re­sults

Sat­ur­day

Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion

Steve Sar­jeant Knock­out Chal­lenge

Fi­nal

Fire 41 (A Noel 29/34, J Coop­er 12/13) vs UTT 27 (S Mor­gan 8/12, K Mc­Collin Lopez 8/9, K Gra­ham 11/15). Half­time: 23-13 (Fire).

Semi­fi­nals

Fire 52 (J Coop­er 38/40, Si­mone Mor­gan 14/19) vs Po­lice 17 (Mere­cia Har­ris 0/1, Tia Bruno 14/20, Cur­lene Samuel 3/9). Half­time: 28-10 (Fire).

De­fence Force (19) 21 (Jody Sprott 12/27, Crys­tal Ann George 9/22) vs UTT (19) 23 (S Mor­gan 14/21, K Gra­ham 1/3, K Mc­Collin-Lopez 8/10, Kielle Con­nel­ly 0/0). Half­time: 10-8 (De­fence Force) (Sud­den Death to fi­nal score).

Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion

Jean Pierre Knock­out Chal­lenge

Fi­nal

Fire 18 (Nari­ba Grant 12/17, Ayan­na Ham­let 1/2, Pearl St John 2/4, Akeela Ro­driguez 3/3) vs UTC 20 (Sta­cyAnn Gill 2/2, Lil­i­ah Matthews 20/26, Aaliyah An­drews 0/0). Half time: 9-8 (UTC)

Semi­fi­nals

Po­lice 10 (Tami­ka John 3/7, Jil­lisa Al­lan 6/10, Lystra Solomon-Sim­mons 1/1) vs Fire 18 (A Ham­let 8/10, N Grant 10/19). Half­time: 7-6 (Fire)

Fire Youth 11 (Jelis­sa Goodridge 10/15, Khia Joseph 0/0, Kathy-Ann Forbes 1/2) vs UTC 22 (S Gill 11/22, A An­drews 11/18). Half­time: 15-3 (UTC).

First round

Po­lice 21 (T John 18/24, J Al­lan 3/4) vs UTT 17 (Jil­lisa Brig9/16, Kaylea Songui 0/0, George-Ann Hors­ford 8/14). Half­time 9-9.

TT Post 2 (Na­dine Wil­son 1/1, Rox­anne Grant 1/2) vs Fire 41 (A Ham­let 11/16, N Grant 5/8, A Ro­driguez 15/17, P St John 10/13). Half­time: 16-2 (Fire).

Tues­day

Al­ter­na­tive Di­vi­sion

Fi­nal: USC 15 (Gel­lana Grant 7/10, Michelle Williams 8/8) vs MIC 14 (Tiffany Gon­za­lez 12/18, Er­i­ca Corn­wall-Job 2/4, Renell Alexan­der 0/0). Half time 10/5 (MIC).

Semi­fi­nals

USC 15 (G Grant 6/17, M Williams 9/14) vs Po­lice 10 (Kaliyah Coop­er 3/7, Mari­ah Har­ri­dan 4/10, Sha­nia Mil­lette 3/8). Half time: 5-5.

UWI 12 (Na­talia Creese 10/15, Asha­ki Clarke 1/1, Han­i­fa Al­cin­dore 1/2) vs MIC 26 (T Gon­za­lez 24/29, E Corn­wall-Job 1/2, RAlexan­der 1/1). Half time: 19-4 (MIC).

First round

MIC vs TT Post. MIC won by de­fault.

To­day's match­es

Retro Di­vi­sion - Di­vi­sion­al Knock­out

Mar­vel­lites vs Po­lice, 5.30 pm

De­fence Force vs Jabloteh, 6.05 pm

Fi­nal, 6.40 pm