The Hawks Netball Club’s Division 1 side will play off in the Victorian Netball League semi-final against the Boroondara Express on Wednesday night.
The two sides finished third and fourth on the ladder respectively at the conclusion of the home and away season last week.
The Hawks and the Express have met twice this season, with both sides winning one match each.
In Round 9 the Express defeated the Hawks by 22 goals, however more recently in Round 17 the Hawks had their measure defeating the Express by 10 goals.
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Hawks Division 1 coach Adrian Ballantyne expects a fast, high-scoring game.
“I think it will be high-scoring,” said Ballantyne.
“They’ve put up 50 nearly 60 goals both times they’ve played against us and last time we put up 63 goals so both teams tend to be high scoring.
“It should be pretty fast paced, pretty high scoring and yeah I think it will be really tight.”
Ballantyne believes his side’s defence will be the key to their success.
“The second time we played them we probably just got our defensive structures right, which was able to curb the influence of their attackers a little bit, so yeah we’ll be looking to hopefully put up a similar performance tonight.”
The game between the Hawks and the Express is played at the State Netball and Hockey Centre tonight beginning at 7.00pm.
