JERSEY comfortably maintained their superiority over Guernsey for another year in the netball Inter-Insulars.
While the Sarnians might take positives from closing the gap between the sides in the headline fixture, it remains wide, with Jersey comfortably winning 65-29.
Jersey quietened the home crowd early in the first quarter and were 14 points up before their island rivals had even registered.
With the first period ending with the Caesarean’s leading17-3, it was all but over already. But Jersey continued to stick to their processes and not get distracted by the nature of the game.
Guernsey then enjoyed their best quarter of the match in the second, but still trailed 32-14 at the half way point.
Both teams looked to the benches as the game wore on and it was an opportunity to give some younger players game time.
The third quarter ended with Jersey 46-22, before a final blitz piled the points on as fitness levels told.
The noise levels among the partisan crowd had gone up a notch in the fixture before as Guernsey registered their only success over two days of action at Beau Sejour.
In a fiercely competitive encounter, they won the O30s 58-50 for a consolatory win in the face of an otherwise dominant success for the visitor.
Jersey took the Open B fixture 50-38.
The Sunday had begun as the Saturday had gone all day with a Jersey win in the U16s, 71-21.
The main match on Saturday was the U19s, which Jersey won 49-41.
Earlier they had also won the U11s 22-3, the U14s 41-22 and the U12s 30-10 and, just like last year, Jersey flexed their dominance, but just fell short of a complete whitewash, winning seven matches to one.
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