Unbeaten West Coast Fever have overcome a poor start to produce a strong second half in maintaining their unbeaten Super Netball record with a 78-67 away win over the NSW Swifts.
A 24-16 third quarter in Fever's favour at Sydney's Ken Rosewall Arena broke open a tight game which was locked 35-35 at halftime, after the Swifts led 6-1 early and by three at the first change.
Goal attack Sasha Glasgow nailed three Super shots and Swifts were made to play for some poor ball control, trailing 59-51 at three-quarter time.
Fever's lead ballooned to 11 in the last quarter and the Swifts couldn't get the deficit below seven.
The win improved Fever's record to 4-0 and Swifts dropped to one win, one draw and two losses and remained in the lower half of the ladder.
Glasgow, who made seven of her eight Super Shot attempts, and in-form wing attack Alice Teague-Neeld, were big factors in the win, tallying 21 and 32 assists respectively, with goalkeeper Courtney Bruce taking three intercepts.
"This is the start of a really big five-week block, four, on the road out of those five games, so to get an 11-goal win against a top-quality side on their own home court is a huge one for us," Fever coach Dan Ryan said.
"(The) Swifts really jumped us at the start and had a bit more intensity and flow into their game than we did.
"Really importantly we didn't panic and we stuck to the task really well and slowly worked our way into the game.
"I thought our third quarter was outstanding."
Halfway through the second quarter he brought on Kim Jenner at goal defence and switched Jess Anstiss from wing defence to centre in place of Verity Simians and moved Sunday Aryang from goal defence to wing defence and the changes helped slow down the Swifts.
Shooter Jhaniele Fowler, who had missed just one of 166 attempts through the first three rounds, made 55 out of 57 and Glasgow 15 of 17 overall.
Romelda Aiken-George made 33 of 37 for Swifts and Helen Housby 24 of 29, including seven of 11 Super Shots.
The teams went goal-for-goal in the first couple off minutes of the third, but Fever scored three in a row and subsequently never led by less than two.
"We were very undisciplined and not the Swifts way," Swifts coach Briony Akle said of her team's second-half performance.
"I was really proud in that first half. I thought we had them rattled.
"I thought we were quite individual in that second half and you've got to beat the Fever playing as a team."
