For­mer T&T net­baller Kali­fa Mc­Collin and Kedah Sun­shine will face KL Wild­cats in the third place match of the Malaysian Net­ball Su­per League (NSL), or­gan­ised by the Malaysian Net­ball As­so­ci­a­tion in col­lab­o­ra­tion with As­tro Are­na, at the Juara Sta­di­um, Buk­it Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, Sun­day from 5 am.

This af­ter Mc Collin and the Kedah Sun­shine were out­played 60-46 by Tereng­ganu Mar­vels in their semi­fi­nal at the same venue yes­ter­day while Jo­hor Jew­els tamed last year's win­ners KL Wild­cats 65-48 in the oth­er.

Kedah Sun­shine en­tered the semi­fi­nals as the fourth seed­ed club af­ter they end­ed the reg­u­lar-sea­son with a 4-3 win-loss record and 12 points, the same as KL Wild­cats, but with an in­fe­ri­or av­er­age of 110.03 per cent to the for­mer’s 130.74.

Dur­ing the fi­nal week­end of league match­es, the 30-year-old Mc­Collin suf­fered a shock­ing 36-43 de­feat at the hands of Per­ak Phoenix be­fore they re­bound­ed in style to over­whelm de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons KL Wild­cats 58-44 and fol­lowed it with a com­mand­ing 88-38 thump­ing of Se­lan­gor An­gels on Sun­day, for the high­est-ever scor­ing game in the NSL.

In the open­ing week­end of match­es, Kedah Sun­shine de­feat­ed Pa­hang Tulips 48-42 but was then beat­en by Tereng­ganu Mar­vels 43-59. In Week Two, Kedah Sun­shine stormed to a 63-41 whip­ping of Mela­ka Mys­tic but was then hum­bled 37-72 by Jo­hor Jew­els.

Tereng­ganu Mar­vels fin­ished the reg­u­lar sea­son with sev­en wins from as many match­es and a max­i­mum of 21 points, while Jo­hor Jew­els was sec­ond with a 6-1 record and 18 points. KL Wild­cats edged Pu­tra­jaya Dy­na­mites in the 2025 fi­nal 46-45.

A key high­light of the 2026 sea­son is the NSL Re­gion­al Cup, which takes place from May 14-17, fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the main league.

The tour­na­ment will fea­ture two in­vi­ta­tion­al teams from Sin­ga­pore and Hong Kong, to­geth­er with the top two NSL teams.

Pri­or to join­ing Kedah Sun­shine, Mc­Collin, who played both the goal-at­tack and goal-shoot po­si­tions for the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT) and was named the “Most Valu­able Play­er” of the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League for the third sea­son in a row, now joined a host of in­ter­na­tion­al play­ers from renowned net­ball na­tions, in­clud­ing Aus­tralia, New Zealand, Ja­maica, South Africa, Ugan­da, Malawi, Zim­bab­we, and Botswana, in sign­ing with the Malaysian NSL in an ef­fort to en­hance the league’s com­pet­i­tive­ness and pro­vide lo­cal play­ers with valu­able ex­po­sure.

She pre­vi­ous­ly played in Eng­land for both the Celtic Drag­ons (2016-2017, 2019) and the Lon­don Mav­er­icks (2018) as well as with the South­ern Steel in the ANZ Pre­mier­ship in New Zealand in 2020 and the Sun­corp Aus­tralian Net­ball Su­per League with the now-de­funct Colling­wood Mag­pies.

Fi­nal stand­ings

Pos Teams P W D L Goals Av­er­age Pts

1. Tereng­ganu Mar­vels 7 7 0 0 153.14 21

2. Jo­hor Jew­els 7 6 0 1 162.62 18

3. KL Wild­cats 7 4 0 3 130.74 12

4. Kedah Sun­shine 7 4 0 3 110.03 12

5. Per­ak Phoenix 7 3 0 4 75.5 9

6. Pa­hang Tulips 7 2 0 5 88.71 6

7. Mela­ka Mys­tics 7 2 0 5 74.63 6

7. Se­lan­gor An­gels 7 0 0 7 50.22 0