LON­DON, Eng­land– Af­ter en­dur­ing a thrash­ing at the hands of Eng­land Ros­es in their just con­clud­ed Vi­tal­i­ty Net­ball Se­ries, head coach of Ja­maica’s Sun­shine Girls, Sash­er Gaye Hen­ry-Wright said she is not sat­is­fied with her team’s show­ing, de­spite field­ing an in­ex­pe­ri­enced squad.

Ja­maica lost both match­es by a com­bined 94 points, go­ing down 80-37 in Sat­ur­day’s open­er be­fore los­ing Sun­day’s fi­nal match 82-31 at the Cop­per Box Are­na.

Hen­ry-Wright said even though the team was miss­ing sev­en se­nior play­ers, she was dis­ap­point­ed with their over­all play in both games.

“It was re­al­ly a poor per­for­mance from us in terms of our abil­i­ties.

“It is a big loss and it is some­thing that we are not pleased about, be­cause we felt that we should have shown much more im­prove­ment. So def­i­nite­ly, as a group, we have to take ac­count­abil­i­ty and go back to re­al­ly push hard to im­prove on our per­for­mance,” Hen­ry-Wright said.

“We have to look back at the ar­eas that we were re­al­ly lack­ing in. We al­so have to look at our ro­ta­tion in a ma­jor tour. The ro­ta­tions were dif­fer­ent and they were new; and we recog­nised our short­falls and def­i­nite­ly have to go back and fix them head­ing in­to our next se­ries.”

De­spite the dis­ap­point­ing re­sults, the head coach stressed that the se­ries al­so pro­vid­ed valu­able learn­ing ex­pe­ri­ences for a young group still find­ing its way at the in­ter­na­tion­al lev­el.

“It is a young team and I know that they have not had that ex­pe­ri­ence, and for that we just have to look at how we can build each play­er head­ing in­to our next se­ries.

“There were a lot of pos­i­tives that we can take from this sec­ond game, be­cause we re­al­ly start­ed out much bet­ter than we did in the first match. We re­al­ly held them up, but I think that we were not able to men­tal­ly and phys­i­cal­ly stay in the game,” Hen­ry-Wright ad­mit­ted.

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