Orange Netball Association: The five things we've learned from the first half of the 2019 Toyota Cup season

Matt Findlay
Updated July 10 2019 - 2:40pm, first published 2:00pm
FIVE THINGS: (Clockwise from bottom left) Orange High's Poppy Keegan, Vipers' Tegan Dray and Life Studio's Alex Emerson (left) and Georgia Cornish (right).
FIVE THINGS: (Clockwise from bottom left) Orange High's Poppy Keegan, Vipers' Tegan Dray and Life Studio's Alex Emerson (left) and Georgia Cornish (right).

We've reached the halfway point of the Orange Netball Association's 2019 Toyota Cup season and one thing is clear, it's as exciting a competition as ever.

But there's a number of other important points that have come to the fore in the opening two months of the season, which have featured plenty of surprise results, a remarkable resurgence and a surprising debut from one side in particular.

With the competition resuming on Saturday, July 20, check out five of the important points that have become clear over the opening eight rounds.

1 | THERE'S LIFE IN CUP YET

Even though they suffered their first loss of the season leading into the mid-season break and it came at the hands of the second-placed defending premiers Orange City Craig Harvey Mechanical, it still appears as though the 2019 Toyota Cup it's Life Studio's to lose.

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Matt Findlay

Matt Findlay

Journalist

Formerly a sports specialist, I'm based at Orange and shift between wide-spread range of subjects here and, often, across the entire Central West region of NSW as well. I have almost a decade of experience in the media and marketing industries both here in Australia and internationally, along with journalism I have experience in content strategy, brand development, and digital and social media. Along the way, I've been fortunate to win a handful of media awards and be nominated for several others too.

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