The Forbes Open Netball team played outstanding and skilled netball at the weekend in the West/Central West Regional League competition.

The team finished runner up to a strong Dubbo team in the grand final in Division 2.

The competition was held at the PCYC stadium in Orange, where the best open teams from the region competed for top honours.

The Forbes team was lead by co-captains Kate French and Matiese Byrnes, and Vice-Captain Nat Hall, with all players contributing to the results.

Shooters Phoebe Thomas, Abbey Kelly and Rel White, centre courts Matiese, Nat, Kate Payne, Jordi Petty, Iesha Sinclair, and circle defence Kate, Tori Petty and Emily Wilson all worked as a team, with huge improvements over the two days of competition.

The first round results had the Forbes team with two wins and a draw out of their five games.

Round 2 results showed a much improved team win four out of the five games, and going down by one goal in the loss.

This put Forbes into the semi finals against Blayney, where once again the Forbes ladies showed their skill defeating Blayney 17-13 in a hard fought match.

This put Forbes into the grand final against Dubbo, with the Forbes team defeating Dubbo a couple of hours earlier in the rounds winning 13-10.

This time it was Dubbo’s turn to take the honours, defeating a very determined Forbes team 12-7.

The score did not show the intensity and closeness of the game, with only one turnover in each half.

This is an outstanding result from a team of ladies who represented Forbes NA with great skill, determination, sportsmanship and never say die attitude.

Thank you to all the dads and husbands who were such an outstanding support to their wives and mums who were able to play to their full potential over the two days.

Thank you to Manager Lisa Thomas, Primary Carer Alice Lind, and scorers Lyn Ford and physio Kate.

Umpires were Karen Hargraves and Libby Dallimore.

Without such fantastic support the team would not have been able to reach such high honours.

By ROBYN KENNY