Former T&T netballer Kalifa McCollin aims to secure third place for Kedah Sunshine in the Malaysian Netball Super League playoffs this Sunday.
For-mer T&T net-baller Kali-fa Mc-Collin and Kedah Sun-shine will face KL Wild-cats in the third place match of the Malaysian Net-ball Su-per League (NSL), or-gan-ised by the Malaysian Net-ball As-so-ci-a-tion in col-lab-o-ra-tion with As-tro Are-na, at the Juara Sta-di-um, Buk-it Kiara, Kuala Lumpur, Sun-day from 5 am.. This af-ter Mc Collin and the Kedah Sun-shine were out-played 60-46 by Tereng-ganu Mar-vels in their semi-fi-nal at the same venue yes-ter-day while Jo-hor Jew-els tamed last year’s
win-ners KL Wild-cats 65-48 in the oth-er.. Kedah Sun-shine en-tered the semi-fi-nals as the fourth seed-ed club af-ter they end-ed the reg-u-lar-sea-son with a 4-3 win-loss record and 12 points, the same as KL Wild-cats, but with an in-fe-ri-or av-er-age of 110.03 per cent to the for-mer’s 130.74.. Dur-ing the fi-nal week-end of league match-es, the 30-year-old Mc-Collin suf-fered a shock-ing 36-43 de-feat at the hands of Per-ak Phoenix be-fore they re-bound-ed in style to
over-whelm de-fend-ing cham-pi-ons KL Wild-cats 58-44 and fol-lowed it with a com-mand-ing 88-38 thump-ing of Se-lan-gor An-gels on Sun-day, for the high-est-ever scor-ing game in the NSL.. In the open-ing week-end of match-es, Kedah Sun-shine de-feat-ed Pa-hang Tulips 48-42 but was then beat-en by Tereng-ganu Mar-vels 43-59.. In Week Two, Kedah Sun-shine stormed to a 63-41 whip-ping of Mela-ka Mys-tic but was then hum-bled 37-72 by Jo-hor Jew-els.. Tereng-ganu Mar-vels fin-ished the reg-u-lar sea-son with
sev-en wins from as many match-es and a max-i-mum of 21 points, while Jo-hor Jew-els was sec-ond with a 6-1 record and 18 points.. KL Wild-cats edged Pu-tra-jaya Dy-na-mites in the 2025 fi-nal 46-45.. A key high-light of the 2026 sea-son is the NSL Re-gion-al Cup, which takes place from May 14-17, fol-low-ing the con-clu-sion of the main league.. The tour-na-ment will fea-ture two in-vi-ta-tion-al teams from Sin-ga-pore and Hong Kong, to-geth-er with the top
two NSL teams.. Pri-or to join-ing Kedah Sun-shine, Mc-Collin, who played both the goal-at-tack and goal-shoot po-si-tions for the Uni-ver-si-ty of T&T (UTT) and was named the “Most Valu-able Play-er” of the Courts All Sec-tors Net-ball League for the third sea-son in a row, now joined a host of in-ter-na-tion-al play-ers from renowned net-ball na-tions, in-clud-ing Aus-tralia, New Zealand, Ja-maica, South Africa, Ugan-da, Malawi, Zim-bab-we, and Botswana, in sign-ing with the Malaysian NSL in an
ef-fort to en-hance the league’s com-pet-i-tive-ness and pro-vide lo-cal play-ers with valu-able ex-po-sure.. She pre-vi-ous-ly played in Eng-land for both the Celtic Drag-ons (2016-2017, 2019) and the Lon-don Mav-er-icks (2018) as well as with the South-ern Steel in the ANZ Pre-mier-ship in New Zealand in 2020 and the Sun-corp Aus-tralian Net-ball Su-per League with the now-de-funct Colling-wood Mag-pies.. Fi-nal stand-ings Pos Teams P W D L Goals Av-er-age Pts 1.. Tereng-ganu Mar-vels 7 7 0
0 153.14 21 2.. Jo-hor Jew-els 7 6 0 1 162.62 18 3.. KL Wild-cats 7 4 0 3 130.74 12 4.. Kedah Sun-shine 7 4 0 3 110.03 12 5.. Per-ak Phoenix 7 3 0 4 75.5 9 6.. Pa-hang Tulips 7 2 0 5 88.71 6 7.. Mela-ka Mys-tics 7 2 0 5 74.63 6 7.. Se-lan-gor An-gels 7 0 0 7 50.22 0
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