Playoff netball remains a reality for the Central Pulse after they beat the Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic 54-44 in Porirua tonight.

The Mystics have kept their transtasman league season alive in spectacular fashion.

Casey Kopua was forced to draw on the grit and determination to lead her Magic side to a one-goal win over the Adelaide Thunderbirds.

It is time to officially rule a line through the Steel's transtasman league playoff hopes after the southern side were out-muscled and out-thought by the NSW Swifts in Canberra yesterday.

It is time to officially rule a line through the Steel's transtasman league play-off hopes after the southern side were out-muscled and out-thought by the NSW Swifts

It was always going to be a tough assignment for the Mainland Tactix.

Energetic midcourter Laura Langman will fittingly become the first player to record 100 ANZ Championship games this weekend.

The Central Pulse have leapt clear of the mid-table congestion in the transtasman league standings to break into the top four with a patient win over the Southern Steel in Invercargill last night.

The Mystics were forced to look to the past to help engineer a victory over the lowly Mainland Tactix last night.

Temepara Bailey returns to play for the Mystics in tonight's bottom-of-the-table ANZ championship netball match against the Tactix.

Mystics import Julie Corletto believes playing on this side of the Tasman has helped rather than hindered her chances of Commonwealth Games selection.

After struggling to slot into her new team earlier in the season, Silver Ferns star Laura Langman has looked a lot more comfortable in the Auckland set-up in recent weeks.

Tina Ball was milking at her father's farm, about 12km from her Paparoa home, when a neighbour called to tell her that her house was on fire.

Mystics star Cathrine Latu produced a 100 per cent shooting effort to eclipse the competition's most prolific shooter, Steel import Jhaniele Fowler-Reid.

Playing across the Tasman continues to be a struggle for the Central Pulse.

The Tactix have suffered another heavy defeat by an Australian rival, hopelessly outclassed by the Melbourne Vixens in Christchurch last night.

The pressure on 18-year-old Jamie-Lee Price to declare her national allegiance will intensify after the youngster played a starring role in the Magic's 17-goal rout.

Grace Rasmussen encapsulates why the new-look Magic have still got the magic.

Netball coach Norma Plummer was so shaken by the sinister tone to threats made against her she beefed up security for a recent trip to Dunedin.