Netball - basketball played by women. Water sport - possibly water polo. A quick search on Google will pull up the rules for both sports. Bruce Fletcher, Scarborough, Yorkshire --- KJEMEM@aol.com wrote: > Orkney radio has given scores for a sport called > "Net Ball" or "Netball." > Could anyone enlighten me as to what this game is? > I thought perhaps it could > be another name for basketball, (like football is > soccer....) but they went on > to mention basketball as a separate entity. There > was also a water sport > mentioned on a broadcast a week or so ago that I > hadn't heard of, and actually I > can't remember the name now. Perhaps one of you > know what that was too. I > still trying to figure out how to follow a rugby > game, but I might as well learn > about a few more while I'm at it. > > Karen in Memphis > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send > an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to > orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > ===== Regards, Bruce Fletcher, Scarborough, Yorkshire, UK http://uk.geocities.com/ricardian@btinternet.com/ http://www.caytonwitheastfield.btinternet.co.uk

The water sport mentioned would have been octopush. It's a sort of underwater hockey. It's been played in Orkney for a number of years now, and there are a lot of Orcadian players in both the mens and women's British teams going to the World Championships in New Zealand this year. http://orkneyoctopush.tripod.com/ Fiona Orkney

Netball is a different sport from women's basketball - different rules. It's very popular in Australia and New Zealand, which makes me wonder if it emigrated here from Scotland. <Netball - basketball played by women.>