Robert Bailey, Gleaner Writer

General Accident players hold aloft the winning trophy as they celebrate their 39-32 victory over Bank of Nova Scotia, in the final of the Locker Room Sports Business House Super League netball competition on Saturday night at the National Indoor Sports Centre. - Anthony Minott/Freelance Photographer

Defending champions General Accident successfully retained the Locker Room Sports/Business House Super League netball title, following an exciting 39-32 win over Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS), at the National Indoor Sports Complex on Saturday.

However, BNS did not leave empty-handed as they won the Senior 'B' League crown, with a 39-30 win over RBTT.

Renee Betton of BNS was named the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the final.

ATL won intermediate title

In other finals, Appliance Traders Limited won the Intermediate title by defeating National Water Commission 36-31, NEM Insurance captured the Intermediate 'B' crown after stopping Guardian 23-22 and Aerotel won the Junior League by edging Transport Authority 22-20.

General Accident's victory avenged a 37-34 defeat to BNS two weeks ago and according to player/coach Oberon Pitterson, it was a job well done.

"I think this was total team effort because we had our game plan and the ladies executed well," said Pitterson, who is a former national player and coach.

"I believe it was a hard fought game because every time we played against them it gets harder and we have to keep making the necessary adjustments in order to beat them."

Pitterson added: "I was expecting the margin of victory to be more because I think if our attack was smooth from the beginning it would have been a larger score."

Winston Nevers, coach of BNS said: "It was a really hard game and it was a really tough one. I think we had a bad second quarter and this was what let us down because they outscored us about 10-2.

"We didn't start because our main goal shooter, Marsha Murphy, who we were depending on didn't play well. However, I think that General Accident played well and we can't take anything away from them."

The first quarter was evenly contested with both sides ending the period locked at 6-6.

General Accident came out firing in the second period through goal shooter Margaret Lawrence, who sank eight of her game-high 36 goals in the quarter, as they outscored BNS (15-4) for a 21-10 lead at half-time.

However, BNS rallied strongly in the third stanza to close the deficit to six with less than two minutes remaining, but a number of crucial mistakes by their wing defence lead to General Accident's goal attack, Nadine Bryan, scoring two straight goals to give her team a 29-21 advantage at the end of the period.

General Accident defended their lead gallantly in the final period, while BNS hurt their cause with a number of turnovers BNS.

Murphy, was the top scorer for BNS with 26 goals from 40 attempts, while Bryan sank six goal from 12 tries.