Forest beat Rhinos to maintain unbeaten start

Nottingham Forest continued their perfect start to the 2026 Netball Super League (NSL) season with a 61-51 win against Leeds Rhinos at Motorpoint Arena.

South African Rolene Streutker, the 2025 NSL Player of the Year, made the difference by scoring a game-high 32 goals.

Forest are one of just two teams to have won all three of their matches to start to the campaign and sit second behind three-time Grand Final winners Loughborough Lightning.

Rhinos are sixth in the standings after winning one and losing two of their first three matches.

There was also a double-header at Nottingham's Motorpoint Arena on Saturday with Loughborough Lightning and London Mavericks picking up victories.

Lightning beat defending Netball Super League (NSL) champions London Pulse 68-61.

Pulse deposed Lightning as champions in 2025 for their first title and both are again regarded as contenders to win the Grand Final this season.

Loughborough exacted some revenge when beating Pulse in the final to win last month's Netball Super Cup.

But this league victory was another early statement as the three-time Grand Final winners remain top after the opening three rounds, with Pulse three points further back in fourth.

Lightning's Samantha Wallace-Joseph and Pulse's Liv Tchine were joint top scorers in the match with 25 goals each.

Meanwhile, London Mavericks picked up their first win of the season at the third attempt with a 76-49 thrashing of Birmingham Panthers.

They required a buzzer-beater shot to win their previous meeting last season, but 43 goals from goal attack George Inger helped the capital club cruise to victory on Saturday.

Mavericks moved up to fifth in the standings, with the winless Panthers bottom and without a point to their name.

On Friday, LexisNexis Dragons' winless streak continued as they lost 69-55 against AO Manchester Thunder.

After losing to London Pulse by just one point last week, Dragons were well beaten by their visitors.

Karen Greig's side opened up a 15-13 lead by the end of the opening quarter and kept extending their advantage to seal a comfortable 14-point victory.

The Welsh outfit, who finished bottom of the revamped NSL last year after winning only two of their 14 matches, sit second after already matching that tally of victories this term.

BBC Sport will show one game per week during the regular season.

These are the games you can watch live on the BBC Sport website and iPlayer:

22 March: London Pulse v Nottingham Forest (18:00 GMT)

28 March: Loughborough Lightning v Birmingham Panthers (18:30 GMT)

4 April: London Pulse v Birmingham Panthers (17:00 BST)

11 April: Dragons v Birmingham Panthers (16:00 BST)

18 April: Loughborough Lightning v London Mavericks (18:00 BST)

Televised games in weeks 9-14 will be announced at a later date.