Amy Wright, left, pictured during the Island Games, top scored for Guernsey in their first National League win of the season with 18 points. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0799765)

THE Guernsey women got their first win in the 2009-10 National League campaign with a good victory over Bristol Flyers.

The senior island side are in their second year in the English Basketball League Division Two Midlands and South West.

They began this season with a 56-42 defeat at the hands of City of Birmingham Force before going down 61-40 to Bristol Storm.

However, taking on the Flyers at the Bristol Academy of Sport at the weekend, the Sarnians came away with a 54-35 win.

The visitors were short on numbers with only nine available and without guards Emma Pattimore and Rochelle Vaudin looked a little vulnerable.

But any thoughts that those players would be missed were dispelled within the first quarter as a rampant Guernsey team set off like a train.

The starting five of Kerri Brown, Amy Wright, Gemma Batiste (nee Loveridge), Kat Daunt and Emma Hicks were solid on defence, slick and confident on the offence and aggressive all over the court.