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GUILDFORD LIGHTNING 3 SOLIHULL VIXENS 1
Saturday 8th May 2010
In the first of two back-to-back home games, Lightning at times made hard work of it, but came away with a much-needed win.
Alanna opened the scoring with an unassisted goal just before the halfway point in the first period and all Solihull’s attempts on our goal were thwarted by the defence. In the second Guildford seemed to lose their way a little and there was a lot of wild passing. Some of the girls thought Charmaine had scored when the puck hit the inside of the bar and rebounded out of the goal, but the goal judge didn’t see it. We don’t know who he was but apparently he’s just bought new glasses! Still, with less then three minutes to play, Amy Lack fired in a second unassisted goal to put Lightning 2-0 up.
Early in the third period, with the Vixens serving a penalty for interference, Ally cracked in a shot in the powerplay to make it 3-0, assisted by Charmaine. And that’s probably how the game would have ended if a bit of sloppy defending hadn’t allowed Solihull to grab a consolation goal with less than 30 seconds left.
GUILDFORD LIGHTNING 2 SHEFFIELD SHADOWS 4
Sunday 9th May 2010
At the time we didn’t know this match was to be Guildford’s swansong, but in their first encounter with Sheffield, unbeaten this season, Lightning put on a magnificent display which rocked the Shadows on more than a few occasions.
All the girls played at the top of their game and in spite of the Shadows’ relentless attack they managed to hold them off until almost the end of the first period, when they fired in an opening goal with seconds to spare.
In the second Guildford came out with their heads up and continued to take the fight to Sheffield even after the visitors scored a second goal three minutes in. Shortly after Shadows took a penalty for roughing and Alanna, skating across the mouth of the goal, turned and fired in a great shot at waist height into the back of the net to make it 1-2. She was assisted by Amy. Within minutes Sheffield had scored again, but Lightning refused to give in.
The battle continued in the third period until, just after midway, Shadows made it 1-4. Guildford pulled out all the stops and, as the pace hotted up, successfully killed two penalties. Then with less than ten minutes to play, Grace scored Lightning’s second goal with assistance from Charmaine and Kirsty.
Unable to field a team for the rematch in Sheffield a couple of weeks away, Guildford reluctantly forfeited this final fixture of the season. So, on the strength of one more win than us, Kingston Diamonds take the fourth slot in the Playoffs at the end of May.
Well done and Congratulations to them, and we wish all four teams a great weekend.
For Lightning it’s disappointing not to be going to Sheffield. But no one who watched the game on 9th May could be in any doubt that Guildford Lightning will be strong contenders in the League next season. Bring it on!
