The Guildford Lightning are on a fantastic run of form, having won five of their six games played this calendar year, included two recent match ups at the Guildford Spectrum. This has found the Lightning sitting in second place in the English Women’s Premier Ice Hockey League on 11 points from eight games, just two points behind leaders Bracknell Queen Bees.
Guildford Lightning 4 – Solihull Vixens 2 (19.01.14)
Stars of the show this weekend were Jordan Wilshire and Alexandra Ronai who contributed to a 4-2 win against Solihull at home which made it a four point weekend after beating Milton Keynes Falcons 4-1 away the night before.
- Back at the Spectrum on the Sunday night, Jordon Wilshire fired in her first of another hat trick within 11:14 as Guildford raced into the lead
- Before Solihull’s Emma Hindmarch evened it up at 16:22.
- Solihull’s GB ace Saffron Allen put her team in the lead just after the start of the second period with a great finish on 21:50.
- But the Lightning struck back quickly as Alexandra Ronai put the puck behind Solihull’s net minder on 25:37.
- On 31:20, Wilshire scored unassisted prior to adding her hat trick goal on the 51 minute mark.
Guildford Lightning 9 – Milton Keynes Falcons 0 (01.02.14)
On February 1, Guildford Lightning faced off against Milton Keynes Falcons for the second time in a matter of days, but this time on home ice. Unfortunately, the Lightning were missing key players Laura Foot, Amy Lack, Laura Price and Alanna Byrne from their line-up, but the Falcons had former Lightning Hannah Perkins also missing from their team. Congratulations to Samantha Bolwell and Kristin Hissong who secured a combined shutout between them.
- The game was already 6 minutes and 15 seconds in before Alex Ronai started the scoring off, with Paige Parker and Lydia Zaprihacova crashing the net.
- In the second period, Guildford scored five unanswered points as they took total control of the match.
- Ronai scored her second at 22:38, before Kirsty England scored the third goal at 25:23 and Ronai’s hat trick marker came on 26:51.
- Ronai bagged her fourth of the night on 27:48 and less than a minute later, Charmaine Easton kept the puck going behind Alex Barrow on 28:35.
- The third period saw a change of net minder as defender Kristin Hissong had to replace the injured Samantha Bolwell for the final 20 minutes.
- 45:49 saw Guildford’s seventh goal scored by Jordan Wilshire and Easton scored again to put the home side 8-0 up at 51:54.
- The final goal went in on 55:46 as captain Lucy Johnson finished the scoring.
Daniella West