Friday Night at Swindon

Friday night saw the Statesmen travel to our old friends and adversaries the Nationwide Knights, with confidence at a high after the last couple of games we were looking for something not done in a long while at Swindon, which was a win.
The game started off at a nice tempo but first blood went to the Knights at 4 mins of the 1st, in a cagey first period this wasn't tied up until the 12th min by Lukas, 2 mins later the Statesmen struck again with a goal from Mark Fenwick (congrats on his 1st for the club) and this rounded out the first period scoring.
The 2nd was a completely different matter with Ty scoring in 30 secs of the restart and the first of four for the night off a nice feed from Lukas (I like). This started off a scoring spree with 4 unanswered goals 1 from James (hat trick on the night), 2 from Ty and 1 from Isaac, this is where the game got interesting and with the Statesmen 7-1 up the Knights started their comeback with a goal with 30 secs to go in the 2nd.
Starting off the 3rd the Statesmen were 7-2 up and with a natural hat trick from the Knights Shaun Littlewood the game started to get interesting and the Statesmen were flustered, then the Knights scored their 6th goal and a time out was needed. This seemed to get our heads back into it and a goal from Ty off a feed from the corner from James straight after the time out steadied the ship and got us back into it, another 2 goals with only 1 reply from the Knights and a final goal from James late on, on a spectacular solo effort saw the Statesmen come out 11-7 winners in the most exciting 3rd period played in a long while. Looking forward to the rematch on Sunday.
MOTM Lukas (this is getting boring now)