Another Frosty Night

Saturday night saw a return match against the Cambridge Eskimos in what is becoming very close encounters. The Statesmen started off the scoring after 3mins with Rich Jones getting his first goal for the Statesmen only for the Eskimos to reply 30 seconds later. The Eskimos then stretched the lead after 7 and 15 mins, to go into the 3rd period 3-1 up.
the Statesmen then got onto the board after 50 mins with a goal from James only for the Eskimos to score after less than a minute later. The Statesmen then got within 1 goal after 53mins with a goal from Ty only to be outdone by the running clock and an empty net goal with less than a minute to go, final score 5-3, a very close game.
MOTM Marcus

Win v Romford

Saturday saw the Statesmen take on the Romford Tornado for the second time, with a nice early f/o of 16.30. Even so, a few people turning up late saw the Statesmen start with only 2 lines, Romford took full advantage of the confusion arising from people turning up during the first period and took the lead after just 37 seconds on a goal from Marcus Cast.
The Statesmen then equalised after 6mins on a goal from John Cavanagh, only for the Tornado to then take a 2 goal lead heading into the second period, goals from Marcus and Paul Curtis.
With everyone now turned up in the 2nd and the arrival of Lukas seemed to bouy the team and between James (3) and Lukas (4) with Bob chipping in 1, the Statesmen scored 5 unanswered goals to go into the 3rd 6-2 up. 4 goals in the 3rd period with Romford netting 1 saw the game end 9-4 to the Statesmen. A good enjoyable game and a good friendly rivalry between the 2 teams.
MOTM Lukas