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This weekend saw SIHA’s two senior teams,
Spartans & Senators, go toe to toe in an intriguing double header across at
Ice Sheffield. Spartans will be looking to make the play-offs once again whilst
Senators face a tough season ahead in the NIHL Moralee Conference after
promotion last season from the Laidler Conference.
Ultimately class told in the end as
Spartans bagged four points with two 7-1 victories to make a solid start to the
season whilst getting two competitive games under the belt with almost a full
roster after two short benched challenge games to warm up for what will be a
tough season. Meanwhile Sens will have learned a lot from this weekend but they
deserve credit for a markedly improved performance on Sunday from the previous
night. It is however fair to say that neither team were at their best but Spartans
fully deserved their two wins this weekend.
Sens were the home team on Saturday and Spartans
had started the better but despite some good spells of pressure and possession
they only had Elliott Knell’s goal to show for their efforts. The goal
triggered a response from Senators who came more into the game and finish the
stronger of the two teams in the closing stages and imagine that they will have
been the happier of the two teams at the break.
Spartans stepped it up a few gears to
dominate the second period with goals from Stuart Brittle, Will Barron, Tom
Parkinson & Nick Manning making it 5-0 in their favour. Had it not been for
the efforts of Mark Hartley in Sens goal the score line could have been far greater.
Senators came out a different team in the
final period and made more of a game of things and pulled a well taken goal
back through Nathan Britton. It was a lot more even this period with both teams
creating chances but Spartans always looked the more likely to score which
proved to be the case when Maros Stefanco & Will Barron making it 7-1 which
was to be the final score resulting in a deserved victory for Spartans with
Maros Stefanco picking up the Man of the Match beers whilst Jonny Bell was
awarded it for Senators after a solid performance.
On Sunday it was Spartans privilege to be
the home team and although the outcome was the same it came about in very different
circumstances. Spartans were quick out of the blocks to race to a three goal lead
through Ollie Barron with Maros Stefanco adding a brace. Sens weathered the
storm and pulled it back to 3-1 with a nice goal from ex Spartan Alex Harding
in his first season back with the Sens.
In the second period Spartans dominated
proceedings but were struggling to turn that dominance into goals being guilty
of missing several guilt edged chances. They were also made to work hard against
a stubborn Senator rear-guard inspired by an outstanding performance between
the pipes by Mark Hartley. However they couldn’t hold out as Spartans patience
held out to see Ollie Barron & Nick Manning add two late goals to make it
5-1 at the end of the second period.
Senators battled away with credit but
ultimately were undone by some solid Spartans defending and two well worked
& quick fire goals; the first from Will Barron with Stuart Brittle scoring
an unassisted shorthanded goal to make it 7-1 to Spartans. Maros Stefanco was
once again named as Spartans Man of the Match with Sergevs Jegorovs receiving
the accolade for Senators.
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