SIHA Round-Up 28th February & 1st March 2015

Thank you to Phillip Holden for his contribution to FSB, All Credit for this piece goes to him so any queries you can contact Phil on Twitter @PhilSlice

The starting point for this week’s SIHA round up has to be with Sheffield Senators who confirmed their promotion to NIHL North One with an emphatic 21-0 victory over Bradford Bulldogs at Ice Sheffield on Sunday. The outcome was never in doubt as Bradford were simply no match for Senators on the day in a one sided game. Tom Humphries grabbed five, Nathan Britton hit four with hat-tricks for Sergevs Jegorovs & Callum Rawson. Josh Gent scored twice with one apiece for Joel Aheran, Alex Jones & Tom “Lovejoy” Robjohns with arguably the best goal of the game scored by Cam King who showed a great deal of skill to put away his effort after picking up on a perfectly weighted and timed pass from Stevie Jegorovs. There will have been one or two sore heads come Monday morning, for which I can vouch for myself, as Sens celebrated a fantastic achievement.

Our other senior team, Sheffield Spartans pushed themselves back into serious play-off contention with a solid performance to win 6-3 which sees them now two points behind Sutton Sting with just 3 games left. It was far from the perfect performance but it was more than good enough to beat a spirited Manchester Minotaurs and in fairness should have been by a far greater margin but it was more about the win than anything else at this stage of the season. Cole Shudra had put Spartans in front only for Minotaurs to equalise with one second left of the period. Spartans dominated the second to be 5-2 in front with goals from Stuart Brittle, Shaun Wild, Stevie Weeks & Ollie Barron. A brief rally from Minotaurs saw them pull one back before a late Stuart Brittle goal sealed a deserved 6-3 victory.

Prior to the Spartans game Swampfrogs U12 D2 played out an entertaining game against Blackburn whom they got the better of to win 6-4. Swampfrogs enjoyed the better of things early on and deserved to take the lead with a debut goal for Alex Evans. Blackburn hit back but was fortunate to equalise when the puck deflected off a skate to leave the Sheffield netminder stranded. There was nothing lucky about Blackburn’s second goal after Jake Holding finished off some lovely play to put them in front but Swampfrogs pulled level after Archie Grayson’s shot had been well saved but Tyler Fletcher was on hand to pick up the rebound to equalise.

Swampfrogs enjoyed a productive second period to keep Blackburn out and put themselves in control at 5-2 up going into the final period. Sam Parkin finished nicely making it 3-2 with a lovely individual goal from Ethan Jones, flicking his shot high into the roof of the net to make it 4-2. Some great build up play set up a chance for Liam Watson who made no mistake to make it 5-2.

Credit to Blackburn they fought to get back into the game with two decent goals although the second being a 5 on 3 powerplay goal but it was still a well worked goal. It wasn’t enough however to get past Swampfrogs who added to their tally with another superb goal, this time put away by Michael Danecko to make it 6-4 to Swampfrogs in what was a good game of hockey.

Elsewhere on Saturday Scorpions U18 D2 enjoyed a 6-2 home win over Solihull Barons whilst Greyhounds U16 D2 maintained their 100% win record with a fine away victory in Deeside.

Special mention for Samurai U10 and their cross ice challenge games, with two teams facing Whitley Bay/Bradford as well as a talented Billingham team in some great games which were clearly enjoyed by all who took part or watched.

On Sunday Steelhawks U18 D1 were staring defeat in the face at Ice Sheffield against Bradford being 5-1 down, a mixture of good finishing and questionable defending the main factors but they showed great spirit and determination to pull it back to 5-5 and were sniffing two points when Bradford countered to nick it in the final minute to secure a 6-5 win in another good game of junior hockey.

Sabres U14 D2 travelled to Humberside for a potentially tricky match against Kingston but the table topping Sabres were in fine form to record a 9-1 win in a game that was at times closer than the score may suggest.

Greyhounds U16 D2 are in midweek action down at Ice Sheffield on Thursday as they look to maintain their 100 % win record against Nottingham at 7.20pm. Hopefully there will be a report from the game as well as the usual preview of the weekend’s action some time Friday…#allsheffield

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