Matches & Match Reports
Match Dates:
Sunday 23rd May
Match Reports:
League 9th May 2010
Shooting Stars 9th May 2010:
| TEAM | SCORE | SHOOTING STARS GOAL SCORERS |
St Catharines vs. Shooting Stars |
4-0 | |
| Shooting Stars vs. Wizards | 0-4 | |
Widens vs.Shooting Stars |
1-5 | Gregg Colley 2 Oli Fitter 1 Spencer Blackler 1 Toby Fitter 1 |
| All Stars vs. Shooting Stars | 1-1 | Spencer Blackler |
| Shooting Stars vs. Eagles | 2-9 | Spencer Blackler 1 Gregg Colley 1 |
Farnham Fireballs 11 - 2 Eagles
Farnham Fireballs 13 - 1 Hawkettes
Shooting Stars 1 - 9 Eaglets
Shooting Stars 0 - 8 Wizards
Shooting Stars 0 - 8 St Catharines
Shooting Stars 1 - 3 Widden
Shooting Stars 1 - 6 All Stars
Gloucester May '09
Hawks 4-2 Fireballs
Hawkettes 5-12 Fireballs
Cobras 2-2 Fireballs
Gloucester GL Centre T7 Tournament 10th
May
The Farnham Fireballs left the Gloucester GL Centre with a win, a draw
and a loss from their matches.
First up for the Fireballs were the Hawks but Farnham were soon a goal
behind after their opponents were quickest to react to a throw out from
Fireballs goalie George Saunders. However Farnham levelled after Josh
Purnell’s neat pass picked out Roope Rantala to convert. Shortly
before the break Hawks regained the lead with what appeared to be an
illegal high stick and went further ahead early in the second period
after the Fireballs defence was unable to clear their lines. Farnham
reduced the arrears after good work from Roope Rantala behind the Hawks
goal set up Purnell to slot home but despite further pressure on the
Hawks goal the Fireballs were unable to stop their opponents from winning
by four goals to two.
The second match pitted Farnham against the Hawkettes who took the lead
with a controversial shot that didn’t appear to cross the goaline.
This seemed to put the Fireballs off their stride and after the Hawkettes
scored twice in quick succession to take a 3-0 lead Fireballs Finnish
Head Coach Rami Rantala called a time-out. From the restart the Fireballs
responded in a positive manner and Andrew Field led the way with a three
minute hat-trick to level the match. 3-3 quickly became 7-3 in Farnham’s
favour with Purnell, Roope Rantala, Sebastian Foster and George Bradford-Smith
all notching. A Roope Rantala ‘special’ from the halfway
line sandwiched between two Hawkettes goals made it 8-5 but then the
Fireballs ran away with the match. Field set up Purnell with his second
goal and just to prove his last goal from halfway was no fluke Roope
Rantala replicated his earlier effort. The youngest player in the Fireballs
squad, Louis Goodman, scored his first ever goal and Field with his
fourth of the game made it 12-5. A neat passing move involving Foster,
Johnny Daines and Roope Rantala added one more to the total before the
final whistle sounded. Of particular satisfaction was the impressive
way in which the Fireballs defence of Thomas Adams, Sam Adler, Santtu
Rantala and Daines reacted after finding themselves three goals down
at the start of this game.
Cobras provided the Fireballs with their final game of the day and unfortunately
Farnham found themselves having to play catch-up for the third time
as their opponents established a two-goal lead. Fireballs heads didn’t
drop though, typified by a tireless display from Peter Halkett, as firstly
Purnell, who kept up his record of scoring in every game and a deflected
shot from Roope Rantala, again from the halfway line, put the team’s
level at 2-2. There was no further score in this game due in part to
some good saves from Saunders in the Fireballs goal.
All roads now lead to the Nationals in July where the Fireballs are
quietly confident they will better last year’s sixth place.
In February 2009, the Farnham Fireballs were invited to take part in the Gloucester floorball League at the GL1 Centre after a side pulled out of the event. The League is divided into two divisions, one for school years 6,7 & 8 and another for 8, 9 and 10. Their first match was a birth by fire for the Farnham team coming up against one of the best teams in the junior floorball League, the Arrows from Illmington. The Arrows' opening goal demonstrated their flare with their top shooter unleashing a drag shot around a Fireballs defender to place the ball neatly in the top corner of the net. However the Fireballs stuck to the game plan and managed to come back from 2-4 down to draw the match 4-4, Roope Rantala scoring all the Fireballs' goals. This was a remarkable result against such an experienced League team and drew several comments from the event organisers. Match 2 was a hard fought 3-0 victory against the Hawkettes with Andrew Field 2, and Peter Halket scoring in the last period of the game.