Cardiff Dragons 7 - 2 Swindon

The under 12’s entertained Swindon in their 1st home league game of the season looking for revenge after their narrow defeat a few weeks earlier.

The game started in very similar fashion to the previous game with both teams playing some great hockey. It took until the 8th minute for the deadlock to be broken with an unassisted goal by Owen Griffiths putting Cardiff 1-0 up.

With the Dragons being short handed and keeping Swindon to long shots, the play was broken up by the Dragons allowing Tom Parkinson to break clear to score a great unassisted 2nd goal. Swindon though never let their heads drop and managed to respond quickly firing a goal back at 15:52 to bring them to within 1.

Despite some more great hockey from both teams this ended the scoring for the 1st period.

With the next goal being crucial it took the Dragons just 34 seconds to get it with Callum Buglass scoring with a backhand shot from the blue line giving the Dragons a 2 goal cushion.

This was turning out to be another great game between these 2 evenly matched teams and it came as no surprise when Swindon again brought the game to within 1 goal responding after 26:26. Just 2 minutes 14 seconds later Liam O'Keefe got his 2nd of the season to again give the Dragons a 2 goal cushion.

With the Defence of Callum Buglass, Andrew Gray, Krystof Gibbon and Connor Powell and some superb net-minding from James Whiting keeping Swindon at bay the Dragons sensed Swindon's frustrations and capitalised on some in-discipline from Swindon to score a 5th through Owen Griffiths.

Owen completed his hat trick with 2 minutes to go and Tom Parkinson rounded the scoring off with 30 seconds left on the clock to give the under 12’s a superb 7-2 victory.

This was another great team performance from the team again showing the hard work Zbynek is putting in on the training sessions is paying off.

Stats:
Owen Griffiths 3+0
Tom Parkinson 2+0
Callum Buglass 1+0
Liam O'Keefe 1+0
Scott Bird 0+1
Andrew Gray 0+1
Ben Palmer 0+1

Shots on Netminder James Whiting 15

Man of the Match Connor Powell

Match Report by Scott Buglass
Manager