BILLINGHAM EAGLES  V    SHEFFIELD SCIMITARS
   ED1 NORTH
    BILLINGHAM FORUM 2nd OCTOBER 1999

FIRST PERIOD

Saturday 2nd October saw Billingham Eagles play their first home game of the season against visitors Sheffield Scimitars .Eagles first goal came at 1:47 scored by Tom Brown assisted by Stephen Wallace and Craig Bailes indicators of a one sided affair were apparent at 5:21 when Tom Brown got his second of the night a short handed goal assisted by Brian Perry , a minute later saw another short handed goal scored by captain Paul Windridge assisted by Tom Brown and Brian Perry.Tom Brown completed his hatrick at 7:50 assisted by Shaun Black to make it Eagles 4 : Scimitars 0 .At 15:12 youngster Stephen Wallace made it 5 assisted by Tom Brown and Craig Bailes . The first closed Eagles 5 Scimitars 0.

 

SECOND PERIOD

With penaltys starting to stack up for the Eagles the first goal of the second period came at 25:05 with Paul Windridge getting his second of the night assisted by Andy Fletcher and Shaun Black.The goals and penaltys continued to flow for the Eagles as they hit a purple patch scoring three unanswered goals in a four minute blast , at 31:55 Tom Brown scored assisted by Paul Winndridge and Andy Fletcher , then at 33:39 Shaun Black netted assisted by Brian Perry and Gary Dowd , 35:27 saw Stephen Wallace score his second of the night assisted by Craig Bailes and Tom Brown to close the second Eagles 9 : Scimatars 0 .

 

THIRD PERIOD

At 45:24 Liam Thompson scored assisted by David Mclean , 47:02 saw Scimitars score their first and last goal of the game this was answered at 49:52 by Dale Taylor scoring unassisted to make it Eagles 11 Scimitars 1.The last 10 minutes saw Eagles collect 8+10 min penaltys and 2 gross mis-conduct penaltys. The strangest one being when Eagles Gary Dowd was caught skating behind referee Wardell using his inverted stick in the manner a blind person would use his white stick unfortunatley ref Wardell did see this and he ensured Dowdy recieved guidance to the changing room where he joined fellow Eagle Andy Fletcher for an early shower , Andy had recieved his sending off for a slashing / gross mis-conduct penalty at 52:44 . At 56:04 Eagles Blue liner Ian Richardson hit the target with a short handed goal assisted by Brian Perry and Paul Winndridge to make it Eagles 12 : Scimitars 1 . Three minutes later Ian Richardson scored unassisted at 59:26 to notch up another win in the battle to retain the ED1 title .The final score was Eagles 13 Scimitars 1 .Man of the match went to Adam Flett for the Eagles .T

PERIOD SCORES

	1st	2nd	3rd	FINAL
BILLINGHAM	5	4	4	13
SHEFFIELD	0	0	1	1

 

Ian Richardson Eagles defence man said after the game;

 

Billingham returned to the Billingham rink for our first home game of the season. The plant has improved the surface dramatically. Although the ridge still runs down the middle!! Sheffield travelled to Billingham minus ex GB skipper Chris Kelland, the missing stalwart's experience showed early on as Tom Brown notced 3 within the first 8 minutes.

In the first game to see Billingham play three line hockey throughout, the depth of the squad showed. Without Payne,Lewis and Aisbitt, the youngsters who proved their worth against Kingston, once again came up trumps. The skills of Wallace earning him a brace, the second of which will no doubt live with him for some time. The game was a truly one sided affair, the 13-1 end scoreline inidcated that Billingham have their sights firmly set on retaining the title.

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