July 31st Game

Although coming into this round you had the bottom of the table facing the top of the table, the closeness of the league this year meant this game was always going to be close.

The Thunder came out storming scoring a goal on their 3rd shift, with a nice deflection from Enright off Davies. Unfortunately for the Swarm they lost one of their leading scorers Polozov, who suffered an injury to his right eye, this served to fire the Swarm up who found their legs and started pummelling goalie Parry with shot after shot. They got their equaliser with Wannamaker scoring halfway through the first period to tie it up.

The Second period belonged to the Swarm they came out strong and put a lot of shots on net, and pressured the Thunder who struggled to get out of their own zone, despite this Heyd managed to score a goal, but the Swarm added two more to their tally, through Joshua Hay and Gahagan. The second period ended with the score 3-2 to the Swarm.

But just like their previous Saturday night encounter, the Thunder were not to be intimidated by a Swarm lead. The scoring was opened in the third period when Millerioux was taken out when he had a break, and was awarded a penalty shot , he showed great patience to clinically convert the opportunity he was given. Millerioux was not finished yet and 2 minutes later on the powerplay, he unleashed one of his signature slapshots from the point, that just snuck into the top blocker corner. This gave the Thunder a 4-3 lead, however the Thunder love to entertain, and immediately after this goal Ball equalised for the Swarm, this ended the Scoring in Regulation, sending the game into overtime.

This would be the Thunder's 4th overtime game for the season, and the second between these two teams. The referees decided to play a 10 minute period of extra time. Last time the Swarm had been the victors in Penalty shootout, but not his time Heyd shot from out wide, the shot was about knee height heading wide glove side, until Davies got his stick in the way and deflected it in, to give Thunder the win by way of the golden goal rule.

This match saw the Swarm out shoot the Thunder 46-29, however brillant goaltending by Parry, coupled with the fact the Thunder made their limited opportunities count saw the Thunder came out eventual winners..