Going into this game and with a look at the lines and teams from the night before, coach Ronnie Wood, made a couple changes to both the teams and the lines that would play together for the duration of game 2.
Allowing players to play together that have prior knowledge seemed to do wonders as the game took on a great shape from start to finish. However some players and lines were targeted and unveiled in bad light, the other lines and players shone and proved their place in final team.
The first lines between were at loggers head between Ashworth, Reeves, Birrell, Giot & Marais vs Marsh, Engelbregcht, Lyon, Valadas & Yates. Marais scored on a break-away in the first 3 minutes of the game, Giot scored with a deflection from Reeves' slap-shot from the blue-line and Johnson scored bar-down late in the 3rd period, but sadly that is all that the Ram-Rods were able to do.
The youth line of Samaai, Carlse, Nebe and powerhouse Matthews were the line of the game as they scored 9 of the 12 goals that left the score-line 3 - 12.
At present the coaching and management staff are working through the games and their notes and will release the 2011 SA National Team list shortly.
Good luck to all.
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