ECDC Memmingen Indians (GER)-3 vs Aisulu Almaty (KSZ)-2 Overtime (OT)
After a tough week at the Olympic Pre-Qualification Round 2 in Torre Pellice, Italy in which the Aisulu Almaty team formed the majority of the Kazakhstan National Women’s team, the ECDC Memmingen Indians from Memmingen, Germany were hoping they would have an advantage over a tired rival for this seasons EWHL Supercup.
While the host Memmingen Indians outshot the visting Almaty squad 13-8 in the opening period, it was Almaty that would escape the first period with the only goal and take a 1-0 lead into the intermission. Breanna Lynn Berndsen scored the goal at 9:57, assisted by teammate Munira Sayakhatkyzy.
The middle frame was all Memmingen, scoring a pair of goals and dominating Almaty in shots 17-4. Anna Rose and Savannah Rennie scoring the Indians goals. Kassandra Roache and Lena Kartheininger assists on the first goal; Katharina Hackelsmiller and Nadine Schattner assists on the 2-1 goal for Memmingen.
Aisulu Almaty tightened up their game, and concentrated on making sure that Memmingen would not have an easy time of it in the third period. The Indians did not have shots getting to the Almaty netminder, to give themselves some security with a two goal lead.
Meanwhile, Aisulu was patiently waiting for one of their few shots of the final period to cross the Memmingen goal line and tie up the game. With three minutes left in the game, and Almaty putting their efforts to interfere with Memmingen’s efforts to get that 3-1 goals, the visitors were quickly in need of changing their efforts, from defense, and put some offense together to get a goal.
Almaty did just that. At 17:55, Malika Aldabergenova, potted the goal assisted by Kalista Senger and Pernesh Ashimova to even the score at 2-2 in regulation play and take the game into a five minute overtime and maybe a shootout to decide the winner.
In overtime, Almaty would spend the majority of the time playing shorthanded, with penalties to Aldabergenova at 56 seconds, and Larissa Sviridova, with 64 seconds left in overtime.
It was the Sviridova tripping call that decided the game on a penalty shot. Anne Bartsch, at 3:56 of overtime for the win.
