Peninsula wins Australian Floorball Open

Peninsula Thunderettes have won the Australian Floorball Open 2016 by beating Canberra Chargettes 5-2.

The women's team had hoped to perform well in the tournament that involved floorball teams from around Australia.

Vanessa Dwyer opened the grand final scoring with an initial goal for the Thunderettes in the first third.

Canberra came straight back to even the score at one-all.

The Peninsula side did not give up and Tayla Alice Hull put the ball in the back of the net in the last few minutes of the first third.

Coming in to the second third, Canberra fired and scored a goal to again even the score up.

Tayla and Amanda Bartrim then put the ball in the net to make the score 4-2 going in to the third period.

During the third period Yazzie Skene also put the ball in the goal to make the final score 5-2 with Yazzie also getting most valuable player.

Website, 1 May 2016

Nicholas Watterson, Peninsula Floorball