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| Widnes Wild Women (Photo by Wil Evans) |
Sunday 7th December 2025 – WNIHL Division 1 North: Sheffield Shadows 11 – Widnes Wild Women 1
The
Widnes Wild Women’s difficult start to the season continued with an 11-1 defeat
away to Sheffield Shadows on Sunday.
The Wild
Women had already played Sheffield twice this season – losing 2-16 in their
opening fixture at home in Widnes back in September and then 12-1 away in the
Steel City in November.
The team
have had trouble finding the back of the net this season since stepping up to
the higher Division 1 North of the Women’s National Ice Hockey League. However,
their single goal in this game at least warded off the spectre of notching up an
unwanted third shut-out in a row, after being kept goalless in their previous two
games, both against Kingston Diamonds.
The Wild
Women are now playing in the second tier of women’s ice hockey in the UK - just
one step down from the Women’s Elite League – and a big step up from the second
teams and development clubs that they were playing in Division 2 North last
season.
The game
on Sunday saw a similar pattern to the previous games against the Shadows, with
Sheffield comfortably on top for long spells and plucky Widnes defending and netminding
bravely battling to keep them at bay.
The highlight
of the night, from a Widnes point of view, came in the third period when Dee Vause - playing
in her second game of the day after turning out for Whitley in the preceding Division
2 match at the same venue – fired in a superb break-away goal, her first for the
club since joining in the summer.
Widnes
have another road trip this weekend when they travel to mid-table Nottingham
Vipers on Sunday 14th December, 7.30pm face off, which rounds off
their games for 2025.
They are
next at home on Sunday 11th January when they play host to the
Edinburgh-based Caledonia Steel Queens at Planet Ice Widnes, 4.25pm face off.
New Book: 10 Years Of The
Widnes Wild Women
The Widnes Wild Women are celebrating their 10th anniversary
this year and a new book has been produced by niche publisher Ice Hockey Review
to record their first decade together as a team.
“Wild Women – The First Ten Years: 2015-2025” contains
- match
reports for every game from 2015 to 2025,
- news
stories, player profiles and season summaries as were published year to year at
the time
- league tables, playing records and player statistics
for all 9 seasons that were played (2020/21 was cancelled due to Covid)
- 10
year totals, player stats and head to head records
and is
illustrated with fascinating photos throughout.
The book is available to purchase via mail order and details can be found HERE
