Widnes Wild women's team (Photo by Wil Evans)
Sunday 14th
December 2025 – WNIHL Div 1 North: Nottingham Vipers 15 –
Widnes Wild Women 1
The Widnes Wild Women rounded off their fixtures for 2025 with a 15-1
defeat away to Nottingham Vipers on Sunday.
Widnes have had a fairly good record on their trips to Nottingham in the
past. They got a point from a 5-5 draw the last time they visited the Lace City
in the Women’s Premier League (as it was called then) in the 2021/22 season and
also celebrated their last win at that level with a 0-2 shut-out back in December
2017.
But it was not such a happy hunting ground this time around. The Wild
Women were up against it right from the start and found themselves 2-0 down
within the first minute of play.
The score was 4-0 to Nottingham at the first period break and 6-0 at the
second interval.
Nottingham out-shot Widnes by 72 to 26 over the 60 minutes of the game and
adopted a rather physical approach that saw them rack up 45 penalty minutes.
Wild netminder Stephanie Drinkwater took a heavy knock at the end of the
second period and was replaced in goal for the last 20 minutes by plucky 16
year old attacker Maggie Whitmore, who had never played in goal in a competitive
game before.
Nine more Nottingham goals followed in the third period but Widnes did,
at least, get something to cheer about as Ilyssa Flemington broke their duck on
43 minutes, scoring her first goal for the club – an achievement for which she
was named MVP for the Wild.
The Wild Women now have a well earned break and are next in action on
Sunday 11th January when they take on the Caledonia Steel Queens at
Planet Ice Widnes, 4.25pm face off.
