The Women´s Final was extremenly thrilling this season when Rönnby became the new Women´s champion after penalty shots.
Rönnby is the Women´s champion after winning the thrilling Final against the favourites Iksu. Iksu was able to come back into the match after Rönnby´s 5-1 lead. But Hanna Pettersson in the goal and the captain Karolina Widar (pictured), who put the decisive penalty shot into the net, made Rönnby´s dream come true.
– We have practiced penalty shots and our opponents apparently haven´t, which settled the match, the Rönnby coach Johan Kökeritz said to innebandy.se with a glimt in his eye.
Iksu’s coach Johan Sjöström was of the opinion that his team could not create enough movement on the field.
– We also shot many shots that were screened by the defenders and then Rönnby has a great goalie. Unfortunately we could not get our game going sooner, Sjöström said in innebandy.se´s interview.
When Rönnnby then increased the lead to 4-1 and 5-1 it seemed as if the game was over, but then Iksu:s star player Victoria Wikström scored an important second goal for her team, with 10 seconds left of the 2nd period.
In the 3rd period Iksu gave more pressure to Rönnby´s defence and was able to even the score to 5-5 with goals scored by Anna Wijk, Cassandra Edberg and Martina Söderqvist.
Rönnby´s sniper Sara Stålberg took Rönnby again to the lead with two minutes left of the match, but 23 seconds later Wijk shot a canon, which was impossible to catch by Pettersson in the goal and the match continued on overtime.
– Wijks shot was amazing and rarely seen in Women´s Floorball! A great performance, Rönnby´s coach Johan Kökeritz admitted.
The match continued on overtime, but no goals were seen and when Iksu´s three penalty shooters missed and Rönnby´s players were able to score Rönnby was the team celebrating the Championship gold with a 7-6 victory.
Rönnby IBK and IKSU both to the EFC Final round
The Swedish Championship secured a place for Rönnby in the EuroFloorball Cup Final round. Also IKSU, who is the reigning EFC Champion, has the the direct spot for the EFC Final round. The victory of Rönnby affects also to the 4th ranked champion, SC Classic from Finland, who will now need to qualify to the EFC Final round.
The direct qualified teams for the Women´s EFC Final round (if correctly registered) are: IKSU (reigning EFC champion), Rönnby IBK (1st ranked champion, Sweden), Piranha Chur (2nd ranked champion, Switzerland), Tigers SJM (3rd ranked champion, Czech Republic) and Rubene (champion of organiser). The three remaining spots to the EFC Final round will be settled in the EFC Qualifications. The Qualifications are played on three tournaments: EFCQ East and EFCQ West for national champions and EFCQ Top 4 for the 2nd ranked teams in the top four nations.
The EFC Qualifications are played on 25th-28th of Augst 2010 in three tournaments. The EFC Final Round 2010 is played on October 2010 in Valmiera, Latvia.
