For the 2nd successive home game the ADD Recycling Basingstoke Bison where shutout, as the Milton Keynes Lightning committed a smash and grab 2-0 win on Sunday evening. Milton Keynes came to Basingstoke intent on playing a tight defensive system aimed to clog up the middle of the ice and not allow Bison any quality scoring chances, keeping the Bison on the perimeter and protecting netminder Barry Hollyhead. There was to be no scoring in a tight first period, but just 57 seconds into the 2nd period Leigh Jamieson blasted past Bison netminder Matt Colclough, assisted by Nick Poole and Ross Greene. Bison also lost influential defenseman Marcel Petran during the 2nd period as he picked up a 10 minute misconduct for venting his frustration at match referee Matt Thompson. The 3rd period was all Bison pressure as they fired 18 shots at Barry Hollyhead, but were frustrated time and time again and it was Ross Greene who eventually sealed the win for Lightning with an empty net goal at 59:21.

Joe Miller won the man of the match award for Bison with a hard working performance, and it was netminder Barry Hollyhead who won the award for Lightning with a 38 save shutout.

Bison scoring: - Colclough: 1/ 26 + 1 ENG

Lightning scoring: Greene 1+1, Jamieson 1+0, Poole 0+1 – Hollyhead 0/38