Women’s Report: Bristol Flyers 62-57 Team Solent Kestrels

The Flyers opened the game with a 4-0 run, but Kestrels' shooters responded and the visitors quickly gained a lead by the same margin. With Flo Ward engineering scoring chances for herself and her team, Megan Stroud picked up early points in the paint and the Flyers had the lead back late in the first.

Solent's Krisztina Velkey dropped a long-range three at the buzzer to bring the gap to just one point at the end of the opening quarter. They continued to hit from beyond the arc in the second, with most of the Flyers’ points coming from the free-throw line.

Hannah Wallace responded in turn with threes of her own, lifting the Flyers ahead at the end the first half, 34-29.

The Flyers came out firing on offence in the second half, with Ward and Mai Zilbeti building the lead as the game resumed. Solent kept up the pressure with swarming defence and smart, tough offence that the Flyers could not stop. They did enough to hold on to their lead at the end of a tense third quarter, which stood at 49-43.