The heavily depleted Queen Bees side had only 11 skaters with Claire Fay and Betony Garner injured and Leanne Ganney unable to play until her 16th birthday in October. The skeleton squad put in a fine performance however, dominating Guildford in the first period which saw goals from Chrissy Newman and Amanda Carr, (assisted by Lydia Westcombe), to put them 2-0 up at the break.

The Queen Bees continued to put the pressure on their hosts when Newman increased the tally to 3 early in the second period with a carbon copy of the first goal chipped over the goalkeeper’s shoulder. A serious of penalties meant some upheaval for Bracknell and Guildford eventually broke through to pull a goal back through Grace Drake at 34 minutes as she stormed the net to scramble the puck free from under Rhian Galea in goal and knock it over the line.

The Queen Bees came back to restore the gap early in the third period through Dani Summers who hit a missile of a slapshot past Guildford's ex-WNHL goalkeeper for Bracknell’s 4th goal. The Queen Bees then held on well despite looking tired until Drake again pulled one back for Guildford on a breakaway and deked Galea in her first league start for 4 years. The final minutes were frantic with Guildford fighting hard to level the score and Bracknell hanging on however the Queen Bees were very pleased to take the 4-2 win and get their season off to a flying start. 

Player-of-the-match for Bracknell was Jo Couture.