SWINDON Wildcats served Guildford Flames a taste of their own medicine when produced a brilliant comeback in Surrey.

The hosts had defeated Cats 4-2 at the Link Centre on Saturday night, but Swindon repeated the scoreline at the Guildford Spectrum in a match that have both EPL and Challenge Cup points on offer.

But things did not start to well for Ryan Aldridge’s men as the hosts took the lead with 4.48 on the clock when a long range shot from Jez Lundin caught Stevie Lyle out and sailed into the net.

Despite having the lion’s share of the shots, Cats, who saw Kenton Smith binned for six minutes for using the butt of his stick, had 15 to Flames nine, in the first period, it was the hosts who had dominated.

And their appeared to be no signs of the any let up for the visitors when Flames doubled their advantage on 21.55, this time a long range strike from Branislav Kvetan catching out Lyle.

But the Cats were not to be outdone. Before the end of the period they had taken the lead with superb play.

Flying Finn Henri Sandvik got Cats on the board on 30.15 when he turned the puck home with Adam Harding and Steve Whitfield getting the assists.

On 35.54 Tomasz Malasinski pulled the visitors level after good work from Ollie Betteridge and Jan Kostal putting the Pole to score.

Lee Richardson put Cats into the lead for the first time on 39.21 when Malasinski played him to score.

Aaron Nell made it 4-2 to Cats when some good work from Harding played in the ex-Great Britain forward to tuck the puck home.

The final period was a thrilling one with Flames trying to find a way back into this double-header, while Cats were determined to stretch their lead.

But both teams held firm as the visitors avenged their 4-2 defeat from last night following a brilliant comeback.