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The Connah’s Quay Cobras
look set to miss out on the play offs of the Summer Classic Cup after a bad tempered
9-2 defeat away to Whitley Bay Islanders on Saturday.
The home game in
Deeside back in June had been a very close affair with the Cobras narrowly winning
4-3 so this was always likely to be a difficult away trip to the North East.
The game started
badly for Connah’s Quay as the hosts opened the scoring after just 47 seconds.
By the end of the first period, the score was 3-0 and by the end of the second,
it was 8-0
The Cobras put up a
good fight and had their own chances in front of goal but were unable to make
the most of them.
Finally, 41 seconds into the third period, their efforts were rewarded with a goal from player coach Emma Dutton. However, any hopes of late fight-back were scotched by a 9th Whitley goal just 19 seconds later. Sam Plant scored for the Cobras on 49 minutes but that was the last of the goals for the evening.
The game was
disrupted by a number of fights and had to finish before the full 60 minutes
had been played as it over-ran the ice time allocation.
The Islanders’ win means that they move level on points with the Cobras in the group table but take the higher position above them due to a superior goal difference.
Whitley Bay still
have one game left to play – at home to unbeaten group leaders Don Valley Vikings
- and a heavy enough defeat (by 21 goals or more) would overturn their goal difference
advantage and hand the second qualifying spot in the final table to the Cobras,
but that seems rather unlikely.
