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The Deeside Ducks MVP against Telford was Stewart Cutting (Photo by Paul Breeze)
Sunday 17th November 2024 – NIHL Laidler Division: Deeside Ducks 1 – Telford Tigers2 11
The
Deeside Ducks put in a spirited performance but lost out 1-11 to Laidler
Division title favourites Telford Tigers at Deeside Leisure Centre on Sunday.
While
this might sound like a heavy defeat, the Tigers won the away game in Shropshire
24-4 just two weeks ago so, in comparison, this was actually quite an
improvement.
Telford
took the lead after just 16 seconds and never really looked like losing. They were
0-4 up at the end of the first period and 0-6 ahead by the second interval.
Deeside
were outshot by some 4 to 1 over the course of the game and, were it not for
spells of staunch team defending and an impressive performance by Paul Jones in
goal, the score would undoubtedly have been much higher.
The
Tigers hit three quick-fire goals within 50 seconds of each other early in the
third period to further extend their lead but the Ducks finally broke their
duck at 49.13 when Luke Wainwright fired in a rocket shot from outside the blueline
that beat the Telford netminder to record his first senior goal.
Two
late goals put Telford past double figures and the game ended up as a 1-11 win
for the visitors.
The
Ducks are away to Coventry Blaze this Saturday 23rd November and then at home
to the same opposition the following Saturday 30th November at
Deeside Leisure Centre, 5pm face off.
Talking after the game, Head Coach Gary Shaw said:
“I
was away but going on what we have been doing over the last couple of weeks in
training and the request for the players to interact more and force errors from
our opponents, the team has taken this on board.”
“I
wanted to cut the goals against by half and we achieved that. Plus we were missing a few good players on
Sunday, so the result could have been better for us.”
“We
obviously are still making mistakes in poor areas, but once we have things done
better in our zone, we can improve the score again.”
“The team are away this weekend at Coventry and it will be another tough encounter, but we need to keep progressing and I'm confident that we will improve again.”
