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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 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.
It took until the
third period for the Cobras to find the back of the net and their goals were
scored by Sam Plant and Emma Dutton.
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.
