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Weekend Review - Difficult Weekend for Bison
23rd of November 2009
Saturday: Bison maintain home rule over Phantoms

By Graham Merry

THE BASINGSTOKE Bison made it a hat-trick of home wins of the Peterborough Phantoms this season,thanks to a 7-5 victory on Saturday.

The Herd ruled the opening period taking it 3-0 thanks to goals from Mindy Kieras (powerplay), Jamie Line (shorthanded) and Tom Long.

The second session saw leading scorer Ondrej Lauko miss a penalty shot, before Ollie Bronnimann finished a nice move with a simple tap to extend the lead to four. Peterborough hit back as both James Knight and Shaun Yardley netted .

It was left to man-of-the-match Long with restore the three goal lead thanks to an assist from Joe Edwards, by the second buzzer.

The final period saw the Phantoms make it 5-3, as Maris Ziedins netted and then the contest was finished with four goals in the final two minutes.

Peterborough having pulled their netminder scored from Tom Carlon, only for Joe Ciccarello to reply for the Herd.

The visitors pulled their goalie again and man-of-the-match Brent Gough made it 6-5, only for Ciccarello to hit the empty net 3.4 seconds from time to complete the victory.

See Monday’s Gazette for a full report

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Click for here for Coach Moria's reaction to tonights Bison's victory against the Phantoms

Click for here for Tosh Redmond's and Ollie Bronnimann's thoughts on last nights game against Peterboruogh

Sunday: Scimitars put Bison to the sword

By Graham Merry

ICE Sheffield once again proved not to be a happy hunting ground for the Basingstoke Bison, as they lost 7-2 on Sunday night.

The Yorkshire side opened the scoring at 2:58, as Stephen Wallace found a way past Tom Annetts.

The advantage was doubled by the end of the period, as Robert Farmer netted as the Scims out shot the Bison 14-8.

The second session saw James Archer score with what looked like a kicked in goal, only for the Bison to open their account within a minute from Ollie Bronnimann as he finished a move involving Ondrej Lauko and Sam Oakford.

The home side made it 4-1 on the powerplay thanks to Matt Haywood, as Tyrone Miller sat out a tripping penalty.

The Herd took 28 seconds of the final session to net their second of the night from Lauko assisted by Bronnimann and Mindy Kieras.

However, the Scims replied with another powerplay strike from Tom Squires and then added two more goals in 85 seconds from Farmer and Archer to complete the 7-2 victory.

See Thursday’s Gazette for reaction and a preview to this weekend’s games.