Penguin today confirmed their reputation as the men’s Super 5s penalty shoot-out kings!
In 11 men’s Super 5s clashes so far this season, five have needed the dreaded shoot-out to produce a result. Penguin have featured THREE times – the latest a nail-biting 12-10 victory over Polytechnic at Coventry today after the sides ended normal time deadlocked at 7-7.
Penguin’s success avenged defeat by their London rivals at the start of the season when Poly won 12-10 after a shoot-out. Penguin later enjoyed a first shoot-out victory, edging out Cheltenham 19-18.
Surely, it couldn’t happen today for a third time? This looked unlikely as Poly reached the end of the third period with a 7-4 lead, but Penguin had different ideas. In the first minute of the fourth, Tilemachos Pissas led a storming fightback by twice converting penalties, cutting the Poly lead to 7-6.
A rash of time-outs, plus an exclusion for both sides, produced no more goals until 27 seconds from the end. That’s when Dennis van der Linde equalised from a man-up chance.
And so it went to penalties . . . . to 10-10 . . . 11-10 to Penguin . . . a Poly miss . . . then a winner fired in by Robert Gourley (Photo: Trevor Hyde).
There was still time for yet another penalty shoot-out as Welsh Wanderers, boosted by seven-goal Joe Jenkins-Delf, beat Cheltenham 19-18 (15-15 at full-time). Cheltenham had edged a shoot-out when the sides met for the first time earlier in the season.
At the end of such an eventful day, Manchester beat Penguin 12-8 to claim top spot in the table. Manchester led 6-1 after the first period, including a hat-trick by Joe O'Regan.
In 11 men’s Super 5s clashes so far this season, five have needed the dreaded shoot-out to produce a result. Penguin have featured THREE times – the latest a nail-biting 12-10 victory over Polytechnic at Coventry today after the sides ended normal time deadlocked at 7-7.
Penguin’s success avenged defeat by their London rivals at the start of the season when Poly won 12-10 after a shoot-out. Penguin later enjoyed a first shoot-out victory, edging out Cheltenham 19-18.
Surely, it couldn’t happen today for a third time? This looked unlikely as Poly reached the end of the third period with a 7-4 lead, but Penguin had different ideas. In the first minute of the fourth, Tilemachos Pissas led a storming fightback by twice converting penalties, cutting the Poly lead to 7-6.
A rash of time-outs, plus an exclusion for both sides, produced no more goals until 27 seconds from the end. That’s when Dennis van der Linde equalised from a man-up chance.
And so it went to penalties . . . . to 10-10 . . . 11-10 to Penguin . . . a Poly miss . . . then a winner fired in by Robert Gourley (Photo: Trevor Hyde).
There was still time for yet another penalty shoot-out as Welsh Wanderers, boosted by seven-goal Joe Jenkins-Delf, beat Cheltenham 19-18 (15-15 at full-time). Cheltenham had edged a shoot-out when the sides met for the first time earlier in the season.
At the end of such an eventful day, Manchester beat Penguin 12-8 to claim top spot in the table. Manchester led 6-1 after the first period, including a hat-trick by Joe O'Regan.
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