Invicta Vs Westminster

Invicta Knights V's Westminster Statesmen
Challenge Match on Saturday 14th January 2006

	FS	1st	2nd	3rd	SOG	PIM
Invicta Knights	8	4	1	3	27	48
Westminster Statesmen	7	2	3	2	30	26

Referee :Thompson / Szucs Linesmen :

Invicta Knights Netminder Steve Grout / Darren Carter	Westminster Statesmen Netminder Graham D’Anger
Invicta Knights Goals 02:42 Hume, Ratcliffe (SH) 04:53 Hume, Ratcliffe, Chapman 18:38 McBride, Popluhar, Keen 19:24 Ratcliffe, Hume 22:15 Hume, Spencer 42:06 Ratcliffe, Hume (PP) 45:45 Hume, Ratcliffe 54:42 Ratcliffe, Hume	Westminster Statesmen Goals 03:34 Richardson, (PP) 19:02 Chinnery, O’Dell 36:57 O’Dell, Siljamo, Richardson (PP) 37:38 Danko, Cavanagh (PP) 38:43 Caton, Potts 44:30 O’Dell (SH) 47:00 Howard, Leslie (PP)
Invicta Knights Points Paul Hume 4+3 Neil Ratcliffe 3+3 Cody McBride 1+0 Darren Chapman 0+2 Chris Spencer 0+1 Darren Keen 0+1 Petr Popluhar 0+1 Bob Jacobs 0+1	Westminster Statesmen Points Dan O’Dell 2+1 Tony Richardson 1+1 Matt Caton 1+0 Tyrone Chinnery 1+0 Brano Danko 1+0 Isaac Howard 1+0 John Cavanagh 0+1 John Leslie 0+1 Steve Potts 0+1 Jyri Siljamo 0+1
Invicta Knights Penalties 01:56 Bill 2 Too Many Men 07:55 Bill 2 Checking 07:55 Wood 2 Delay of Game 21:46 Hume Joel 2 Holding 32:08 Spencer 2+10 Roughing 35:29 Hume Joel 2 Checking 36:57 Ratcliff 2 Cross Checking 39:45 Hume Joel 2 Checking 45.04 Hume Joel 2 Hooking 48.46 McBride 2 Cross Checking 49.36 Keen 2 Checking 52:15 Graham 2+2+2 Roughing 58:15 Graham 10 Misconduct	Westminster Statesmen Penalties 04:20 O’Dell 2 Too Many Men 07:55 Richardson 2+10 Roughing 08:50 Cavanagh 2 Roughing 21:46 Siljamo 2 Holding 32:08 Leslie 2 Roughing 41:15 Siljamo 2 Holding 43:46 Siljamo 2 Hooking 49:06 Matthews 2 Checking
Invicta Knights MoM Paul Hume	Westminster Statesmen MoM Michael Baker

Match Report

The Knights squad had been strengthened this year by the signing of Ex – Dynamo forward Paul Hume & also older brother Joel. International signings soon followed with Cody McBride & Ryan Beech from Canada & Juha Kommonen from Finland. Returning Brits are, Mark Graham & Richie Myers.

The Knights first game of the 2005/2006 season opens with the return of the Westminster Statesmen…….

The scoring opened at the Ice Bowl in the 1^st period with a short-handed goal from Paul Hume, assisted by Neil Ratcliffe. The goal came after a costly “Too many men” penalty which saw the Statesmen reply with a goal, but the Knights answered back with their 2^nd goal, again by the Paul & Neil duo with a defenceman’s assist going to Darren Chapman. The third goal breezed in past the Statesmen goalie scored by Cody McBride, assisted by both Petr Popluhar & defenceman Darren Keen. Two more goals from each side & a bucket full of penalties put the Knights ahead 4-2 at the end of the 1^st period….

The 2^nd period saw a loss in discipline from both sides & with the Statesmen scoring 3 goals & the Knights scoring 1. This meant that the period ended 5-5.

The 3^rd period saw a further goal each from both Neil & Paul with 2 further goals from the Statesmen. The Statemen’s Greg Comrie dropped his gloves in an altercation with Knight’s player Mark Graham which resulted in Greg’s early departure from the game. With the score tied in the final 6 minutes, Bob Jacobs made a pass to Paul Hume who in turn played the puck to Neil Ratcliffe who let the shot go which whistled past the Statesmen goalie to end the game…..

Reporter : Sue Webber