DEESIDE DRAGONS made it three wins from three starts in the new Moralee Division season with a 5-2 victory at home to Hull Jets.
The game was pretty close throughout and the first period looked as if it was going to play out goal-less until Hull opened the scoring with just six seconds left on the clock.
Deeside drew level less than a minute after the restart with Ross Kennedy (pictured below) on target and the same player edged the Dragons into the lead three minutes later.
Captain Jared Dickinson then tucked the puck away for his first goal of the season and although Hull, who had lost 4-3 to Blackburn Hawks 24 hours earlier, made it 3-2, Deeside fought right back.
Jake Witkowski scored twice - the crucial second after the Jets had withdrawn their netminder in favour of an extra attacker.
Curtis Warburton gave another impressive performance in the Deeside net, turning away 35 of the 37 shots that he faced, and was named Dragons MVP.
The new Deeside Dragons women’s team continued their winning start to the season with a 12-2 victory over Kingston Diamonds in Hull.
Somewhat surprisingly, considering the eventual scoreline, the first period played out goal-less and it took until four minutes into the second period for the first goal of the game.
That fell to the Dragons’ Niamh Walsh and she added two more goals for a straight hat-trick within 16 seconds of each other.
Captain Lucy Kirkham, Teagan Walsh, Charlotte McAdam and Emma Dutton all added doubles with Grace Taylor also on the scoresheet.
It was a superb all round performance for the new team who were only playing their second ever game and seven different players got on the scoresheet.
The MVP award went to Emily Davies with the women’s team next in action at Manchester Storm on Saturday.
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