Tuesday, 31 May 2011

Rain, Hail, Penalty Shootouts and Upsets

The Semi-Finals for the Turbo Action Polo Tournament Plate and Cup were played at Reddam House on Monday night.

Plate Semi-Finals:
Things could not have been more evenly matched as BOTH games were tied at the final whistle, taking them into a sudden death shoot-out!
The match between the Sculling Squids and the Countering Crabs ended at 6 ALL with the Squids winning the shoot-out.  On the other side of the pool we saw the game ending 9 ALL between the Shooting Sea Horses and the Sea Anemones with the Anemones taking the shoot-out win.

Plate Semi-Final Results:
Sculling Squids 6 (7) - Countering Crabs 6 (6)
Shooting Seahorses 9 (9) - Sea Anemones 9 (10)


Cup Semi-Finals:
Perhaps not as dramatic as far as the end scores go, but we did see perhaps the upset of the tournament in one of the matches.
The much favoured Excluded Eels, having lost only their first match of the tournament earlier in the evening, came up against the always improving Treading Turtles.  The Turtles came out guns blazing and before we knew it, they were 7 - 0 up at half time.  With 1 minute to go, Captain of the Eels, Josh Stubbs scored a fantastic individual goal but it was way too little too late with the final score ending up at 13 - 1 to the Turtles!
In the other Semi, the very impressive and unbeaten Baulking Blowfish were pushed to the very end by the Flying Penguins.  3 goals from the Penguins goal scoring machine, Adam Reilly, was however not enough to get his team through as the Blowfish ended up as 6 - 4 winners.

Cup Semi-Final Results:
Baulking Blowfish 6 - Flying Penguins 4
Excluded Eels 1 - Treading Turtles 13


Congratulations to all the teams on the amazing water polo displayed on the night.

Below are the fixtures for next weeks Finals Evening - Monday 06 June 2011



POOL – CHANGE ROOM                   
18h30 – 19h00
Countering Crabs vs Shooting Seahorses (7/8)
19h00 – 19h30
Plate Final - Sculling Squids vs Sea Anemones (5/6)
19h30 – 20h00
Flying Penguins vs Excluded Eels (3/4)
20h00 – 20h30
Cup Final – Baulking Blowfish vs Treading Turtles
20h30
PRIZE GIVING

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