Pirates’ double Bison win delights Hewitt
COACH Jason Hewitt is “absolutely delighted” after Hull Pirates’ victories over Basingstoke put them in pole position for an
Autumn Cup semi-final place.
Pirates followed up Saturday’s 3-2 victory in Hampshire with an excellent 8-5 win at Hull Arena last night.
“It’s a good competition and that’s four more points in the bag, I’m over the moon,” he told the Mail.
“We’ve got Peterborough left to play and that’s not easy at all.
“They are another tough team and it’s a tough rink.”
Last night Jon Kirk fired Pirates into an early lead and Matty Davies made it 2-0 before Ashley Tait pulled one back for the visitors just before the first break.
James Archer and Kirk again put Pirates in charge at 4-1, only for Alex Sampford and Richard Bordowski to stop the rot.
Davies netted for 5-3 before Pirates lost Bobby Chamberlain on a 10-minute misconduct.
Lee Bonner stretched the lead to three early in the third period before Tait and Russ Cowley for Bison and Archer and Aaron Lyon’s goals left it 8-5.
On Saturday Chamberlain’s 19th-minute powerplay goal separated the sides at the first interval and Davies and Hewitt made it 3-0 after 40 minutes.
Sam Towner was handed a 2+10 boarding penalty on 48 minutes before Bison hit back with two goals in the last 10 minutes from Oscar Evans and Tait. Hewitt was handed a late 10-minute misconduct but Pirates clung on.