\n In an exciting match where no more than one goal separated the teams all evening, it was the home side who struck first in the ninth minute, as John Dunbar tipped home a blue line shot from Tanner Butler.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Herd replied as man of the match Brendan Sellan scored from a nice wrist shot from a Zack Milton feed.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bristol\u2019s Bayley Harewood crashed a shot off the crossbar soon after, but the score remained 1-1 at the first break.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Pitbulls were first to net in the second session, as Jake Bricknell with some lovely stick work slotted through the five hole.\n<\/p>\n
\n Once again the Herd replied as Spadafora picked off a pass from Bricknell and scored a superb shorthanded strike.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Bison then took the lead in the contest for the first time as Stanley Johnston\u2019s cross to the back post was converted by Adam Harding.\n<\/p>\n
\n It was now Bristol\u2019s turn to equalise as Bricknell scored on the back hand from a blue line pass from Josh Batch. So it was still tied going into the final session but it was the home side who took the lead again, as a great pass from Caly Robertson found man of the match Dunbar and he hit the roof of the net.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Herd replied a minute later on the powerplay as Alex Sampford was first to the rebound after George Norcliffe\u2019s shot hit the pads of Tommy Nappier.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The Bison then moved the scoreboard to 5-4 as Spadafora and Sellan combined for Milton to score at the back post at 54:06.\n<\/p>\n
\n Once again Bristol hit back and Bricknell\u2019s shot off the back board was slotted home by Harewood to tie things.\n<\/p>\n
\n With no further goals in regulation time, the game went in to overtime and the Bison did well to kill off a powerplay in the final minute to take the game to a shoot-out.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bristol were first up and Wright denied Dunbar with his glove.\n<\/p>\n
\n Sellan then saw his effort saved by Nappier.\n<\/p>\n
\n Bristol\u2019s Bricknell then fired the next shot wide of the target, before Spadafora slotted the puck through the five hole.\n<\/p>\n
\n It meant Harewood had to score, but he over played the puck and Wright made an easy save to make sure of the victory.\n<\/p>\n
\n On Sunday night, the visiting league champions the Leeds Knights came out of the blocks really fast and dominated the opening 20 minutes.\n<\/p>\n
\n However, after the first period they only led by one goal scored by Balint Pakozdi after he was set free by Kieran Brown.\n<\/p>\n
\n The second session saw the Herd storm back into the game as Leeds man of the match Sam Gospel came up with a number of big saves.\n<\/p>\n
\n The first saw him deny Spadafora when he was found at the top of the circle on the powerplay.\n<\/p>\n
\n Another man advantage soon followed and once again the Herd piled on the pressure.\n<\/p>\n
\n Milton found Sellan and he dragged the puck across the goal, then Stuart Mogg fired in a blue line shot which caused a goal mouth scramble, but the puck just would not go in.\n<\/p>\n
\n Then against the run of play, Leeds broke out and Finley Bradon scored from the right wing.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Herd hit back and Alex Sampford broke away, but Gospel stacked the pads to deny him.\n<\/p>\n
\n The final period saw the sides swap chances and then with 2:36 remaining the Bison called a time out and pulled their goalie to give them a six-on-five advantage, but for all the Bison\u2019s hard work Gospel stood tall and Leeds were unable to hit the empty net as it finished\u00a0 2-0 . Tom Relf was the Bison man of the match for another solid display in defence.\n<\/p>\n
\n After the weekend, Bison head coach Jeff Flanagan said: \u201cIt was great to get the win in Bristol in a game which was back and forth all night. Against Leeds I did not feel we started playing until the second period. We had our chances, but just could not find a way past Sam Gospel as he made some great saves.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The Bison this weekend have a triple header starting at home to the Telford Tigers on Friday night (7.30pm), this is followed on Saturday (6.30pm) by a home fixture against the Hull Seahawks and the third game on Sunday (4pm) is an away trip to the Sheffield Steeldogs.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an exciting match where no more than one goal separated the teams all evening, it was the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-605773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115645734180593814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}