Fife Flyers 8, Basingstoke Bison 2

THE Basingstoke Bison crashed to their biggest defeat of the season in Fife on Saturday as they lost 8-2 to the Flyers.

The Scottish outfit gained quick revenge for an overtime defeat in Basingstoke last month with their best performance of the season.

Charlie Colon said: "We basically didn't show up and if it was not for Rob (Schistad) the score would have been a lot worst."

The home side dominated from the start and when Richard Little departed for a tripping penalty the Flyers looked to have scored from Russell Monteith only for it to be disallowed for high sticks.

In the seventh minute, Neil Liddiard was the next to inspect the inside of the Flyers' sin bin for slashing. Frank Morris put the puck in the net but again it was disallowed, this time for offside.

The Flyers, who outshot the Bison 17-2 in the opening period finally got on the scoresheet from Russell Monteith at 10:41 and then Mark Dutiaume made it 2-0 a couple of minutes later.

The second period saw the Wella-backed side fall further behind as man-of-the-match Karry Biette, Todd Dutiaume and Monteith all scored to end the game as a contest.

After the break, the home side added three more goals as Frank Morris, Mark Dutiaume and Kyle Horne all netted.

The Bison finally broke the Shawn Silver shut-out at 53:38 as excellent work from Joe Baird saw his shot rebound off the pads of Silver, Little picked up the rebound and set up Bison man-of-the-match Gary Clarke to score.

A minute later with Biette in the sin bin, the Bison took advantage of the extra man as Dru Burgess scored at 55:41.

Scoring; Flyers: Monteith, M Dutiaume 2+1, Biette 1+3, T Dutiaume, F Morris 1+1, Horne 1+0, King 0+3, Samuel 0+1. Bison: Clarke, Burgess 1+0, Little, Brant, Andersson 0+1. Shots on Goal: Silver 19, Schistad 34. Penalties: Flyers 4min, Bison 6.