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| Pilipinas Islanders with head coach Carl Montano after their semi-final win |
The Philippines’ national
women ice hockey team, Pilipinas Islanders, was within reach of the
championship on May 11 in the Mega Ice Hockey 5’s 2019 tournament in Kowloon
Bay, but a team from Singapore, DP Mantis (Evoke) spoiled that dream.
The younger and
smaller Filipinas fought gallantly but were simply outclassed by their rivals,
who used their speed, height and heft to score a goal, 1-0, in the first period
of the final match at the Mega Box ice skating rink.
But, despite that
early DP Mantis advantage, the Islanders put up a tight defense with zealous
goalkeeping by Rosalyn Lim to prevent the combination of Singapore
“It was a good
experience for them, they did their best,” national team head coach Carl
Montano told The SUN after a post-game meeting with his players. He said the
Pilipinas Islanders will compete again in the tournament next year.
Shaun Lee, the
Singaporean founder of DP Mantis, praised the Filipinas for playing a great
game, noting that there were two very good players on the team.
Lee was referring
to Rachel Llanes and Mei Jue, two professionals playing for Shenzhen teams who
were called up by Montano to bolster the national team made up mostly of young university
students.
The Filipinas
defeated Hong Kong team WIHO Elite 3-2 in
their opening match on May 7 to earn a ticket to the next round. Then they
crushed Bangkok YGG Ice Hockey Club 4-0 the next day.
On May 10, the
Islanders blanked WIHO, 5-0, to gain a berth in the semifinals. WIHO Elite,
meanwhile, drew Bangkok YGG, 1-1, then beat sister teams WIHO Junior, 5-3, and
WIHO 2-0 to set the stage for its semifinal with WIHO Elite.
Bianca Cuevas
scored the first point against WIHO Elite 9min28 into the first period, drawing
a reprisal from Wong Ka-wing at 10min38.
Then Llanes slammed
the puck into the goal 10min31 into the second period to take the score to 2-1.
But Adrienne May Li scored another goal for WIHO Elite at 6min10 to tie the
game at 2-2.
Llanes scored
another goal 3min22 into the 3rd period and Kathleen Tan added
a fourth 2min48 into the fourth period, while WIHO Elite had stopped scoring
until the game ended at 4-2.
DP Mantis (Evoke)
stormed into the tournament with a 14-0 crushing of WIHO on May 7, then blanked
WIHO Jr 10-0 on May 8.
The team defeated
Bangkok YGG 2-0 in each of their two meetings on May 10 and in the semifinal on
May 11 to stake its claim to the championship.
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