Double figures for Inverleith

EUROPEAN INDOOR CLUB TROPHY   FRIDAY 17
FEBRUARY TO SUNDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2012  AT ENGAGE SPORTS CENTRE
AT NAPIER UNIVERSITY IN EDINBURGH

Inverleith remain well established in second place
behind French side Lille at the top of the pool in the European
Indoor Club Trophy after sweeping aside Czech side HC 1972 Rakovnik
10-3, leaving promotion very much in the Edinburgh side`s own hands
tomorrow when they play Kolos-Sekvoia Vinnitsa from Ukraine and
finally Lille.

Inverleith simply showed no mercy to the Czechs in the first
half, and it all started in the second minute with an Adam
MacKenzie penalty corner strike that went low and hard past the
keeper.  Six minutes later the second went in, almost
inevitably it was Derek Salmond who put the final touch with a
close range tap in.

The goals continued to flow, Graham Moodie perhaps scored the
goal of the day with a solo effort finished off with a brilliant
reverse stick flick into the roof of the net.  Mid-way through
the half MacKenzie added another set piece with a direct shot past
the Czech keeper, then Salmond grabbed his second with a goal from
a yard out after Stephen Dick had done the space-work.  
Penalty corner expert MacKenzie collected his hat-trick just on the
half-time hooter with another direct strike as the Czechs were
still waiting for the switch, and Inverleith went in to the
interval with a match-winning six goal lead.

The foot came off the gas a little in the second half and
Rakovnik pulled one back through Petr Prochazka, but back came the
Scots as John Harris picked up a loose ball at the edge of the
circle and promptly made it 7-1.  The Czechs made it 7-2
through a penalty corner conversion by Tomas Jahoda, then Moodie
has to watch frustratingly as another reverse stick flick came back
off a post to safety.

The Czechs gambled all by replacing their keeper with a “kicking
back”, but that only allowed Stephen Dick to make it 8-2. 
Prochazka did score another for 8-3, but that was soon cancelled
out by another set piece from MacKenzie, his fourth of the
game.  In the final minute Salmond picked up the ball on the
half-way line and waltzed up the pitch to claim his own hat-trick
and double figures for Inverleith.

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