MANCHESTER Phoenix completed a terrific four-point weekend on Sunday night, doing the double over Hull Stingrays with a 3-1 win.

Phoenix had won 4-3 in Deeside on Saturday night, coming from two goals down thanks to strikes from Ales Parez, Robin Gomez, David Vychodil and Johan Molin.

And they gave notice of their intentions right from the start of Sunday's encounter at the Hull Ice Arena by opening their account with a short-handed strike from Derek Campbell on five minutes.

They then doubled their lead a little over two minutes later when player coach Tony Hand played the inch-perfect pass for Johan Molin to notch his 12th goal of the season.

Stingrays reduced the arrears on an early second period powerplay with new signing Anton Butochnov the scorer, but despite enjoying a lot of possession, they could not find another way past Phoenix goalie Jason Wolfe.

Phoenix had chances to extend their lead only for Campbell to be denied as a terrific wrist shot hit the post.

With time running out in the second period, Phoenix regained the two-goal advantage as a long pass from Jason Wolfe found Molin out wide on the left and when his shot was spilled by the Stingrays goalie, Parez was there to net the rebound.

Hull worked hard to put the Phoenix under pressure in the final period, but the Manchester defence stood firm, soaking up everything and counter-attacking effectively to keep the home defence from over-committing to the attack.

With Radoslav Hecl harshly penalised in the final two minutes, Hull pulled their goalie in favour of the extra attacker, but to no avail and the 3-1 scoreline moved Phoenix into fifth place in the bmibaby Elite League standing, leapfrogging the Stingrays on the back of the four-point weekend.

Phoenix player/coach Tony Hand said: "This was a huge weekend for us and we're pleased to have taken four points from it.

"It moves us into the top half of the table and gives us a big boost ahead of Thursday's tough trip to the league-leading Belfast Giants."