Cycle Speedway Reports
Week Ending 13 July 2008
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Northern Grand Prix at Heckmondwike
13-7-08 - Report: Andy Schofield
The third round of the Northern Grand Prix was staged at Heckmondwike on a fine day, which saw the track become loose as the day progressed. The under 13 round was contested by 7 Stockport riders with Jack Lush and Ali Lam heading the scorers. In the final Jack Lush triumphed from Matt Lush, Ali Lam and Joe Pickford.
Scorers: Jack Lush (Stockport) 15, Ali Lam (Stockport) 15, Matt Lush (Stockport) 14, Joe Pickford (Stockport) 10, Jordan Sweeney (Stockport) 10, Jack Sweeney (Stockport) 7, Georgina Healey(Stockport) 6
Under 10 Final: 1st Jack Sweeney (Stockport)
Under 13 Final: 1st Jack Lush (Stockport), 2nd Matt Lush (Stockport), 3rd Ali Lam (Stockport), 4th Joe Pickford (Stockport)
The Under 16's Final was won comfortably by Hull's Matt Beharrell from Stockport's Ben Higham and Dylan Radcliffe.
Scorers: Matt Beharrell (Hull) 16, Ben Higham (Stockport) 10, Dylan Radcliffe (Stockport) 10.
Under 16 Final: 1st Matt Beharrell (Hull), 2nd Ben Higham (Stockport), 3rd Dylan Radcliffe (Stockport)
The Under 19 / combination / senior / veteran's meeting was contested by 9 riders with Hull's Adam Stephenson unbeaten in qualifying.
Scorers: Adam Stephenson (Hull) 16, Matt Beharrell (Hull) 14, Neil Howarth (Bury) 13, Dylan Radcliffe (Stockport) 12, Ben Higham (Stockport) 11, Fred Rothwell (Bury) 11, Paul Beharrell (Hull) 10, Andy Bradshaw (Heckmondwike) 10, Lewis Aylmer (Hull) 9.
The veteran's final saw Hull's Paul Beharrell hold off the challenge of Bury's Fred Rothwell for four laps. The under 19 Final was won from the tapes by Hull's Matt Beharrell with team mate Adam Stephenson second and Stockport's Dylan Radcliffe and Ben Higham in third and fourth places. The senior final saw three of these riders joined by Bury's Neil Howarth who raced to victory from Dylan, Adam and Matt. The combination final was won by Dylan Radcliffe from Ben Higham and Hull's Matt and Paul Beharrell.
Veteran Final: 1st Paul Beharrell (Hull), 2nd Fred Rothwell (Bury)
Under 19 Final: 1st Matt Beharrell (Hull), 2nd Adam Stephenson (Hull), 3rd Dylan Radcliffe (Stockport), 4th Ben Higham (Stockport)
Senior Final: 1st Neil Howarth (Bury), 2nd Dylan Radcliffe (Stockport), 3rd Adam Stephenson (Hull), 4th Matt Beharrell (Hull)
Combination Final: 1st Dylan Radcliffe (Stockport), 2nd Ben Higham (Stockport),3rd Matt Beharrell (Hull), 4th Paul Beharrell
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Leicester v Sheffield
Premier League
Images: Shaun Hudson & Magda (more of her images in gallery above)
Report 1: This top of the league Premier League clash between Leicester and Sheffield lived up to its pre match billing of the match of the season. A large crowd witnessed this clash of the titans in brilliant sunshine and were entertained from the very first race, both teams new just how much was at stake and it showed in the passion injected into the racing.
Sheffield got off to a great start taking a 6-3 courtesy of Syzmanski & Angel over Waddhams & Pike after Pike was excluded for moving at the tapes, however by heat 3 Leicester had regained the advantage with a 7-2 from Marchant & Nowacki over the Star's Pawel Kozlowski after his team mate Mitchell Spear has been excluded for a tapes offence. A series of shared heats followed before Leicester moved ahead with a well taken 6-4 from Hemsley & Whithead, with one heat to go before the interval now was the perfect time for a Sheffield maximum and Kurkowski & Sieradzki were on hand to oblige which put the Star's one point up at the break, 43-44.
Unfortunately the interval seemed to upset the rhythm of the Sheffield team and quite quickly it became obvious that Leicester were taking control of the match, heat after heat the Leicester riders out gated their Sheffield counter parts and the Star's were continually playing catch up. This lead to a series of silly exclusions that just put more pressure on the Sheffield riders, Leicester were continually providing the heat winners through Waddhams, Hemsley, Nowacki, Pike and Marchant where as Sheffield were relying on Szymanski and Kurkowski for their wins.
By heat 16 the writing was on the wall and with the Stars 10 pts down you could see their was no way back, Leicester wrapped the match up with two more heat advantages to run out winners 94-79. After an excellent first half Sheffield seem to run out of steam and had no real answer to the superior gating of the home team.
Leicester now move to the top of the Premier League and Sheffield need Leicester to not only lose a match but have to keep a clean sheet themselves for the rest of the season, to tall an order - we will see.
Report 2: This top of the table clash had everything you may expect, exclusions, falls and loads of passion kept the healty crowd fully entertained. The Monarchs started poorly and through a series of errors went into the interval a single point down. The second half was a different matter though, helped by three exclusions to the visitors the home outfit gradually pulled away, a 7-2 from Wadhams/Pike over the lone Siederski opeing up a 6 point lead which they never looked like losing.
As expected Marcin Szymanski was top drawer with 3 race wins, the Sheffield problem was that the only other rider to take the chequered flag was Kurkowski on two occasions whilst Leicester had five riders capable of winning heats.
Referee Ian Sizer controlled the whole affair in a no nonense way, as you may expect both teams disagreed with decisions but from the stands he was always consistant and most notably he clamped down on slow riding very swiftly which contributed for better racing.
Leicester 94: Marcus Wadhams 19, Lukas Nowacki 18+1, Dave Hemsley 18, Daniel Pike 10+1, Craig Marchant 10+1, Mark Whitehead 10, Norman Venson 5+2, Kevin Burns 4
Sheffield 79: Marcin Syzmanski 18, Darek Kurkowski 17, Radek Sieradzki 13+2, Dariusz Pilas 10+2, Andy Angel 8+2, Pawel Kozlowski 7+1, Mitchell Spear 5, Ryan Hoyland 1
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Bretford v Wednesfield
The meeting was good humoured with Wednesfield's more experienced riders finding the track a little tricky. One Wednesfield rider said "it's not about speed its about track craft." Bretford's Mitch Barlow was the star of the day in his first ride he took Stuart Bentley wide for Lee Kemp to go in front and make sure Bretford got of to a fantastic start with a 7-3.
Andy Palmer for Wednesfield was their top scorer with 15 points he only lost to Mitch Barlow who out sprinted him in heat 11. Wayne Aris found the going tough in this meeting, he found the first corner extremely tough to get round, in his first ride he hit the front, took Joe Kemp wide, only for Joe Kemp to cut back after 2 laps and Joe to partner Rhys Thomas to another 7-3 victory.
Will Hanson and Fred Owen rode well all meeting, Will Hanson only 13 is gaining in confidence and put an excellent score of 14 points. Rhys Thomas and Joe Kemp worked well understanding that a drawn heat was not a bad result at times. Brandon Kay reserve who has only rode 3 times took a win in heat 7 over Wayne Aris and Liam Johnson.
Bretford 74, Mitch BArlow 14 +2 BP, Lee Kemp 11, Fred Owen 9 +2 BP, Will Hanson 14 +1BP, Rhys Thomas 12 + 1BP, Joe Kemp 8 + 3BP, Brandon Kay 6
Wednesfield 55: Stuart Bentley 10 + 1BP, Reane Brindley 4 + 1BP, Andy Palmer 15, Jack Harriman 4 + 1BP, Wayne Aris 6 + 2BP, Liam Johnson 7 + 2BP, Jordan Rich 5 +1BP, Josh Palmer 3 +1bp
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Bretford v Wednesfield
Junior Meeting
A Junior Meeting was held after the Combination for all the Children to race Wednesfield Won 71 to 52. Josh Palmer getting used to the track well, Reanne Brindley going through the score card unbeated with 16 points , Jordan Rich looks like he has gained in confidence since he rode at Bretford and Tara Warren racing really hard against the young Bretford Team.
The young Bretford squad raced hard and gained valuable experience on how to race in a team.Callum Thomas only 7 years old scored 8 and showed how quick he can be in the first turn at Bretofrd. Harry Smith aged 10 very new scored 8 and is learning about how hard you have to pedal around the Bretford track. Laura Williams tries every time she goes out on the track and i am sure soon she will start to win some races.
Bretford 52: Brandon Kay 7, Callum Thomas 8, Lee Kemp 10, Laura williams 4, Harry Smith 8, Will Hanson 14
Wednesfield 71: Tara Warren 13, Jack Harriman 11, Reanna Brindley 16, Josh Palmer 11, Jordan Rich 13, Liam Johnson 13
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Horspath v Norwich
British Premier League result
HORSPATH 98 ( Wayne Hutt 15+1, Matuesz Szymczak 18+1, Steve Harris 18+1, Dave Carmichael 11, Rob Hunt 9+1, Lewis Osborne 19, Shaun Rudman 4+1, Mark Carmichael 4+1.)
NORWICH 80 ( Ben Collins 7, Leigh Cossey 11, Ian Grange 9+1, Rafal Baumgarten 14, Lee Grange 8, Richard Williamson 13, Gary Colby 3+1, Nicky Myhill 15+3.)
referee Mick Pedley
British Premier Combination
HORSPATH 53 ( Joe Wyatt 9, Jordan Richardson 3, Rachel Edge 11, Lee Clarke 7+1, Mark Carmichael 12, Callun Riordan 5, Charlie Williams 3, Marco Cooper 5)
NORWICH 77 ( Pete Williamson 10+3, Kieran Parr 19, Liam Parker 9+3, James Wakefield 14, Josh Colby 15, Rob Warminger 10+2.)
referee Dave Carmichael
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Gt. Blakenham v Poole
Gt. Blakenham 97: James Studd 15 + 1, Jason Ashford 14+1, Adam Peck 14+1, Chris Osborne 12, Leon Mower 7+1, Josh Brooks 19, Alex Zielinski 11+2, Lee Ridgewell 5.
Poole 81; Dom Mccabe 12+2, Dave Murphy 14+1, Kev Lowman 5+1, Tom Reed 19, Sam Hearn 9+1, Aaron Lowey 8, Luke Armes 3, Ben Donohue 11+2
Combination
Gt. Blakenham 87 + 3: Dan Osborne 12+4, Marcus Szyszlyk 20, Andy Turnbull 15+1, James Day 13, Lee Ridgewell 13+3, Leon Mower 14+2
Poole 43 + 12 Luke Armes 8, Micheal Buczack 5, Jess Lamb 5, Matt Mildon 10+1, Aaron Morgan 10, Leyton Glover 5
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16/7 Norfolk & Suffolk League
HETHERSETT 116 - D.Adams 19+1 D.Martin 16+4 J.Abbott 16+4
EATON 63 - G.Colby 15 J.Colby 12+1 L.Parker 10+1
Note Eaton arrived with just three riders and borrowed three from Hethersett - official score will be adjusted to 120-37. However, Eaton have subsequently withdrawn from the League.
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10/7 South-East Youth League
NORWICH 71 J.Wakefield 22 J.Colby 12+2 L.Connor 10+3
HETHERSETT 88 D.Chambers 17+3 B.Collins 18+1 P.Adams 18 H.Hamill 18
Referee Stan Allinson
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9/7 Norfolk U13 & U10 Individual Championships at Spixworth
Under-13
1 Scott Grimes HET 24
2 Robert Warminger NOR 22
3 Axl Johnson HET 20
Also qualified for East Anglian Final
4 Tommy Wakefield NOR 17
5= Jack Andrews HET 15
5= Ryan Cubitt HET 15
7 Gwyneth Stock SPI 11
8 Liam Banthorpe HET 9
Reserves
9 Rhys Cooksley SPI 9
10 Oliver Forder-Wilcox HET 8
Under-10
Oliver Forder-Wilcox won this as the only entrant
This means that Suffolk can take up 15 places in the East Anglian Final from their Championship
Referee - Stan Allinson
Note - races reduced to three laps due to conditions and race formula