Cycle Speedway Reports & Results Round-Up
Week Ending 10 May 2009
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Link - Report: Women's Club Championships
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SHEFFIELD V HORSPATH
Report: Shaun Hudson | Images: Richard Hudson
The visit of League leaders Horspath to Sheffield ensured another large crowd, who enjoyed an excellent meeting full of great racing. Sheffield knew that only a win would be good enough if they were to keep up their challenge for the Premier League title: team manager Mick Knowles still had injury worries with Jamie Brown out of the reckoning and long term causality Mitch Spear still sidelined.
However the inclusion of Radek Sieradzki into the team at number 7 proofed pivotal and the starting line up for Sheffield gelled together perfectly. The Stars made the best possible start to the meeting with 6-4 from Burchardt & Kozlowski but Horspath hit straight back with the same result from Boaler & Morgans in the next race. What was to follow was three heats of inspired racing from Sheffield that saw the Stars register three maximum 7-3 heat wins in a row, to leave Horspath reeling. The Oxford side managed to stop the rot with heat 6 a 5-5, before scoring a maximum of there own which saw them steady the ship to be only 10 pts adrift at the interval.
With Horspath taking a 6-4 heat advantage after the break through Morgans & Hutt the match could have gone either way however a well taken 7-2 from Burchardt & Kozlowski over Mateus Symtrak after Mark Boaler had been excluded for excessive force, swung the match back in Sheffield's favour.
A superb heat 16 saw Sheffield seal the victory when on the last corner Andy Angell dived up the inside of Mike Morgans as Remi Burchardt went around the outside, after Morgans had kept the Sheffield pairing behind him for the previous three and three quarter laps. A true team effort by Sheffield saw Jono Birks top score with 16 while four of his team mates all contributed 14pts each with the hard working Sieradzki chipping in 13 from reserve, Steve Harris top scored for the visitors with 16 and received good support from Morgans & Boaler.
The Premier League title race is very much back on as Sheffield stamped there authority on an excellent competitive match however with good wins for Birmingham, Wednesfield and Poole today, this years championship could go right down to the wire.
Sheffield 98: Jono Birks 16, Remi Burchardt 14+2, Pawel Kozlowski 14+1, Darisuz Pilas 14+1, Andy Angell 14, Radek Sieradzki 13+1, Lee Smith 7, Ryan Hoyland 14+6+1
Horspath 81: Steve Harris 16, Mike Morgans 14, Mark Boaler 13+1, Mateus Symtrak 12, David Carmichael 11, Mark Carmichael 7+1, Wayne Hutt 5, Mike Burgess 3
Both sides fielded separate Combination sides and a very close match resulted in a Sheffield win by just 8 points.
Sheffield 69: Leon Wilde 15+1, Chris Turner 15, Ricky Wilde 15, Richard Hudson 8+1, Liam Webster 7+1, Aiden Wild 5, Chris Bingham 2, Kyle Brough 2
Horspath 61: Wayne Clark 17, Joe Wyatt 14+2, Jack Smith 9, Matt Coulter 9+2, Lee Clarke 8+2, Jordan Richardson 6+1
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LEICESTER V POOLE
Report: Tim Jarvis
A strong Poole team took the scalp of defending champions Leicester in a hard fought match at Glover Park. A maximum from Paradinski and Cegielski in the first heat put the visitors ahead but the Monarchs plugged away to narrow the deficit to two points by heat five. Adam Stephenson picked up his first of three exclusions in heat six to give Poole a 6-3 advantage and Leicester never looked like closing the gap after that point.
The south coast outfit were well served by their Polish partnership of Paradinski and Cegielski with Reed and Wheeler also catching the eye. Dan Pike had easily his best meeting of the season for the Monarchs, and whilst his team mates were well on the pace, and involved in some very tight races, it was generally for the minor points.
Leicester 81: (D Pike 19, M Whitehead 12, L Yelland 11, C Marchant 11, C Jarvis 10+1, K Burns 8+1, N Whitehead 7+1, A Stephenson 3)
Poole 93: (M Paradinski 19, T Reed 16+1, G Wheeler 16+1, P Cegielski 13+1, A Lowey 11, B Mould 9+1, T Colling 5, S Hearn 4)
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WEDNESFIELD V NORWICH
Wednesfield 110: Scott Doherty 19+1,Chris Jewkes 17+2,Mark Griffiths 15+3,Sam Smith 14+1,Lee Aris 13+3,Roger Cox 11+2,Stuart Bentley 11,Dayle Peace 10+2.
Norwich 68: Leigh Cossey 13+1,Ian Grange 13,Lee Grange 12,Barry Copping 9,Richard Hunt 8+1,Gary Colby 8,Kieran Parr 5.
Premier Combination
Wednesfield 72: Mick Aris 16+3,Craig Guest 16,Matt turley 15+1,Liam Johnson 10,Matt Haddock 7,Wayne Aris 4,Reanna Bridley 4.
Norwich 56: George Soleman 13+2,James Wakefield 13,Liam Parker 11,Josh Colby 10,Ashley Brunori 5+1,Rob Warminger 4.
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WELSH UNDER-18 OPEN
Newport cycle speedway club promoted the 5th annual staging of the Welsh under 18s open at there excellent track at the International sports village.
Exeter's Thomas Reed recorded a hat trick of titles scoring a fine 20 point maximum. Sandwell's Lee Smith came 2nd on 19 with Poole's Ben Mould beating Horspath's Mark Carmichael for third after a race off. Overall, the racing was entertaining with Newport's Owen Pendree and team mate Joe Lewis both impressing in there first Welsh Open.
A local Lliswerry ward councillor was the club's guest for the day and was impressed by the set up and pledged his full support to the Newport club.
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GREAT BLAKENHAM v BIRMINGHAM
Gt. Blakenham 81: J. Brook 5, J. Ashford 12, L. Osborne 14, M. Szyszlyk 2, C. Osborne 12+2, A. Peck 13+1, A. Zielinski 9, D. Osborne 14 +2
Birmingham 93: P. Heard 13+3, C. Timms 17+1, D. Rycharsky 14+1, R. Evans 5, R. Harrison 12, L. Bates 19+1 N. Groves 6+1, E. Thaw 7+1
Combination
Gt. Blakenham 60
Birmingham 65 + 25