East Newport Vs Sandwell Lions

East Newport Cycle Speedway were once again on their travels this past weekend, this time away to Sandwell Lions. This was the Club's 4th premier league match of the season, and after suffering 2 defeats already the team knew they had to be at their best to bring the league points back to Wales first ever premier league side.

From the off the Black Country side were firing on all cylinders and in total bagged in 8 heat advantages to East Newport's 5 in this 18 heat encounter to record their 2nd win of the season 96 - 82.

All the East Newport 8 rode with great passion with a joint man of the match performance coming from Craig Nethercott & Chris Davies.

Scores

Craig Nethercott 13, Neil Power 10

Aaron Hughes 4, Ben Mould 19

Dan Bock 10+1, Nicky Evans 6

Chris Davies 10+1, Aaron Herbert 10+1

Next up was the 13 heat Premier Combination fixture.

East Newport gained a league point before the first race had taken place just for putting out a separate side, unfortunately for Sandwell they used 3 riders from the first match and gave away 34 penalty points.

The East Newport 8 adapted well to the Lions circuit and were more than pleased to come away with their 2nd victory of the season winning 89 - 74.

Scores

Matt Davis 9 (5 rides), Josh Davis 5+1 (3 rides)

Corey B Jones 9+3 (4 rides), Ethan Greenslade 11+1 (4 rides)

Simon Bendon 8 (3 rides), Joe Avery 7+3 (4 rides)

Rob Absalom 3 (1 ride), Colin Wildy 3 (2 rides)

Man of the match Corey B Jones

East Newport are next in action this Sunday May 15th at home to Horspath in 3 South & South Wales matches, Division One, Combination, & Conference. All the action starts at 2pm at Larch Grove Playing Fields, Underwood NP18 2HB.