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Comment now on the latest news at the Forum DOUBLE CROSS League and cup success for Crusaders Stone Cross have marked the end of their 20th season in the sport by winning the League Championship and KO Cup double for the first time in their history. It’s by far an unique achievement, they the seventh different side to do so, while both Wimbledon (three) and Eastbourne (two) have done so on multiple occasions. It’s the second season in succession that the Crusaders have got their hands on at least one major trophy, they having won the league for the third time last year, their previous two successes having come in the early seasons (SL1 and SL3) of their first period in league racing, which spanned the SL1 to SL9 campaigns. They were pushed all the way for title number four, Greenhill falling just a point short in the end as they lost their final day encounter at Nottingham, 50-40. Their challenge was over by the end of heat 13 of that meeting, that assuming Stone Cross would make it 18 wins out of 18 at home in their SL33 league campaign when taking on Timperley. They did, but no one in the Boswells Gardens crowd could celebrate until the end of the very final race, the silverware not secured until Dusan Hobler (15) and Connor Evans crossed the finishing line with that points clinching 5-1 in the bag. A 47-43 victory on the night for the hosts, good enough for that all important aggregate bonus point, as they’d won the reverse leg by two. With Greenhill having an identical perfect record on home shale, while winning seven on the road to Stone Cross’s four, it was those bonus points that mattered in the final reckoning, the Greyhounds tallying two fewer than their rivals. Hobler’s last heat victory earned him his 15th full maximum of the campaign, a career best for the SL30 World Champion, only Ben Hale (SL17) and Andy Daniel (SL27)—with 17 apiece—have managed more in a single top flight campaign. Earlier Hobler (12+1) scored the winning point in this season’s KO Cup final, his third place finish in heat 15 of the second leg taking Stone Cross to a 91-89 victory over Greenhill, who finish as runners-up in the competition for the second successive season. Two points adrift from the first leg, this weeks hosts took the aggregate lead in heat three and held it throughout, but would fail to get further than four points in front, with the Greyhounds holding them at bay until Evans (12+1) and Hobler team rode to the minor places in the deciding heat.
TODAY: Shorts SL33 GP series debutant Rubert Buchta has become the first Slovakian to win the World Championship at the age of 27. A consistent run of points scoring culminating in a low of seven in the final round in Poland taking the Prague number one to the title, the German GP winner finishing five points clear of Harry Myers, who equals his best ever finish of second in the championship despite scoring just eight in Malmo. Luca Romano (10), second last year, finished third overall this time around, he missed out on the podium in the Polish GP after finishing last in a race-off for second spot on the night against Christer Krantz (2nd), Olesia Duda (3rd) and Jake Clarke (4th). Nottingham and German rider Tobias Schneider (12) won the tie, this the third GP success of an up and down series for the 32 year old.
Kim Bohr (15) missed out on a second successive WU19 title earlier in the season but made amends in style in this weeks WU21 final. A year on from his under 19 success, the now 18 year old topped the podium from riders two years his senior, Tey Grove team mate Tom Bihl (12) and Swinton’s Bobek Janak (11). WU19 champion Gustave Romm (7) failed to win a race in Auckland.
Auckland may have failed to win any of their last five league meetings of the season but held on to go back up to the top flight as Division Two Champions. A home draw against Liden secured their promotion with a meeting to spare, with both Eastbourne and Tweed also securing top three finishes in round 35 of 36 following home wins. They replace relegated sides Dundee, Wednesfield and Southampton in division one, the latter closing for good after 19 mainly successful seasons in the sport, which included three championship winning campaigns.
Drama as the division three title race reached it’s conclusion with Bolsover slipping from first to third on the final day. The Crusaders lost their home top of the table clash with Tey Grove by a club record 34-56 margin, with newly crowned WU21 Champion Kim Bohr (14+1) scoring a maximum—his third of the campaign—in the process. Still it wasn’t good enough to see Iain Brine’s side go up as champions, that honour goes to Peter Hay’s Birmingham, who hit the summit at the last following a 44-46 victory at Stepps.
Australia have won the International League title after a final round 47-43 win at Sweden.
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