A maiden trophy for Buxton in their best ever season of their ten in the sport. In the bag goes the Division Two Cup for the second tier title chasers, they completing a six point aggregate win over SL34 winners Timperley at the Pelicans, Peter Heinola’s (10+1) second place finish in heat 13 securing the silverware for Martin Harvey’s side with two races to spare. With a month of SL36 to go Buxton are on course to become the tenth club to complete the second tier double, however a top three finish and a crack at division one for the first time will be enough for Harvey, whose side currently sit a point clear of Nottingham at the top of the divisional standings.

A double at the third tier level for Bolsover seems certain after they strolled to victory in the Division Three Cup. Kevin Lilley’s Stallions beat St Barts by 26 on aggregate in this years final to land their first ever trophy, a second is on the cards with the club currently five points clear at the top of division three with just four meetings remaining.

A six point gap between the two leading sides in division one became three as Houston closed in with a draw in the top of the table clash at Coventry. Billed as a ‘must-win’ for the Mustangs, but promoter George Seymour will gladly take the two points that bring his side back into contention, especially given the visitors only managed five heat wins to the hosts ten on the night. The three-times defending champions went on to beat Brighton 50-40 at home, as Coventry lost out at St Ives, 47-43, results which opens the door slightly for the Scots, who face another ‘must-win’ trip to fourth placed Blackpool next week. That’s a tough ask given the one-time leaders are back in form having overturned a ten point deficit to pick up an impressive draw at York this week, a side that went on to smash Beverley 39-51 on the road. That result takes the Vipers to within six points of the leaders, the loss sees the Hellcats end the week in the bottom three for the first time this season, two points adrift of safety and without a win in eight.

Pelham end the week fourth in division two—their highest position in four months—after they inflicted Peckleton’s second successive home defeat on them. Adamec Krupa (14+1) won a last heat 4-2 to secure the Zaz what was their second away win of the season in a meeting they had trailed in by ten, the visitors picked up heat advantages in each of the last five races to take the points. They end the week a point off the promotion places, Peckleton a point above the drop zone having won just three of their last 17 league meetings. Meanwhile away draws for Bolsover and East Goscote have seem them pull clear in the promotion race.

Blackpool’s Miloslav Ivanoff (14) dropped just a point in winning this season’s German GP. A second place finish in heat 19 at Kassel taking the Russian to his second successive victory in the meeting and his third career GP success overall. Herman Stanic finished second and now leads the World Championship standings. In Pskov Buxton’s BU21 Champion Jay Partridge (14) won the second of the WU21 semi-finals from 17 year old Marcin Piotrowski by a point.