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Jubilee Edition - ENHANCED
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Comment now on the latest news at the Forum NO THROUGH ROAD Liden’s cup journey over at Lane End Lane End are through to the decider of the Division One Cup in their debut top flight season after overturning a 14 point semi-final first leg deficit to beat Liden. The two club’s have made identical journey’s up to the highest level of the sport, back-to-back promotions seeing them make their way to the top flight in the minimum time possible. It’s Brian McKnight’s Trappers that have faired better in division one however, although both are currently outside of the relegation zone, with remaining there the target for the two in what are only their third league campaigns. It was an almost perfect start to the second leg of the Division One Cup tie for Lane End, they picking up three 4-2’s in the first four races of their home return before taking successive 5-1’s to level the aggregate scores as early as the end of heat six. Having already beaten visiting heat leader Tom Bruhns in heat three, Trappers second string Gerik Maciejewski (10) beat their number one Lasse Hinsch two races later in winning the first of those 5-1’s. Both Hinsch and Bruhns would go on to finish winless on an awful night for the Wildcats all round, in contrast Lane End provided six different heat winners, Maciejewski’s second string partner Aaron Gilbert (8+1) and reserve David Kay (6+1) amongst them. 4-2’s in heats seven and eight gave Liden hope, but the hosts had plenty left in the tank, their riders winning six of the remaining seven races, with a heat ten 5-1 and 4-2’s in heats 12 and 13 helping them progress by four. Two-time winners Swanage await the Trappers in the final, the Swans completing a six point aggregate win over West Ham this week with a slender 47-43 home second leg success.
TODAY: Shorts 25 years in the top flight between them but it was the battle to reach the Division Two Cup final on the minds of Dover and Nottingham this week. The latter progressed by three on aggregate after limiting their hosts to a 48-42 second leg win, Mike Snyder (11 from six) and Solt Bolder (13+2 from six) taking the minor places in heat 15 to secure the Jazz their spot in the decider. Nick Wood’s Nottingham are bidding for a record equalling third win in the competition, standing in their way of adding to their SL19 and 22 successes are Bolsover, who have made it through to the final for the first time. Kev Lilley’s Bears currently sit bottom of the second tier standings and have yet to win silverware of any kind in their nine year history. They earned a shot at breaking that duck against the Jazz by beating Wordsley in their last four tie by six, with a 5-1 in heat 14 at the Warhawks ending the hosts resistance.
The top two in the table will face off in this years Division Three Cup final. Rookies Poole and league returnees Houston made their way through to the decider after last-four wins over Warrington and Lothian respectively, the latter there having yet to lose any of their six fixtures in this years competition.
A second career GP win for Putney world number four Kimmo Laakso (11) the reward for a race-off win over Aarno Saarinen in this years Hungarian round in Gyor. After three race wins in the main meeting, the 31 year old beat his fellow Finn in the decider, which had followed a race-off for the third podium spot between Venedict Glinka (3rd) and Jarek Pawlak (4th), both had finished the main meeting with ten points. European GP winner Glinka now leads the World Championship standings by three points from Saarinen, Laakso is up to third, six points off the pace.
Dover’s £100,000 pre-season signing Dominic Holland has become the first New Zealander to win the WU19 title. And in style too, the 18 year old scoring a 15 point maximum in this weeks final in Kent to take the silverware by three points from Peak Dean’s Pavel Marijanovic. Miroslav Kostelac (10)—signed by Poole this week for £89,000—finished third after beating top British finisher Alfie Currie in a race-off.
Bilston’s five meeting winning league run came to an end when they lost at home for the fifth time in the SL36 campaign with the visit of Tresco. Two wins from second string Miroslav Kulich (8) helped earn the Tigers their 43-47 victory, one which moves them up to a season high fifth spot in division two having been in the relegation places for much of the year. The Terriers—bottom for the majority of the campaign—dipped back into the drop zone follow the defeat, but end the week up in sixth after making in three away wins on the bounce with a 37-53 victory at Bolsover. Elsewhere promotion contenders Long Ley (38 points)—who are currently second—and Nottingham (33) both enjoyed 44-46 away wins at Wirral and Wordsley respectively, while in division three Warrington moved up to third after they won by the same score on their trip to Farnham.
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