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Jubilee Edition - ENHANCED
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Comment now on the latest news at the Forum CLEAR WATER Swans complete big cup victory Swanage completed an eight point aggregate win over Lane End to lift the Division One Cup for a third time. A second leg 50-40 loss at Lane End this week, but a good enough result to earn the club their first piece of silverware in nearly two years, and they’ll be hoping for more to come with realistic chances in both league and 4TT. 18 points up from the first leg, this weeks visitors were never put under any real pressure by the Trappers at Lane End Stadium, in fact Ross Miles’s side went four up early on in the night after their riders won three heats in succession. Two 5-1’s in the space of three heats though for Lane End extended the final as a contest, with the Swans made to wait until the end of heat 12 to celebrate their success. Radaslov Tech’s (6+1) first win of the second leg took them over the line, the 18 year old Czech rider—who will line up in the SL36 WU21 Final next month—beating Trappers heat leader Tomas Zach (11+1) for the second time in the meeting. The Division Two Cup also went with the league form, Nottingham taking it from an all but relegated Bolsover by 14 points on aggregate, that margin all earned in the second leg on home shale for the Jazz, the opener having ended in a draw. Nottingham dominated the early stages of the return, scoring three 5-1’s in the opening nine races, along with four 4-2’s in the first six. It’s the third time Nick Wood’s side have won the competition, equalling a record held by the now defunct Milton Keynes. For Poole it was victory number one in the Division Three Cup in season number one for the league rookies, a four point win over Houston suggests a tight encounter, but it was far from it this week north of the border. Poole led by 14 from the first leg and they too—like both Swanage and Nottingham—had things wrapped up by the end of heat 12, a 5-1 from Yuri Sadowski (6+1) and reserve Joseph Dennis (7+1) seeing to that before the visitors conceded three 5-1’s in succession.
TODAY: Shorts Swanage returned to the top of the division one table after just a one week absence with a 44-46 victory at Peak Dean. Joshua Ward (15 from six) and Joseph Fisher (15+2) scored a last heat 5-1 to snatch all three league points at the Micheldene, having at one stage trailed their hosts by ten. In fact Swanage were behind throughout the meeting until that very final race, with another 5-1 in heat 13 taking them to within touching distance of their hosts. Putney meanwhile went down by the same score at Lane End after conceding a last heat 5-1, although they later smashed third placed Brighton at home, 58-32. Peak Dean remain fourth after bouncing back from their loss to the Swans by adding to their own away win count, six for them in the campaign thanks to a 42-48 success at bottom side Desford. The Dynamos were relegated some time ago, Kent are now also certain to finish in the bottom three, defeat at West Ham seeing to that.
Nottingham are set to follow up their Division Two Cup victory with promotion back to the top flight. Four straight league wins has taken them up to second and five points better off than fourth placed Bracklesham, who dropped their first home points of the campaign when suffering a shock defeat to Tresco. The Tigers end the week out of the bottom three after the 44-46 win, in which Ruda Pala (14+2) and Gaetano Pepe (10+1) combined for two second half 5-1’s. Bracklesham’s earlier meeting at Bolsover—who are now all but down—ended in a draw, while Nottingham took all three points at bottom side Wirral, 44-46, with a last heat Mike Synder (14) winning 4-2.
Houston are just one win away from promotion to division two on their first season back in the league. A 36-54 mauling of Calne—who are now without a league win in seven—on their travels all but sealing a top three finish for George Seymour’s Pirates.
West Ham’s Venedict Glinka (12) beat Charles Trosky (12) in a deciding race-off to complete his second Grand Prix win of the season. It’s a win that takes the Russian world number seven back top of the World Championship standings, with Aarno Saarinen dropping back into second after scoring just nine in the German round. The disappointing campaign for the Brit’s continued as the only rider to represent the home nation in Kassel, Scott Shannon, scored just three, he drops to 15th overall.
Hopes are high for the next generation of Brits’ as George Goldsmith (15) impressed once again in winning his WU21 semi-final. At the age of 19 he is already the number one at Dover, and earlier this season won his first title by scoring a maximum to win the BU21 title in Lothian. This weeks success in Pskov—achieved with another perfect score—was WSO victory number five of his short career.
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