Leeds unbeaten home league run spanning three seasons and 46 meetings is over. And in what fashion. Wentworth took down the Jaguars at the Hawthorne 39-51, with the points secured by the Trappers as early as the end of heat 13. Kyle Ostrow (15) beat Joshua Cartwright (11) and Aaron Macaulay (6+1) fair and square in that race on his way to a second maximum of the season, but in the opener he was gifted victory by Macaulay, who inexplicitly went down unopposed while leading the race. That was the first issue on a calamitous first half of the night for the hosts, with Macaulay also falling when in as a tactical substitute in heat seven, in-between there were mechanical retirements for Jack Ray (0) in heat two and Daniel Lake (8+1) in heat three! Wentworth did deserve their victory however—their first in the league at the venue after six previous losses—with Ostrow’s five heat successes part of a haul of 11 race wins in total. It’s a result which helps Brian McKnight’s side go above the Jaguars and return to the top of the standings, Leeds end the week third five points adrift of the Trappers, they also suffering a single point loss at Coventry, in which Marcus Fireman (12+1) won a last heat 4-2 for the hosts.

Six unbeaten now for Eastbourne in the league who end the week nine points clear at the top of division two. A huge lead at this stage of the season, an advantage that grew as they picked up two points at now second placed side Wimbledon. The clash of the two heavyweights at this level ended all square after Stig Martinson (16+1) and Cerek Ostrowski (11) scored a last heat 4-2 for the Seagulls, three races earlier the two had combined for a 5-1 for the visitors when coming in for tactical substitute rides. Wimbledon bounced back from their first dropped point since their relegation by claiming their first away victory, a 42-48 success at Earley, where second string Yevgeni Moroz (8) recovered from a heat three fall to win two of his remaining heats and finish second in the other. Elsewhere Greenhill and Hale both also broke their away league ducks in SL33, second string Andreas Magnus (10) picking up three wins for the former as they led from start to finish in beating Derby, 41-49, Hale’s 44-46 victory at Small Heath was returned after a last heat Niklas Thomasson (14) winning 5-1. Small Heath’s earlier meeting at Greenhill had though finished all square.

There were wins for home track riders in both this weeks World Under 19 semi final ties. Jack Gray (14)—who is up to second string in the Calderwood side after a superb start to SL33—dropped just a point in claiming his second WSO career meeting victory in the first of the qualifiers, his first had come in his BU19 semi-final earlier this season, a competition he finished runner-up to Harvey Warburton in the final of. Warburton (12) was second best to Gray this time around. Prague’s Brandeis Dymek (14) meanwhile won the second of the WU19 semi-finals.