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Comment now on the latest news at the Forum CLASS SHOWS THROUGH Holders set for last four after away win Stowmarket are on course to reach their sixth successive Division One Cup semi-final after winning their latest first round fixture at Dudley. It was a much needed victory, with the Witches picking up just two group points from their opening two fixtures. Both those came in last weeks slender home success over Leeds, a side that they have shared the trophy with over the course of the last seven seasons, the Jaguars winning it four times to the Witches three. It’s advantage Stowmarket in SL33 however, with Leeds set for an early exit from the competition after they completed their qualifying campaign having garnered just five points from their four ties, they need to see Stowmarket beaten at home by Huntingdon in the final round to stand any chance of progressing to a ninth semi-final in ten years. It was a last heat 5-1 from Lasse Classen (12+2) and Oliver Schmidt (12) which secured Stowmarket three of the four group points on offer at Dudley, the first race maximum for Bill Jones side in the tie securing them a 42-48 victory, Classen unbeaten by an opponent on the night bar a heat one loss to home number one Cvetko Greiwe (9). In the other half of the draw three 5-1’s in the final four heats of their home meeting with Brickhill, has put Cradley Heath in pole position to make it through to the last four, crucially for them the late run of maximums—which began when the unbeaten Oliver Mitchell (14+1) and reserve James Price (11+2) beat visiting heat leader Owen Carter (5+2) in heat 13—securing them a second bonus point in the fixture, the 55-35 win ensuring they go into their final round meeting at Linlithgow top of their group on points difference from Runcorn, who completed their qualifiers with a 47-43 home victory over the Lions. A disappointing result for the newly crowned Pairs Champions, who’d been looking to win by ten to secure themselves a spot in the last four. Now they must hope other results go their way.
Runcorn at least got a home win over the line in the Division One Cup. In the league it was a second loss from four meetings at Linnets Park in the SL33 campaign, with Wentworth taking the points 43-47 with a last race 5-1, the Trappers had twice trailed their hosts in the clash by eight. Brian McKnight’s heat leaders turned things around with three race maximums in the final third of the meeting, culminating in that decisive Kyle Ostrow (15 from six)/Fiske Walhquist (14+2) victory over home number one Paul Hope (10) in heat 15. Hope had suffered an untimely retirement two races earlier against the same Trappers pairing, a race in which Frank Klein (7) was also beaten by both visitors, as he was in heat 11 when Ostrow and Martin Huffman (10+1 from six) raced to the first of the 5-1’s. The victory took Wentworth top of the division one table for the first time this season, they end the week two clear of a group of three teams after beating Huntingdon at home, 49-41. The Hunters—who lie sixth—have boosted their line-up with the £750,000 signing of the experienced Gleb Borin, the 32 year old was released by Derby in pre-season. Wentworth also made an addition at second string at the first opportunity in the new transfer window, with one time Danish Champion Steven Binger arriving at the Wentworth Stadium for a more modest £95,000.
All four of the SL32 GP riders in the Scandinavian semi-final line-up in Pori made it through to the decider. Their number included defending World Champion Fiske Wahlquist (12), who progressed with a second place finish in the tie standings behind Plock’s Gustave Bolling (13). Just a second win in 39 WSO meetings for the 29 year old, for fellow Swede’ Petter Sordin (13) it was a second win in 11 as he topped the standings in the other semi-final, the 35 year old Bradwell number one finishing a point clear of Lasse Classen (12) in Oslo, a meeting in which world number ten Kasper Brander (4) failed to do enough in to continue his World Championship bid.
A last heat 5-1 from Travis Foxman (10+1) and George Stevens (12+1) secured Coalville a semi-final clinching victory at Small Heath in their latest Division Two Cup fixture. The Kings are back in the last four of a competition for the first time since SL18, the year they lifted the trophy for a third occasion.
Results elsewhere meant Wolverhampton could celebrate reaching the Division Three Cup semi-finals without turning a wheel this week. It’s likely Swindon or Bradwell with take the other place in the group, the two meet at the Bandits in the final round. Bolsover went to the top of the standings in the other half of the draw with a 44-46 victory at Mid Cams, a meeting they had trailed in by ten. Earlier the Bandits went down to a 39-51 home league defeat to third tier leaders Normanton, who have now won all of their last four.
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