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Berwick Bandits v Edinburgh Monarchs
Premier League, 23 July 2005
Shielfield Park, Berwick
| 1 | Adrian Rymel | 2 | 3 | R | 2 | R | . | . | 7 | 0 |
| 2 | Chris Schramm | R | 2 | 2* | 0 | 3 | . | . | 7 | 1 |
| 4(g) | Trent Leverington | 2* | 1* | 1 | . | . | . | . | 4 | 2 |
| 5 | Michal Makovsky | 2* | 2* | 2 | 2 | 3 | . | . | 11 | 2 |
| 6(g) | Claus Kristensen | 2* | 3 | 3 | 1* | 1 | . | . | 10 | 2 |
| 7 | Carl Wilkinson | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 15 | 0 |
| 1(g) | Josef Franc | 3 | 6^ | 3 | 1 | 2 | . | . | 15 | 0 |
| 2 | Kristian Lund | 1 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | Cameron Woodward | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | . | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 4 | Daniel Nermark | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | 4 | 0 |
| 5 | Rusty Harrison | F | 3 | 4^ | 3 | 1* | . | . | 11 | 1 |
| 6 | William Lawson | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 3 | 0 |
| 7 | Robert Ksiezak | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | 1 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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With three riders out injured it was a makeshift Berwick side which took onEdinburgh. The Bandits were without Tom P Madsen, Scott Smith and Adam Pietraszko. They had Claus Kristensen at number 6 for Pietraszko, Trent Leverington at number 4 for Smith and used R/R for Tom P Madsen. Edinburgh had Josef Franc at number 1 as a guest for Theo Pijper but otherwise were at full strength. There was never much chance of Edinburgh winning this match so the main interest in the meeting revolved round whether Berwick could pull back the 25 points by which they lost at Armadale for the bonus point. The match was more like a Berwick/Glasgow select match with two Tigers and four Bandits making up the home side but Edinburgh had the ace up their sleeve with their choice of guest – former Bandit Josef Franc. The start was delayed for some time to let the biggest crowd seen this season at Shielfield Park gain admission. Edinburgh got off to a winning start when Josef Franc won the opening heat from Adrian Rymel with Kristian Lund picking up his only point of the match for a 2-4 but any prospect of a surprise away win were well and truly buried when Berwick rattled off three consecutive 5-1 wins in the next three heats to lead 17-7 after four races. In heat 5, Josef Franc took a TR for the Monarchs and duly won the heat for a 3-6 to make the score 20-13 with Franc having scored 9 of them! Rusty Harrison took advantage of an Adrian Rymel engine failure to win heat 6 with Lawson third for a 2-4 and the Monarchs found themselves only five down at 22-17. Again Berwick extinguished any flames of hope by scoring another two 5-1s in heats 7 and 8 to lead 32-19 after 8 heats and at that stage the Bandits were just about on course for the bonus point. Strange to relate that’s as close as they got as they failed to make any more inroads to Edinburgh’s aggregate lead. Rusty Harrison split the Kristensen/Leverington pairing in heat 9 while on a TR so the heat was shared 4-4. Then the Monarchs pulled two points back with a 2-4 when Cameron Woodward won heat 10 comfortably from Rymel with Nermark third. It was nearly a 1-5 as Rymel took until the last bend to pass Nermark. A Josef Franc win in heat 11 resulted in a shared heat then Berwick opened the gap to 13 points again with a 4-2 when Chris Schramm just held on to beat Cameron Woodward with Carl Wilkinson in third place to take the score after heat 12 to 45-32. Edinbugh took a 2-4 from Harrison and Franc in heat 13 then Berwick did likewise form Wilkinson and Kristensen in heat 14 before Makovsky prevented a last heat 1-5 to the visitors by riding round Harrison and Franc in the last heat for a share of the points. Match Report by Merlin |