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Berwick Bandits v Exeter Falcons
Premier League, 17 September 2005
Shielfield Park, Berwick
| 1 | Adrian Rymel | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2* | . | . | . | 9 | 1 |
| 2 | Carl Wilkinson | 2* | 2* | 0 | R | . | . | . | 4 | 2 |
| 3 | Tom P Madsen | 1* | 2* | 0 | 2* | . | . | . | 5 | 3 |
| 4 | Adam Pietraszko | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Fx | . | . | 11 | 0 |
| 5 | Michal Makovsky | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | . | 13 | 0 |
| 6 | Chris Schramm | 1 | 1* | 2* | 2* | . | . | . | 6 | 3 |
| 7 | Scott Smith | 3 | 1* | 2 | 3 | . | . | . | 9 | 1 |
| 1 | Mark Lemon | R | R | F | 1 | T | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | Lee Smethills | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | . | . | . | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | Seemond Stephens | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | . | 6 | 0 |
| 4 | Sebastien Tresarrieu | 3 | 3 | 4^ | 2* | R | M | . | 12 | 1 |
| 6(g) | Matthew Bates | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Pavel Ondrasik | 2 | 3 | 6^ | 1* | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 1 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Berwick were at full strength for their last home league match of the season while Exeter used R/R at number 5 for Ray Morton and again had Matthew Bates at number 6. Berwick knew they had to take all three points from this match to prevent Rye House from lifting the championship. It was mainly all plain sailing for the Bandits particularly since Mark Lemon had a rare off night for the Falcons. However after building up a 14 point lead after seven races they must have started to get worried when it was reduced to only three points three races later. Stung into action they pulled away smartly after that. Mark Lemon retired from the opening race as Adrian Rymel and Carl Wilkinson scored maximum points then Scott Smith beat Pavel Ondrasik in heat 2 for a 4-2 before heats 3 and 4, won by Sebastian Tresarrieu and Pavel Ondrasik for the Falcons, were shared to take the score to 15-9. Mark Lemon fell in heat 5 and Adam Pietraszko and Tom P Madsen scored a 5-1 to stretch the Bandits’ lead to 10 points. Another 5-1 again from Rymel and Wilkinson ahead of Seemond Stephens took it to 14 points then the Falcons shook the home fans with a remarkable comeback. In heat 7 Sebastian Tresarrieu headed home Makovsky and Schramm for a shared heat then, in heat 8, Pavel Ondrasik took a TR. He won the race from Scott Smith and, with Lee Smethills in third place the Falcons scored a 2-7 to take the score to 30-21. Still nine points behind Exeter then gave Sebastian Tressarieu a TR in heat 9 but Adam Pietraszko won for the Bandits. However with Tresarrieu and Ondrasik filling the minor places Exeter took a 3-5 advantage to reduce the arrears to seven points. In heat 10 Seemond Stephens, caught up in the euphoria, hit the front and won with Sebastian Tresarrieu following him home for a 1-5 ahead of the top Berwick pairing of Rymel and Wilkinson. All of a sudden there were only three points in it at 34-31. Then Berwick woke up! Heats 11, 12 and 13 all went 5-1 to Berwick as Exeter ran out of steam. In heat 11 Mark Lemon took his only point of the match trailing home behind the home pair of Makovsky and Schramm then in heat 13 he touched the tapes and was replaced by Pavel Ondrasik to round off an eminently forgettable match for the Falcons’ number one. In the last heat there were eventually only two starters when Adam Pietraszko fell and was excluded then Sebastian Tressarieu was twice excluded under the two minute rule with no replacement allowed. The heat resulted in a 3-2 as Makovsky beat Stephens. Match Report by Candyman |