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Berwick Bandits v Newcastle Diamonds
Young Shield (QF), 24 September 2005
Shielfield Park, Berwick
| 1(g) | Paul Thorp | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | . | . | 12 | 0 |
| 2 | Carl Wilkinson | 1 | 0 | Fx | 1 | . | . | . | 2 | 0 |
| 4 | Adam Pietraszko | 3 | 3 | R | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | 15 | 0 |
| 5 | Michal Makovsky | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2* | 2* | . | . | 12 | 2 |
| 6 | Chris Schramm | 2* | 0 | 2 | 1 | . | . | . | 5 | 1 |
| 7 | Scott Smith | 3 | 2* | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2* | 2* | 14 | 3 |
| 2 | Kristian Lund | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
| 3(g) | Chris Mills | 1* | 2 | 1 | 4^ | 1 | 0 | . | 9 | 1 |
| 4 | Phil Morris | 2 | 2 | R | . | . | . | . | 4 | 0 |
| 5 | James Grieves | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4^ | 1 | 1 | . | 12 | 0 |
| 6 | Jamie Birkinshaw | 1 | 1* | 2 | 1 | R | 2! | . | 7 | 1 |
| 7 | Jamie Robertson | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 3 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Berwick were without Adrian Rymel and Tom P Madsen so had Paul Thorp as a guest at number 1 and used R/R at number 3. Newcastle were without Josef Franc and Lubos Tomicek so had Chris Mills as a guest at number 3 and used R/R at number 1. Although Newcastle held on to keep to within ten points of Berwick after 11 heats they ran out of steam as the Bandits took maximums in each of the last four heats to build up a 25 point lead for the second leg. With only two race winners all match Newcastle’s problem wasn’t hard to spot. Berwick started well with a 4-2 and 5-1 with wins for Paul Thorp and Scott Smith before Newcastle shared heat 3 when Phil Morris and Chris Mills followed Adam Pietraszko home. The respite was brief for the Diamonds as James Grieves finished third to Michal Makovsky and Scott Smith in heat 4 for another 5-1 to the Bandits which took the score to 17-7. In heat 5 Chris Mills split the Pietraszko/Smith pairing for a 4-2 to the home side but Newcastle dug in after that. In a rerun heat 6 another win for Paul Thorp only produced a shared heat after Carl Wilkinson had fallen and was excluded. Jamie Robertson scored his only points of the match when he produced one of Newcastle’s two race winners in heat 7 beating Michal Makovsky. With Chris Mills taking the third place point Newcastle took a 2-4 but this was matched by Berwick in heat 8 with a 4-2 from Smith and Wilkinson with Birkinshaw finishing second. The score was now 30-18. In heat 9 Adam Pietraszko had an engine failure and James Grieves beat Chris Schramm for another Newcastle 2-4 then the next two heats were shared. It took TRs in both to achieve it though with Chris Mills and James Grieves finishing second for four points each in heats 10 and 11 to take the score to 40-30. That was the end as far as Newcastle were concerned with Berwick taking three 5-1s and a 5-2 in the last four heats to stretch the lead to 25 points and leave Newcastle with the proverbial mountain to climb. The 5-2? That came in heat 14 when James Birkinshaw took a tactical Substitute ride from 15 metres back and took third place behind Pietraszko and Smith. Match Report by Merlin |