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Berwick Bandits v Reading Racers
Premier League, 10 September 2005
Shielfield Park, Berwick
| 1 | Adrian Rymel | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1* | 2* | . | . | 11 | 2 |
| 2 | Carl Wilkinson | 0 | 2* | 3 | 2* | . | . | . | 7 | 2 |
| 3 | Tom P Madsen | 3 | 2* | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | 8 | 1 |
| 4 | Adam Pietraszko | 2* | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | . | 14 | 1 |
| 5 | Michal Makovsky | 2 | 3 | 1* | 2 | . | . | . | 8 | 1 |
| 6 | Chris Schramm | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | . | . | . | 7 | 0 |
| 7 | Scott Smith | 2* | R | 2* | 1* | . | . | . | 5 | 3 |
| 2 | Zdenek Simota | 1 | 1 | F^ | R | 0 | . | . | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | Andrew Appleton | 1 | R | R | 1 | 3 | . | . | 5 | 0 |
| 4 | Mathieu Tresarrieu | R | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | . | 7 | 0 |
| 5(g) | Travis McGowan | 3 | 3 | R | 4^ | 3 | 1 | . | 14 | 0 |
| 6 | Chris Johnson | 0 | 1 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | Richard Wolff | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 3 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Berwick welcomed back Scott Smith to the side and were at full strength. Reading had Travis McGowan deputising for Matej Zagar who was on Grand Prix duty at Lonigo. They also used R/R for Danny Bird at number 1. Berwick had already won at Reading by 49-44 so the bonus point looked well out of Reading’s reach. This was the Racers’ second meeting of the day having ridden at Armadale in the afternoon. It looked as though Reading would start the match with a 1-5 when Travis McGowan and Zdenek Simota comfortably led from Adrian Rymel. However Simota pulled a locker on the second lap and Rymel got through to second place for a 2-4. Berwick took the usual 5-1 from the reserves race then Madsen and Pietraszko repeated the dose ahead of Appleton in heat 3 before McGowan won again in heat 4. When Scott Smith fell, Richard Wolff picked up the third place point for a 2-4 which took the score after four races to 14-10. Any hopes the Racers might have entertained disappeared over the next stanza of four races during which Berwick dropped only one point. They were greatly assisted when Travis McGowan well in front in heat 6 shed a chain and when Zdenek Simota also well in front and on a TR also lost a chain in heat 8 causing him to clout the safety fence. Had these two chains not been thrown Reading would have lost heats 5 to 8 by 15-12 instead of by 19-5 and the score after heat eight would have been 29-22 instead of 33-15! In heat 9 Travis McGowan took a TR and suffered his first genuine defeat of the day when Adam Pietraszko gated ahead of him and closed the door for the heat win. Madsen was third so the heat was shared 4-4. Adrian Rymel and Carl Wilkinson headed home Andrew Appleton for a 5-1 in heat 10 but Reading then produced three consecutive race winners in Mathieu Tressarieu, Andrew Appleton and Travis McGowan all for shared heats. McGowan’s win in heat 13 drew gasps from the crowd. Michal Makovsky took McGowan wide on the first bend but McGowan kept the throttle full on to race round the outside within an inch or two of the fence to emerge from the second bend in the lead. After heat 13 the score was 51-29 but Berwick produced a 4-2 in heat 14 as Adam Pietraszko maintained his unbeaten run. Then in heat 15 Pietraszko and Rymel took the outside line round the opening bends to relegate Travis McGowan to third place for a 5-1 which saw Pietraszko complete a paid maximum. Match Report by Merlin |