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Berwick Bandits v Rye House Rockets
Premier League, 30 July 2005
Shielfield Park, Berwick

Berwick 57
1Adrian Rymel33333 2*.171
2Chris Schramm02*1*13 ..72
4Scott SmithFx0... ..00
5Michal Makovsky1322*3 ..111
6Adam Pietraszko32021* 3.111
7Carl Wilkinson2*32F2* 2*.113
Rye House 35
1Stuart Robson1*332^1 ..101
2Edward Kennett213Fx. ..60
3Brent Werner1*2F0. ..31
4Daniel King21*22^. ..71
5Chris Neath2130T ..60
6Steve Boxall00110 ..20
7Tommy Allen1000. ..10

* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).

Tom P Madsen was unable to take his place in the Berwick line up as a result of aggravating a shoulder injury last night so the Bandits used R/R instead. However Scott Smith returned to the team following his injuries sustained last weekend. Rye House were once again at full strength. Berwick went into this match trying to pull back 40 points to force a race off for the bonus point.

Rye House may have run amok last night grinding Berwick into the dust with a 40 point win but the boot was on the other foot tonight as the Rockets were no match for the Bandits. Perhaps with one eye on another away match tomorrow night at Glasgow, the Rockets, having captured the bonus point but with no hope of winning, conceded maximums in each of the last four races even though they used TRs in two of them!

The opening heat was shared, won by Adrian Rymel with Chris Schramm slipping to the back but heat 2 saw the power of the Bandits’ reserves propel them into a four point lead as they took an easy 5-1. Scott Smith clipped Adrian Rymel’s back wheel on the first corner of heat 3, fell and was excluded. Rymel won again so the heat was shared. Then in heat 4 Carl Wilkinson saw off Chris Neath with Michal Makovsky third for a 4-2 which saw the Bandits lead by 15-9 after the opening four heats.

The Rockets hit back with a 2-4 in heat 5 from Robson and Kennett as Smith finished at the back. Smith subsequently withdrew from the meeting with an ankle injury leaving the home side with just 5 riders. It was enough though as in heat 6 Berwick scored a 5-1 from Rymel and Schramm ahead of Neath but heat 7 was shared as Adam Pietraszko lost his steel shoe and retired leaving Michal makovsky to win the race. Edward Kennett won heat 8 but with the Rye House reserves unable to contribute to the cause the race was shared and the heat 8 score was 28-20.

Heat 9 saw another Rye House win by 2-4 as Carl Wilkinson fell leaving Chris Neath to win with Steve Boxall picking up the gift point behind Adam Pietraszko. Berwick immediately cancelled this out with a 4-2 from Rymel and Schramm in heat 10. In heat 11 it looked as though Rye House were going to score another 2-4 when Stuart Robson beat Michal Makovsky but Edward Kennett, coming off the fourth bend for third place, struck the safety fence in the run in to the line, bounced off it and fell leaving Adam Pietraszko to take the third place point for a shared heat. In heat 12 the weak looking Werner/Boxall pairing conceded a 5-1 as Berwick moved 12 points ahead at 42-30.

Rye House, with only three heats to go, gave Stuart Robson a TR but he finished third to Rymel and Makovsky to end Rye House’s interest in the match as Berwick took a 5-2. That score was repeated in heat 14 when Daniel King took a TR and finished third to Pietraszko and Wilkinson. Then Makovsky and Rymel added a last heat 5-1 to give Berwick some sort of revenge for last night’s hammering at Hoddesdon.

Match Report by Merlin