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Berwick Bandits v Stoke Potters
Premier Trophy (Group), 14 May 2005
Shielfield Park, Berwick
| 1 | Adrian Rymel | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | . | . | 14 | 0 |
| 2 | Adam Pietraszko | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2* | . | . | . | 6 | 1 |
| 3 | Scott Smith | 1 | 0 | R | R | . | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Michal Makovsky | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | . | . | 12 | 0 |
| 5 | Piotr Dym | 2 | 2 | 2 | R | . | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 6 | Chris Schramm | 1 | 1* | 1* | 2* | . | . | . | 5 | 3 |
| 7 | Joachim Kugelmann | 3 | 1* | 3 | 1 | . | . | . | 8 | 1 |
| 1 | Alan Mogridge | 2 | 3 | 6^ | 1 | Fx | . | . | 12 | 0 |
| 2 | Paul Clews | 1* | 1 | 2 | 0 | . | . | . | 4 | 1 |
| 3 | Peter Carr | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1* | . | . | . | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | Robbie Kessler | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | 7 | 0 |
| 5(g) | Rusty Harrison | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | . | . | 12 | 0 |
| 6 | Barrie Evans | 2 | 0 | 1* | 0 | . | . | . | 3 | 1 |
| 7 | Rob Grant | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | . | . | . | 2 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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With Sheffield beating the Bandits and taking the bonus point on Thursday, Berwick could no longer reach the 20 point mark to challenge for the runner-up spot in the group. Stoke needed to win this match to have any chance of reaching 20 points. Tonight’s result means that only Edinburgh can now challenge Sheffield for that second spot. Berwick were at full strength for this match but Stoke had Rusty Harrison as a guest for Jan Staechmann. The Bandits needed to pull back 13 points to challenge for the bonus point. Berwick just couldn’t shake off Stoke in the early stages of this match as the Potters stayed with them up until heat 9 when they were only six points behind. After a shared opening heat won by Adrian Rymel Berwick struck with two 4-2s in heats 2 and 3 and another 3-3 in heat 4 won by Rusty Harrison made the score 14-10. Stoke hit back with a 2-4 in heat 5 when Alan Mogridge beat Michal Makovsky with Paul Clews picking up the third place point. This was cancelled by a 4-2 to Berwick in heat 6 when Adrian Rymel beat Stoke’s guest Rusty Harrison with Pietraszko third. Heat 7 won by Robbie Kessler was shared but Berwick stretched their lead to six points in heat 8 when Paul Clews could only split the Pietraszko/Kugelmann pairing. The score was now 27-21. Heat 9 was shared but Berwick recorded the first of their two 5-1s in heat 10 with Rymel and Pietraszko beating Robbie Kessler and Peter Carr to stretch the lead to 10 points at 35-25. Immediately Stoke gave Alan Mogridge a TR in heat 11 which he duly won for a 3-6 to cut Berwick’s lead to 7 points. Heat 12 was shared as Berwick struggled to pull back the 13 points needed to put them in contention for the bonus point. It looked as though their chance had gone when Rusty Harrison beat Adrian Rymel in heat 13 with Alan Mogridge losing second place to Adrian Rymel for a 2-4 to Stoke which put the Potters only 5 points down at 43-38. Their hopes were revived with a 5-1 in heat 14 from Makovsky and Schramm leaving them needing another 5-1 in heat 15 to tie the score on aggregate for a bonus point race-off. However the race was rerun after Alan Mogridge had come to grief in the first running and Rusty Harrison led to the last bend before Adrian Rymel finally got through for the win. Harrison’s two points were enough to give Stoke the bonus but with qualification now impossible for the Potters it was of little real significance. Match Report by Merlin |