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Exeter Falcons v Isle of Wight Islanders
Premier Trophy (Group), 04 April 2005
County Ground, Exeter
| 1 | Mark Lemon | 1* | 3 | 3 | 2* | 2* | . | . | 11 | 3 |
| 2 | Lee Smethills | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | . | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 3 | Jernej Kolenko | 1 | 0 | 2* | 0 | . | . | . | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | Antonin Svab | 0 | 2 | 3 | R | . | . | . | 5 | 0 |
| 5 | Seemond Stephens | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | . | 15 | 0 |
| 6 | Nick Simmons | 1 | 0 | 1 | . | . | . | . | 2 | 0 |
| 7 | Pavel Ondrasik | 3 | X | 2* | 3 | 3 | . | . | 11 | 1 |
| 1 | Craig Boyce | 3 | 3 | 2 | R | 0 | . | . | 8 | 0 |
| 2 | Manuel Hauzinger | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | . | . | . | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | Krister Marsh | 2* | 1* | 2 | T | . | . | . | 5 | 2 |
| 4 | Ulrich Ostergaard | 3 | 2 | 0 | 4^ | 1 | . | . | 10 | 0 |
| 5 | Jason Bunyan | 2 | 1* | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | 5 | 1 |
| 6 | Steen Jensen | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1* | . | . | . | 5 | 1 |
| 7 | Jason Doyle | 0 | 1* | 0 | 2 | 1* | . | . | 4 | 2 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Despite the score Exeter didn’t get things all their own way tonight. The Isle of Wight put up a good fight until the Falcons took control mid-match. Exeter finally had Jernej Kolenko in the side so, for the first time this season, were at full strength as were the Isle of Wight. After Exeter had gone in front with a second heat 4-2 it was the Islanders who took up the running. A 5-1 in heat three from Ostergaard and Marsh from Kolenko, making his debut, and Svab turned the two point lead from an Exeter one to an Isle of Wight one at 8-10. A shared heat 4 was followed by a 2-4 which put the Isle of Wight four points up at 13-17 when Craig Boyce took his second heat win backed up by Manuel Hausinger in third place. The next two heats were shared and the score was 19-23 after heat 7 – not the way Exeter had it scripted. Then the roof fell in on the Islanders. In a four heat spell from heats 8 to 11 the Falcons ran up two 5-1s and two 4-2s to turn a four point deficit into an eight point lead. Even the Svab/Kolenko pairing got into the act, after they had lost their first two races as a pairing, by taking one of the 5-1s ahead of Jason Bunyan and Steen Jensen. The score now stood at 40-32. Exeter triumphed 5-1 in the heat 13 battle of the big guns to go 12 ahead so the Islanders gave Ulrich Ostergaard a TR in heat 14. Although Pavel Ondrasik rose to the occasion to win the heat after Toni Svab had an engine failure, Ostergaard and Jason Doyle filled the minor places for a 3-5 to the visitors. Then Exeter finished off with a last heat 5-1, with Seemond Stephens completing a five ride maximum, to extend their lead to 14 points leaving things nicely balanced for the return on the Island when the bonus point will be up for grabs. Match Report by Merlin |