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Exeter Falcons v Newport Wasps
Premier League, 01 August 2005
County Ground, Exeter

Exeter 65
1Mark Lemon2*332*1 ..112
2Lee Smethills31*2*22* ..103
3Seemond Stephens2232*3 ..121
5Sebastien Tresarrieu332*3. ..111
6Ben Barker01*132* ..72
7Pavel Ondrasik32*1*2*3 3.143
Newport 28
1Henrik Vedel00000 0.00
2Tony Atkin11332^ 2.120
3Neil Collins00111 ..30
4(g)Jason Doyle34^1.. ..80
6Lee Dicken1*1F01 ..31
7Karlis Ezergailis20000 ..20

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

Exeter introduced new signing Sebastian Tressarieu to the side at number 5 in place of Toni Svab and used R/R for Ray Morton who is still on the injured list. Newport were without Mads Korneliussen and Michael Coles so they had Jason Doyle at number 4 as a guest for Michael Coles and used R/R for the injured Mads Korneliussen.

It was really no surprise that this turned into another landslide defeat for Newport as their season slowly disintegrates before their eyes. They may have set one record tonight however. There can’t be many riders riding at number one who have scored nothing from their five rides only to find themselves nominated for heat 15 so that they can complete the set of six zeroes. Such was the fate of Newport’s latest signing, Henrik Vedel.

Up until heat 8 things weren’t too bad for the Wasps. Although the Falcons started with a Lemon/Smethills 5-1, heats 2 and 3 were shared with Ondrasik winning heat 2 for Exeter and Jason Doyle winning heat 3 for Newport. Sebastian Tressarieu got his Exeter career off to a winning start in heat 4 and, with Pavel Ondrasik finishing second, Exeter won the race 5-1 to take the score after 4 races to 16-8.

Tony Atkin won heat 5 for the Wasps from Seemond Stephens for another shared heat but the Lemon/Smethills pairing took another 5-1 in heat 6. Jason Doyle took a TR for Newport in heat 7 and finished second to Sebastian Tressarieu for a 4-4 then Tony Atkin won again in heat 8 for another shared heat to take the score after 8 races to 31-19. At that stage Newport were only 12 points behind which was hardly disastrous.

However, it might be better to draw a veil over what happened thereafter. Suffice to say that Exeter rattled up six consecutive maximums followed by a 4-2 over the remaining seven heats. In heat 11 Tony Atkin took a TR but finished behind Ben Barker and Sebastian Tressarieu for a 5-2 and in the last heat Tony Atkin prevented a complete rout over these last 7 heats by beating Mark Lemon in a race won by Seemond Stephens. For some unknown reason Jason Doyle withdrew from the meeting after his third ride in heat 9. Maybe he could sense which way the wind was blowing!

Match Report by Merlin