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Hull Vikings v Sheffield Tigers
Premier League, 20 July 2005
Craven Park, Hull
| 1 | Emiliano Sanchez | 2 | 1* | 2* | 0 | . | . | . | 5 | 2 |
| 2 | Paul Thorp | 1* | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | . | 12 | 1 |
| 3 | Craig Branney | Fn | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | Emil Kramer | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | . | . | 11 | 0 |
| 5(g) | Robbie Kessler | 2* | 1 | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | 6 | 1 |
| 6 | Simone Terenzani | 3 | 1* | 3 | 2* | 0 | 2 | Fx | 11 | 2 |
| 7(g) | Danny Norton | 1 | 3 | 0 | F | 1* | . | . | 5 | 1 |
| 1 | Sean Wilson | 3 | 3 | 6^ | 3 | 2 | . | . | 17 | 0 |
| 2 | Ben Wilson | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2* | . | . | . | 3 | 1 |
| 3 | Ricky Ashworth | 3 | 2 | 1 | R | . | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 4 | Richard Hall | Fn | . | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Andre Compton | 1 | 3 | 4^ | 1 | M | . | . | 9 | 0 |
| 6 | Paul Cooper | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1* | 3 | 2 | . | 8 | 1 |
| 7 | Kyle Legault | F | R | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1* | . | 2 | 1 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Hull were still without Garry Stead and this week had Robbie Kessler at number 5 as a guest with Danny Norton continuing at number 7 in place of Joel Parsons. Sheffield were at full strength. Both teams started with 7 men but by heat 3 were down to 6 each as Craig Branney for Hull and Richard Hall for Sheffield were both withdrawn. Sheffield made good use of the TR facility to pull back from a 12 point deficit after heat 10 to lose by just 5 points and set themselves up for the bonus point. Sean Wilson won the opening heat for Sheffield but it was Hull who took the lead with a 4-2 in the reserves race won by Simone Terenzani. Heat 3 was shared by virtue of a Ricky Ashworth win in a rerun with four riders after Ashworth and Branney had crashed on the back straight. Branney had to withdraw from the meeting as a result of his injuries and Richard Hall pulled out too. Hull then opened up a 6 point lead with a 5-1 from Danny Norton and Robbie Kessler after Andre Compton had fallen while lying third and remounted and Kyle Legault had engine failure at the start. This took the heat 4 score to 15-9. Sheffield pulled two points back with a 2-4 from the two Wilsons in heat 5, but after sharing heat 6, Hull stretched the lead to 6 points again with a 4-2 from Terenzani and Kessler. Then the Vikings strengthened their grip on the match with a 5-1 from Thorp and Terenzani in heat 8 to open up a 10 point lead at 29-19. In heat 9 Sheffield gave Andre Compton a TR. Emil Kramer won the heat but with Compton finishing second and Cooper third after Norton had fallen Sheffield gained a two point advantage with a 3-5 to trail by eight points. A 5-1 to Hull from Thorp and Sanchez in heat 10 had them 12 points down so Sean Wilson took a TR in heat 11. He won it, too, and with Ben Wilson following him home Sheffield took a big 1-8 to pull the score back to 38-33. Paul Cooper rose to the occasion by winning heat 12 for the Tigers as Ricky Ashworth retired then Sean Wilson and Andre Compton had the home fans’ nerves jangling with a 2-4 in heat 13 to get within 3 points of the Vikings. Simone Terenzani didn’t help things by falling in heat 14 and being excluded but Emil Kramer won the heat to maintain the Vikings’ three point lead and set up a last heat decider. With Sean Wilson and Andre Compton due out in heat 15 the Tigers had a chance to snatch the match but Compton was excluded under the two minute rule and elected to go from 15 metres back. However he failed to beat the fresh two minutes as well so Sheffield went with one rider in the race and lost it 4-2 when Paul Thorp took the win. Match Report by Merlin |