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Isle of Wight Islanders v Glasgow Tigers
Premier League, 13 September 2005
Smallbrook Stadium, Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight 54
1Craig Boyce33321 ..120
3Krister MarshFx1*333 R.101
4Ulrich Ostergaard322*2*3 ..122
5Krzysztof Stojanowski22*Fx0. ..41
6Jason Doyle02*322* ..92
7Glen Phillips30112* ..71
Glasgow 39
1George Stancl236^12* ..141
2Trent Leverington1*02Fx. ..31
3Claus Kristensen2111. ..50
4(g)Matthew Wright1*001. ..21
5Shane Parker322^33 ..130
6(g)Luke Priest000.. ..00
7James Cockle1100Fx ..20

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

The Isle of Wight were without Steen Jensen and operated R/R at number 2 in his place. Glasgow were missing Stefan Ekberg who was riding in Sweden and were only allowed to use a Conference league rider in his place. Wimbledon rider, Matthew Wright, took his place at number 4. With Adam Roynon out for the season after his injuries from Sunday the Tigers had Luke Priest at number 6. Glasgow had a slender two point lead towards the bonus point from the corresponding match at Ashfield last July.

The opening heat won by Craig Boyce from George Stancl was shared but the Islanders took a 5-1 from the reserves race to take a four point lead. Krister Marsh fell twice during heat 3 and the race was eventually awarded to Ulrich Ostergaard for a 3-3 but Glasgow pulled two points back in heat 4 as Shane Parker won an excellent race with Krzysztof Stojanowski with James Cockle picking up the third place point. This took the score after the opening four heats to 13-11.

In heat 5, George Stancl beat the powerful Ostergaard/Marsh pairing for another shared heat but Craig Boyce beat Shane Parker in heat 6 and Glen Phillips took third place for a 4-2 to double the home side’s lead to four points. Glasgow slipped eight points behind when Jason Doyle and Krzysztof Stojanowski scored a 5-1 ahead of Claus Kristensen in heat 7. The Isle of Wight then moved 10 points ahead with a 4-2 in heat 8 as Krister Marsh beat Trent Leverington with Phillips taking third place ahead of Cockle. The score was now 29-19.

Glasgow’s hopes were sunk in heat 9 when Shane Parker took a TR. Krister Marsh and Ulrich Ostergaard scored a maximum and the 5-2 increased the Islanders lead to 13 points. Another 5-1 came their way in heat 10 as Boyce and Ostergaard beat the weak Kristensen/Wright pairing so George Stancl took a TR in heat 11. This produced the rather unusual score of 2-6! In the first running of the heat Trent Leverington fell in pursuit of Stojanowski for second place while Stancl was leading. Leverington was excluded and, in the rerun, Stojanowski fell while pursuing Stancl so he too was excluded leaving two riders in the second rerun. Stancl eventually won the race from Jason Doyle to pull four points back for Glasgow. Alas for the Tigers they duly lost them again in heat 12 when Krister Marsh and Glen Phillips beat Claus Kristensen and James Cockle. This took the score to 46-29 and the interval arrived

After the interval, Shane Parker put an end to Craig Boyce’s winning streak and George Stancl took the third place point from Stojanowski resulting in a 2-4 for Glasgow but in heat 14 the Islanders scored a 5-1 through Ostergaard and Doyle after Cockle had fallen and been excluded. In the nominated heat Shane Parker and George Stancl took a 1-5 for Glasgow ahead of Craig Boyce after Krister Marsh had suffered an engine failure for a creditable result with such a weakened side.

Match Report by Merlin