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Isle of Wight Islanders v Reading Racers
Premier League, 20 September 2005
Smallbrook Stadium, Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight 50
1Craig Boyce2Fx323 ..100
3Krister Marsh1R2R3 ..60
4Ulrich Ostergaard1*311*Fx 2*.83
5Krzysztof Stojanowski1*2*00. ..32
6Jason Doyle2*3332 ..131
7Glen Phillips3222*1 ..101
Reading 42
2Zdenek Simota02*R21 0.51
3Andrew Appleton0301*0 ..41
4Mathieu Tresarrieu2121*1 ..71
5Matej Zagar33334! 31200
6(g)Ashley Jones1113. ..60
7Chris Johnson000.. ..00

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

The Isle of Wight were again without Steen Jensen and operated R/R at number 2 in his place. Reading were missing Richard Wolff, injured last night, and had Ashley Jones in his place at number 6. They also used R/R for Danny Bird. Reading had a slender five point lead towards the bonus point from their home match last night.

Wins in heats 1 and 4 for Matej Zagar, both for shared heats, kept Reading in the hunt as the Islanders took a 5-1 from the reserves race and a 4-2 in heat 3 when Ulrich Ostergaard chased and passed Mathieu Tresarrieu with Krister Marsh taking third place from Andrew Appleton. The score after these opening four heats was 15-9 and already the home side had a one point aggregate lead.

In heat 5 Reading hit back with a 1-5 of their own with Andrew Appleton and Zdenek Simota, both pointless after their opening rides, heading home Ulrich Ostergaard. They followed that up by levelling the scores with a 2-4 in heat 6 after Craig Boyce had fallen on the first bend and been excluded from the rerun. Reading looked like taking a 1-5 from the rerun as Matej Zagar and Ashley Jones led but Glen Phillips passed Ashley Jones to restrict the damage. The Reading comeback ended in heat 7 when the Islanders scored a 5-1 from Jason Doyle and Krzysztof Stojanowski from the Tresarrieu/Appleton pairing to go four points ahead again. They followed it up with another 5-1 in heat 8 from Jason Doyle again and Glen Phillips after Zdenek Simota suffered an engine failure at the start of the race. This took the score after eight races to 28-20.

Matej Zagar won again in heat 9 for a 3-3 then Craig Boyce did likewise in heat 10 as Krister Marsh had an engine failure. A third successive 3-3 in heat 11 resulted when Jason Doyle won the race but Zdenek Simota and Mathieu Tresarrieu relegated Krzysztof Stojanowski to the back to make the score after heat 11 37-29 after which the interval arrived.

In heat 12 Matej Zagar took a Tactical Substitute ride from 15 metres back but could not catch Krister Marsh from the handicap. At the back Glen Phillips took third from Andrew Appleton so the heat was shared 4-4. However in heat 13 from scratch again Zagar saw off Craig Boyce and this time got support from Zdenek Simota in third place for a 2-4 to pull the arrears back to six points at 43-37. It went to a last heat decider for the match and bonus points after Reading took a 2-4 in heat 14. The heat was rerun without Ulrich Ostergaard who was excluded for bringing down Ashley Jones and in the rerun Jones shot to the front with Jason Doyle getting the better of Mathieu Tresarrieu. Doyle and Tresarrieu then had a ‘difference of views’ which resulted in both riders being banned from the rest of the meeting (i.e. heat 15) and being reported to the authorities. The score was now 45-41 with one heat to go. It was disaster for Reading in heat 15. In the first running of the race Matej Zagar crashed into the second bend fence but it was all four back. In the rerun Craig Boyce and Ulrich Ostergaard took a 5-1 ahead of Zagar which meant that all three points went to the home side.

Match Report by Merlin