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Isle of Wight Islanders v Reading Racers
Premier Trophy (Group), 19 April 2005
Smallbrook Stadium, Isle of Wight
| 1 | Craig Boyce | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2* | 3 | 1 | . | 14 | 1 |
| 2 | Manuel Hauzinger | 1 | 1* | 3 | 3 | 2 | . | . | 10 | 1 |
| 3 | Krister Marsh | 2 | R | 3 | 1* | 2 | 0 | . | 8 | 1 |
| 4 | Ulrich Ostergaard | 1* | 1 | 2 | 2* | 3 | . | . | 9 | 2 |
| 6 | Jason Doyle | 3 | 2* | 1* | 1* | 2* | . | . | 9 | 4 |
| 7(g) | Danny Warwick | 0 | 1 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 1 | Andrew Appleton | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | . | . | 11 | 0 |
| 2 | Chris Mills | 0 | 2* | 2 | 0 | . | . | . | 4 | 1 |
| 3 | Richard Wolff | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | . | . | . | 8 | 0 |
| 4(g) | Tom Brown | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | Matej Zagar | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2* | . | . | 11 | 1 |
| 6 | Chris Johnson | 2 | 0 | 1* | 0 | 0 | 1 | . | 4 | 1 |
| 7(g) | Daniel Giffard | 1* | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Both teams went into this match with injury problems. The Isle of Wight were not only without Jason Bunyan, for whom they used R/R at number 5, but also had Steen Jensen out injured. At number seven they had Conference League rider, Danny Warwick, curiously enough a Reading asset. However Reading were even worse off! Mathieu Tressarieu was absent as a result of the injuries he sustained at Exeter last night so they had Daniel Giffard at number seven. To add to their troubles their new signing, Zdenek Simota, had to travel back to the Czech Republic for a meeting and the Racers had to use a Conference League guest, Tom Brown, at number three in his stead. Reading lost at home to the Isle of Wight by 46-47 in the match during which Danny Bird broke his leg so their task tonight seemed pretty hopeless! The Islanders started off with a 4-2 from Boyce and Hauzinger with Appleton taking second place then there were two shared heats with wins for Jason Doyle and Richard Wolff. Craig Boyce then took a Rider Replacement ride for Jason Bunyan and beat Matej Zagar. With Warwick beating Giffard in the battle of the Daniels the Isle of Wight stretched their lead to four points to make the score 14-10. They got a rude awakening in heat 5 though! Krister Marsh retired from the race and Andrew Appleton and Chris Mills took a 1-5 ahead of Ulrich Ostergaard to level the match at 15-15. Matej Zagar won heat 6, beating Craig Boyce in the process, to keep the match all square but Krister Marsh and Jason Doyle took a 5-1 in heat 7 to put the Islanders back in front at 23-19. Heat 8 was shared so the score was now 26-22. Another Zagar win in heat 9 resulted in another shared heat but the home side went further ahead in heat 10 with a 5-1 from Manuel Hauzinger and Craig Boyce ahead of Richard Wolff to take the score to 34-26 before the interval. After the interval Andrew Appleton won heat 11 for a share of the spoils. Then Richard Wolff did likewise in heat 12 as Reading continued to make a match of it. The Isle of Wight struck a decisive blow in heat 13, however, when Craig Boyce and Ulrich Ostergaard took a 5-1 ahead of top Reading pair Matej Zagar and Andrew Appleton to put the match out of their reach at 45-33 with just two heats to go. With nothing to aim at Reading chose not to use the tactical options and lost a 5-1 in heat 14, too, to Ostergaard and Doyle. In the final heat Reading got some revenge by taking a 1-5 of their own from Appleton and Zagar ahead of Craig Boyce. Match Report by Merlin |