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Kings Lynn Stars v Berwick Bandits
Young Shield (SF), 14 October 2005
Norfolk Arena, Kings Lynn
| 1 | Oliver Allen | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | . | 15 | 0 |
| 2 | Ashley Jones | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2* | . | . | . | 6 | 1 |
| 3 | Troy Bachelor | 1* | 2* | 3 | 2 | 2* | . | . | 10 | 3 |
| 4 | Kevin Doolan | 2 | 3 | 2* | 2 | . | . | . | 9 | 1 |
| 5 | Tomas Topinka | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2* | . | . | . | 9 | 1 |
| 6(g) | Darren Mallett | 1* | 2* | 0 | 1* | . | . | . | 4 | 3 |
| 7 | Jan Jaros | 2 | 1 | R | 1* | . | . | . | 4 | 1 |
| 1 | Adrian Rymel | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | . | . | 7 | 0 |
| 2 | Carl Wilkinson | 1* | 0 | 0 | 4^ | 2* | . | . | 7 | 2 |
| 4 | Adam Pietraszko | 3 | X | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | . | 11 | 0 |
| 5 | Michal Makovsky | 2 | 2 | 2^ | 0 | . | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 6 | Chris Schramm | 3 | 0 | 1* | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | 4 | 1 |
| 7 | Scott Smith | 0 | 0 | R | 0 | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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King’s Lynn again had Darren Mallett at number 6 in place of Tommy Stange. Berwick were again without the injured Tom P Madsen and used R/R at number 3 in his place. The tie had effectively been won and lost at Berwick last Saturday night when the Bandits lost two late 1-5s to end up with a single point advantage but it took until heat 4 of tonight’s match before King’s Lynn took an aggregate lead. The first three heats were all shared with wins for Oliver Allen in heat 1 and Chris Schramm and Adam Pietraszko for the Bandits in heats 2 and 3. In heat 4 Tomas Topinka beat Michal Makovsky with Jan Jaros in third place for a 4-2 which gave the Stars a 13-11 lead and a one point advantage. The next three heats killed off any slender hope Berwick might still have nurtured. Kevin Doolan and Troy Batchelor took a 5-1 in heat 5 ahead of Adrian Rymel and this was followed by a 4-2 in heat 6 when Oliver Allen headed home Michal Makovsky with Ashley Jones in third place. The last thing Berwick needed was to concede a 5-0 but that’s exactly what they did in heat 7. Tomas Topinka won the race from Adam Pietraszko with Darren Mallett finishing third after Scott Smith had retired with an engine failure. However Pietraszko was subsequently excluded for having a defective silencer which meant that Berwick did not have a legal finisher. Thirteen points in arrears, the Bandits gave Carl Wilkinson a TR in heat 8. He finished second to Ashley Jones but with Chris Schramm picking up the third place point after Jan Jaros had retired the Bandits took a 3-5 from the heat which took the score after eight heats to 30-19. Michal Makovsky was next up for a TR in heat 9 but he was less successful following Batchelor and Doolan home for a 5-2 which stretched the Stars’ lead to 14 points. Another maximum for the home side from Allen and Jones ahead of Pietraszko threatened an early finish to the match as a contest but Berwick kept it alive mathematically by winning heat 11 with a 1-5. This was a surprising heat for the Bandits to produce such a score since, to do so, Adrian Rymel and Carl Wilkinson, having made the start, had to team ride cleverly to keep Tomas Topinka back in third place. Adam Pietraszko then won heat 12 to share the points and take the score to 44-30. Oliver Allen and Tomas Topinka finally put the aggregate win out of Berwick’s reach with a 5-1 in heat 13 from Rymel and Makovsky but Adam Pietraszko won again in heat 14 for another shared heat before the Stars predictably took a 5-1 through Oliver Allen and Troy Batchelor in the last race. Match Report by Merlin |