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Kings Lynn Stars v Stoke Potters
Premier League, 11 May 2005
Norfolk Arena, Kings Lynn
| 1 | Tomas Topinka | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | . | 14 | 0 |
| 2 | Paul Lee | 2* | 1* | 3 | 2* | 0 | . | . | 8 | 3 |
| 3 | Adam Allott | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | . | . | . | 11 | 0 |
| 4 | James Brundle | 2* | 2* | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | 7 | 2 |
| 5(g) | Chris Neath | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | . | . | . | 10 | 0 |
| 6 | Ashley Jones | 3 | 2* | 2* | R | . | . | . | 7 | 2 |
| 7 | Jan Jaros | 2* | 1 | 1 | 0 | . | . | . | 4 | 1 |
| 1 | Alan Mogridge | R | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Paul Clews | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | . | . | 5 | 0 |
| 4 | Robbie Kessler | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6^ | 2 | . | 14 | 0 |
| 5(g) | Stuart Robson | 2 | 3 | 4^ | 2 | 1* | . | . | 12 | 1 |
| 6 | Barrie Evans | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | . | . | 3 | 0 |
| 7 | Rob Grant | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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For their opening Premier League match for this season King’s Lynn had Paul Lee, signed from Peterborough to cover the absence of Kevin Doolan, at number two with Adam Allott at number three and James Brundle moving to number four. Their guest for the injured Oliver Allen was Chris Neath. Stoke, fresh from their win at Newport on Sunday, had Stuart Robson as a guest for Jan Staechmann and operated Rider Replacement for Peter Carr who had jarred his knee in the match at Newport. This was no contest. After heat 11 Stoke had only scored 18 points and were strong candidates for the biggest thrashing of the season. The Stars dropped only one point in the opening five heats to lead 24-6 before Stoke stopped the rot temporarily by sharing heat 6. The statistics for these opening 11 heats with the score at 50-18 show that the Stars had scored seven 5-1 heat wins and two 4-2s with two heats shared thanks to the Stuart Robson win in heat 6 and a four point second place from Robson again as TR in heat 9. Over the last four heats, though, Stoke outscored the Stars by 11-16 as Robbie Kessler suddenly sprung to life. In heat 12 he beat Adam Allott with Barrie Evans third to produce a Stoke 2-4. Stuart Robson split Tomas Topinka and Chris Neath for a 4-2 to Stars in heat 13 but Robbie Kessler had another heat win in heat 14 this time as a TR. With Ashley Jones falling in an effort to get round him Stoke took a 2-7 to top the 30 point mark and then finished by sharing the last heat won by Topinka who passed Robbie Kessler on the second lap. Match Report by Merlin |