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Newcastle Diamonds v Exeter Falcons
Premier League, 22 May 2005
Brough Park Stadium, Newcastle
| 1 | Phil Morris | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | . | . | . | 9 | 0 |
| 2 | Christian Henry | 1* | 1 | 3 | 0 | . | . | . | 5 | 1 |
| 3 | Richard Juul | 0 | 0 | 2* | 2 | . | . | . | 4 | 1 |
| 4 | Josef Franc | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | . | . | 11 | 0 |
| 5 | James Grieves | 3 | 2* | 2 | 3 | 1 | . | . | 11 | 1 |
| 6 | Lubos Tomicek | 3 | 3 | 1* | 1 | . | . | . | 8 | 1 |
| 7 | Jamie Robertson | 2* | 2* | 2* | 0 | . | . | . | 6 | 3 |
| 1 | Mark Lemon | 3 | 3 | 6^ | 2 | 2* | . | . | 16 | 1 |
| 2(g) | Craig Branney | 0 | 1* | 1 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 2 | 1 |
| 4 | Antonin Svab | 2 | 1 | 1* | 3 | 2 | 3 | . | 12 | 1 |
| 5 | Seemond Stephens | 1 | 2 | 2^ | 2 | R | . | . | 7 | 0 |
| 6 | Nick Simmons | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | . | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | Pavel Ondrasik | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | . | . | 2 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Newcastle , having chalked up an away win in the Premier League at Reading on Monday, were full of confidence taking on Exeter tonight. The Diamonds were at full strength but Exeter were without Lee Smethills and Ray Morton. They had Craig Branney as a guest at number 2 for Smethills and used R/R at number 3 for Ray Morton. Mark Lemon won heat 1 to share the heat but Tomicek and Robertson took a 5-1 from the reserves race to open up a four point lead for Newcastle. In heat 3 Josef Franc took the win for a shared heat then Newcastle doubled their lead through James Grieves and Jaimie Robertson with a 5-1 ahead of Seemond Stephens to take the heat 4 score to 16-8. Mark Lemon won again in heat 5 and this time he got support from Craig Branney who was third as Exeter pulled two points back to trail 18-12. Seemond Stephens finished second to Phil Morris in heat 6 with Christian Henry third for a Newcastle 4-2 then Grieves and Lubos Tomicek scored another Newcastle 5-1 in heat 7 to stretch their lead to 12 points followed by another of the same from Christian Henry and Jamie Robertson to put them 16 ahead after heat 8 making the score 32-16. Seemond Stephens took a TR in heat 9 but finished behind Josef Franc and Richard Juul for a 5-2 and the match was beginning to look like a rout with the score moving to 37-18. A shared heat 10 won by Phil Morris was followed by a TR for Mark Lemon in heat 11. The Exeter number 1 beat James Grieves for all 6 points but Lubos Tomicek was third to restrict the damage to a 3-6 for the Falcons. Exeter took a 2-4 in heat 12 won by Toni Svab to make further inroads to Newcastle’s lead as the score went to 45-31. Heat 13 saw James Grieves lower Mark Lemon’s colours for the only time of the match and with Phil Morris third Newcastle took a 4-2. Heat 14 resulted in a win for Josef Franc but Exeter had the last laugh with a 1-5 from Toni Svab and Mark Lemon who headed home James Grieves and Josef Franc. Match Report by Merlin |