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Newcastle Diamonds v Hull Vikings
Premier League, 12 June 2005
Brough Park Stadium, Newcastle
| 1 | Phil Morris | 1* | R | 0 | 1 | . | . | . | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | Lubos Tomicek | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | . | . | 9 | 0 |
| 3 | Richard Juul | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | . | . | . | 8 | 0 |
| 4 | Josef Franc | 0 | 3 | 1* | 1* | . | . | . | 5 | 2 |
| 5 | James Grieves | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | . | 15 | 0 |
| 6 | Christian Henry | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 7 | Jamie Robertson | 2* | 1 | X | 0 | . | . | . | 3 | 1 |
| 1(g) | Luke Priest | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Paul Thorp | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | . | . | 10 | 0 |
| 4 | Emil Kramer | 3 | 2 | 2* | 2 | 3 | 2 | . | 14 | 1 |
| 5 | Garry Stead | 2 | 1* | 3 | 2 | . | . | . | 8 | 1 |
| 6 | Joel Parsons | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1* | . | . | 5 | 1 |
| 7(g) | Chris Mills | 0 | 0 | 1* | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Newcastle were at full strength for this match. Hull , however, were forced to turn out pretty much a scratch side. They were without Emiliano Sanchez and Simone Terenzani. Both have been forced to race for Italy tomorrow in the European Championship Best Pairs meeting in Poland and, under the rules, could only be replaced by Conference League guests. As a result Hull fielded Luke Priest at number 1 for Sanchez and Chris Mills at number 7 for Terenzani. Then, to crown it all, Craig Branney was unavailable for family reasons and they had to use R/R for him at number 7. Incredibly, considering that they only had four regular team members in the side, Hull went into the last heat trailing 44-40 but still in with a chance of a draw. The opening heat, won by Paul Thorp, was shared but Newcastle were quickly into the lead with a 5-1 in the reserves race from Christian Henry and Jaimie Robertson. Hull hit back with a 2-4 in heat 3 won by Emil Kramer from Richard Juul with Joel Parsons heading Josef Franc home for third place. James Grieves won heat 4 from Garry Stead with Jaimie Robertson third for a 4-2 to re-establish Newcastle’s four point lead at 14-10. Amother 4-2 in heat 5 from Franc and Juul put the Diamonds six points in front but they were never to improve on that lead. The next two heats were shared before Hull clawed 2 points back in heat 8 with a 2-4 from Thorp and Mills to make the score 26-22. Heat 9 was shared then Hull rocked the home side by levelling the match at 30-30 thanks to a 1-5 from Chris Mills and Emil Kramer ahead of Lubos Tomicek and Phil Morris. Newcastle went two points up again with a 4-2 in heat 11 won by James Grieves and heat 12 was shared thanks to a win from Richard Juul. Newcastle doubled their lead to four points at 41-37 when James Grieves won for the fourth time from Garry Stead with Phil Morris third and there was no change with a shared heat in heat 14 won by Emil Kramer. So to the last heat in which the Vikings needed a 1-5 for a draw. This was never likely since the unbeaten James Grieves was in it and so it proved. Grieves completed his full five ride maximum beating Emil Kramer and Lubos Tomicek took third place from Paul Thorp for a 6 point win. Match Report by Merlin |