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Newcastle Diamonds v Kings Lynn Stars
KO Cup (1st Round), 05 June 2005
Brough Park Stadium, Newcastle
| 1 | Phil Morris | 3 | R | 2 | 1 | 1* | . | . | 7 | 1 |
| 2 | Richard Juul | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | . | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 3 | Josef Franc | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2* | . | . | . | 9 | 1 |
| 4 | Lubos Tomicek | 1* | 0 | 1* | 2 | . | . | . | 4 | 2 |
| 5 | James Grieves | 3 | 2* | 3 | 3 | 2 | . | . | 13 | 1 |
| 6 | Christian Henry | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1* | . | . | . | 8 | 1 |
| 7 | Jamie Robertson | 2* | 1 | R | 3 | . | . | . | 6 | 1 |
| 1 | Tomas Topinka | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | . | . | 11 | 0 |
| 2 | Ashley Jones | 0 | 1* | 1* | 0 | . | . | . | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Paul Lee | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | . | . | 7 | 0 |
| 4 | Adam Allott | 3 | 0 | 1 | T | . | . | . | 4 | 0 |
| 5 | Oliver Allen | 2 | Fx | 3 | 0 | . | . | . | 5 | 0 |
| 6 | Jan Jaros | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | . | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 7(g) | Blair Scott | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 1 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Newcastle take a healthy 17 point lead into the second leg of this KO Cup tie against King’s Lynn . The Diamonds were at full strength for this match although the team had been reshuffled with the new averages coming into effect. King’s Lynn had Blair Scott as a guest at number 6. Newcastle made an excellent start to this match with two 4-2s and a 5-1 propelling them to a 16-8 lead by heat 4. Phil Morris beat Tomas Topinka in the opening heat for a 4-2 then Christian Henry and Jaimie Robertson added a 5-1 in the reserves’ race. Adam Allott won heat three for the Stars to share the heat then, in a rerun heat 4, James Grieves and Jaimie Robertson added another two points to the home side’s lead with a 4-2. Josef Franc won heat 5 for a 3-3 and in heat 6 Oliver Allen was excluded after falling on the first bend. However that was balanced by Phil Morris suffering a snapped chain at the start of the rerun. Eventually Jan Jaros beat Richard Juul for a 2-3 to the Stars. Christian Henry won again in heat 7 and was followed home by James Grieves for a 5-1 ahead of Paul Lee then a Richard Juul win in heat 8 for a 3-3 took the score to 29-18 with King’s Lynn struggling to restrict Newcastle’s lead. However the Stars rallied. Oliver Allen won heat 9 from Josef Franc for a 3-3 then Paul Lee won heat 10 with Adam Allott third for a 2-4. James Grieves beat Topinka with Henry third for a Newcastle 4-2 in heat 11 and Paul Lee won again in heat 12 for another shared heat to take the score to 41-30. Newcastle stretched their lead to 17 points with a 4-2 in heat 13 as Grieves beat Topinka again and a 5-1 in heat 14 in which Adam Allott was excluded for touching the tapes. Finally Tomas Topinka won a race and ended James Grieves maximum in the process in heat 15 which was shared with Phil Morris taking the third place point from Paul Lee. Match Report by Merlin |