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Newcastle Diamonds v Reading Racers
Premier League, 11 September 2005
Brough Park Stadium, Newcastle
| 1 | Josef Franc | R | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | . | 12 | 0 |
| 2 | Kristian Lund | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | . | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 3 | Lubos Tomicek | R | 1 | 1* | 1 | . | . | . | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | Phil Morris | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | . | . | . | 7 | 0 |
| 5 | James Grieves | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | . | . | . | 9 | 0 |
| 6 | Jamie Birkinshaw | 1 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | Jamie Robertson | 3 | 1* | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | . | 12 | 1 |
| 2 | Zdenek Simota | 2* | 0 | 2 | 1* | 0 | . | . | 5 | 2 |
| 3 | Andrew Appleton | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | . | 11 | 0 |
| 4 | Mathieu Tresarrieu | 1 | 1* | R | 2 | 1* | . | . | 5 | 2 |
| 5(g) | Travis McGowan | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4! | 2 | 19 | 0 |
| 6 | Chris Johnson | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Richard Wolff | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | 2 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Newcastle with Phil Morris back in the side were at full strength but Reading used R/R for Danny Bird at number 1 and had Travis McGowan as a guest for the missing Matej Zagar at number 5. Newcastle already had a two point lead for the aggregate score having won at Reading earlier in the season. Reading got off to a great start. They took a 1-5 in the opening heat from McGowan and Simota after Josef Franc suffered an engine failure. Newcastle won the reserves race 4-2 but in heat 3 Andrew Appleton beat Phil Morris with Mathieu Tressarieu third for a 2-4 and Travis McGowan beat James Grieves to share heat 4. This made the score 10-14. Heats 5 and 6 both went Newcastle’s way with 4-2s to level the score. In heat 5 Phil Morris reversed the result of heat 3 by beating Andrew Appleton then Josef Franc beat Travis McGowan in heat 6. James Grieves won heat 7 for a shared heat then Newcastle took the lead for the first time with a 4-2 in heat 8 thanks to a win by Kristian Lund from Zdenek Simota with Jaimie Robertson third. The score was now 25-23. Travis McGowan won heat 9 for a 3-3 but Newcastle doubled their lead to four points with a 4-2 in heat 10 when Josef Franc beat Andrew Appleton with Lund third. Although James Grieves won heat 11, Tressarieu and Simota filled the minor places for a share of the spoils but the match began to slip away from Reading when they lots 4-2s in heats 12 and 13. Jaimie Robertson rose to the occasion by beating Andrew Appleton in heat 12 with Lubos Tomicek third then, in heat 13, Josef Franc again beat Travis McGowan with James Grieves taking an unusual third place. This took the score to 43-35. Now eight points in arrears, Reading chose to give Travis McGowan an extra ride by introducing him as a Tactical Substitute in heat 14 from 15 metres back. Although he got by Phil Morris and his partner, Mathieu Tressarieu, he couldn’t catch Jaimie Robertson so had to be content with second place. Tressarieu finished third, however, so Reading won the heat 3-5 but were still six points in arrears so the match was now beyond them. Josef Franc beat Travis McGowan for the third time in heat 15 as Newcastle took another 4-2 to stretch the winning margin to eight points. It was certainly a profitable two days for Travis McGowan with a total of 51 points over the three matches! Match Report by Merlin |