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Newport Wasps v Hull Vikings
Premier League, 19 June 2005
Queensway Meadows, Newport
| 1 | Mads Korneliussen | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 7 | 0 |
| 2 | Kristian Lund | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Neil Collins | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | . | . | 12 | 0 |
| 5(g) | Stuart Robson | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | . | . | 11 | 0 |
| 6 | Tony Atkin | 2 | 2* | 2* | 2 | 1* | X | 1* | 10 | 4 |
| 7 | Karlis Ezergailis | 1* | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | Emiliano Sanchez | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2* | . | . | 11 | 1 |
| 2 | Paul Thorp | 1* | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | . | . | 11 | 1 |
| 3 | Craig Branney | 0 | 1 | 3 | Fn | . | . | . | 4 | 0 |
| 4 | Emil Kramer | 1 | 0 | 2* | 3 | . | . | . | 6 | 1 |
| 5 | Garry Stead | 1* | 2 | 3 | 1 | . | . | . | 7 | 1 |
| 6 | Joel Parsons | 3 | Fn | 1 | F | 1* | . | . | 5 | 1 |
| 7 | Simone Terenzani | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Fx | . | . | 4 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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It must have been an exhausted Newport side which turned out today against Hull having lost at Glasgow on Thursday, Edinburgh on Friday, Berwick on Saturday and then faced the long drive home from the Borders for a Sunday afternoon meeting. The Wasps had Stuart Robson as a guest for Craig Watson and, as usual, used R/R for Michael Coles at number three. Hull were at full strength looking to recover from their home defeat by Edinburgh in midweek. This was a match of two halves with Newport in charge in the first but running out of steam in the second. After two shared heats for openers Neil Collins and the ever reliable Tony Atkin took a 5-1 in heat 3 for a four point lead before Stuart Robson won heat 4 for a 3-3 to take the score to 14-10. Hull served notice that they weren’t about to be turned over again when they won heat 5 with a 2-4 from Thorp and Sanchez to shave two points from the lead but Newport regained their four point lead in heat 6 with a 4-2 from Korneliussen and Lund. Then they doubled the lead again with a 5-1 in heat 7 for an eight point lead through Robson and Atkin again. Stoke replied with a 2-4 from Thorp and Parsons in heat 8 to take the interval score to 27-21. After the interval it was a different story. Heat 9 was shared but Branney and Kramer who had twice already conceded 5-1s scored a 1-5 beating Mads Korneliussen in the process to cut Newport’s lead to two points at 31-29 and it was all square after the next heat with a 2-4 from Sanchez and Thorp at 33-33. Neil Collins won heat 12 to keep the scores level then Hull took the lead for the first time with a 2-4 in heat 13 when Emiliano Sanchez beat Stuart Robson for the second time with Garry Stead third to take the score to 38-40. Emil Kramer won heat 14 to keep Hull’s two point lead leading to a last heat decider. It was Thorp and Sanchez who took a 1-5 in the last heat from Stuart Robson and Korneliussen to clinch the win for Hull and extend the lead to six points. Match Report by Merlin |