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Reading Racers v Rye House Rockets
Premier League, 25 July 2005
Smallmead Stadium, Reading
| 1 | Andrew Appleton | R | 1* | 3 | 0 | . | . | . | 4 | 1 |
| 2 | Zdenek Simota | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2* | Fx | . | . | 10 | 1 |
| 3 | Steve Masters | 1* | 0 | Fx | R | . | . | . | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | Mathieu Tresarrieu | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | . | . | . | 5 | 0 |
| 5 | Matej Zagar | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | . | 15 | 0 |
| 6 | Chris Johnson | 2* | 1 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 3 | 1 |
| 7 | Richard Wolff | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 1 | Stuart Robson | 2 | 2* | 2 | 1* | . | . | . | 7 | 2 |
| 2 | Edward Kennett | 1* | 3 | 0 | 1* | . | . | . | 5 | 2 |
| 3 | Brent Werner | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | . | . | 10 | 0 |
| 4 | Daniel King | R | R | 1 | 2* | . | . | . | 3 | 1 |
| 5 | Chris Neath | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1* | . | . | 11 | 1 |
| 6 | Steve Boxall | 0 | F | 1 | . | . | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 7 | Tommy Allen | 1 | 1* | 2 | 2* | 3 | . | . | 9 | 2 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Having redeclared their team without Danny Bird, it could be said that Reading were at full strength. Rye House , too, had a full strength side and were defending a 21 point lead for the bonus point. Fresh from their annihilation of Glasgow at Ashfield last night, Rye House were expected to beat lowly Reading. They opened by sharing the first heat, won by Simota, after Andre Appleton had suffered an engine failure. The Reading reserves put the home side four points up with a 5-1 in heat 2 and it remained that way when Werner won heat 3 with Daniel King falling. Matej Zagar won heat 4 for another shared heat and the heat 4 score was 14-10. Rye House levelled the scores with a 1-5 from Kennett and Robson in heat 5 then Chris Neath won heat 6 as Steve Boxall fell to keep the scores tied. Matej Zagar got up to pip Brent Werner on the line in heat 7 and, with Chris Johnson taking third place, the Racers went back in front with a 4-2. They repeated the 4-2 winning score in heat 8 when Simota won with Kennett rather surprisingly finishing last. This took the heat 8 score to 26-22. Heat 9 was awarded as a 2-4 to the Rockets as Steve Masters crashed into the fence with Neath beating Tressarieu to cut the gap to two points but an easy 5-1 from the gate by Appleton and Simota in heat 10 put the Racers in the driving seat, 6 points ahead. Matej Zagar kept it that way by winning heat 11 ahead of Stuart Robson and Edward Kennett but the match was back in the melting pot when Brent Werner and Tommy Allen scored a 1-5 for Rye House ahead of Richard Wolff in heat 12 to make the score 37-35. Matej Zagar kept on winning by taking heat 13 from Neath and Robson so there were still two points between the sides with only two heats to go. After heat 14 there were still two points between the sides but now it was Rye House who were in front as Tommy Allen and Daniel King took a 1-5 from Richard Wolff leaving it all to a last heat decider. In the last heat Zdenek (Sam) Simota fell and was excluded from the rerun which meant that Rye House had won the match provided they had a finisher! Zagar completed his maximum in the rerun but it was Rye House who went home with all three points. Match Report by Merlin |