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Reading Racers v Rye House Rockets
Premier Trophy (Group), 09 May 2005
Smallmead Stadium, Reading
| 1 | Andrew Appleton | 1 | 1* | 0 | 3 | . | . | . | 5 | 1 |
| 2 | Chris Mills | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | . | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 3 | Zdenek Simota | 2 | 0 | 1* | 2 | . | . | . | 5 | 1 |
| 4 | Richard Wolff | 1* | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | . | . | 8 | 1 |
| 5 | Matej Zagar | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | . | . | 12 | 0 |
| 6(g) | Ben Barker | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1* | 0 | . | . | 4 | 1 |
| 7(g) | Daniel Giffard | M | X | R | R | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | Stuart Robson | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | . | . | . | 9 | 0 |
| 2 | Edward Kennett | 2* | 1* | 3 | 1* | 1* | . | . | 8 | 4 |
| 3 | Chris Neath | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | . | . | 13 | 0 |
| 4 | Tommy Allen | F | R | 1 | 3 | . | . | . | 4 | 0 |
| 5 | Brent Werner | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | . | . | . | 7 | 0 |
| 6(g) | Harland Cook | F | M | . | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | Daniel King | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | . | . | 7 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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It was a much depleted Reading side that took on Rye House tonight. The Racers were without Mathieu Tressarieu, who had stomach bug, and Chris Johnson who has a broken collarbone. Their places at reserve were taken by Ben Barker and Daniel Giffard. Rye House were without Steve Boxall who has a broken thumb and gave another outing to their Conference League side’s Harland Cook. Reading were looking to overcome a 15 point deficit from the match at Hoddesdon for the bonus point. On what was reported as a ‘dust bowl’ of a track, Reading lost a 1-5 in the opening heat to Stuart Robson and Edward Kennett and never got back into the match. In fact every one of the Rye House side won a heat, apart from Harland Cook, while Daniel Giffard at number 7 for Reading failed to complete four laps in each of his four races. Reading did win heat two 3-2 with Ben Barker beating Daniel King after Harland Cook had fallen and Daniel Giffard had suffered an engine failure. Cook was withdrawn from the meeting at this point. A shared heat 3 was followed by a 2-4 to the Rockets when Daniel King, who failed to beat Ben Barker in heat 2, beat Matej Zagar! The score after heat 4 was 9-14. Heats 5 and 6 were shared then Reading had another 3-2 success in heat 7 won by Matej Zagar from Chris Neath as both Daniel Giffard and Tommy Allen retired. Rye House hit back with a 2-4 in heat 8 when Chris Mills separated the Rockets’ pairing of Kennett and King to take the score to 20-26. Another 3-3 in heat 9 was followed by a Rockets’ 2-4 in heat 10 with Mills again separating the two Rockets – Chris Neath and Tommy Allen - with Andrew Appleton finishing last. Heats 11 and 12 were shared and Reading remained eight points down but they pulled two points back with a 4-2 in heat 13 won by Andrew Appleton from Stuart Robson with Matej Zagar third. The score was now 35-41. Any lingering hopes the Racers had disappeared in heat 14 with yet another Rye House 2-4 this time from Tommy Allen and Daniel King. Matej Zagar won the last heat for a share of the points. This result surely wraps the southern section up for Rye House. Match Report by Merlin |