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Reading Racers v Sheffield Tigers
Premier League, 27 June 2005
Smallmead Stadium, Reading
| 1 | Andrew Appleton | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | . | . | 11 | 0 |
| 3 | Zdenek Simota | 2* | 1* | T | 1* | 3 | . | . | 7 | 3 |
| 4 | Richard Wolff | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2* | 3 | 0 | . | 12 | 1 |
| 5 | Matej Zagar | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | . | . | 12 | 0 |
| 6 | Mathieu Tresarrieu | 1* | 3 | 0 | 2* | 2* | 2* | 2* | 12 | 5 |
| 7 | Chris Johnson | 1 | 0 | 1 | . | . | . | . | 2 | 0 |
| 1(g) | Emil Kramer | 3 | 3 | T^ | 3 | 3 | . | . | 12 | 0 |
| 2 | Paul Cooper | 0 | R | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Ricky Ashworth | 0 | F | 1 | 0 | . | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 5 | Andre Compton | 2 | 2 | 6^ | 2* | 1 | . | . | 13 | 1 |
| 6 | Ben Wilson | 0 | 1* | 1* | 0 | 1 | 1 | . | 4 | 2 |
| 7 | Kyle Legault | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Reading continued to use R/R for Steve Masters but otherwise were at full strength while Sheffield had Emil Kramer as a guest for Sean Wilson and used R/R for Richard hall. Although they lost the bonus point to the Tigers, Reading at last had a comfortable home win after their recent struggles round their own track. Sheffield’s guest, Emil Kramer, won the opening heat but Reading took the reserves race 4-2 then added a 5-1 from Richard Wolff and Zdenek Simota. Matej Zagar won heat 4 to share the heat which made the heat 4 score 15-9. Heats 5 and 6 were shared but Sheffield fell further behind in heat 7 when Matej zagar won the race with Chris Johnson third for a 4-2. In heat 8 Appleton and Tressarieu took a 5-1 to make the heat 8 score 30-18. In heat 9 Andre Compton took a TR and beat Wolff and Simota for a 3-6 to reduce the deficit to nine points at 33-24. Reading were not about to surrender however and struck with three consecutive 5-1s. The 5-1 in heat 11 was particularly unfortunate for Sheffield because the unbeaten Emil Kramer was on a TR and was excluded for tape touching. The score after heat 12 was 48-27, a 21 point lead for Reading, who needed to win by 26 points to take the bonus point. A 1-5 from Kramer and Compton in heat 13 ahead of Matej Zagar all but ended their hopes but they hit back with a 5-1 of their own in heat 14 from Wolff and Tressarieu (Tressarieu’s fifth bonus point of the meeting!) to restore their 21 point lead which put them two points ahead needing a 5-1 to force a run-off for the bonus point. There was no happy ending for the Racers as Emil Kramer chalked up his fourth heat win from five races beating Matej Zagar again. Andre Compton took third for a Sheffield 2-4 and the bonus point headed its way back up to Sheffield. Match Report by Merlin |