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Rye House Rockets v Exeter Falcons
Premier League, 04 September 2005
Hoddesdon Stadium, Rye House

Rye House 66
1Stuart Robson32*2*3. ..102
2Edward Kennett2*3332* ..132
3Brent Werner33333 ..150
4Daniel KingR12*3. ..61
5Chris Neath3331. ..100
6(g)Luke BowenFx2*Fx2*. ..42
7Tommy Allen312*2*. ..82
Exeter 26
1Mark Lemon1214^2 0.100
2Lee Smethills00100! ..10
3(g)John Branney1*10R. ..21
4(g)Shaun Tacey22Fx^11 1.70
6(g)Danny Betson1*0010 ..21
7Pavel Ondrasik2011*M ..41

* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).

Another crushing home win for Rye House against a weakened Exeter team that failed to provide a single heat winner. For Exeter, Sebastian Tressarieu failed to arrive and John Branney (of the Oxford Conference League side) stepped into the number 3 spot. Shaun Tacey guested at number 4. Exeter used rider replacement for Ray Morton and Danny Betson was at number 6. Rye House were without Steve Boxall, out with a toe injury after a clash the previous night at Workington. Luke Bowen was at number 6 with Tommy Allen at 7.

Rye House opened up with a 5-1. Stuart Robson led from the inside with Mark Lemon chasing. It took Edward Kennett three laps to get close enough to challenge Lemon and he finally got past him on the outside of the last bend. Tommy Allen led all the way in heat 2 from Pavel Ondrasik. Luke Bowen got ahead of Betson coming out of the second bend but fell on the second lap after going too wide on the fourth bend. Exeter managed another 3-3 in heat 3 when Daniel King's bike spluttered to a stop as soon as the tapes went up. Brent Werner won the heat easily from Tacey and Branney.

Rye won the next two heats 4-2. Tacey managed to split Chris Neath and Tommy Allen in heat 4 and Lemon did the same in heat 5, won again by Werner with Daniel King (on Kennett's bike) third. Then the floodgates opened and Rye took five 5-1s in a row. Tacey took a tactical ride in heat 7 only to fall on the second lap and none of the other riders were ever close enough to challenge the fast-starting Rockets. Exeter eventually won a heat when Lemon took a second place tactical ride in heat 11. Neath won it but Bowen fell again to hand Ondrasik a point. It was business as usual in heat 12, Werner and Allen winning from Branney and Betson.

Heat 13 looked promising for Exeter when Lemon gated ahead of Robson and Neath but Robson reeled him in before cutting inside on the fourth bend of lap 3. Lemon stayed ahead of Neath for second place with Lee Smethills finishing last after taking a tactical substitute ride - a strange decision really since he had shown little form throughout the afternoon and surely had no chance of splitting Robson and Neath from a 15m handicap !

Luke Bowen was first away in heat 14. King passed him but Bowen rode well enough to take his second 2-point ride of the day ahead of Tacey and Betson. The line-up in heat 15 was Werner (four wins so far), Kennett, Lemon and Tacey. For once, both the visitors gated quickly but it wasn't enough. Kennett came from last place to first on the first lap with a sweeping move around the fourth bend. Werner soon passed Lemon and then caught and passed Tacey. Kennett, out in front, was keeping an eye on his partner's progress. When he saw Werner in second place, he slowed down as the finishing line approached to allow his captain to take the race win and a full maximum.

Match Report by Merlin