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Rye House Rockets v Somerset Rebels
Premier League, 01 October 2005
Hoddesdon Stadium, Rye House
| 2 | Edward Kennett | 1* | 3 | 3 | 2* | 2* | 3 | . | 14 | 3 |
| 3 | Brent Werner | 1 | 2* | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | . | 12 | 1 |
| 4 | Daniel King | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2* | 2 | . | . | 11 | 1 |
| 5 | Chris Neath | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2* | . | 16 | 1 |
| 6 | Steve Boxall | X | 1 | 0 | 1* | . | . | . | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | Tommy Allen | F | 1 | 2* | 2* | . | . | . | 5 | 2 |
| 2 | Jamie Smith | F | 1 | 1 | 1* | 0 | . | . | 3 | 1 |
| 3 | Ritchie Hawkins | Fx | R | 0 | 0 | 1 | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Paul Fry | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2^ | 3 | 1 | . | 13 | 0 |
| 5 | Glenn Cunningham | 2 | 2 | 2^ | 2 | 1 | 0 | . | 9 | 0 |
| 6(g) | Simon Walker | 2* | 0 | Fx | . | . | . | . | 2 | 1 |
| 7 | Chris Mills | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 3 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Rye House were without Stuart Robson and used R/R at number 1 and, similarly, Somerset were without Magnus Zetterstrom and also used R/R at number 1. Simon Walker was at number 6 for the Rebels. Somerset had a 6 point lead in the chase for the bonus point. The track was very greasy after some heavy afternoon rain. The meeting might have been cancelled but Somerset had a coach load of fans there and both teams agreed to ride. This looked a bad decision when Neath and Kennett fell in heat 1 but they got up to contest the rerun and shared the opening heat won by Paul Fry for Somerset. Rye House lost a 0-5 in the second race which was rerun after Steve Boxall was excluded. In the rerun Tommy Allen fell as did Simon Walker but Walker got up to complete the race and the Rockets found themselves five points down. Ritchie Hawkins fell and was excluded in heat 3. In the rerun Daniel King beat Paul Fry for a 4-2 and another 4-2 resulted in heat 4 when Chris Neath beat Glenn Cunningham with Tommy Allen third. So after four heats Rye House trailed 11-12. The next six heats all went the Rockets’ way. A King/Werner 5-1 in heat 5 was followed by a 4-2 in heat 6 when Cunningham split the Kennett/King pairing. Chris Neath beat Paul Fry for another 4-2 in heat 7 then Kennett and Tommy Allen ran up a 5-1 in heat 8 to give the home side a 29-18 lead. Glenn Cunningham took a TR in heat 9 but finished third behind Werner and King for a 5-2 and this was repeated in heat 10 when Paul Fry took a TR and finished behind Werner and Kennett to increase the home side’s lead to 17 points. Somerset stopped the rot briefly in heat 11 when Cunningham and Smith finished behind Chris Neath for a shared heat but Rye House hit them with two more 5-1s in heats 12 and 13. Paul Fry won heat 14 for the Rebels and a shared heat before Kennett and Neath rattled up Rye House’s seventh maximum heat win in heat 15 for a 29 point win. Match Report by Merlin |