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Stoke Potters v Berwick Bandits
Premier Trophy (Group), 02 April 2005
Loomer Road, Stoke
| 2 | Paul Clews | 1 | 1* | 2 | 2* | 0 | . | . | 6 | 2 |
| 3 | Robbie Kessler | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | . | 15 | 0 |
| 4 | Alan Mogridge | 2* | 2* | 2 | F | 2 | 3 | . | 11 | 2 |
| 5(g) | George Stancl | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | . | . | 13 | 0 |
| 6 | Rob Grant | 2 | 2* | 1 | 0 | . | . | . | 5 | 1 |
| 7 | Barrie Evans | 0 | 3 | R | 0 | . | . | . | 3 | 0 |
| 1 | Adrian Rymel | R | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1* | . | . | 4 | 1 |
| 2 | Adam Pietraszko | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4^ | 0 | . | 10 | 0 |
| 3 | Simon Cartwright | 0 | 1 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | Michal Makovsky | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | . | 9 | 0 |
| 6 | Chris Schramm | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | 4 | 0 |
| 7 | Joachim Kugelmann | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2^ | 1* | 1 | . | 12 | 1 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Injury hit Stoke took on Berwick who were also short-handed tonight. Stoke were without the injured Paul Pickering for whom they used R/R at number one and they were also missing Jan Staechmann also recovering from injury. They had Glasgow’s George Stancl guesting for him. Berwick were missing Piotr Dym who apparently has a wrist strain and used R/R at number 5. The teams traded 4-2s in the opening two heats before Stoke took a 5-1 in heat 3 from the Kessler/Mogridge pairing to open up a four point lead. This was followed by a strange heat 4 won by Stoke reserve Barrie Evans from Berwick reserve Joachim Kugelmann with George Stancl taking the third place point from Adam Pietraszko. Another 5-1 in heat 5 from the Kessler/Mogridge pairing again stretched the Stoke lead to 10 points. Berwick reserve Joachim Kugelmann won heat 6 from Alan Mogridge and Paul Clews but yet another Stoke 5-1 followed in the next heat from George Stancl and Rob Grant against the Berwick pair of Cartwright and Makovsky – the second consecutive 5-1 they had conceded. The lead was now 14 points at 28-14 and Berwick gave Joachim Kugelmann a TR in heat 8. However he could only finish third to his partner Adam Pietrszko and Paul Clews so the Bandits won the heat 2-5 to cut the gap to 11 points. Berwick won heat 9 as well after Alan Mogridge had fallen with Adrian Rymel taking the win from Robbie Kessler. The score now stood at 32-23. A killer 5-1 to Stoke in heat 10 from Stancl and Clews opened up the gap to 13 points and Berwick were reduced to damage limitation thereafter. A TR for Adam Pietrszko resulted in a 4-4 shared heat when he finished second to Stancl with Grant third. Heats 12 and 13 were shared but the Bandits fired home a 2-4 in heat 14 won by Michal Makovsky from Alan Mogridge with Kugelmann third but Stoke scored a 4-2 in the final heat from Mogridge and Kessler with Makovsky in second place. Match Report by Merlin |