Thank you to Newcastle Diamonds media team for the reports.Diamonds Superb Win At Rye House
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Rye House Rockets 43
Newcastle Diamonds 50
(Premier League)
Newcastle Diamonds continued their excellent start to the 2012 Premier League with an excellent, yet unexpected seven-point win at Rye House on Saturday night.
Diamonds embarked on the long journey to tackle their opposition down in Hoddesdon, a track they rarely do well at, but with former Rye star Stuart Robson in the visitors' ranks for inspiration, North East hopes were high.
In the opening race the optimism was well founded with Claes Nedermark jetting ahead with Robson comfortably in second to take a fine 1-5 over Charlie Gjedde, whilst the Worrall twins emulated their heat one colleagues in the second to push Newcastle a sensational 2-10 up.
Christian Henry was locked in wheel-to-wheel action with Anders Mellgren in Heat Three, but fell on the back straight and stayed down but the referee handed him an exclusion to halt Newcastle's run of maximums, whilst in the re-run Ludvig Lindgren took the win well to share the heat 3-3.
The Rockets started to claw points back with a 4-2 in the fourth then Mark Lemon and Gjedde swapped placed throughout Heat Six but the home man took the flag in another home 4-2 that tightened the match score to 16-20.
Richie Worrall took a vital second win on the night in Heat Eight over Luke Bowen, and with Nedermark taking third Newcastle extended the lead by two again to 21-27, but another 1-5 in heat 11 with Nedermark taking his second win and Robson taking third to make the score 28-38.
Mellgren was nominated as a tactical ride in Heat 12 and won well following a tight first bend for six points but Worrall and Lindgren tucked in for three in the 6-3 to restrict the Rockets' resurgence to 34-41.
Two shared races followed, taking the score to a Diamonds' match-winning 40-47 with one race to go in a magnificent effort from the Tynesiders.
Team manager George English said: "This was a great match for the Diamonds, and hitting hard with that double hammer-blow in the first heats was really where the damage was done as we demoralised them and knocked a few heads down. All the lads rode exceptionally and we really deserved our spectacular win."
The Diamonds host the Sheffield Tigers tonight at Brough Park at 7.00pm, a later time than usual with a Tigers' side that includes former Diamond Josef Franc who, just 24 hours previous won a semi final place in the Czech Grand Prix at the Marketa Stadium with a total of nine points….a fine achievement.
Diamonds Fight Hard For Victory Over Sheffield
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Newcastle Diamonds 54
Sheffield Tigers 38
(Premier League)
Top scorers:
Diamonds - Christian Henry 12 1, Mark Lemon 10
Tigers - Josef Franc 12, Ricky Wells 11
The Newcastle Diamonds continued their fine start to the 2012 Premier League campaign last night at Brough with decent win over a solid Sheffield Tigers side.
Things didn't start well for the Diamonds as the shock success of the Czech Grand Prix the night before, Josef Franc shot round Claes Nedermark to win well and was followed in by his partner Hugh Skidmore in a Tigers' 1-5.
The Newcastle reserves reversed that score in Heat Two with the Worrall twins dominating Adam McKinna and Joe Haines to level the match 6-6.
Ricky Wells took a fine win in the third whilst Emiliano Sanchez battled well with Richie Worrall in the fourth to take the three points, both races split 3-3 taking the score tied to 12-12.
Skidmore fell heavily on bend four of the opening lap in heat five, claiming vociferously that his crash was caused by the inside pass of Ludvig Lindgren, but the referee excluded the Tiger with a three-man re-run.
At the second time of asking, Christian Henry took a fine win, but an engine failure for Lindgren restricted his points to a solitary one in the Diamonds' 4-2 pushing them two into the lead.
Sanchez was leading the sixth with ease until Robson came blasting round him through a virtually non-existent gap coming off bend two of the last lap, but the Argentinean hadn't finished and burst back under the Sunderland-born man to sneak the win in the final metre to share the race.
Four-up after Heat Seven the lead was doubled to eight in the eighth with Nedermark blasting away to win well followed by Richie Worrall whose opposition at the back had dwindled with Skidmore suffering a retirement from the race with the score 28-20.
With the Diamonds 33-21 up, going into Heat 10 Ricky Wells was nominated a tactical ride for double points, but Robson and Nedermark shot out to lead. Richard Hall passed the Dane on the second lap and in an attempt to get back on terms Nedermark went out of control on bend one of the third lap causing him to weave wildly, and bashed his hip violently, to the extent he retired from the race and collapsed onto the centre green in the 3-5 result.
A Tigers' 2-4 came from another fine Franc win in the 12th, taking the score to 38-30, followed by two solid Newcastle maximums taking the win for the home side with two races left.
Team manager George English said: "Sheffield have scored 40 in their last two matches, proving they're not a bad side and 7 early on there were signs we could have had problems, but we eventually got a stranglehold on the match and took a good win to add more league points to our already impressive total."
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