Thank you to George English and the Media Team at Newcastle Diamonds for providing the following post and picture.Newcastle Diamonds 62
Leicester Lions 31
Premier League
Top Scorers
Newcastle - Richie Worrall 13 2, Mark Lemon 11 3
Leicester Lions - Lasse Bjerre 12, Kauko Nieminen 9
Young Richie Worrall is fast becoming the star of 2012 in the Newcastle Diamonds Premier League-topping side and last night against second placed Leicester Lions scored his first paid maximum of the season in the decisive 31-point win.
It was a very one-sided affair with Newcastle taking 10 wins in the 15 races whilst the Lions themselves proved somewhat uneven as their top two, Lasse Bjerre and Kauko Nieminen scoring 21 of their overall total with the other five of their side looking decidedly disappointing.
Heat One saw Stuart Robson make a slow gate but haul himself back round Simon Lambert on the first bend as Claes Nedermark pushed Magnus Karlsson wide allowing Robson to cut back and sharply nip through a tiny gap between Newcastle's Dane and Karlsson to form a Diamonds' 5-1 in crowd thrilling style.
Two wins for super-sub Richie Worrall in the second and fourth races, both by a country mile formed Newcastle 4-2s, separated by another excellent 5-1 in Heat Three from Mark Lemon and Christian Henry meant that the Diamonds were already dominating 18-6 which led to a tactical ride for Karlsson.
The Diamonds pair of Henry and Lemon, this time on his second bike as his first had a fault, made Karlsson work hard by jumping out to take another 5-1 negating Karlsson's double point effort with Newcastle now 23-7 up.
Bjerre, brother of former Diamond Kenneth, raced a superb Heat Six when with half a lap to go he wound on the power and forced his way round Nedermark and Robson the run to the line in the first 3-3 of the night and with a Nieminen win in the seventh another 3-3 was put into the record book.
Nedermark and Richie Worrall got the Diamonds back into maximum vein with another 5-1 in Heat Eight and with the score now 34-14 and then 37-17 after the ninth the Lions manager, former Diamond's rider Glyn Taylor put Nieminen on a tactical ride for double points in Heat 10.
The tactical man roared away to win for six points, but chasing behind Robson lost his steel shoe which he had not noticed until on the third bend he fell as his foot effectively stuck to the track half a lap later and had to nurse himself home at half speed in the 2-7 advantage to the Lions which progressed the score to 39-24.
A Lindgren and Steve Worrall took the match well beyond Leicester's reach with four races to go as the Diamonds relished their revenge as they comfortably consolidated their position on top of the Premier League.
Team manager George English said: "Richie's form is sky-rocketing at the moment and it's a great help to have this sort of power at reserve, but when our main lads also hit form then the opposition need to watch out as Leicester found out to their determent tonight.
"We had revenge on our mind after they narrowly beat us 46-44 down there last month and I think we comfortably achieved our goal. This was another dominant - total team performance and it helps us stay well clear at the top of the League which is where we aim to stay throughout the second half of the season.
"I have to congratulate Lasse Bjerre however for giving us some great entertainment to match the rest of our lads, all of whom were at least paid for a win. That good win sets us up nicely at the top of the League table."
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