Newcastle Diamonds 48 - Somerset Rebels 44
Premier League Championship Play-Offs Group Stage
Top Scorers:
Newcastle Diamonds - Claes Nedermark 16 1, Stuart Robson 11 1
Somerset Rebels - Jesper B. Monberg 15, Jason Doyle 12 1
As further progression to the Newcastle Diamonds' efforts to win their first Premier League Championship since 2001 they welcomed the Somerset Rebels to Brough Park last night in a double header starting with the Play offs and followed by the League Cup Semi-Final 2nd leg.
In the opening race Somerset's Jason Doyle, unbeaten by a Diamond in 10 races on Friday's first legs, found himself again in the lead but a determined Stuart Robson forced his way hard under the Rebel on bend four to take a fine win in a Newcastle 4-2.
Guest reserve Ben Morley as holding a good third place in Heat Two until he slid off going into a hard opening bend to the second lap causing the race to be halted and Morley excluded from the re-run in which Claes Nedermark took a huge win in a shared 3-3 taking the score to 7-5.
Nedermark continued his great form in the Somerset battles with another solid untroubled win in Heat Four with Ludvig Lindgren in third behind Claus Vissing, but after the 4-2 had been registered Lindgren went head over heals on the warm-down lap thankfully with no ill effects as the score moved on to 14-10.
Following another 4-2 in Heat Five where Henry took the scalp of Doyle with ease Nedermark jetted away again with Robson in second for a home 5-1 maximum to extend their lead to 23-13 allowing Jesper B. Monberg to race as a tactical ride in the seventh where the Dane took a solid six points in the 3-6 result moving the score on to 26-19.
Heat Eight ended with two finishers as Henry's bike back packed up on the starting line with Davies also grinding to a halt on the second lap, Newcastle winning the race 3-2 (29-21).
Monberg proved to be the man of the match as his unbeaten steak continued in Heat 10 taking the three points by a country mule over Robson in a 3-3 taking the score to 36-26, but Doyle and Davies joined forces over Lindgren to block the Diamond easily in the visiting 1-5, reducing the deficit to six points.
Lemon was the first to expertly lower the colours of Monberg with a solid gate in Heat 12 to hammer home a Newcastle 4-2, but with Newcastle aiming to take all three league points up for grabs former Diamond Newman in Heat 14 put that very much in jeopardy with a win to share the race 3-3 and take the score to a tantalising six point difference 46-40 with one to go.
The final race needed re-running when all four riders balked themselves on the first bend with Lemon hitting the deck but the referee ordered all four back for a re-run in which Doyle shot ahead with Monberg on his tail but Robson shot under the Dane on lap two to reduce the score to a visitors 2-4, but a vital league table point went to the Rebels.
George English said: "Three points were what we were after but we only managed two and we now must look to Leicester to make sure they take as many points from Somerset and we in turn take all points available from the Lions. The League Championship is pretty much in the lap of the Gods."
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