Newcastle Diamonds 64
Plymouth Devils 30
Premier League
Top Scorers:
Newcastle Diamonds - Ludvig Lindgren 15, Claes Nedermark 13 4
Plymouth Devils - Ryan Fisher 12 1, Cory Gathercole 12
The Newcastle Diamonds arrived back at Brough Park buoyed by their fine point won at Berwick the night before, determined to take a big win and got off to a fine start against the Plymouth Devils in Heat One with three points from Stuart Robson in a shared 3-3.
The string of maximums started in Heat Two with Claes Nedermark and Paul Starke taking a huge lead over the Devils reserves for the 5-1 pushing Newcastle into the lead for the first time 8-4.
Two more untroubled maximums followed going in to Heat Five with the Diamonds 12-up before Todd Kurtz demolished the starting tapes before they rose to receive an exclusion as the Diamonds duo of Mark lemon and Christian Henry walked all over the Devils in a fourth 5-1 taking the score to 23-7.
Ryan Fisher forced his way round both Robson and Nedermark in Heat Six to make for the best race of the night and took three well deserved points in the share of the spoils but come heat seven Cory Gathercole was nominated as a tactical ride for double points.
The start for the all-important tactical ride was ragged to say the least with several riders moving with tactical Gathercole the worst offender, but the referee saw no reason to stop and call a re-run as Lindgren dived round his Devils' counterpart who could not get back on the Swede and only scored a doubled four in a shared 4-4.
Another maximum in Heat Eight for Henry and Nedermark took the score to a dominant 35-15 before the half-time interval after which Fisher went as a tactical ride and raced the race of the season battling with Lemon ahead and Henry in third who three times passed the American Devil in the 4-4 share.
A 5-1 in Heat 11 was followed Lemon's third win of the night, stretching out an ever-growing lead from the front over Gathercole and Jake Anderson who kept Starke out at the rear in the 3-3 taking the score, with three races left to an unassailable 51-25.
Team manager George English said: "We know Plymouth would not be the strongest of opposition tonight but I have to say thanks to Ryan Fisher, Cory Gathercole and James Holder the match was a lot more entertaining that it could have been as those three put in some excellent moves as we romped to another big home victory."
As promised the report from the previous evening.
Berwick Bandits 46
Newcastle Diamonds 43
Premier League
Top Scorers:
Berwick Bandits - Sebastian Alden 12, Robin Aspegren 9
Newcastle Diamonds - Stuart Robson 11 1, Mark Lemon 9 1
The Newcastle Diamonds travelled to the Shielfield Park last night to tackle the Berwick Bandits in the Premier League with the aim to achieve at least one league point from the match to maintain their press for the top slot and succeeded admirably with a massive 1-5 in the last race.
It started as many expected with two tight races, Stuart Robson nipping fast round David Bellego off bend two to take a big lead whilst Klaus Jakobsen found an unexpected burst of speed to shoot round Paul Starke on the third lap of heat two to tip the balance into the Bandits hands with a 4-2.
Christian Henry chased Robin Aspegren hard from the gate in Heat Three to shoot round the Swede at high speed with Lemon in third for a Diamonds' 2-4 to tie them match again at 9-9.
Sebastian Alden chased magnificently behind Ludvig Lindgren throughout all four laps of the fourth, and despite his effort the Newcastle man took the win in a shared 3-3 to maintain the equilibrium at 12-all in the hard fought meeting.
Nicki Barrett found himself in the wrong place on bend one in Heat Five to be stuck at the back and just could not get back round Starke as the race was well won by Aspegren by a mile in another shared 3-3.
And again after a superb Heat Six where Nedermark forced his way round Nick Morris off bend two but the Bandit guest Aussie came back hard round the Dane again on bend three to take a massive win.
Speedway's unpredictability reared its head in Heat Seven when Alden took a big lead off bend one whilst Jakobsen amazingly joined his partner up front and held out Lemon and Henry for all four laps to bring the house down and project the Bandits into the lead 23-19.
Bellego's last ditch effort saved a shared race in Heat Eight and he shot round Nedermark on the last bends to steal a point whilst Heat 10 had to be re-run when Christian Henry went down hard at the back of the field when trying to pass Bellego but in the re-run the Frenchman's engine packed up as the tapes went up with Morris again inning well in the 3-2 taking the score to 33-26.
Dyer was severely balked in a bunching incident on bend one of Heat 12 which sent him to the rear of the field with his retirement from the race on the second lap as Lemon went well clear to take the three points comfortably in a Diamonds' 2-4 taking the score to 38-33.
The match was clinched for the Bandits with a great win for Aspegren in the penultimate race as both Henry and Nedermark managed to pass Jakobsen in the 3-3 progressing the score to 45-38 with one race to go.
Team manager George English said: "Well we took another league point and that helps with our aim to finish as high as possible before the championship play-offs, but we rode better tonight than I suspect many people expected and despite the loss we came away with positives."
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