King’s Lynn Stars v Leicester Lions

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LEICESTER moved into the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership’s top four with an emphatic 52-38 win at King’s Lynn.

The Lions are in their best form of the season and are now ahead of rivals Oxford in the race for a play-off place, and still have matches in hand.

Max Fricke scored a 12-point maximum at the Adrian Flux Arena, whilst Luke Becker (13) won his first four rides before missing out on a full house in Heat 15.

Jan Kvech (11+1) and reserve Patryk Wojdylo (11) topped the Stars’ scoring, but they are now left adrift of the top four.

Leicester manager Stewart Dickson said: “We were very professional and very thorough, and our gating was superb tonight. It’s a great three points for us.

“To be ultra-critical, we also threw away some heat advantages in the first seven or eight races, but credit there also to the King’s Lynn riders for passing us.

“The main thing was that didn’t come back to haunt us, and I did say beforehand these are the sort of meetings where we can take advantage of them not having an out-and-out No.1 because of the situation they’re in.”

Stars boss Rob Lyon said: “It was very strange tonight, whatever the boys tried it just wasn’t working and Leicester were the better team.

“Sometimes I suppose you just have to accept that. The track was a little different to what it has been but nothing unusual, it was a good track and the Leicester boys adapted to it straight away.

“So it’s a strange one because every single rider in the team, maybe with the exception of Patryk, struggled tonight.”

KING’S LYNN 38: Jan Kvech 11+1, Patryk Wojdylo 11, Chris Harris 8+2, Anders Rowe 4+3, Niels-Kristian Iversen 4, Adam Ellis 0, Benjamin Basso r/r.
LEICESTER 52: Luke Becker 13, Max Fricke 12, Richard Lawson 7+1, Ryan Douglas 7+1, Lewis Kerr 7+1, Sam Masters 6+1, Sam Hagon 0.
Leicester win the aggregate point

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