CONSOLATION FOR CHEETAHS

OXFORD’S stand-in captain Sam Masters said he could take mild consolation from his final meeting of the season at Poole on Wednesday.

A patched-up Cheetahs side, who included only Masters and Ashton Boughen from their regular septet, were beaten in the Cab Direct KO Cup Final but Masters himself scored 11+1 and provided two of their race wins.

He said: “No Poole rider scored a maximum, so it was good that we managed to beat them all over the night.

“It would have been nice to have our captain Scotty (Nicholls) here and the rest of the boys who have been racing for us all season, but we ended the season with lots of injures – that’s the way it can go.

“Both Pete (Schroeck, manager) and my mechanic (Neil Evitts) told me: ‘go out and win the final race of the season and you can leave happy’ so that’s what I went and did. It is nice to finish the season by winning Heat 15.”

Photo credit: STEVE EDMUNDS