PREVIEW: REDCAR v SCUNTHORPE (Champ KOC S/F)

REDCAR face an 18-point deficit ahead of tonight’s (Friday) Championship KO Cup second leg tie against Scunthorpe at the ECCO Arena.

A place in the Final against Poole awaits the aggregate winners with the Scorpions in the driving seat after their 54-36 win at the Eddie Wright Raceway last week.

Redcar are without Danny King after his crash at Sheffield last night, with Richard Lawson coming in to guest at No.1. They again bring in Leon Flint and Luke Harrison to guest for Charles Wright and Jake Mulford, whilst Scunthorpe are at full strength at a venue where they have scored 41 and 42 points on their previous visits this season.

Bears co-promoter Jamie Swales said: “I thought we did a good job in the early stages at Scunthorpe. The track had a slight dirt line on which our boys liked. However, at the halfway stage, the track dried out which brought the advantage back to Scunthorpe which they capitalised on.

“Losing by 18 points did disappoint me as I thought we were going to keep it under 10 points but it’s still all to play for.
“There’s no reason why we can’t do to them what they did to us, there’s no doubt about that!”

Scorpions skipper Simon Lambert said: “First of all, we’ve got to finish the job against Redcar. We’ve got a decent lead, but it’s only half time.  But we’d like to win the meeting at Redcar, to put out a statement to Poole – we owe them one, for sure.

“It’s now or never – we’ve got to get past Redcar and then need to beat Poole in the Final. We missed out on silverware in the league, but there’s no reason why we can’t win the Cup. That’s what we want to do – we want to win silverware.”

REDCAR: Richard Lawson, Danyon Hume, Connor Bailey, Leon Flint, Erik Riss, Jason Edwards, Luke Harrison.
SCUNTHORPE: Ryan Douglas, Connor Mountain, Simon Lambert, Jake Allen, Michael Palm Toft, Nathan Ablitt, Drew Kemp.

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