King’s Lynn Stars v Belle Vue Aces

BELLE Vue stretched their lead at the top of the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership to six points with a 50-40 win at King’s Lynn.

The Aces were successful for the second time this season at the Adrian Flux Arena with the result also seeing the Stars drop out of the play-off places.

The hosts fought back from an eight-point deficit to move level after Heat 10, but the visitors edged back ahead and clinched victory with a 5-1 in Heat 14 from Zach Cook and Tate Zischke, with their top two of Brady Kurtz and Jason Doyle ending things in style in Heat 15.

Doyle dropped just one point as he scored 13+1 whilst Kurtz added 12+1, and reserve Zischke carded an important 8+2. Jan Kvech won three races to lead the Stars’ scoring on ten.

Belle Vue manager Mark Lemon said: “It was another really determined performance, we were solid from one to seven again and I’m really happy with that effort.

“I wouldn’t say we were in control of the meeting but we just had that edge that allowed us to put a bit more pressure on King’s Lynn, and it’s always nice when you can lead.
“They came back strongly, and for us Zach (Cook) and PK’s (Peter Kildemand) pairing wasn’t the best tonight, but they came good at the end as we did as a team, and Brady and Jason were outstanding.”

Stars boss Rob Lyon said: “We had a little misfortune with Bomber (Chris Harris) in one race, but overall it was just not quite good enough unfortunately.

“Belle Vue are a strong team but if I’m brutally honest I had high hopes that we would turn them over tonight, and we just fell short again.

“If you look through the heats we had too many last places, but some of those boys also had some very good highlights. Belle Vue were just that bjt more consistent.”

KING’S LYNN 40: Jan Kvech 10, Max Fricke 8+1, Chris Harris 7, Ben Cook 7, Cooper Rushen 4+1, Jake Mulford 3+1, Jody Scott 1.
BELLE VUE 50: Jason Doyle 13+1, Brady Kurtz 12+1, Tate Zischke 8+2, Peter Kildemand 5+1, Norick Blodorn 4, Will Cairns 4, Zach Cook 4.

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