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Date | Tapes Up | Competition | Season |
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Wednesday, May 17, 2023 | 7:30 pm | BSN Series, Semi-Final, 1st Leg | 2023 |
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POOLE lead Redcar 48-42 after an intriguing first leg of their BSN Series semi-final – with two late 5-1s ensuring the Pirates took the advantage from their home leg.
The Bears had gone in front with a 5-1 in Heat 1 with the Pirates taking until Heat 8 to level the scores, and they were two points down once again before taking the maximum from Heats 14 and 15.
Danny King starred on his old home track for the visitors with 15 points, but he and Charles Wright (12+1) were upstaged by Richard Lawson (13) and Steve Worrall in Heat 15 after Kyle Newman and Zach Cook had put the Pirates ahead with a 5-1 in the previous race.
Poole boss Neil Middleditch said: “On the track walk I said a lead of ten points would be nice, but mid-meeting I thought just two would be nice.
“Ben (Cook) blew his bike up and Steve was happy to go out on his second bike for that final heat so you couldn’t ask any more than that, and he went out and did the business against two fantastic riders.
“Is six enough? Yes, it can be. If we are all firing, we have certainly got the team to do it, and they are going up there to do it.”
Bears co-promoter Jade Mudgway said: “I think you’ve got to look at the match as a whole, we did a great job, everyone worked hard and got stuck in.
“Poole go just as well at the ECCO Arena so we will have to be on our game right from the off.
“We can do this, we are on course for another Final so the fans, as they always do, need to get behind the boys and make themselves heard on the terraces.”
BSN SERIES SEMI-FINAL, 1st leg
POOLE 48: Richard Lawson 13, Ben Cook 10+2, Kyle Newman 9+2, Steve Worrall 8+1, Zach Cook 7+1, Adam Roynon 1+1, Anders Rowe r/r
REDCAR 42: Danny King 15, Charles Wright 12+1, Danyon Hume 7+1, Jason Edwards 5+1, Connor Bailey 2, Jake Mulford 1, Erik Riss r/r
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