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	2008
Match Results
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2008 MATCH RESULTS

Wednesfield V Leicester
Premier League: Sunday 17th August

Wednefield came to Glover Park with a weakened team due to injury and prior commitments and were no match for the Monarchs. Matters were only made worse by a tape exclusion for Lee Aris, who had a very poor match by his standards and two a piece for Doherty and Timms, the latter unfortunatly falling in his second ride whilst leading and causing the stoppage.
 
Nowacki, Wadhams and Whitehead all raced unbeaten by an opponent but there will be stiffer tests ahead for Leicester.
 
Leicester 113 (M Wadhams 20, L Nowacki 17+3, M Whitehead 16, M Newey 15+1, D Hemsley 15, D Pike 11+3, K Burns 10+1, C Marchant 9+1)
 
Wednesfield 62 (C Jewkes 13, T Haddock 11, M Winwood 10+2, C Timms 8, L Aris 7, R Ellis 7, S Doherty 4, W Aris 2)
 
The combination match looked like being a closer affair, however the Monarchs were in a class of their own, Venson, Sensicall, Jarvis and Hunt all remaining unbeaten. For the Aces Mark Griffiths was the only race victor against the home reserves in heat 13.
 
Leicester 79, Wednesfield 50  
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Wednesfield V Leicester
Midland League: Sunday 1th August 008.

Wednesfield secured wins in all four matchs but despite this the racing was ofton top notch. 
 
The Lions started the day and were well beaten by the Aces, Nowacki dropped just one point and Marchant was unbeaten in the races he completed, but apart from Mark Whitehead there just wasn't enough back up. The Aces worst scorer managed eight points whilst the home side had four riders well below that figure which reflects how the Lions are stretched the be competetive at this level with the resources available.
 
Lions 77 (L Nowacki 19, C Marchant 16, M Whitehead 14)
 
Wednesfield 101 (L Aris 18+1, C Jewkes 14+1)
 
Combination
 
Lions 58, Wednesfield 72
 
The Monarchs were well in contention for much of their match, Lee Aris notching a deserved maximum for the Aces despite being put under severe pressure in two races from Hemsley and reserve Jarvis. Both Rob Venson and Hunt suffered unfortunate exclusions and their points tally hardly reflected their efforts, but in the final anyalisis Wednesfield had just too much strength in depth.
 
Monarchs 83 ( DHemsley 19, K Burns 15+1)
 
Wednesfield 95 (L Aris 20, T Norman 18)
 
Combination
 
A match ban for Sam Jayes probably cost the home side the points, without a doubt he was the victim of foul riding but his reaction was not acceptable to the referee. Also it marked the last appearance of captain for the day Sabina Tylek (12 points today) who is moving to Bristol, hopefully Leicester's loss will be Filton's gain and we all wish Sabina well.
 
Monarchs 62, Wednesfield 66

Leicester v Sheffield 13/07/08
Premier League

Report 1: This top of the league Premier League clash between Leicester and Sheffield lived up to its pre match billing of the match of the season. A large crowd witnessed this clash of the titans in brilliant sunshine and were entertained from the very first race, both teams new just how much was at stake and it showed in the passion injected into the racing.

Unfortunately the interval seemed to upset the rhythm of the Sheffield team and quite quickly it became obvious that Leicester were taking control of the match, heat after heat the Leicester riders out gated their Sheffield counter parts and the Star's were continually playing catch up. This lead to a series of silly exclusions that just put more pressure on the Sheffield riders, Leicester were continually providing the heat winners through Waddhams, Hemsley, Nowacki, Pike and Marchant where as Sheffield were relying on Szymanski and Kurkowski for their wins.

By heat 16 the writing was on the wall and with the Stars 10 pts down you could see their was no way back, Leicester wrapped the match up with two more heat advantages to run out winners 94-79. After an excellent first half Sheffield seem to run out of steam and had no real answer to the superior gating of the home team.

Leicester now move to the top of the Premier League and Sheffield need Leicester to not only lose a match but have to keep a clean sheet themselves for the rest of the season, to tall an order - we will see.

Report 2: This top of the table clash had everything you may expect, exclusions, falls and loads of passion kept the healty crowd fully entertained. The Monarchs started poorly and through a series of errors went into the interval a single point down. The second half was a different matter though, helped by three exclusions to the visitors the home outfit gradually pulled away, a 7-2 from Wadhams/Pike over the lone Siederski opeing up a 6 point lead which they never looked like losing.

As expected Marcin Szymanski was top drawer with 3 race wins, the Sheffield problem was that the only other rider to take the chequered flag was Kurkowski on two occasions whilst Leicester had five riders capable of winning heats.

Referee Ian Sizer controlled the whole affair in a no nonense way, as you may expect both teams disagreed with decisions but from the stands he was always consistant and most notably he clamped down on slow riding very swiftly which contributed for better racing.

Leicester 94: Marcus Wadhams 19, Lukas Nowacki 18+1, Dave Hemsley 18, Daniel Pike 10+1, Craig Marchant 10+1, Mark Whitehead 10, Norman Venson 5+2, Kevin Burns 4

Sheffield 79: Marcin Syzmanski 18, Darek Kurkowski 17, Radek Sieradzki 13+2, Dariusz Pilas 10+2, Andy Angel 8+2, Pawel Kozlowski 7+1, Mitchell Spear 5, Ryan Hoyland 1

LEICESTER MONARCHS V NORWICH - 16/03/08

For the first half of this match it looked like being a close contest, the home side just didn't seem to settle, riders were several mistakes which to their credit the visitors capitalised on fully, Leicester taking just a 5 point lead into the interval. However after a half time team talk they came out full of passion and fired in 6 maximum heat wins in the space of 9 races to pass through the 100 point mark.
 
The returning Dave Hemsley was unbeaten by an opponent whilst new boy Marcus Wadhams suffered from a fall and a exclusion - his first ever for a racing incident he thinks! Nick Myhill looked quick for the Stars but was twice passed by Hemsley, Cossey and the Grange brothers were also good value but overall it was the Monarchs strength in depth which told.
 
Leicester 103 (D Hemsley 19+1, M Newey 16+1, L Nowacki 15+3, C Marchant 15+1, C Jarvis 11, M Wadhams 11, D Pike 10+2, K Burns 6+1)
 
Norwich 75 (N Myhill 15, I Grange 13, L Cossey 12+1, L Grange 11, R Williamson 9+1, G Colby 9, R Hunt 3, B Collins 3)
 
Combination - both clubs fielding seperate sides, however Leicester were far too strong although the Norwich youngsters have shown much improvement from last season and their time will come.
 
Leicester 88 (N Whitehead 15+1, T Sensicall 12+4, C Whitehead 12+4)
 
Norwich 42 (J Wakefield 7, J Colby 7)

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LEICESTER MONARCHS V LEICESTER LIONS 09/03/08

Monarchs 97 (D Hemsley 20, N Venson 18, N Whitehead 13+2, C Jarvis 13, P Hunt 11+1, S Jayes 9, M Hartshorn 8, L Whitehead 5)
 
Lions 82 (M Whitehead 16+1, C Marchant 16, J Hogan 12, T Sensicall 10+2, A Doughty 10+1, M Naylor 7, A Crouch 6, B Holloway 5)
 
Six consequetive drawn heats were broken by a Venson/Jarvis 6-4 in heat 7 followed by a Hemsley/Hunt maximum in heat 8 and after that the Monarchs never looked in trouble. The team rode as a unit with riders happily sitting for their partners to secure the points. The Lions had Mark Whitehead and Craig Marchant in good form whilst Jake Hogan was good value and never off the pace.
 
Combination
 
Monarchs 74 (M Hartshorn 14+1, S Hartshorn 14+1)
 
Lions 54 (A Crouch 12, B Holloway 11, Michelle Whitehead 11)

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