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Comment now on the latest news at the Forum THREESY DOES IT Swinton stun Bombers to land hat-trick Swinton have become only the third club to win all three versions of the divisional cup after comprehensively beating Birkenhead in this years top tier final. In lifting the Division One Cup they follow in the wheel tracks of Halesowen and Sunderland, who completed the hat-trick of successes in SL27 and SL21 respectively, although no team has completed it in a shorter time frame than in the eight years managed by the Lions. Winners of the Division Three Cup in their debut season in SL25, Steve Pearce’s Lions have quickly made their way into the upper echelons of the sport, they going on to win the Division Two Cup in the very next season, while promotion to the top flight followed in SL29. They’ve won the 4TT since, although having skirted with relegation over the passed three years, they’re very much on an upward track again, the club in the hunt for the league title in SL32, with a 4TT final to come, and now silverware in the bag. That trophy was returned with a 14 point aggregate win, which was completed with a 42-48 victory at the Bombers this week, the win the Lions first ever at the Merseyside Arena after losing on their previous seven competitive visits there. The hosts lost despite their top four racing to eight heat wins in the meeting, their bottom three didn’t beat an opponent all evening though, the trio between them taking two points, both of which came in losing 5-1’s. The Lions opposite numbers contributed 17 in total, with 19 year old second string Bobek Janak claiming six of those, while reserve Nathan Burke finished with figures of 7+4.TODAY: Shorts Wednesfield have landed their first ever club trophy after beating fellow promotion seeking Nottingham in the final of the Division Two Cup. The Wolves followed up a ten point home first leg win with a draw on their travels in the return, a meeting they led for much of before conceding a couple of 4-2’s to the hosts in the final two races. By then however the trophy had been won, a victory over home heat leader Brandeis Rank (4+2) for 20 year old second string Wojtek Kalinowski (8+2)—who is on loan at the Wolves from Southampton—taking them over the line in heat 12. The Kalinowski/Cestmir Boros (9) partnership was the undoubted success story of the night, Boros winning 5-1’s from the pairing in heats three and seven and in a 4-2 in heat ten.
A maiden trophy success too for Tey Grove who’ve ended their search for silverware in their third season in the sport. It has come in the Division Three Cup final, where a draw at Coleshill saw them complete a 32 point aggregate victory over the club that won the competition in SL27. Karsper Larsen (15) went through the card unbeaten, the full maximum his fourth in the five Division Three Cup meetings since joining the club on loan from Eastbourne, his other score being a tie clinching 17 in the semi-final at Burrett Road.
Home and away wins have seen third placed Swinton cut their deficit to division one leaders Stone Cross from five to three points. Their fifth away success of the campaign returned at Timperley, who have now lost five in a row in the league. The Titans downfall in their latest home fixture began with the failure of heat leaders Trevor Putnam (9+1) and Petr Bonus (5) to finish in successive races, handing 5-1’s to the visitors in heats five and six. In front from then on, the Lions completed their victory with a third maximum in heat 14, second string Christopher Ellis (13) claiming his third race win of four ahead of reserve Thomas Hill (7+3), Ellis made it four wins from five in a fourth visiting side 5-1 in the last. With the bottom two next up for Swinton, Steve Pearce’s side could be even closer to the leaders going into the final week of the campaign.
Just two league defeats in nine now for Bullbridge, who kept their slim hopes of promotion from division two alive with a 40-50 victory at bottom of the table Bolsover. The Bandits end the week fourth, five points off third placed Nottingham, who they visit next week.
Lakeside may have failed to win a league meeting this week but they have become the first side to win promotion this season. A first home dropped point of SL32 for Trevor Walker’s side with the visit of Coleshill, but the draw enough to seal the division three leaders a top three finish.
World Champion Luca Romano scored 13 to claim his second GP victory of the season in Malmo. Just a point behind the Greenhill star in Sweden though was Olesia Duda (12), whose lead at the top of the series stands at ten points with just two rounds remaining.
Cvetko Villegas (10) won a race-off against Patrik Hillstrom and Tom Bihl to make it two wins out of two for Eastbourne riders in this years WU21 semi-finals. Villegas finished second in all five of his main meeting rides in the Odense tie.
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