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Comment now on the latest news at the Forum ACED IT Lakeside set for round two Lakeside are on course to record only their second KO Cup aggregate tie success in their nine year history after victory on their travels in the competition this week. Trevor Walker’s second division Aces beat top flight Timperley 44-46 on the road in the first leg of their first round tie, the victory coming despite the return of SL21 world number two Ricky Lewis (7+1) to the second string department of the Titans side. 36 year old Lewis—who re-signed for the club for £175,000 last week—won the only 5-1 scored by the hosts in this week’s opener, reserve Connor Thurston (8+1) taking second to give the Titans a four point lead with three races remaining. Those three heats however would all go the way of the visitors, the hat-trick of 4-2’s featuring race wins for Jasse Vilmunen (two) and Carlos Cooperman, who would finish with figures of 13 and 10+2 from their respective five rides in the meeting. They were aided by a couple of slices of luck late on, with the host riders suffering retirements in both heats 14 and 15. Elsewhere division two sides Liden and Wolverton still both have strong changes of eliminating top flight opposition, the former needs to make up just six points on Wednesfield when they host last years quarter-finalists in next weeks second leg, while Wolverton pulled off a 46-44 first leg victory over three-times winners Southampton thanks to a last heat 5-1 from the unbeaten Vaclav Koch (15) and Sasha Huffman (11+1), Koch’s form alone means the Wolves have a realistic chance of completing an upset when they take to the Banister Court track for the return meeting.TODAY: Shorts Rugby are all but certain to be in the hat for the KO Cup second round draw after they smashed rookies Birmingham 36-54 in the competition. Hubert Birsa (15) scored his third maximum of the season, as the Royals raced to their first away win in over a year. First round first leg KO Cup success on the road too for division two side Grangemouth, who gained a 44-46 win at Bournemouth thanks to a last heat 4-2 won by Matthew Wild (18), a sixth race victory of the contest for the Scot, who led the Oilers recovery from a first half six point deficit. It’s advantage Whiddon in their tie with Coleshill, Ulrik Eriksson (15) racing to five of his side’s 12 heat victories in their 42-48 win at the Cougars.
Poland and Krakow’s Olesia Duda (12) began the defence of his World Championship title with victory in the Continental semi-final in Gyor. Duda topped the standings by a point from Attila Hamori to claim his fourth career WSO meeting victory, fellow SL32 GP riders Benjamin Hess (9), Pavel Zirnis (9) and Luca Romano (8) all finished in the top eight to make their way through to the Final. Not making it though was last years winner of that final, world number 14 Pavel Kulvajt (4), the 40 year old finished down in 13th in the second of the qualifiers in Lublin, which was won by Nottingham Tobias Schneider with a 15 point maximum. Schneider now has nine WSO successes to his name, this is first though in four seasons.
Colin Bradford top scored with 12+1 as Greenhill returned to the top of the division one table with a 44-45 victory at bottom side Timperley. The Greyhounds first ever league victory at the Robinson Arena came at their seventh attempt and despite hosts’ number one Olga Burdin (15) scoring his second maximum of the campaign. Greenhill end the week two points clear of Swinton and Birkenhead in second and third respectively, Stone Cross are a further point back in fourth after they won their latest fixture at Wednesfield. The Crusaders first away win of the current top flight season was secured courtesy of a last heat 5-1 from Dusan Hobler (18) and Benjamin Hess (11+3), that the pairing’s third maximum of the meeting, with both used as tactical substitutes as the visitors completed a 14 point turnaround in the final seven races of the meeting.
A 41-49 win in their top of the table clash at Liden took Whiddon back to the top of division two after a four week absence. A 5-1 won by second string Alberto Lombardi (11+1) securing the Watchman their second away win of the campaign, which took them two points clear in the standings of the defeated Robins, who drop out of the promotion places altogether for the first time this season. Auckland are up to second, replacing Rugby who they beat on the road, 43-47, thanks to a last heat Andy Daniel (11)/Daniel Bodell (12+1) 5-1, the Rhinos benefiting from the use of Kevin Hatch (11) at reserve, who switched into that position following the arrival of Tanek Nowicki (2). Rugby bounced back to win at Denston, 44-46, and end the week third. Bolsover increased their advantage at the head of the third tier standings to three points with a 42-48 victory in their top of the table clash with Birmingham, who slip to fourth as a result.
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