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Comment now on the latest news at the Forum HAPPY DAYS Swans off to a Flyer Swanage top the division one table after the opening two rounds of fixtures following huge wins over Desford and Kent. Ross Miles’s Swans hit 60 for only the fourth time in the last nine seasons at Days Park as they smashed Kent by 30 on home shale, the biggest ever defeat to their south coast rivals rounded off a poor start to SL36 for the Steelers, who’d earlier been held to draws by both Peak Dean (league) and Desford (Division One Cup). The Plunderers were unlucky not to take both points when they began the defence of their league crown at the Iron Ring, the visitors leading by six with two heats remaining, before the Steelers fought back with a 4-2 and 5-1 at the death, Zarand Paris (16+1) winning both. It was the opposite against Desford, Paris (12) this time unable to prevent the Dynamos from claiming a vital away group point in the last heat decider of the Division One Cup fixture, he finishing last in a visiting side 4-2 won by Dean Croxton (13). Swanage meanwhile began the new campaign with a 39-51 rout at the Dynamos’ Peckleton Arena home, Croxton (6+1) failing to win a race on this occasion as the Swans top three dominated with nine heat victories between them, and it would have been ten but for a retirement for Bradley Williams (9) in his opener. The Aussie recovered from the mechanical gremlins in heat four to win all of his next three, he outscored in the end though by his fellow heat leaders Joshua Ward (13) and Joseph Fisher (10). It’s the fourth time in eight seasons that Swanage have won their opening away league meeting of the campaign.TODAY: Shorts Brighton began the new season with three wins out of three. The Sharks provided a baptism of fire for top flight newcomers Lane End, whose opening day 42-48 defeat was their first in nearly 18 months on their home patch and only their second ever! Their 25 meeting winning league run at the Lane End Stadium was halted by strong performances from two visiting riders in particular, unbeaten number one Klement Kobza (15) and teenage reserve Edward Rehman (9+2). Brighton went on to enjoy 18 point home wins over Liden (Division One Cup) and Desford (league).
A promising start to SL36 for Putney who are looking to win their first major trophy in seven seasons. They got their division one campaign underway with back-to-back wins, the second a 44-46 victory at Peak Dean, which was a repeat of the score-line when they last visited the Micheldene in the final month of SL35. Kimmo Lakakso (18) dropped just a point that day, he went even better on this occasion, winning six out of six as the Spitfires fought back from eight down to take the points with a last heat 4-2. A bad end to the week for the Plunderers, which had began with that encouraging draw at Kent.
Mixed fortunes for the eight top flight clubs to take to the track in this season’s Club Pairs 1st round ties. All four were won by clubs from division one with Reading (24), West Ham (22), Putney (24) and Swanage (22), winning their respective meetings, however there were early exits from the competition for Desford (17), Lane End (17)—who’d reached the final in both their previous two seasons in the sport—plus most surprisingly, Kent (15). Third tier newcomers Poole (21)—on their own circuit—and Houston (20) both made it through to next weeks 2nd round.
Peak Dean’s Marcus Graham (15) scored a maximum to win his BU21 qualifier for the second successive season. The 20 year old—who begins the new campaign as a Plunderers second string—finished runner-up to Cameron Sherwood in last years final. Dover teenager George Goldsmith (13) won the second of the ties at Lane End after beating Alfie Currie and Andrew Bradshaw in a race-off.
Wordsley went into the new season as one of the favourites for relegation from division one. They end the first two rounds top of the table. A 42-48 victory at Bilston sees them set the pace by a point from Nottingham, who took an away point for a draw at Tresco. The Warhawks two were returned courtesy of wins in the final couple of races from second string Milan Petrak (8+2) and heat leader Andreas Oden (12+1) in turn.
Three wins out of three for Warrington who beat both Witham (Division Three Cup) and Lothian (league) on the road. New £3/4million signing Wojtek Dudek impressed with 10+1 in the first of those successes, Danny Forbes (13) the pick in the second. Both Farnham and Houston also put themselves in strong positions to reach the semi-finals of the Division Three Cup with wins at Cradley and Dudley Wood respectively, Cradley were also beaten at home in the league, going down 43-47 with the visit of Benfleet.
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