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Last Updated: Nov 28th, 2010 - 10:22:29 |
Weymouth Weyline Wildcats picked up their game after suffering their biggest defeat of the season 60-32 last Tuesday on the Isle of Wight with a solid 49-40 win against the Islanders last night [Friday] at the Wessex Stadium.
Never more than five points separated the two south coast rivals until heat 14, where the Wildcats pairing of Chessell and Cottham combined for a 5-1 to win the meeting and three league points.
Adam McKinna combined with Byron Bekker for an opening heat 5-1 over Islander Nick Simmons before Richard Andrews took the flag from Tom Hill after Luke Chessell fell on the third bend third lap, with Dean Felton’s subsequent retirement this put the Cats 8-3 up. Three shared heats followed, the Islanders taking the flag on each occasion, ex-Cat Lee Smethills took heat 3 from Gary Cottham and Tom Brown, Ben Hopwood got the better of James Cockle with Chessell third in heat 4. The most experienced racer in the National league Dean Felton took the re-run heat 5 from a hard pressing Cottham and Brown following Simmons first lap third turn fall.
The Islanders battled back in heats 6 and 7, a heat advantage for Hopwood who kept Bekker in second, the only time a visitor defeated him all evening and Hill in third in the re-run heat 6 after McKinna was handed a fifteen metre handicap for breaking the tapes. Warwick pegged back Cockle with Smethills in third in heat 7 to close the scores to 21-20. Two more shared heats followed, Mckinna headed Simmons and Felton in heat 8 after passing both Islanders round the outside for the win. Hopwood took his third win of the night ahead of Brown and Cottham in heat 9.
Wildcats stepped up a gear with two more heat advantages, Bekker and McKinna had Smethills pegged between them in heat 10 after Bekker took the inside line past Smethills on the third turn third lap. Simmons split Cockle and Andrews in heat 11 with the Wildcats moving into a five point lead 35-30. Two more shared heats Brown taking his only win of the night ahead of Smethills and Felton while Bekker took his second win, this time over Simmons and Hopwood with the rain starting to fall in heat 13.
Heat 14 saw the Wildcats pair of Chessell and Cottham bang in a 5-1 and win the second league meeting on the trot on home shale. Bekker finished off in style in heat 15 heading Hopwood after a super inside move on the second turn second lap with Simmons third after McKinna fell on the second lap forcing a re-run heat to give a final meeting result of 49-40.
Wildcats Chairman Phil Bartlett said after the meeting “What a fantastic meeting it was, and to beat the Isle of Wight and turn them over after going to the Island and getting severe defeat earlier in the week. It was good to see Byron back on form and to winning ways, with Adam slotting into the team well and a much improved showing from the whole team. We now have to look forward next Friday’s visitors King’s Lynn Young Stars and on Saturday at Newport for the National League Best Pairs where Byron and James will represent the Wildcats.”
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WEYMOUTH WEYLINE WILDCATS
1. Byron Bekker (2*-2-3-3-3) 13+1
2. Adam McKinna (3-0-3-1) 7
3. Tom Brown (C) (1*-1*-2-3-FX) 7+2
4. Gary Cottham (2-2-1*-2*) 7+2
5. James Cockle (2-2-3-0) 7
6. Richard Andrews (3-0-1-0) 4
7. Luke Chessell (X-1*-0-3) 4+1
ISLE OF WIGHT WIGHTLINK ISLANDERS
1. Nick Simmons (C) (1-FX-2-2-1*) 6+1
2. Rider Replacement for Brendan Johnson
3. Lee Smethills (3-1-2-2-2) 10
4. Danny Warwick (0-3-0-1) 4
5. Ben Hopwood (3-3-3-1*-2) 12+1
6. Dean Felton (0-R-3-1*-0-1*) 5+2
7. Tom Hill (2-FX-1-0-0) 3
8. Marc Andrews DNR
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