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Last Updated: Nov 28th, 2010 - 10:22:29 |
Poole Castle Cover Pirates came through their 16-match home league record with maximum league points but not before play-off hopefuls Peterborough gave them a major scare.
On the back of a shock home defeat of their own the Panthers almost wrestled a league point from Wimborne Road despite suffering 5-1 reversals in the opening two heats. The manner in which the Pirates started suggested that the league leaders were going to revel in one of their all-too common big scores, but the Panthers stood their ground and slowly clawed back much of the deficit.
On a night that produced some highly entertaining racing, top billing going to an all out attack on Troy Batchelor by fellow Australians Darcy Ward and Chris Holder, followed by those self same Pirates producing an edge of the seat sensational heat 10, that saw riders scrape the boards and work overtime just to stay upright!
Man of the match Chris Holder, claimed that "I wasnt really making too many starts tonight but I certainly had the speed and you needed that against some of these Peterborough boys tonight. That heat 10 race was a bit awesome and I would like to apologise to Rory (Schlein) for the sore ankle, it wasnt intentional, just a by-product of some hard and fast racing."
Schlein was on of the main stays of the Panthers attack, opening with two impressive wins before suffering that second place to Holder in heat 10. His Australian counterpart Troy Batchelor also started emphatically with race wins in heats 4 and 6 but his colours were somewhat surprisingly lowered when he faced up to Bjarne Pedersen and Artur Mroczka in heat 9. With 'King Artur' pinning Batchelor on the inside it allowed Bjarne Pedersen to sweep round the outside to take up the initiative.
The resulting 5-1 began to swing the match back to Poole's favour and that heat 10 move from Holder which opened up a line for Ward to exploit on Iversen hinted that Poole could finish the Panthers off once and for all.
But the visitors kept the pressure on and their determination to try and gain some reward to make their passage to the play-offs a little more comfortable saw them peg back a two points in heats 11 through Bjerre and the improving Buckzowski. Although Pedersen countered that with Doyle in heat 12,
Bjerre was on the gas again to win heat 13 from the pursuing Holder who just couldn't quite see through the pass he had set up. Batchelor's third place over Watt however put the Panthers within a heat advantage of claiming a league point. After a shared heat 14 it looked as though the Panthers might just upset that proud Poole record but Bjerre pulled up in the early stages just prior to Holder kicking on and shooting by Batchelor to join Pedersen on a closing 5-1 and a Poole victory by 50-39
POOLE 50 B.Pedersen 13 (2,2,3,3,3), C.Holder 11+2 (3,1',3,2,2'), D.Ward 8+1 (2',2,3,1), A.Mroczka 5+2 (0,1',2',2), L.Madsen 5 (3,0,2), J.Doyle 4+2 (2',0,FD,1,1'), D.Watt 4 (2,2,0,0)
PETERBOROUGH 39 K.Bjerre 10, T.Batchelor 9, R.Schlein 8, N.Iversen 5, N.Kosciuch 4, K.Buczkowski 3, M.Tressarieu 0
League points awarded: Poole 3 Peterborough 0
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