News Archive - April 2024

Stellar Monarch Max James was amongst the qualifiers from tonight's British Under-21 Championships qualifier at Plymouth. He scored 8 points and will join the field for the final at Glasgow on Sunday 2nd June. Academy rider Sam McGurk scored 4 and didn't make the cut.

Stellar Monarchs number 1 Josh Pickering joins the EMTV Social Live this week to look ahead to the 2nd leg of the Knockout Cup Quarter Final tie against Poole Pirates on Friday.

Dates have been confirmed for Stellar Monarchs home and away BSN Series group stage fixtures against Glasgow Tigers which will decide who will qualify for the semi finals.

In their first home outing of the season the Stellar Monarchs took a grip on this match right from the off and never looked like missing out on either the match points or the aggregate bonus, taking 11 race wins on the night including the first five by which point they had established an 8-point advantage.

Edinburgh's rather stop-start introduction to the 2024 season now threatens to take off in earnest with the midweek trip to Poole quickly followed by their delayed opening home meeting, the BSN Series visit of the Berwick Bandits.

The ongoing cup-tie with Poole is set to one side for the moment as the Stellar Monarchs at last race their first home fixture of the season, welcoming the Berwick Bandits to Armadale on Friday for a vital match in the BSN series. Two match points and the aggregate bonus will be decided with Bandits having won by just four points when the teams met at Shielfield Park.

Stellar Monarchs battled hard throughout coming away with a respectable nine point deficit in the first leg of their KO Cup encounter at Poole on Wednesday night.

Stellar Monarchs start their KO Cup campaign on Wednesday night with the long trip down to Dorset to take on Poole in the first leg of what is sure to be a tough tie.

Stellar Monarchs led fantastically by Josh Pickering took Berwick to the wire at Shielfield Park on Saturday night just being pipped in heat 15 going down 47-43.

Stellar Monarchs started slowly but were waking up into the meeting before the rain intervened in an eventful night at Ashfield.