Edinburgh Monarchs v Berwick Bandits

REPORT Friday 17th April 2015, 10:00pm

by Mike Hunter

  Edinburgh Monarchs

Edinburgh were never in any difficulty in this match and spent most of the evening piling up the points.

Berwick’s Armadale record is infamous but in spite of that, all of their riders other than the no. 7 have scored double figures here in the past.

The Berwick riders gated well enough at times, but the home men generally had the quality take control in the early stages of the races.

Justin Sedgmen was immaculate in recording a paid maximum, and he is gating better than his illustrious partner at the moment. Craig Cook was at the back in heat 1 for a while but dived in amongst the Bandits’ pair and worked his way past.

Sam Masters won all of his four races but had to borrow Sedgmen’s bike for heat 13, in which Cook also had a major machine problem and didn’t leave the start.

Kevin Wolbert started brilliantly once again but a couple of poor gates restricted his scoring later on. He only grabbed second in heat 12 on the last bend, and he didn’t score in the final race.

Once again there was much attention on Erik Riss, and he precisely repeat his scorechart of one week earlier. He is looking very promising.

For Bandits, Ben Barker looked ill-prepared and it was left to Kevin Doolan and Thomas Jorgensen to plug away and get what they could, with occasional assistance from Alex Edberg.

They even managed to mess up their heat 7 TR when Doolan was back in third waiting for a chance to go ahead of his partner Jorgensen. Max Clegg had stayed close enough to make it awkward, and sure enough he dashed through at the finish to take a paid win. That brought the roar of the night.

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