Scunthorpe Scorpions
Thomas Jorgensen 10+1 (5)
Edinburgh Monarchs
Craig Cook 18 (5)
Premier League
49
45
Monday 6th May 2013
Normanby Road Stadium
Scunthorpe Scorpions
Team Manager: Dave Peet
49
1. Josh Auty 2 2* 3 2 9 1
2. Thomas Jorgensen 0 3 3 2* 2 10 1
3. Michael Palm Toft 1 1* 1* 1 4 2
4. Ashley Birks 3 2 2 1 8 0
5. David Howe 2* 3 2 1* 1* 9 3
6. Ryan Douglas 2* 0 0 2 1
7. Lewis Blackbird 3 3 1 0 F 7 0
Edinburgh Monarchs
Team Manager: Alex Harkess
45
1. Craig Cook 3 3 6 3 3 18 0
2. Derek Sneddon 1 F 0 1 0
3. Theo Pijper 2 2* 1 3 0 8 1
4. Max Fricke 0 2 0 2* 4 1
5. Claus Vissing X X 0 0
6. Marcel Helfer 1 1 0 0 2 0
7. Jozsef Tabaka X 1 2 3 1 2* 3 12 1
Heat 1
Time: 56.5
1. Josh Auty  
2
2. Thomas Jorgensen  
0
1. Craig Cook  
3
2. Derek Sneddon  
1
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
2
2
Away
4
4
Heat 2
Time: 59.1
6. Ryan Douglas  
2
7. Lewis Blackbird  
3
6. Marcel Helfer  
1
7. Jozsef Tabaka  
Fx
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
5
7
Away
1
5
Heat 3
Time: 58.2
3. Michael Palm Toft  
1
4. Ashley Birks  
3
3. Theo Pijper  
2
4. Max Fricke  
0
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
4
11
Away
2
7
Heat 4
Time: 59.2
5. David Howe  
2
7. Lewis Blackbird  
3
5. Claus Vissing  
Fx
7. Jozsef Tabaka  
1
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
5
16
Away
1
8
Heat 5
Time: 57.5
3. Michael Palm Toft  
1
4. Ashley Birks  
2
1. Craig Cook  
3
2. Derek Sneddon  
F
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
3
19
Away
3
11
Heat 6
Time: 58.8
1. Josh Auty  
2
2. Thomas Jorgensen  
3
5. Claus Vissing  
Fx
6. Marcel Helfer  
1
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
5
24
Away
1
12
Heat 7
Time: 58.2
5. David Howe  
3
6. Ryan Douglas  
0
3. Theo Pijper  
2
4. Max Fricke  
2
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
3
27
Away
4
16
Heat 8
Time: 57.8
2. Thomas Jorgensen  
3
7. Lewis Blackbird  
1
2. Derek Sneddon  
0
7. Jozsef Tabaka  
2
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
4
31
Away
2
18
Heat 9
Time: 58.7
3. Michael Palm Toft  
1
4. Ashley Birks  
2
5. Claus Vissing  
7. Jozsef Tabaka
3
6. Marcel Helfer  
0
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
3
34
Away
3
21
Heat 10
Time: 58
1. Josh Auty  
3
2. Thomas Jorgensen  
2
3. Theo Pijper  
1
4. Max Fricke  
0
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
5
39
Away
1
22
Heat 11
Time: 58.9
5. David Howe  
2
6. Ryan Douglas  
7. Lewis Blackbird
0
1. Craig Cook  
6
2. Derek Sneddon  
7. Jozsef Tabaka
1
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
2
41
Away
7
29
Heat 12
Time: 53.8
3. Michael Palm Toft  
1
7. Lewis Blackbird  
6. Ryan Douglas
0
3. Theo Pijper  
3
6. Marcel Helfer  
7. Jozsef Tabaka
2
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
1
42
Away
5
34
Heat 13
Time: 58.7
1. Josh Auty  
2
5. David Howe  
1
1. Craig Cook  
3
5. Claus Vissing  
6. Marcel Helfer
0
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
3
45
Away
3
37
Heat 14
Time: 59.8
4. Ashley Birks  
1
6. Ryan Douglas  
7. Lewis Blackbird
F
4. Max Fricke  
2
7. Jozsef Tabaka  
3
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
1
46
Away
5
42
Heat 15
Time: 59.5
2. Thomas Jorgensen  
1
5. David Howe  
2
3. Theo Pijper  
0
1. Craig Cook  
3
 
Heat
Score
Match
Score
Home
3
49
Away
3
45

Recently we seem to have acquired a habit of starting slowly and coming on strongly in matches, but we took this to extremes at Scunthorpe.

Over the first ten heats we performed poorly, and we lost Claus Vissing after two crashes – in heat 4 on the third bend while leading, and in heat 6 on the fourth bend while second. In the latter, he lifted and brought Josh Auty off as well.

After that it was announced that Claus had been withdrawn from the meeting with a shoulder injury, but with luck it won’t be too serious.

We also had Jozsef brought off by Ryan Douglas in heat 2, down the back straight, but our man got excluded.

We did win heat 1 4-2, indeed Derek only lost second on the last bend. With all these fallers, we had slumped to 12-24 after six heats even though Craig won his first two heats.

Theo took the first TR in heat 7 but only managed third, with Max up ahead pressing David Howe. We lost heat 8, Jozsef won heat 9 from Birks, but when heat 10 also went to the home team by 5-1 we seemed to be down and out at 22-39.

Craig rode brilliantly to pass David Howe on his TR ride in heat 11, with Jozsef third, and Jozsef than joined Theo for a 5-1. Game on!

Craig won heat 13, Max rose to the occasion to back Jozsef for another 5-1 in heat 14 and suddenly we were going in to the last race with the chance of a draw!

We didn’t quite make it but Craig’s fifth win of the night was enough to ensure that we took a point which had seemed so unlikely five heats earlier.

It was a warm day and the track was quite slick, needing regular spraying to keep the dust down. The gates were far more even than they have been in recent times at Scunthorpe.