No Points at Plymouth

REPORT Saturday 18th June 2016, 11:49pm

by Mike Hunter

  Edinburgh Monarchs

The Border Roofing Monarchs went down 52-41 at Plymouth in spite of outstanding performances from Kevin Wolbert and Sam Masters, the latter escaping fortunately from a lost chain which brought him off in the final race.

As at Ipswich, the absence of Erik Riss (who has done well at King’s Lynn tonight) cost us a league point at least.

John Campbell said “We probably should have got a point out of it. Unfortunately we replaced two missing riders who scored 15 between them last time there with two guests who got three.

“Palm Toft was upset with his performance, I’m not blaming him but we missed our own guys.

“Even on the night we had no luck. We have a 5-1 tied up in the last race till Sam’s chain came off, and back in heat 5 I felt the referee had got things wrong – Simota came off under a challenge from Mark Riss, but Sam had passed Todd Kurtz before it was stopped. We should have had a 4-2 but it became a 2-4.

“But we can’t do it with just two riders against a solid team. Ryan was using an engine just back from the tuners, and he didn’t even get off the start in his first race! He had to change engines and did OK after that.

“Kevin was determined to improve on his last meeting here and he was really outstanding, and Sam should really have had a maximum but for the heat 5 ref’s error and that lost chain.

“Mark Riss did well too, on the pace and I’m sure he will be scoring points soon.”

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