Second Defeat At Blunsdon

The Ipswich Witches suffered their second defeat at Blunsdon tonight but by a narrower margin than in the 'A' fixture. 

Aftre booking Tai Woffinden to guest for the absent Jarek Hampel the Witches then received news that Piotr Swiderski had dislocated his ankle riding in Poland on Wednesday night so had to use rider replacement to cover for him.

Robert Miskowiak was the star of the Ipswich team scoring 16 points, including a tactical ride in heat 7. Dawid Stachyra also scored well from the reserve berth picking up 9+2. However the rest of the team failed to score a race win between them.

Score card:

Swindon: 55

1. Leigh Adams.............3,2*,3,3 = 11+1
2. R/R (Jurica Pavlic)
3. Simon Stead.............2,2*,3,3,3,0 = 13+1
4. Travis McGowan.......1*,3,2*,1,2 = 9+2
5. Matej Zagar...............3,3,3,2*,2 = 13+1
6. Justin Sedgmen..........0,1,0,0,0 = 1
7. Cory Gathercole..........3,0,3,2*,0 = 8+1

Ipswich: 37

1. Tai Woffinden.............1*,1,2,1 = 5+1
2. Tobi Kroner.................2,0,1,0,1* = 4+1
3. Robert Miskowiak........3,2,4!,2,2,3 = 16
4. Danny King.................0,1*,1!,0,1 = 3+1
5. R/R (Piotr Swiderski)
6. Dawid Stachyra...........2,1*,1,0,1*,3,1 = 9+2
7. Carl Wilkinson.............0,0,0 = 0

Heat Results

Heat 01: Adams, Kroner, Woffinden, Sedgmen 3-3 65.11
Heat 02: Gathercole, Stachyra, Sedgmen, Wilkinson 4-2 67.30 7-5
Heat 03: Miskowiak, Stead, McGowan, King 3-3 66.99 10-8
Heat 04: Zagar, Miskowiak, Stachyra, Gathercole(F/Ex) 3-3 66.68 13-11
Heat 05: McGowan, Stead, Woffinden, Kroner 5-1 66.96 18-12
Heat 06: Gathercole, Adams, Kroner, Wilkinson 5-1 67.27 23-13
Heat 07: Zagar, Miskowiak(TR), King, Sedgmen 3-5 66.86 26-18
Heat 08: Re-run Stead, Gathercole, Stachyra, Kroner 5-1 67.58 31-19
Heat 09: Stead, McGowan, King(TR), Stachyra 5-1 66.71 36-20
Heat 10: Adams, Miskowiak, McGowan, King 4-2 66.40 40-22
Heat 11: Zagar, Woffinden, Kroner, Sedgmen 3-3 66.80 43-25
Heat 12: Stead, Miskowiak, Stachyra, Gathercole 3-3 67.77 46-28
Heat 13: Adams, Zagar, Woffinden, Wilkinson 5-1 67.30 51-29
Heat 14: Stachyra, McGowan, King, Sedgmen 2-4 68.49 53-33
Heat 15: Miskowiak, Zagar, Stachyra, Stead(F) 2-4 Awarded 55-37

Details courtesy of Speedway Updates

02, Jul, 2009