Tigers Swat Wasps
v Newport, Posted 15/07/04

This was expected to be a one sided meeting and in many ways it was. The big disappointment must be that a couple of home riders did not capitalise on the opportunity to increase their points tally and confidence against poor opposition.

Right from the start Newport were in trouble when Ondrasik skittled his partner Wilkinson and was excluded. The re-run saw the Tigers take an easy 5-1 from the gate. Unfortunately in heat 2 Blackman was not so sharp and allowed Wilkinson through at the end of the second lap, Glasgow getting a 4-2. this was to be reversed however in heat 3 when against all expectations Lund came out and beat Grieves comfortably with Dicken trailing in a poor last.

A good battle followed in heat 4 between Parker, Watson and Carrillo with the wasp splitting the two Tigers. The next three heats were to be won by Glasgow and Carrillo in heat 6 pushed Watson all the way but the Newport man held on for second. Parker in heat 8 appeared to leave himself a lot to do after an awful gate but went from last to first in the first two bends.

Newports first tactical ride appeared in the form of Korneliussen in heat 8 but a good gate and ride from Carrillo saw him kept in third whilst Stancl raced home for the victory.

Second tactical ride of the night was unsurprisingly Watson in heat 9. Given his form on the night it was no surprise when he made it count and won the heat with ease.

Heat 10 saw Stancl and Carrillo acheive their second 5-1 of the evening and again it was the young American who did all the work, superbly blocking both Newport riders at the end of the first lap.

It was getting predictable and no surprise when Parker won heat 11 with Blackman last. Lund however gated in heat 12 to ensure a share of the points in that one.

No doubt the Glasgow top pair were unhappy to loose heat 13 to Watson but he was so fast out of the gate he was not going to be caught and the spoils were shared.

Reserve replacement Carrillo just failed to beat the two minute exclusion after a clutch problem leaving Grieves to win the race on his own to share the heat.

After a false start, Watson was to gate behind Stancl in heat 15 but passed him on the first lap to attain second place behind Parker.

The victory was a comfortable one, the points margin disappointing as was the performance of Lee Dicken and Corey Blackman. Newport, apart from Watson are a very poor team and it is no surprise that a number of others are scoring heavily against them.

I would be very disappointed if Glasgow didn't only take the bonus in Wales but also the two points if this meeting is anything to go by..

The scorecard and heat details can be found here.

Pictures from this meeting, courtesy of Lioness, can be found here

Tiger Points:

George Stancl	***	A solid performance
Lee Dicken	*	Awful, surely we could have got better?
James Grieves	***	A decent meeting
Shane Parker	****	As solid as always, tokk a good ride to beat him
Corey Blackman	*	Failed to grasp a good opportunity to score
Eric Carrillo	****	A good showing again