IT HAPPENED THIS WEEK....SIXTEEN YEARS AGO

22/04/19

It was sixteen years ago this week when a team called Trelawny Tigers made their one and only visit to Wimborne Road.

The Cornish side operated under that title for three seasons from 2001, having previously ridden under the banner St.Austell Gulls from 1997 when racing was introduced to a clay-pit in Nanpean.

The Tigers' sole visit to Wimborne Road on Wednesday 23rd April 2003 ended in a Poole 52-38 victory with a difficult home debuts for Cameron Woodward,3 from 4, suffering a fall in his first ride from which he remounted to finish and then being penalised 15 metres in his fourth ride for a tapes offence. Likewise Danny Warwick was a first time out faller before collecting a paid third in his second ride, the only heat he scored in. To complete the trio of debutant fallers, Tony Primmer felt the shale in heat 2 before signing off with a score of four from four.  But for Lukas Dryml it was four straight wins before he followed home the Tigers duo of fellow Czech rider Petr Ondrasik and a certain young Chris Harris with undefeated Daddy Cool Bjarne Pedersen winning the shared heat 15 to claim his five ride maximum.

Swede David Rudd claimed 9+2 from 5 and completing the Poole scorechart was a 9+1 haul from Andre Compton.

It was a night when Slovenian Matej Zagar made his first appearance at Wimborne Road, whilst Harris was their standout ride with eleven from 6.

Poole's win completed the British League cup double over Trelawny, having won at the clay-pit eight days earlier, the Pirates taking control of that meeting when they claimed two maximum heat scores from the tenth and eleventh races with the Tigers only managing a point in response. Dryml and Ruud had arrested a mini-comeback from the Tigers by leading in Ondrasik and Sanchez in heat 10 and then Aussies Craig Boyce and Dave Watt were unopposed in a re-run heat 11 after Harris had thrown everything he could muster at the Pirates at the first attempt, only to overcook things on the fourth turn moments after Zagar had pulled up with machine problems. Harris was disqualified from the re-start as the primary cause of the stoppage and with Zagar not under power at the time was also ineligible and Poole moved into an 11-point lead which they refused to surrender, finishing as 51-40 winners.

The Pirates went on to win the British League cup, beating Eastbourne in the final.

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