EKSTRALIGA and EWINNER 1: Friday night's racing in Poland

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EKSTRALIGA and EWINNER 1: Friday night's racing in Poland

#RYBTAR

Tonight's first match was from eWinner 1 where one of the league's top teams, Rybnik, hosted the bottom team, Tarnow.

The visitors have not won a game this season and were again without Niels-Kristian Iversen. And just as it was for Kumla who were also without the injured Dane yesterday, it was another humilating defeat for Unia.

Australian, Rohan Tungate (8), was not able to carry the whole and Swedish U21 national champion, Alexander Woentin (6+2) continues the right way on his development curve.

But it will take more than that is the club are to avoid relagtion this year.

At the other end of the depot, Rybnik, are vying for a return to Ekstraliga. And more performances like this will help the cause. Rune Holta and Michael Jepsen Jensen (pictured) led the team with 14+1 and Sergei Logachev (11+1) put in a great performance a day before his first TAURON SEC appearance.

#TORWRO

Wroclaw continue to impress and currently look like the team to beat as they routed Torun, scoring over 50 points again against the newly promoted side. That meant they take the bonus point 75:105 after tonight's 36:54 drubbing.

Five English speaking riders were racing in Torun tonight, but on both teams it was Polish riders who top-scored for their teams. The only person to score in double figures for the home side was Pawel Przedpelski (11).

Meanwhile, the Holder brothers were tamed with Chris (4+2) scoring higher than younger brother, Jack (4) for one of the first times this season. European Champion, Robert Lambert scored 8 pts the day before he starts the defence of his title in Bydgoszcz.

For the victors, it was an SGP riders 1-2-3 with Maciej Janowski (14+1), Artem Laguta (13) and Tai Woffinden (11) scoring more than the entire Torun squad.

Dan Bewley (7+2) was the next highest scorer giving him confidence before go also joins his compatriot in tommorrow's TAURON SEC Round.

#LESCZE

Tonight's late match was between two teams chasing behind Wroclaw and, unlike the other two matches, was a close fought affair.

Home team Leszno held onto a slight lead from the opening heat until Heat 6 which was a 1:5 to the Danish pairing of Jonas Jeppesen (8) and Leon Madsen (9+1) from Czestochowa. Sweden's SGP rider, Fredrik Lindgren, also kept his team in contention, notching up 8+1.

But then four heats later the hosts took back the lead through an Australian pairing of Jason Doyle and Jaimon Lidsey (9+2) ,who also took a 5:1, to bring the scores to 31:29 with just five heats to go.

A brilliant piece of overtaking from Emil Satfutdinov (7+2) turned a 2:4 in Heat 14 to a 3:3 giving us a tie at 42:42 and the mouthwatering prospect of a deciding heat 15.

But Czestochowa's Danish duo were not up to the fight and by turn three of the first lap, Leszno's Janus Koledziej (13) and Jason Doyle (12+1) were in first and second to seal a dramatic 5:1 victory. That gave them the 47:43 and confirmed that the bonus point would also go to home side with a total of 96:84.