The eWinner 2 league started late with doubt over whether it would get off the ground and which teams would be in the league. But this weekend saw the final round of matches with the league winning only being confirmed in the final matches of the season. Click on the match to see the riders full scores.
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Despite the fact that the Rzeszow won the tie with convincing figures, 54:36, they needed three more points to take the bonus from Poznan who won their first meeting this year 56:34. That means that the home side will not be going to the playoffs and finish in fifth place.
Australian, Sam Masters scored 9+2 for the home side and Dane, Mattias Nielsen scored 6 for the guests in both teams last match of the 2021 season.
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Leszno's development team, Rawicz arrived in Germany knowing that a win could be enough to secure them first place in the regular season table. But the Polish side appeared to lack motivation and Australian juniors, Keynan Rew (2) and Matthew Gilmore (1) were kept at the back of the field all day. By contrast, Landshut came out all guns blazing with Martin Smolinski (12+2) riding with a new found confidence after a superb meet in Zarnovica yesterday. The German veteran narrowly missed out on qualifying for the SGP series and today was pipped to top scoring rider by teammate, Kai Huckenbeck (12+2, pictured). It seems that the Germans may have peaked at just the right time before the playoffs.
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In Daugavpils the result did not matter in terms of the table as the other fixtures meant Opole had won and Lokamotiv were in fourth. However, perhaps with the pressure off, this was the closes fixture in this final Round.
The home side went with an all Latvian line up including their three riders who will be in the U21 World Championships and Jevgenijs Kostigovs (5) who finished an impressive ninth in yesterday's SGP Challenge race. Opole also had their U21 World Championship representative, Mads Hansen (9) on the starting line up.
The home side took a 9:3 lead with heat advantages in the first two heats and whilst the visitors chased hard, it look like Daugavpils would finish the regular season off with a win.
However, Opole, and in particular, Sweden's Jacob Thorssell (14+2) were out to spoil the party for the Latvians. The Dackarna rider was in second place in Heat 13 when the Polish side gain a 1:5 to bring the score to 40:38 before the nomination heats.
Then in the last Heat of the match, the Swede crossed the line first as the visitors took another 1:5 to take the lead for the first time in the match - 44:46 stealing the victory from Daugavpils right at the end.
