#GNILOD
Whilst Tarnow are rooted at the bottom of EWinner 1 table, tonight’s match in Gniezno 6th and 7th teams in the league take on each other.
But the home team overwhelmed visitors, Łódź, who never got into the match, trailing by 8 points after Heat 7.
Both Start’s international riders and Polish brothers, Oskar Fajfer (10+1) and Kevin were on top form. And it was younger brother, Kevin who who top score with a 12-+3 paid maximum.
Finland’s Timo Lahti and Denmark’s Frederik Jakobsen scored 13 pts a piece and further good news for the team was that Peter Kildemand (pictured) was back after injury and took 7+1.
For the guests it was Luke Becker who top scored with 7+1, but that wasn’t enough to stop Łódź going down by an embarrassing, 59:31.
#GORGRU
Friday night’s first Ekstraliga match saw last year’s runners up host this year’s strugglers as Grudziadz travelled to Gorzow.
And Gorzow’s Szymon Wozniak (7) played an important part in the establishment of a lead that Grudziadz would never overcome.
He won his first two heats, 1 and 7 leading out two 5:1s for the team that created the winning margin of eight points as Gorzow won 49:41.
Grudziadz’s Nicki Pedersen (9) was the top scoring Dane in tonight’s match with teammate Kenneth Bjerre (5+2) and Gorzow’s Anders Thomsen (8+1) playing their part. Unfortunately, Marcus Birkemose was again unused at #8 for the hosts. However, with two unnamed riders in Poznań’s EWinner2 match tomorrow, the young Dane May race with them again.
#TORLES
Tonight’s final meet was also a case of top meets bottom as last year’s champions, Leszno, travelled to the newly promoted, Toruń.
The former champions came ready to race scoring three 2:4 heat advantages before the first track break. It was heat leaders, Janusz Kolodziej (7+1) and Jason Doyle (9+1) that won their respective heats for the guests to set up an early six point lead.
Heat 11 saw the home team finally take a 5:1 victory though their two established local riders as first Pawel Przedpelski (9+1) took the flag closely followed by Adrian Miedzinski (9+1).
But whilst that set up a “well maybe we can win” feeling among the home fans, the champions were not deterred and clinically finished Toruń off with a 2:4 victory to conclude the match 41:49. Perhaps surprisingly, the winner of Heat 15, and Leszno’s highest scorer on the night, was Piotr Pawlicki who won 4 out of 5 heats and took home 13 points.
The match contained no less than five English speakers.
Doyle LES 9+1
J Holder TOR 9+1
Lambert TOR 9+1
Lidsey LES 5
C Holder TOR 3+2
