It took until the last meeting of the regular season to decide who would be top of the table in the UK Premiership, as the Poole Pirates ran out winners of this phase of the championship.
The rescheduled match saw the Pirates travel to King's Lynn Stars knowing that they needed a victory to take first place over Swindon Robins who were two points ahead having completed all their matches.
Australian Brady Kurtz (pictured) led the scoring with 11 for the south coast team as they cruised to a 39-51 victory. That meant they picked three points for the win and an extra bonus point for an away win of more than seven points, easily giving them more than the two points they needed to top the regular season's table.
Swindon's SGP rider and the 2017 World Champion, Jason Doyle, is first in the individual points table with a 2.223 heat average, whilst the best British rider was in fourth place, King's Lynn's own Craig Cook with 1.988.
The semi finals will take place next week with Ipswich Witches at home against last year's champions, Poole on 26/9 and Wolverhampton Wolves hosting the Swindon Robins on 30/9.
