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EASTBOURNE 53 BUILDBASE BEES 40
COVENTRY'S play-off equation narrowed as they were beaten and left with no points despite a battling effort at Eastbourne.
The Buildbase Bees were in contention for the point which would have boosted their hopes right up until the final race, but it was a meeting where the key breaks didn't quite go their way.
Bees faced a super-confident home team in the second half of a double header, shortly after the Eagles had hammered Wolverhampton 63-29.
At 3-9 down after two races, Bees looked like they might go the same way, but they quickly knuckled down with Ryan Fisher and Kenni Larsen securing a 5-1 in Heat 3.
And a further maximum could have followed two races later only for Nick Morris, who had ridden a stormer, to fall on turn two on the last lap.
A series of race advantages saw the fast-gating Eagles open up a ten-point lead, but Chris Harris reduced that gap by taking six points from a winning tactical ride in Heat 9.
Eastbourne went nine-up with a 4-2 in the next with Fisher falling after clipping Bjarne Pedersen on turn two, and two shared races followed.
Morris was a super-impressive winner of Heat 12 but Fisher was controversially disqualified for a tangle with Cameron Woodward on the run to the line, the home rider having initially made an error to get out of shape and hitting the back of Fisher as he recovered.
The next two races were also shared, Bees being given an opening in Heat 14 when key reserve Woodward went off the handicap for exceeding the timne allowance - but Lewis Bridger produced one of the rides of the night to squeeze around the boards on lap one and hit the front.
That left Bees needing an unlikely 5-1 from the last race off the unfavoured gates to salvage a point, but it was Bjarne Pedersen and Joonas Kylmakorpi who took it for the home side, the final margin being somewhat harsh on Coventry - who simply must get closer on their next visit to Arlington on September 12.
Boss Alun Rossiter said: "I'm disappointed because I thought we could do better than that, but we did give it a good shot and a few things went against us.
"The riders in the pits were all laughing about Ryan's exclusion - they all knew that Cameron had hit the fence, come back across and Ryan had actually passed him, and Cameron caught the tail-end of Ryan's bike, it was unbelievable.
"That could have taken some of the pressure off, and everyone tried their best but it's a hard place to come and it wasn't quite enough."
EASTBOURNE 53: Cameron Woodward 14+3, Bjarne Pedersen 13, Joonas Kylmakorpi 9+1, Simon Gustafsson 9, Lewis Bridger 6+2, Timo Lahti 2, Lukas Dryml r/r.
BUILDBASE BEES 40: Chris Harris 12+1, Nick Morris 8+1, Kenni Larsen 8, Troy Batchelor 7+1, Ryan Fisher 5+2, Dakota North 0, Przemek Pawlicki r/r.
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COVENTRY'S play-off equation narrowed as they were beaten and left with no points despite a battling effort at Eastbourne.
The Buildbase Bees were in contention for the point which would have boosted their hopes right up until the final race, but it was a meeting where the key breaks didn't quite go their way.
Bees faced a super-confident home team in the second half of a double header, shortly after the Eagles had hammered Wolverhampton 63-29.
At 3-9 down after two races, Bees looked like they might go the same way, but they quickly knuckled down with Ryan Fisher and Kenni Larsen securing a 5-1 in Heat 3.
And a further maximum could have followed two races later only for Nick Morris, who had ridden a stormer, to fall on turn two on the last lap.
A series of race advantages saw the fast-gating Eagles open up a ten-point lead, but Chris Harris reduced that gap by taking six points from a winning tactical ride in Heat 9.
Eastbourne went nine-up with a 4-2 in the next with Fisher falling after clipping Bjarne Pedersen on turn two, and two shared races followed.
Morris was a super-impressive winner of Heat 12 but Fisher was controversially disqualified for a tangle with Cameron Woodward on the run to the line, the home rider having initially made an error to get out of shape and hitting the back of Fisher as he recovered.
The next two races were also shared, Bees being given an opening in Heat 14 when key reserve Woodward went off the handicap for exceeding the timne allowance - but Lewis Bridger produced one of the rides of the night to squeeze around the boards on lap one and hit the front.
That left Bees needing an unlikely 5-1 from the last race off the unfavoured gates to salvage a point, but it was Bjarne Pedersen and Joonas Kylmakorpi who took it for the home side, the final margin being somewhat harsh on Coventry - who simply must get closer on their next visit to Arlington on September 12.
Boss Alun Rossiter said: "I'm disappointed because I thought we could do better than that, but we did give it a good shot and a few things went against us.
"The riders in the pits were all laughing about Ryan's exclusion - they all knew that Cameron had hit the fence, come back across and Ryan had actually passed him, and Cameron caught the tail-end of Ryan's bike, it was unbelievable.
"That could have taken some of the pressure off, and everyone tried their best but it's a hard place to come and it wasn't quite enough."
EASTBOURNE 53: Cameron Woodward 14+3, Bjarne Pedersen 13, Joonas Kylmakorpi 9+1, Simon Gustafsson 9, Lewis Bridger 6+2, Timo Lahti 2, Lukas Dryml r/r.
BUILDBASE BEES 40: Chris Harris 12+1, Nick Morris 8+1, Kenni Larsen 8, Troy Batchelor 7+1, Ryan Fisher 5+2, Dakota North 0, Przemek Pawlicki r/r.
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