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GLASGOW made a stunning start to the season with victory over Elite League Coventry in a Challenge fixture at Ashfield.The Tigers brought in Joe Screen from Wolverhampton as a guest, and he romped to a five-ride maximum including wins in the last two races.Coventry fought back from ten points down to lead with three heats to go -but Glasgow hit straight back with a 5-1 in Heat 13 and Screen then saw them home.Delighted Tigers boss Stewart Dickson said: "I am over the moon with the waythings went. We battled very hard and you could see that the riders were determined to get the season off to a flyer. "Make no mistake that Coventry are a top class outfit but on the day we were tremendous out of the starts and that allowed us to race hard and keep them under pressure for the entire match."
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BERWICK have suffered an early-season injury blow with the news that winter signing Lee Complin has broken his arm in two places.Complin crashed in his second race during Saturday's clash with Newcastle and has undergone an operation to pin and plate the breaks, with the Bandits now studying their options for covering his lay-off.Despite being without Complin, Berwick battled to a 45-45 draw in Sunday's reverse fixture at Newcastle, leaving the Diamonds relieved to have won the first leg 47-43 for a four-point aggregate victory.Newcastle boss George English said: "I had visions of us losing this trophy tonight with three to go, but Kenni (Larsen), Rene (Bach) and Mark (Lemon)fought well to hold things together and give us the overall win in a superbly entertaining meeting filled with great racing which did indeed go down to the final heat in the competition."
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BIRMINGHAM completed a quick fire double over Stoke with an impressive 51-42win at Loomer Road to secure the M6 Trophy.New signings Justin Sedgmen and Chris Kerr continued their impressive startto their Brummies careers, with Sedgmen piling up paid-17 from six rides at reserve.Birmingham boss Graham Drury said: "It's a really encouraging start to theseason for us although nobody is getting carried away at this stage."But the team have gelled together immediately and we're very happy with what we've seen over the first two meetings."
WEDNESDAY MARCH 24:PREMIER TROPHY: Birmingham v Sheffield 7.30CHALLENGE: Poole v Swindon 7.30ASHLEY JONES MEMORIAL: King's Lynn 7.30
THURSDAY MARCH 25:PREMIER TROPHY: Sheffield v Scunthorpe 7.45CHALLENGE: Ipswich v Lakeside 7.30, Swindon v Poole 7.30NORTH EAST CHALLENGE 1st leg: Redcar v Newcastle 7.30
FRIDAY MARCH 26:ELITE SHIELD 2nd leg: Lakeside v Wolverhampton 8pmPREMIER TROPHY: Scunthorpe v Stoke 7.30BRANDONAPOLIS: Coventry 8pmSEVERN BRIDGE TROPHY 1st leg: Somerset v Newport 7.30SPRING TROPHY 1st leg: Edinburgh v Glasgow 7.30
