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WOLVERHAMPTON star Fredrik Lindgren took the final Super7even title of the season with victory in the Elite Open Riders' Championship at Peterborough. The Swede, who topped the Elite League averages this season, got the better of Coventry's Chris Harris in a terrific battle in the Final. Lindgren and Harris were joined on the rostrum by home man Kenneth Bjerre in third place, with former winner Bjarne Pedersen just missing out on the topthree.Wolves fans will get the opportunity to acclaim Lindgren's win when he competes in the club's ever-popular Banks's Olympique event at Monmore Greenon Monday, when Harris will again be amongst his opponents.
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SCUNTHORPE boss Richard Hollingsworth insists his side can still reach the Young Shield Final - despite going down to a 61-35 defeat at Workington.The Scorpions will bid to turn around the deficit in the second leg at the Eddie Wright Raceway on Monday, with the knowledge that they scored 70 in their last home outing.Hollingsworth said: "Of course we wanted to be closer than 26 points down but we only have to look at our 50-point win against Somerset and the way Sheffield overturned Edinburgh to for inspiration. "We beat Workington by twenty points in the league so we know we can beat them well around our track. We just need all seven riders to ride like they have been doing at home."The important thing is that we all believe that we can turn things around in the second leg. It's only half-time and we've got the track advantage on Monday night."
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NEWCASTLE have won the Premier League play-offs - and will now face Elite League wooden-spoonists Ipswich for a place in next season's top-flight.The Diamonds overturned a ten-point first leg deficit against Sheffield,winning their home leg 58-36 on Sunday with Danish youngster Rene Bach scoring a paid maximum.And boss George English says his side are now gunning for the Witches, with the first leg to take place at Brough Park on Sunday.English said: "If they think we're going to lie down and let them walk all over us then they'd better have a long hard think. We're in a very comfortable winning groove and we're not prepared to let that stop. "That performance was superb and they really deserve the success of taking another national title as play-off champions."
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LEIGH Adams brought down the curtain on his European racing career with a fitting victory in his Farewell meeting at Swindon.Adams won all six of his races in front of a packed crowd at Blunsdon, going close to his own track record in Heat 1 and defeating Chris Holder, Matej Zagar and Simon Stead in the Final.He said: "I must have done something right in my 22 years. Tonight was a great atmosphere and I couldn't believe the crowd, especially when they stayed on right at the end. "I was really focused on winning the meeting, and I just can't thank everyone enough because I've had fantastic support."
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BEN Barker made a successful return to Stoke with a 15-point maximum to win the Pride of the Potteries individual event.Barker, who was second last year, finished three points ahead of home star Taylor Poole with Ty Proctor third. Lee Smart was subsequently named as Stoke's Rider of the Year.Barker said: "I'm absolutely delighted to finally take the title. I said I was coming back to Stoke to win the Pride of the Potteries this season after the disappointment of missing out to Jason Bunyan last year, and I've done just that. "I always enjoy racing here at Stoke and I'm really pleased to win the title."
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BOURNEMOUTH star Kyle Howarth paid tribute to manager Garry May after the team's two years in the National League ended with a play-off defeat at Newport.The Buccaneers, who were Champions of the third tier last season, missed outin the semi-finals this time around and are not expected to return in 2011.Howarth said: "It is so disappointing that it ended this way, not so much for the riders but for Garry May."The guy has worked so hard since the Buccaneers were launched last year,and he has done an awful lot for me in my career. I can't thank the bloke enough, he is a top man."
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MONDAY OCTOBER 18:
YOUNG SHIELD S/F 2nd leg: Scunthorpe v Workington 7.30
BANKS'S OLYMPIQUE: Wolverhampton 7.30
TUESDAY OCTOBER 19:
STAFFS CUP 1st leg: Dudley v Stoke (at Wolverhampton) 7.30
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 20:
PREMIER LEAGUE: King's Lynn v Newcastle 7.30
FRIDAY OCTOBER 22:
PREMIER LEAGUE KO CUP FINAL 1st leg: Edinburgh v Newcastle 7.30
FAREWELL MEETING: Weymouth 7.15
SATURDAY OCTOBER 23:
STAFFS CUP 2nd leg: Stoke v Dudley 7.30
BORDERNAPOLIS: Berwick 7pm
PRIDE OF THE EAST: King's Lynn 7.30
