Gladiators out of KO Cup

POOLE PIRATES 61

PLYMOUTH ATKINS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT GLADIATORS 29

The Gladiators were well beaten in this Knock Out Cup 2nd leg match at Wimborne Road.

It was always going to be an uphill task with Poole taking an eight-point aggregate lead from the first leg. With Jason Crump unavailable after his crash at Plymouth the previous evening, Craig Cook stepped in as a guest rider and he provided two of Plymouth’s three race wins on the night.

The meeting started promisingly with Cook and Dillon Ruml taking a 4-2 advantage in Heat One, but it proved to be the Gladiators’ only heat advantage of the night.

Poole steadily increased their lead and three successive 5-1s in the final three heats only rubbed salt into the wounds and saw them comfortably through to the next round.

POOLE  61 (110)
R.Schlein  2,3,3,3,3=14
K.Bickley 0,1,R,1=2
S.Worrall  3,3,2,3,2’=13+1
S.Nielsen  2′,2′,1′,2’=7+4
D.King  3,3,1′,2’=9+2
B.Cook  3,2′,2,3=10+1
D.Hume  1,1,3,1=6

PLYMOUTH ATKINS FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT GLADIATORS  29 (70)
C.Cook 3,1,3,1=8
D.Ruml 1,0,2,0,0=3
Z.Cook 1,0,2,2,1=6
Z.Keleher  0,1,0,F=1
B.Pedersen 2,2,3,0=7
A.Bowtell 2,0,1′,F,1=4+1
J.Smith  F,R,0

Ht 1:  C.Cook,  R.Schlein ,  D.Ruml,  K.Bickley 2-4  2-4 |59.44]
Ht 2:  B.Cook ,  A.Bowtell,  D.Hume ,  J.Smith   (Fell) 4-2  6-6 [awd]
Ht 3:  S.Worrall ,  S.Nielsen ,  Z.Cook,  Z.Keleher  5-1  11-7 [60.32]
Ht 4:  D.King ,  B.Pedersen,  D.Hume ,  A.Bowtell 4-2  15-9 [59.81]
Ht 5:  S.Worrall ,  S.Nielsen ,  C.Cook,  D.Ruml 5-1  20-10 [59.56]
Ht 6:  R.Schlein ,  B.Pedersen,  K.Bickley,  J.Smith   (Rtd) 4-2  24-12 [59.97]
Ht 7:  D.King ,  B.Cook ,  Z.Keleher ,  Z.Cook 5-1  29-13 [61.03]
Ht 8:  D.Hume ,  D.Ruml,  A.Bowtell,  K.Bickley  (Rtd) 3-3 32-16 [61.81]
Ht 9:  B.Pedersen,  S.Worrall ,  S.Nielsen ,  J.Smith  3-3  35-19 [60.66]
Ht 10:  R.Schlein ,  Z.Cook,  K.Bickley,  Z.Keleher  4-2  39-21 [62.31]
Ht 11:  C.Cook,  B.Cook ,  D.King ,  D.Ruml 3-3  42-24 [61.37]
Ht 12:  S.Worrall ,  Z.Cook,  D.Hume ,  A.Bowtell  (Fell) 4-2  46-26 [61.19]
Ht 13:  R.Schlein ,  D.King ,  C.Cook,  B.Pedersen 5-1  51-27 [60.57]
Ht 14:  B.Cook ,  S.Nielsen ,  A.Bowtell,  Z.Keleher   (Fell) 5-1  56-28 [62]
Ht 15:  R.Schlein ,  S.Worrall ,  Z.Cook,  D.Ruml 5-1  61-29 [61.34]


Poole win 110-70 on aggregate.

Image Credit: Tony Hartman