Premier League cup Group Match

Somerset Rebels 53, Peterborough Panthers 40

AN all-round team performance fired Somerset Rebels to a 13-point victory over Peterborough Panthers on Friday night.

Having almost suffered defeat at the hands of a strong Ipswich side the previous week, the Somerset Rebels found themselves up against another strong side with Premier League Cup ambitions.

Claus Vissing top scored for the visitors, ably assisted by Kenneth Hansen, and to a lesser extent, Ulrich Østergaard.

Brady Kurtz, and Josh Grajczonek stood out at the top of the score chart for the Somerset Rebels, but this was truly an all-round performance, with every member of the septet contributing good points.

None more so than eleventh hour stand in Dan Greenwood, who on any other night may very well have carried off the ‘Rider of the Night’, just for his Heat eight victory alone.

However that honour went to Brady Kurtz, who was presented with his trophy by Gemma Snead, who, by sponsoring the meeting was, celebrating her birthday one day early and her mum Michelle’s last Tuesday.

The meeting was followed by another in the series of the Exeter Falcons return to racing, as the young fledgling Falcons took on a Somerset representative side, led at number one by Bristol youngster, and Birmingham Brummies, Zach Wajknecht.

In the opposite corner was the newly appointed Eastbourne Eagle, Matt Bates.

Bates topped the Falcons scoring with 8-points from his three rides, and Wajknecht, joint top scored, along with Harvie Banks with 6-points each from their three for Somerset. At the flag fall the Falcons ran out 21-15 winners of an interesting encounter.

There were surely some people who chose not to come because they thought the weather would not hold, and some whose objection was that it was just a ‘Guest-Fest’, but whatever their reasons for not attending, they missed an absolutely superb meeting, with as in the previous two weeks, racing from the top drawer of Premier League Speedway.