The Northern League season begins on Sunday with all nine member clubs in action. Reigning Division 1 champions, Edinburgh, begin their title defence with a trip to Northumbria. The highlight of the day though will be the debut of the new Fife team, who are at home to Hull and staging a double header with Glasgow also taking on Hull […]
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Bury Cycle Speedway held their presentation night on Sunday 11th December at Bury Bridge Social club, with almost 70 members and families there. Club President, Tony Mann announced the awards which were presented by Club Chairman, Stuart Howarth. First up were the Northern League GP recipients. Bury won this competition by a huge margin this year, the event encompasses all the […]
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The ongoing development plan put together and implemented by the Bury coaching staff over the last three years is really coming into its own this season. The Bury Division 2 team have gone from strength to strength in 2016. Starting way back in March and culminating in October with an undefeated run on the way to being crowned Northern League Division […]
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Sheffield’s final fixture of the 2016 Northern League season took them to St Thomas Recreation Park to face deposed Division One Champions Stockport. The home team had seen the Edinburgh Falcons crowned Champions last week, ending Stockport’s impressive run of six successive titles. The home team were able to name only seven riders, with Mat Lush away at university. Sheffield were […]
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Astley & Tyldesley’s youngsters have won the Northern League Division 3 title for the fourth successive year. A&T lined up in the season finale at Bury on Sunday, with both teams having lost one match apiece, so whoever won the match won the league. A&T made a strong start, leading 37-31 after the first round of races had been completed. This extended […]
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On a wet and tricky track, both teams put up fine performances, but Northumbria held the upper hand throughout and compled the double in both divisions. Northumbria gained an good win against a seven man Hull side in Division One. After a shared first heat, Northumbria took a 7-3 through Kirkup and Keith. By heat 6 the Vikings had increased […]
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Astley & Tyldesley raced to a hat trick of wins over Northumbria in the final home meeting of the season on Sunday. A&T opened with a 7-3 heat win to the Graham/Grantham pair over Oldham/Knowles in heat 1. Dan Thompson fell at the end of lap 3 in heat 3 and was excluded for bringing Matt Snell down. Race leader Gavin […]
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Astley and Tyldesley welcomed near neighbours Bury for a Northern League derby fixture at a sunny Gin Pit on Saturday. In the Division 1 match, Bury opened up with two 6-4 heat wins and steadily pulled way to run out 86-60 winners. Best for A&T was Paul Graham, who won two races, with Reece Pollitt and Max Evans also winning races. […]
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Edinburgh Falcons are now just one match away from winning the Northern League One title after a comfortable 95-81 victory over the Sheffield Stars at Cookson Park last weekend. The Falcons named a full strength team, while Sheffield promoted Sam Haines into the team for Kyle Holland (who would referee the match). Jake Slight and Neil Swanson broke the run […]
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It took six heats for Sheffield to break the 5-5 deadlock in this closely fought encounter thanks to a Watson/Haines 7-3, and as hard as Glasgow fought they never looked capable of taking the heat advantages required. The match started with a win for the impressive Ed Morton, passing andy MacDougal on the line, the first of several interesting races. […]
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Astley & Tyldesley made it a clean sweep of three wins in Sunday’s Northern League fixture against Hull, at Gin Pit. A cagey opening four races saw A&T hold a 20-18 lead in the Division 1 match. Two maximum race wins followed, as A&T took control of the match and they rounded off with six successive heat wins to record an emphatic […]
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Here are the results from today’s October Cycle Speedway action: Midland League Division One Birmingham – Wednesfield Aces Leicester 103 – 75 Coventry Division Two Birmingham – Wednesfield Aces Leicester 69 – 81 Coventry Midland Junior League Birmingham – Wednesfield Aces Leicester 38 – 42 Coventry Northern League Division One Astley & Tyldesley 89 – 57 Hull Stockport 117 – […]
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Glorious weather welcomed the two teams to Cookson Park for this Northern League One Yorkshire Derby. Sheffield were looking for a fourth straight win to cement a fourth place finish in the table. Hull, who have improved of late, were also harbouring claims on fourth spot but knew that a loss would end those chances. Neither team was at full […]
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Here are the scores we had in from yesterday’s racing. If yours isn’t here, please send it to newsroom@3318news.co.uk Midland League Division One Wednesfield Aces – Coventry Division Two Wednesfield Aces – Coventry Division Three Wednesfield Aces – Coventry Northern League Division One Bury 117 – 56 Northumbria Heckmondwike – Stockport Sheffield 93 – 87 Hull Division Two Bury 94 – 55 Northumbria 94 – 55 […]
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Astley & Tyldesley entertained Sheffield in a Northern League fixture, at Gin Pit on Sunday. In the Division 1 match, A&T took the lead with a 6-3 heat win in heat 1 and held this until heat 5. However, a fall by the returning Luke Jamson in heat 5 and a shed chain by Reece Pollitt whilst leading heat 6, […]
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Heckmondwike travelled north with just three riders, the home side supplying four guests. Northumbria had their own problems, with number one Gavin Parr missing, he is still recovering from a speedway related injury. He still played his part by refereeing the meeting. Despite not racing since 3 July, the result was never in doubt, as Northumbria powered to a a […]
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Horspath travelled to Poole in the rearranged Elite League round one fixture and kept their title hopes well on track with a win against their hosts. There was plenty of regional racing taking place today also. Check out the results we’ve had in from round country below. Elite League Round One (Re-arranged) Poole 93 – 101 Horspath Midland League Division […]
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Astley & Tyldesley took on Northern League Division 1 leaders, Edinburgh, at Gin Pit on Sunday. The first three races were all drawn heats. Heat 4 saw A&T suffer a major blow, when Lee Phillips sustained a broken wrist after a first bend clash with Jake Slight. With no reserve to replace him, A&T were forced to ride the rest […]
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