The Stars travelled to the Redbraes Raceway knowing they had to do something a Sheffield side had never done before (win a first team match at Edinburgh) if they were to claw themselves away from the bottom of North and Scotland League Division One. The Falcons have been beset by injuries as they have defended the Championship they won in […]
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Bury staged the 6th and final round of the Manchester League Grand Prix series on Wednesday evening. Several torrential downpours made for unpleasant conditions, but the riders were undeterred, with several titles up for grabs on the night. The Astley & Tyldesley pair of Aiden Green and Tom Morrissey both scored 16 point maximums in the u-10s match. Their team […]
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Sheffield were back to full strength for the visit of Astley & Tyldesley to Cookson for this North & Scotland League One match. Team Green were too strong a unit as they inflicted a sixth successive defeat on the Stars by 99-80, Sheffield’s heaviest home defeat of the season. Reece Pollitt sped away to win heat 1, and with Mick […]
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Northumbria’s Dan Wharrier has spent the last year working in the US, he is now back and in his first meeting dropped just one point. Sheffield arrived on Tyneside with a weakened side due to holidays, they faced a Northumbria team without Gavin Parr and flu victim Terry Kirkup. Jason Keith beat Adam Watson in heat 1, which turned out […]
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The final National round of the BYJL at Sheffield on Saturday 9 September will now be held at Cookson and not the Graves track. The Sheffield Club were hoping to have the Graves track back up to racing standard by September. This now looks doubtful, and with concerns over parking availability at the newly refurbished sports centre, the decision has […]
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Having lost at Hull in midweek, it was imperative that the Sheffield Stars won this North and Scotland League One clash with Bury Comets if they were to be involved in the end of season play-offs. It was not to be, as a close and enthralling match ended with the visitors plundering the league points with a 90-89 victory. Adam […]
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Sheffield Stars’ North and Scotland League One play-off hopes suffered a setback when they lost this midweek encounter at Hull by 82-95, as the home team won for the first time this season. The Stars were at full strength, with Niall Morton returning to the number one race jacket. Hull though were able to play the trump card of including […]
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Sheffield crashed to their heaviest Northern League One defeat of the season so far, losing by 68-112 to Stockport at St Thomas Park. The unbeaten league leaders were ruthless as they put Sheffield to the sword, providing the race winner in 17 of the 18 heats (ten of which were won with the 7-3 maximum score). The pattern for the […]
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Sheffield headed up to Northumbria to see if they could add the Northern Junior title to the British Team title won last week. After the euphoria of that title winning performance the Stars riders knew they would be in for a tough ride. So it proved. After another tense final, it was the Bury Comets who successfully defended the title […]
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Round two of Cycle Speedway commissions’ new initiative, the Supertrax Battle of Britain series arrived at Cookson Park, Sheffield, and did not disappoint. With Sheffield’s vice chair Rob Mawhood commenting afterwards: “If this is what the Battle of Britain series delivers, then every club should want to be part of it.” A week of rain had left the track in the […]
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Sheffield host this Sunday’s Supertrax Battle of Britain Round 2 at Cookson Park, off Halliwell Crescent, S5 8LY. The Stars’ Graves track, which traditionally hosted big meetings like previous Elite League matches, was taken out of action in 2015 due to building work at the neighbouring sports centre. The Graves is still intact but not quite ready to host elite racing, so […]
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In their second home match of the season, Fife took on Sheffield in front of a healthy crowd of approximately 60 spectators. You couldn’t tell that Fife hadn’t ridden for 3 weeks, with 11 of the 15 races won by a Fife rider and taking 5 7-3s in the meeting, for what was a comfortable win in the end, 82-67. Heat […]
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The Edinburgh Falcons were desperate to avoid a slip up when they visited Sheffield’s Cookson Park for an important North and Scotland League fixture. The Falcons have stuttered in their defence of the League One title with two home defeats to fierce rivals Stockport and A & T. However, they brought an unbeaten away record to Sheffield. The Stars were […]
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This Northern League basement battle between Sheffield Stars and Hull took place on a dry and dusty Cookson bowl. Sheffield maintained their unbeaten home start in League One with a 104-76 victory, leaving Hull still looking for their first victory and putting some daylight between the Stars and the points-less duo of Hull and Northumbria Vikings. Sheffield started strongly, Niall […]
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Astley & Tyldesley welcomed Sheffield for a Northern League encounter at a hot and sunny Gin Pit on Sunday. In the Division 1 match, A&T took the lead with a well worked 7-3 to the Mark Grantham/Damian Zareba pairing in heat 2. The next race saw first Paul Graham, then Kyle Holland receive gate exclusions, to gift Sheffield a 7-0. […]
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Sheffield and Northumbria were keen to forget their Division 1 losses last week against Bury and Edinburgh respectively. Sheffield were unchanged and Northumbria making one change to their main six as Dan Redshaw returned in place of Gavin Parr (away motor speedway racing at Scunthorpe). Four 7-3s and a 6-4 for Sheffield in the first six heats put the Stars […]
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The sun shone on the opening day of the 2017 cycle speedway season, as Sheffield visited Goshen Sports Centre to take on Bury Comets. The Division One fixture began with a competitive race featuring Will Owens and Danny Taylor against Sheffield’s Niall Morton and Laura Watson. A freak coming together between Taylor and Morton saw a rerun, but Morton was […]
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After 15 years in Cycle Speedway, Rich Hudson has decided to retire and hang up his wheels. His career started at the age of five when he started going training at the Graves track with his elder brother Robert who was a member of the Star’s team that saw so much success in the first decade of the 2000’s. Growing […]
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