Eagles Defeated
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Eastbourne's unbeaten run of five meetings came to an end at the hands of a final race win from Wolverhampton's heat leaders.
The Eagles matched their opponents throughout the meeting and a heat advantage from Bjarne Pedersen and Lukas Dryml in heat five broke the deadlock and gave Eastbourne a deserved lead.
However their lead didn't last long, a good piece of defending from Freddie Lindgren allowed his team mate Ty Proctor into first place while Lindgren held off a fast looking Joonas Kylmakorpi for the duration of the heat to give the home team a slender two point lead.
At the turn of the second half, Eastbourne retuned the maximum heat with a fast gate from Dryml, a cutback from Lewis Bridger and the Eagle had taken the lead once again. Wolves kept coming back at the away team and pulled out a four point gap by the end of the tenth heat, a heat advantage in heat nine followed by a Lindgren/Proctor maximum in heat ten set the meeting up for a tight finish.
Wolves reserve Tyson Burmeister hampered his team in the eleventh heat, Peter Karlsson had made his way past Bjarne Pedersen before the young American fell on the first bend but struggled to get his bike off the track which caused the race to be stopped. In the re run, Pedersen led Karlsson into the first bend and opened up a large gap to give the Eagles a heat advantage with Dryml finishing in third place.
Lewis Bridger and Simon Gustafsson moved Eastbourne two points ahead with a five-one heat twelve victory, Bridger was quicker from the gate while Gustaffson was last until a bold move to pass under both the Wolves pair down the start/finish line to follow his team mate home.
Bjarne Pedersen rode the race of his life in heat thirteen, a good gate got him out ahead of Monmore Green track specialists Freddie Lindgren and Peter Karlsson and although the pair were faster that Pedersen in the race neither could find away past the Dane until Lindgren came very close to snatching it on the line.
Wolves bounced back in heat fifteen with the same pair that lost out to Pedersen in heat thirteen, the Swedish Duo made good gates and were able to resist a charge from Pedersen in the first turn to take a maximum heat and give Wolves a hard fought win on the night.