\n The Pirates dominated at Wimborne Road, with Richard Lawson scoring a 15-point maximum and Tobias Thomsen (9+3) remaining unbeaten until Heat 15.\n<\/p>\n
\n All seven home riders secured at least one win or paid win.\n<\/p>\n
\n Lawson said: “That’s what you go for every time but it’s tough, especially when you meet Sam Masters.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I’ve said it before, I believe he is one of the best No. 1s in the league and to come up against him three times is tough.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Poole Pirates speedway v Oxford Cheetahs \u00a0in BSN Series Semi final 1st leg at Wimborne Road. Heat 7 Anders Rowe (red) and Paul Starke (blue) (Image: Richard Crease) The Cheetahs had a challenging night, with Masters scoring 11 points from five rides.\n<\/p>\n
\n Reserve Luke Killeen picked up 9+1.\n<\/p>\n
\n Killeen said: “It was a tough night for sure, but I gave it my all.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Overall, I feel I proved my worth to the team and I was happy with my performance.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It wasn\u2019t a great result for us tonight.\n<\/p>\n
\n “But if they can do that to us here, there\u2019s no reason why we can\u2019t do that to them back at Oxford.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The visitors were without Jonas Knudsen and Francis Gusts.\n<\/p>\n
\n Gusts has been given a 28-day ban by the Speedway Control Bureau after competing in a meeting in Poland on Tuesday.\n<\/p>\n
\n This was the day after he was ruled out of the Wimborne Road meeting due to reported illness.\n<\/p>\n
\n The absence of these key riders may have contributed to Oxford’s defeat, but they remain hopeful for a comeback in the second leg at their home track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates dominated at Wimborne Road, with Richard Lawson scoring a 15-point maximum and Tobias Thomsen (9+3) remaining…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-69782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}