News Archive - April 2011

The Scotwaste Monarchs produced the perfect response to Friday's disappointment, winning 49-42 at Newport with the top five all excelling.

Edinburgh make the long trip to the sweetly named Queensway Meadows tonight with some reasons for optimism to face fellow misfiring side Newport Wasps at 7.30 with both sides looking to give their season a boost after slow starts.

The visit of Leicester was not regarded as one of Monarchs? hardest home matches, but the Lions proved tougher nuts than expected while the home team missed starts, threw points away ? and lost.

Most Edinburgh fans will have their first look at the new Leicester Lions side at 7.30 this Friday (22nd) when they visit the Scotwaste Arena on the hunt for Premier League points for the first time since rising from the ashes after an absence of 28 years.

The Scotwaste Monarchs stumbled to a disappointing 44-45 loss against new boys Leicester tonight, in spite of having held a 9-point advantage with five races left.

The Leicester Lions are Speedway's newest team, and they make their first visit to Scotland on Friday with at least one of their Russian riders in their ranks.

Kevin Wolbert produced another heat 15 last bend pass to clinch a memorable maximum, but we had gifted too many points to Bandits by then and they took one of the match points.