News Archive - September 2024

To use the old football analogy, it was an evening of two halves for the Stellar Monarchs Academy as they comfortably defeated the Scunthorpe Stags 58-31 before falling to a potent Belle Vue Colts side 35-53 at Armadale on Friday evening meaning three league points on the night.

Monarchs Academy team take the stage at Armadale this week, not once but twice as they race a double header of National Development League matches against the Scunthorpe/Sheffield combined side, followed by the Belle Vue Colts, for many years a great side for production of talented riders.

Speedway fans are looking forward to a terrific weekend of action at Armadale Stadium with a packed schedule of youth racing coming up.

The Stellar Monarchs Academy battled hard but ultimately were undone by brilliance at top and bottom of the hosts line-up as they went down 56-34 at Belle Vue on Friday night.

Today's staging of the National League Riders Development Series event at Leicester finished in a victory, perhaps predictably, for Joe Thompson who scored a 15 point maximum. Joe is number one in the Leicester Cubs NDL team.

This afternoon at Leicester Speedway three of the Monarchs' riders compete in the latest event in the National League Riders Development Series.

The Stellar Monarchs Academy won for the first time this season, picking up their first league points, though of course it is only their second home match. A 15-point gap should give them a good chance of the aggregate bonus at least, when they head for the Ecco Arena (though that isn't tomorrow as the match is off already).

It may very well feel like seasons start all over again for the Stellar Monarchs Academy as they take to their home shale for the first time since April against the Middlesbrough Tigers on Friday night.

You might struggle to remember what the home riders look like, it's so long since they have raced at Armadale, but the Stellar Omada Monarchs Academy return to action this Friday 12th July after almost three months since the previous home meeting.

It was another tough night on the road for the Stellar Monarchs Academy as they went down 57-33 to a rampant Scunthorpe Stags side a result that leaves them still searching for their first points of the season.