THREE O'CLOCK UPDATE

NEWS Friday 3rd October 2014, 3:09pm

by Toby Lerone

  Edinburgh Monarchs

Tonight's Knock Out Cup semi final between the Scotwaste Monarchs and the Newcastle Diamonds at Armadale this evening remains very much ON.

As the forecast suggested, the rain of late morning and early afternoon has now clear east leaving track staff almost five hours to get the track in shape for tonight's match.

The track was covered overnight in an attempt to overcome the predicted deluge. It wasn't a problem as the deluge didn't arrive. In fact it remained dry in Armadale until mid morning. Since we have experienced some patchy rain and some bursts of heavier rain but there has not been sufficient of the wet stuff to cause us a problem.

The Scotwaste Monarchs will be attempting to secure as big a lead as possible to take to the second leg at Newcastle on 12th October.