East Newport Cycle Speedway Club raced a South West Division one fixture against Swindon Robins. The East Enders should have raced their first away match of the season against Filton, but due to the Flyer's not having enough riders the fixture was cancelled, which then left them with the hastily re-arranged home match against the Robins.
 
Both teams seemed evenly matched and at the half way stage East Newport held a 5 point lead 47 - 42. There was never really more than 5 points in the match until heat 16 when Robins rider Martin Glover moved at the tapes and was excluded, the sole Swindon rider left in the race tried to split the 2 East End riders up to keep them in with a chance of winning the match, but to no avail, and after the final 2 races of this 18 heat fixture the East End outfit came home with the 2 points in the bag 92 - 86.
 
The East End management were pleased with all of the riders, in particular Matt Davis, Aaron Hughes and Mike Rice. With a tough away fixture coming up away to last years South West Champions Poole, the team will need to keep up this good form if they are going to get a positive result in 3 weeks time.
 
East Newport Scores

•  Nigel Clark 11
•  Aaron Hughes 12+3
• Neil Power 13
• Mike Rice 7
• Matt Davis 12+3
• Nicky Evans 14
• Ryan Hughes 17+1
• Rob Absalom 6+1