An exciting match was watched by a large crowd when East Newport took on local rivals Newport in an u18 South West Conference league match at the International Sports Village track on Saturday 30th August.

The East Newport Club who were using 4 first year riders put on a great show against their more experienced opponents only just losing by 77 - 72.

The final sealing point in this exciting derby was heat 14 when Kieran Mahoney who last raced for the home side last year tucked in
to secure a 7 - 3 [[&]] win the match for the title chasing Newport side.

For the East Enders 8 year old Ethan Lewis had his best match by far, [[&]] was well supported by man of the match Colin Wildy plus the ever improving Josh Davis.


Aaron Hughes turned in another solid performance top scoring for the visitors and will be looking foward to a return to senior racing in the coming weeks.

All the riders can be proud of their efforts [[&]] just shows what regular team training can do.

The match was well refereed by Filton rider/manager/Newport official Phil Davies.

Young Newport 77

• Lucian B Jones 18+1 (5)
• Jacob Street 7 (5)
• Corey B Jones 15 (5)
• Nick Ball 10+2 (5)
• Joe Lewis 16 (5)
• Kieran Mahoney 11+3 (5)
• Khalid Mitha dnr
• Callum Goward dnr

Young East Newport 72

• Aaron Hughes 17+1 (5)
• Josh Wall 3 (3)
• Colin Wildy 12+3 (5)
• Josh Davis 12 (5)
• Louis Harvey 16+1 (5)
• Ethan Lewis 10+1 (5)
• Jacob Prist 2 (2)