The aces travelled to perry bar to take on Birmingham on Sunday it was very competitive match with the lead changing hands 3 times, the Monarchs had multi World finalist and former British champion Paul heard and multi world finalist Chris Timms at reserves just in case. Ht1 was a 6/4 win where Heard got the better of Lee in the first of their 3 meetings of the afternoon. Aces took the lead in the match with a superb 3/7 from CJ & Tom in Ht3 which was increased with a 4/6 in Ht5 from Corey & Scott Doc the first of 2 Ht wins for Corey. Lee got the better of Heard in Ht7 holding him to last place with Alex taking the 2nd. Aces lost the lead in the last heat of the half with a 7/3 ht loss so at half-time the scores stood at Bham 46 Aces 44. Two consecutive Ht wins at the start of the second half for the Aces saw them restore 3pnt lead but Timms came out in 12&13 to record maximum ht wins and restore Bham's lead to 6pnts but a brilliant maximum to Corey & CJ in 16 brought it back to 2pnts and thats how it ended with bham using Timms in last two make sure they secured the win.
Plenty of positives for the Aces a return to action for Tom, Corey mixing it with the big boys CJs continued improvement after his injury. Alex's points return was impressive as was king of team riding Scott Docs bonus points.
Report by: Mick Aris