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The Deborah Mittell Charity Shield was a great success with excellent support by those on and off the track. An enjoyable afternoon appeared to be had by all, and hopefully a good sum was raised for the Stoke Elizabeth Hospice.
The meeting was split into 2 pairs events, a race format rarely seen these days. One featured the top riders from the region's clubs, while the other accomodated the many other riders who were keen to race, albeit in a little less serious fashion.
The main event went pretty much as expected with Ipswich and Gt Blakenham leading the way. Blakenham entered the final heats a point behind their rivals but easily secured maximum points against Somersham. This put the pressuere on Ipswich's Pike & Yelland for the last race, but they took advantage of the inside gates against Kesgrave and got the 7 points needed for victory. Hethersett's Dave Adams beat Andy Turnbull in a run-off for third.
In the fun event the Studd/Jay partnership needed a heat advantage in their final race to win. It looked like they were making hard work of it, until Dave Palfreyman was eliminated from the 2nd rerun, to finally take the honours.

Ipswich 32 (D Pike 17+2, L Yelland 15+2)
Gt Blakenham 31 (L Osborne 17, A Peck 14+3)
Hethersett 23 (B Collins 12+1, D Adams 11+1)
Kesgrave 23 (A Turnbull 13+1, M Berry 10+1)
Norwich 21 (R Williamson 12, G Colby 9+1)
Somersham 19 (G Brown 14, S Copping 5)

30 (J Studd 18+1, P Jay 12+1)
29 (B Copping 17+1, R Pyke 12+3)
28 (P Ingram 19, P Williamson 9+1)
22 (L Richardson 15, S Pyke 7)
20 (D Palfreyman 11, W Kitcher 9+1)
20 (K Teager 12, P Mittell 8+1)

Fixtures 2009:

June 3 19:00 Suffolk U9/U11 GP*
June 20 Deborah Mittell Charity Shield
Aug 5 19:30 Suffolk U13/U15/U17 GP*
Aug 26 19:00 TA Security Suffolk U10 Championship*
* These meetings are run by the Suffolk Cycle Speedway Association

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