Lakeside Hammers 56, Coventry Bees 37
ANDREAS Jonsson's superb five ride maximum steered the Hammers to a comfortable home victory which continued their unbeaten run at the Arena Essex Raceway on Wednesday evening.

Lakeside led from start to finish against a hapless Coventry side that, other than Aussie Rory Schlein with 15 points and young reserve Ben Barker - looking more than impressive with nine points - could not get to grips with the Hammers track.

Hammers made an impressive start, taking the first two heats 5-1 and followed that with another heat advantage to amass a ten point lead at 14-4.

Lakeside continued with an air of dominance with another three consecutive heat advantages saw them go into heat eight with a 30-12 lead.

With their back to the walls, the Bees battled and Rory Schlein came out in heat nine as a tactical rider and took the heat win, but team-mate Josh Auty’s bike packed up and Coventry only reduced the deficit by three to a 36-21 lead.

But the Hammers continued to produce the goods and took a heat 10 5-1 with Jonsson at the forefront once again.

Coventry started to get going and reduced the deficit with two consecutive 4-2s, with Ben Barker proving his worth to the Bees at reserve, taking heat 12 in style in front of Hammers skipper Adam Shields and Lubos Tomicek.

The Hammers finished the meeting in style with two consecutive 4-2 heat advantages, along with Jonsson securing his maximum after moving from third to first in the final heat to end the meeting on a high.

Hammers: 1. Andreas Jonsson 15; 2. Leigh Lanham 6+3; 3. Adam Shields 11; 4. Jonas Davidsson 6+1; 5. Joonas Kylmakorpi 4+1; 6. Ricky Kling 7+2; 7. Lubos Tomicek 7.

Coventry: 1. Chris Harris 4+1; 2. Oliver Allen 4; 3. Simon Stead 4; 4. Billy Janniro 1; 5. Rory Schlein 15; 6. Ben Barker 9; 7. Josh Auty 0.

Heat-by-heat:
1: Jonsson, Lanham, Allen, Harris (5-1) (5-1) 57.7
2: Tomicek, Kling, Barker, Auty (5-1) (10-2) 58.2
3: Shields, Stead, Davidsson, Janniro (4-2) (14-4) 58.6
4: Schlein, Tomicek, Kylmakorpi, Auty (3-3) (17-7) 57.8
5: Shields, Harris, Davidsson, Allen (4-2) (21-9) 57.7
6: Jonsson, Schlein, Lanham, Barker (4-2) (25-11) 57.4
7: Kylmakorpi, Kling, Stead, Janniro (ret) (5-1) (30-12) 58.7
8: Barker, Tomicek, Lanham, Allen (3-3) (33-15) 58.2
9: Schlein (tactical ride), Shields, Davidsson, Auty (ret) (3-6) (36-21) 57.8
10: Jonsson, Lanham, Janniro, Stead (5-1) (41-22) 57.9
11: Allen, Kling, Harris, Kylmakorpi (2-4) (43-26) 58.5
12: Barker, Shields, Stead, Tomicek (2-4) (45-30) 58.8
13: Jonsson, Schlein, Harris, Kylmakorpi (3-3) (48-33) 57.8
14: Davidsson, Barker, Kling, Janniro (4-2) (52-35) 58.6
15: Jonsson, Schlein, Shields, Barker (4-2) (56-37) 58.3