Bears aiming for Shielfield success
The Redcar “Agilia” Bears continue their whistlestop northern tour with a visit to Berwick before they head home for a return fixture against the Glasgow Tigers. Tonight’s meeting is sure to be a close encounter with Berwick looking to improve their home form after a disappointing defeat to Birmingham in the opening weeks of the season. The Bandits, who have 6 riders returning from their 2019 side, will be itching to exact revenge on the Bears after the Teessiders came out with a 43-47 win on their last visit to the Scottish Borders. The Bandits are still without their Argentine star Coty Garcia who is currently locked down in Argentina and they continue to run rider replacement in his absence. Additionally, the Bears will also continue to operate rider replacement in the absence of Jordan Stewart.
Bears co-promoter Jamie Swales is looking forward to tonight’s battle, “I’m looking forward to going to Berwick, it’s a professionally run club and the track is always prepared well so hopefully we can go and put on a show for them. They’ve had a tough start to the season on track but that doesn’t mean we can let our guard down, they have a solid looking team led by our old friend Aaron Summers, and they have one of the best reserve pairings in the league. We all saw what Flinty (Leon Flint) is capable of last week, and with Kyle (Bickley) beside him they managed to score half of the teams points in their recent away match at Poole but at the time of writing we are still unbeaten this season and I see no reason why we can’t carry that on in this fixture.”
Berwick “Fire Training Services” Bandits
- Nikolaj Busk Jakobsen
- Rider Replacement for Coty Garcia
- Jye Etheridge
- Dany Gappmaier
- Aaron Summers ©
- Kyle Bickley
- Leon Flint
Team Manager: Gary Flint
Redcar “Agilia” Bears
- Charles Wright ©
- Rider Replacement for Jordan Stewart
- Jake Allen
- Anders Rowe
- Michael Palm Toft
- James Sarjeant
- Jordan Jenkins
Team Manager: Jade Mudgway