SGB Championship, play-off, semi-final, second-leg: Glasgow Tigers 34, Sheffield Tigers 31 (agg: 65-90) (result stands after meeting declared after 11 heats because of curfew)
Glasgow Tigers required a miracle to achieve their aim of making the Grand Final but the dream was extinguished as early as Heat 11 with the score at 34-31 in favour of the home side.
Sheffield march on to face Ipswich Witches with the first-leg at Sheffield on Thursday and the return at Ipswich on Saturday.
Injury-hit Glasgow left themselves too much to do after their 59-31 capitulation in Yorkshire in the first-leg last Thursday.
And they were up against it from the off tracking three guests and forced into rider replacement for crocked rising teenage star Dan Bewley.
A 5-0 scoreline against them in the re-run second heat was not what they wanted with Sheffield’s Georgie Wood winning and Jan Graversen coming home second.
Glasgow guest Alfie Bowtel was excluded from the first re-run and another guest James Sarjeant excluded from the second.
Sheffield even saw Josh Bates and former Glasgow favourite Josh Grajczonek withdrawn from the meeting through injury.
But Sheffield held their nerve to emerge comfortable winners on aggregate after the meeting was halted because of the curfew.
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