Speedway – Gappmaier shines as Monarchs flop

Kevin Doolan, second-top scorer for Bandits against Monarchs. Picture by Colin Poole

SGB Championship Shield: Berwick Bandits 53, Edinburgh Monarchs 37

Berwick: Aaron Summers 3, Kevin Doolan 10, Jye Ethridge 7, David Howe 6, Nikolaj Busk Jacobsen 8, Matthew Wethers 7, Dany Gappmaier 12

Edinburgh: Ricky Wells 14, Joel Andersson 1, Josh Pickering 1, Mark Riss 6, Eric Riss 11, Coty Garcia 3, Max Ruml 1

Dany Gappmaier top scored with 12 points as high-flying Berwick Bandits mugged near neighbours Edinburgh Monarchs.

Bandits skipper Kevin Doolan added ten points in the comfortable SGB Championship Shield win.

Ricky Wells with 14 points and skipper Erik Riss with 11 accounted for 25 of Monarchs points in a 53-37 defeat.

The rest of their team-mates failed to perform with Mark Riss next best on six points.

And the defeat could have been worse had Wells not won the final race with Erik Riss second for a 5-1 score.