Busy spell for Berwick Bandits

Berwick Jewson Bandits, currently eighth in the nine strong Cab Direct Championship, face three meetings in four days next week.

The Bordes club face trips to pace-setting Oxford Cheetahs on Wednesday, July 24 and then bottom club Stellar Omada Monarchs 48 hours later, before the return home match against the Monarchs on Saturday, July 27.

And Monarchs star Justin Sedgmen (pictured), who finished fifth in the Ben Fund Bonanza at Workington, hopes to carry his form into the Armadale side’s home clash against Workington Comets on Friday (tapes-up 7.30pm).

Monarchs prop up the nine-strong table with Comets in fourth spot.

Elsewhere, Plymouth Gladiators, who are seventh, await a fitness check on Dan Thompson, who suffered a dislocated shoulder last weekend, ahead of their trip to third-placed Poole Pirates on Wednesday. That is followed up by a home clash with Oxford on Saturday.