Tigers win despite Legault problem!!

SHEFFIELD Pirtek Tigers beat Somerset 55-41 in the Knockout Cup semi-final - but missed out by an agonising one-point on aggregate in late drama at Owlerton. Sheffield looked home and dry with two races to go after clawing back a 15-point deficit from the first leg at Somerset’s Highbridge raceway a fortnight ago. They battled superbly to open up a four-point aggregate lead, with Rebels making a last desperate throw of the dice by giving without-a-win Emil Kramer a tactical ride in the penultimate heat 14 And when Sheffield’s Kyle Legault sped from the tapes ahead of Kramer, with Paul Cooper in third place, the heat advantage would have been enough to book a lucrative final ticket against powerhouses King’s Lynn. But with Legault leading by a country mile, his engine dramatically blew entering the final bend and the Canadian ground to a halt – leaving Kramer to pocket six points and turn the tie on its head. The 7-2 race win left Tigers trailing by just one point overall going into the finale, where Ricky Ashworth – in superb form all night – and guest Jason Lyons squared up to Somerset star Magnus Zetterstrom, who just five days earlier had won the Premier League Riders’ Championship in sensational fashion on the same track. When the tapes flew up, in-form Zetterstrom shot out but Ashworth powered round the outside to nose in front and looked set to take the win, while Lyons’ third place ahead of Kramer meant that Sheffield would be on the way to the final by the narrowest of margins.But on the last lap the determined Zetterstrom, beaten three times in earlier heats, used every ounce of throttle to draw level and then blast around the outside of Ashworth with just two bends to go, with the Swede’s race win making sure of the aggregate victory much to Sheffield’s despair.TIGERS: Ricky Ashworth 14, Jason Lyons 11+1, Ben Wilson 8+2, Kyle Legault 7, Paul Cooper 7, Emiliano Sanchez 6+2, Mark Thompson 2+1. SOMERSET: Magnus Zetterstrom 18, Emil Kramer 11, Ben Barker 4+3, Glen Phillips 4, Stephan Katt 2, Simon Walker 2.