Workington Comets home match with Plymouth Gladiators tomorrow has been postponed and will be fitted in later in the season.
The rain during the week, along with the poor weather forecast tomorrow has prompted the call off, as well as the long travel involved for the opposition.
The Northside track will host the prestigious Ben Fund Bonanza next Sunday, July 14, when a host of top riders will be involved, including local Grand Prix star Dan Bewley.
Comets skipper Craig Cook is one of those taking part and he was in Premiership action last night riding for the Leicester Lions at home to the reigning champions Sheffield Tigers, who had his Workington team-mate Troy Batchelor as a guest.
They only met once on track in heat eleven, which Batchelor won, helping his side to a 5-1 with Cook out of the points on that occasion.
It was the only race in which Cook, riding at reserve, missed out on scoring as he finished the meeting with 5 + 2 from two seconds and a third in his other three outings.
Batchelor, riding at number two for Sheffield, had six rides – retiring in the first and finishing out of the points in heat fifteen. But in between he scored eight and a bonus from a win, two seconds and a third.
To ex-Comets were in opposition as Richard Lawson scored eight at number two for Leicester with two thirds, followed by two heat victories while Kyle Howarth had six for Sheffield at number four from five rides which included a win, a second and a third with two lasts.
In the end Leicester gained ground in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership play-off race with a 53-37 home win against the champions.
Captain Max Fricke scored a paid maximum for the Lions with 14+1 from five rides as they recovered from some early mechanical trouble to pull clear in the second half of the meeting.
Fricke was backed up by Sam Masters with 10+1 whilst the injury-hit Tigers, without their top two of Jack Holder and Tai Woffinden, suffered their second away defeat of the week, with Chris Holder top-scoring on 13+1.
Elsewhere in the Premiership Ipswich extended their ROWE Motor Oil Premiership advantage with a dramatic Super Heat victory at Oxford.
The Witches are eight points clear at the top after the outstanding Emil Sayfutdinov (a maximum from his five rides) and guest Scott Nicholls got the better of Maciej Janowski and Chris Harris in the decider after a 45-45 draw across the regular 15 races.
Oxford used Janowski (6 + 3) and Harris (6) even though Eric Riss (10 + 2) and former Comet Charles Wright (9 + 2) had out-scored them in the meeting. Wright had a win and three seconds on the night from his four rides.
