by John Fuller

Last updated at 11:23, Friday, 09 May 2014

Rene Bach will ride through the pain to ensure Workington Comets progress in the Knock-Out Cup.

Rene Bach

The west Cumbrian side have a 14-point lead going into tonights first round second leg at Somerset.

Captain Bach is still recovering from the hip injury he picked up in the Danish Champiomship semi-final last week. He made his track return earlier this week, but admitted being sore afterwards.

Comets will, however, be without Ashley Morris and Ricky Wells, who are riding for parent club Wolverhampton.

Newcastles in-form Lewis Rose with rider replacement being operated for Wells.

Team manager Tony Jackson said: We realise that this will be a very difficult meeting and of course Somerset know exactly what they need to do to overhaul us and will no doubt try to hit us hard from the start.

We will simply forget about the first leg and look at it as a match we want to win, which hopefully will keep our aggregate lead, or much of it, intact and get us over the finish line.

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