Published at 10:25, Monday, 13 April 2015

Glasgow Tigers 53 Workington Comets 38: Workington Comets were left to lick their wounds yesterday after a 53-38 defeat away at Glasgow Tigers and the loss of skipper Rene Bach.

Rene Bach

Team manager Tony Jackson admitted the result was disappointing and cursed his sides bad luck after Bach withdrew from the final third of the meeting with shoulder pain after a crash. It is not yet known whether the Dane will be fit to ride this weekend.

He added: Several times I was on the phone to the referee because Glasgow were getting away with some pretty blatant movement at the starts and getting off to flyers every time.

Heat 10 was the turning point and after we lost Rene it was a pretty difficult situation we were in.

To come here and win would have been a big ask given how well they go around here, they were tipped pre-season as one of the favourites in this league.

We would have liked to nick a point and were it not for losing Bach I think we would have had enough.

Comets won the toss and chose gates one and three for the opening heat, which saw a thrilling battle between Ricky Wells and ex-Comet Richard Lawson, with the former emerging the victor.

Heat two was stopped due to an issue with the tapes, with Comets reserve Nicki Barrett winning the re-run ahead of Victor Palovaara and James Sarjeant. Rafal Konopka, guesting in place of the absent Nathan Greaves, recovered from a poor start to pass first Palovaara then Sarjeant, before he fell while in second place on the final lap to turn a Comets 5-1 into another draw.

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Bach crocked as Workington Comets lose cup tie in Glasgow