Panthers welcome new era

Adams stars in a losing side

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Panthers welcome new era

Adams: Six points in heat 11 (Pic credit Les Aubrey)

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Struggling Peterborough moved off the bottom of the Elite League table with a 52-41 victory over Swindon.

The Panthers took advantage of Wolverhampton's meeting with Ipswich being lost to the weather to leapfrog the Wolves.

With new management on board, the Peterborough riders celebrated in emphatic fashion against an injury-hit Robins squad, who were unlucky to lose Mads Korneliusssen to injury.

Ryan Sullivan scored 11 points for the Panthers, while Leigh Adams produced an almost flawless display for the visitors, dropping just one point in five rides.

The Robins halved a 14-point deficit in heat 11 as Adams won as a tactical substitute - with James Wright following him home - but it was the Panthers who kicked on in the closing heats.

Peterborough manager Wayne Swales told Sky Sports: "It's been a good night for us. We needed to come tonight and have a good meeting. It is unfortunate for Swindon, losing Mads, but we can only ride up against what is in front of us.

"It is a new era for us and to get a big result like that tonight was good for us.

"We shouldn't be a bottom of the table team. We are a big club. To get that confidence back, for our home meetings especially, for our home fans and that is what we are aiming to do.

"We have had a change - everyone knows what went on in the past but that's in the past, it's a new era and we are going to build on it from here."

In the night's other Elite League fixture, the meeting between Belle Vue and Coventry was abandoned after four heats due to heavy rain.

Coventry were leading 14-10 when officials were forced to call a halt to the action.

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