Eastbourne had Simon Stead as a guest replacement for the absent Nicki Pedersen but their star of the night was Davey Watt who scored a massive 20 points from 6 rides which included a double points tactical ride victory.
The Bees were without Martin Smolinski, who was suffering from concussion, so his place in the team was taken by Tomas Topinka, with again rider replacement covering the injured Olly Allen.
Coventry started with a shared heat but a maximum 5-1 in heat 2 set the Bees on their way, and whilst the efforts of Davey Watt managed to keep the scores close the Bees were always in control. The Bees total of 9 bonus points to Eastbournes 2 shows how the points scoring places were packed by them.
Top scorers for the Bees were Scott Nicholls with 11+2 from his 5 rides with Rory Schlein weighing in with 11 points from his 5 rides, and Billy Janniro with 10+2 from 6 outings.
With Peterborough winning at Ipswich Coventry's opponents at Brandon this coming monday night, for the one off championship semi-final, will be the Poole Pirates.
Both Semi-finals witll be shown on monday night by Sky TV, but for those wishing to relish the atmosphere live the meeting is likely to begin at 7.30pm.
| M | W | D | L | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | AP | Tot | ||||||
| 1 | Coventry | 36 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 1819 | 1463 | 57 | 16 | 73 | ||||
| 2 | Swindon | 36 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 1853.5 | 1451.5 | 53 | 14 | 67 | ||||
| 3 | Peterborough | 34 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 1650 | 1427 | 47 | 10 | 57 | ||||
| 4 | Poole | 34 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 1675 | 1420 | 43 | 12 | 55 |