Sport in Short: Speedway

HANS NIELSEN, Oxford's three-time world champion, will be out of action for a week after suffering concussion in a crash in Poland. He misses today's HEAT Team Championship Final at Peterborough and will be replaced by 16-year-old Glenn Cunningham.

HOMEFIRE LEAGUE First Division: Cradley Heath 40 Bradford 50.

SPEEDWAY STAR KNOCK-OUT CUP First round, second leg: Coventry 51 Belle Vue 39. Belle Vue win 96-84 on agg.