The Ipswich Witches secured a 50-40 victory in the East Anglian derby away at King’s Lynn in the Premiership last night.

Lowly King’s Lynn came into the fixture with a patched up side whilst the Witches were high on confidence after Monday’s win at Leicester.

The Stars pushed Ipswich hard before the Suffolk side pulled away in the latter stages of the meeting for a comfortable victory which saw them pick up two league points and the aggregate bonus point. Jason Doyle top scored with 13.

Witches' team boss Ritchie Hawkins said: "Another victory and another good performance, I felt we were solid throughout the meeting.

"Jason and Emil were superb and everyone else was picking up points. We kicked on nicely and pulled away a bit at the end which was nice.

“We need everyone chipping in with points to back Emil and Doyley up and it was nice to see Erik score a few tonight.

East Anglian Daily Times: Emil Sayfutdinov pocketed a paid maximumEmil Sayfutdinov pocketed a paid maximum (Image: Steve Waller)

"He had machinery troubles in his first ride which was the same that he had at Leicester.

"It is a bit of a mystery to be honest, it is not through lack of effort because he must have changed everything to try and solve that before tonight and it happened again straight away in his first ride.

"For him to come back and score a few points was good hopefully that is something he can build on for Monday.

"We are doing everything we can do at the moment; we have got maximum points from our last three meetings, and we are going to have to go into next week looking for another five points and that is all we can do.

“It was great to win, and I saw more Ipswich fans than King’s Lynn tonight, it felt like a home meeting, and it was great to see so much travelling support and I hope they are back again in two weeks, and we can send them home happy again.”

KING’S LYNN 40: Artem Laguta 10+1, Thomas Jorgensen R/R, Benjamin Basso (G) 5, Emil Breum 4+1, Nicolai Klindt (c) 12+1, Simon Lambert 2+1, Anders Rowe (RS) 7+1. Team Manager: David Hoggart

IPSWICH 50: Emil Sayfutdinov 11+1 (Paid Maximum), Erik Riss 5+1, Danny King (c) 9, Keynan Rew 4+1, Jason Doyle 13, Danyon Hume 4, Dan Thompson (RS) 4+2. Team Manager: Ritchie Hawkins