RICHARD Hall was the star of the show as Sheffield raced to a superb 50-40 win at Glasgow on Sunday.

Hall brushed aside his recent injuries to top score with 12 points and it helped his team to register their first Premier League away victory of the season. The tough Yorkshireman stormed to four straight heat wins but unfortunately missed out on a maximum following a fall and exclusion in the final race.

Ricky Ashworth scored 10 points and Josh Auty and Paul Cooper chipped in with 9+1 apiece in what was a good all-round performance by the Window Centre Tigers.

There was nothing much to choose between the two teams in the early stages. Hall, Ashworth and Auty all tasted victory in the opening six races, but the visitors finally hit the front when Hall and Joel Parsons romped to a 5-1 in heat 7 over Jason Bunyan and Mitchell Davey.

Lee Dicken and Rusty Harrison then looked set to level things up in heat 8, but thankfully Cooper managed to split the Glasgow pair on the opening lap.

Auty and Chris Mills quickly restored Sheffield’s four-point lead with a 4-2 in heat 9 and then Hall and Parsons increased it to six with another four-pointer in heat 10.

Ashworth and Cooper put Sheffield in an even stronger position with a 5-1 in heat 11, but Glasgow’s hopes of a comeback received a set-back when Dicken was excluded in heat 12. Dicken was going for double-points when he clashed with Mills on the first bend, but in the re-run Mills and Parsons more-or-less wrapped things up with a 5-1 over Robbie Kessler.

Heat 13 finished as a 3-3, but when Hall again took the chequered flag in a shared heat 14 it was enough to give Sheffield all the points with one race to spare.

GLASGOW 40: Lee Dicken 12+1, Jason Bunyan 11, James Grieves 9+1, Robbie Kessler 4+1, Rusty Harrison 3+1, Mitchell Davey 1+1, Ross Brady (rider-replacement)

SHEFFIELD 50: Richard Hall 12, Ricky Ashworth 10, Josh Auty 9+1, Paul Cooper 9+1, Joel Parsons 6+2, Chris Mills 4, Hugh Skidmore 0