POOLE Comets left it late before snatching both points from their Elite League match with Ipswich.

Comets’ heroes were Steve Harris and Marcin Szymanski, who held their nerve to win the last race and steer their team to an 89-88 away win.

The match was always going to be a closely-fought encounter and so it proved as both sides traded heat wins with Ipswich holding a slender 45-44 lead at the end of the first half.

The scores, however, might have been different if Arron Morgan had not been excluded while in a points scoring position in heat seven.

Aaron Smith got the second half off to a good start by winning heat 10 and, with Dean Hook taking a solid third place, the Comets were in front by a single point.

Three more shared heats followed before Smith teamed up with Szymanski for another 6-4 which gave Poole a three-point lead.

Controversy followed at the end of heat 15, with Ipswich awarded a 7-2 race win after a last-bend incident which resulted in race exclusion for Smith and the relegation of his team partner Morgan from a second-place finish.

Comets’ Dean Hook also received his marching orders from the match referee following another racing incident.

Poole’s skipper Greg Gluchowski kept his cool to win the re-run before Harris and Szymanski sealed the overall win.