JERRAN Hart scorched to an immaculate 18-point maximum in front of a bumper Wimborne Road crowd as Buccaneers put one hand on the National League title silverware last night.

But it was Bournemouth Castle Cover reserve Aaron Baseby who also stepped up to the plate to grab a classy 11 paid 17 after injury to his brother Mark had seriously threatened their double bid.

The Dorset side have already secured the knockout cup after beating Buxton in the final.

Now they’ll go into the play-off final second leg at Plymouth tomorrow clear favourites to complete the job as they protect a 28-point lead.

Mark Baseby sustained a rib injury in a bad first-bend fall in heat five after colliding with Devils guest Craig Cook going into the corner.

Cook, who flew head-first into the air fence, sustained suspected rib injuries that also forced his early withdrawal.

Mark Baseby, hit by his bike as it rebounded back onto the track off the fence, stayed down longer.

However, after being stretchered into an ambulance, he walked back to the pits across the centre green after receiving first aid, but was unable to ride again.

He faces a fight to be fit for the second leg, which could see Buccaneers clinch a league and cup double in their debut season.

Bournemouth, who’d begun the meeting without injured Kyle Newman, got the better deal following the two withdrawals.

Buxton’s rider, standing in for injured Mark Simmonds, is a class act who’d already led Paul Starke to a shock Devils 5-1 over Bournemouth captain Jay Herne in heat one.

Cook, excluded for inadvertently bringing Mark Baseby down in heat five, could have been expected to pick up at least nine more points.

That would probably have kept Plymouth’s margin of defeat around the 16-18 mark and with Adam Allott guesting for Simmonds tomorrow, overall victory would have been closer on the Devon outfit’s radar.

As it is, the task to complete their own National Trophy and league double is not impossible. But they do have a mountain to climb.

A lot of that is down to Aaron Baseby, although the other four Bournemouth riders to finish the first leg in one piece all banged in paid double figures as well.

So stand up Hart (18), Herne (11+2), Andrew Aldridge (11+1) and Danny Warwick (9+1) and take a bow because they really dug deep when it mattered.

Amazingly, Aaron Baseby didn’t take the chequered flag last night.

But four paid wins behind Hart (two), Aldridge and Herne and three solid thirds added up to an impressive 11 paid 17 – the biggest haul of his fledgling career.

Aaron’s race-four second place in front of Plymouth’s Kyle Hughes, one of the top National League riders, illustrated the younger Baseby’s determination to make a big impression.

And Buccaneers didn’t look back, despite six-point tactical wins by Hughes and Seemond Stephens, as they turned on the style in front of a 1,500 crowd.

The other highlights were Hart beating Stephens from the back in heat seven and Hughes pipping Warwick for victory on the line in race nine.