The King's Lynn Stars hope to win two more trophies this season

King's Lynn Stars lifted the Premier League trophy in front of more than 2,000 fans before beating Birmingham 55-38 at the Norfolk Arena.

There were fireworks as captain Tomas Topinka received the trophy from the mayor of King's Lynn on Wednesday.

Stars' team manager Rob Lyon told BBC Radio Norfolk that he is urging his team to go for the treble.

"We've won eight trophies in five years. Let's hope we can win another couple," he said.

"King's Lynn went a long time without any success at all and in the last few years we've manager to bring them quite a lot, they're getting used to it now.

"We'll try and bring in some more, it would be great to win the treble like we did in 2006," he added.

Birmingham threatened to spoil the Stars' party and were just two points behind at the half-way mark.

Darcy Ward and Tomas Topinka put in strong second-half performances to ensure the Stars fans saw another home win.

Lynn are next in action on Friday as they ride in the first leg of the Premier Trophy final at Edinburgh, a match Lyon is expecting to be well contested.

"It's going to be tough, Edinburgh have strengthened their team again, but we feel confident enough to take anyone over two legs," he said.

"We have to be on our game to do that obviously, we want to contain them in the first leg, 10 or 12 points would be nice and hopefully finish it off here."

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