Peter Waite's side, perhaps unexpectedly, won 51-42 at Derwent Park. The victory came just 48 hours after a 48-41 home win over the Comets, and whilst the defeats derailed the Cumbrians' title challenge, the five points gained by the Shielfield Park outfit lifted them up the table and kept their own outside chances of a play-off place alive.
Earlier in the week it looked as if the Bandits' guns had been spiked with Norbert Magosi walking out on the club whilst Tero Aarnio was sidelined with a groin injury which he sustained in a 59-33 defeat at Edinburgh.
In addition to that Makovsky was involved an alleged bust-up in the pits at Armadale which put the club in the headlines in the Scottish press for all the wrong reasons.
EDINBURGH MONARCHS ...... 59
BERWICK BANDITS ......... 33
BERWICK went down to a 26 point defeat at title-chasing Edinburgh on Friday, but there was more bad news when Tero Aarnio ended the night in hospital with a groin injury.
The Finn subsequently missed the Bandits' two Bank Holiday weekend fixtures against Workington, and with Norbert Magosi having quit the club in midweek it meant Peter Waite's side was once again stretched to the limit.
Armadale has never been one of Berwick's happiest hunting grounds and so it turned out again as the Monarchs continued their push for the championship.
Adrian Rymel and Paul Clews got the visitors off to the best possible start in heat one when they recorded a 1-5, but two successive heat maximums for the home side, followed by a 4-2, put Edinburgh 15-9 up after four.
Rymel, who was again Berwick's best rider, won his second outing in five, but they had to wait until heat ten before they provided their next race winner in Michal Makovsky, and by then the meeting was already virtually out of their reach at 39-21.
Rymel was then nominated for double points in 11, and when he hit the front after Andrew Tully blew his engine whilst leading, it looked as if the skipper was about to chalk up a six-point victory.
But Ryan Fisher, who had been handicapped 15m for tape-touching, forced his way from the back and produced a fine win to restrict the Bandits to a 3-5 heat advantage.
Rymel hit back by winning heat 15, but by then everyone's thoughts were with Aarnio who had been injured in a heat 13 spill.
He was taken to hospital and released in the early hours of the morning. There were initial fears that he might need surgery, but thankfully that was not the case, although he was extremely sore.
Edinburgh - Fisher 12+2, Tully 10+2, Summers 9+2, Wethers 9, Lemon 7+2, Jonasson 6+1, Sneddon 6.
Berwick - Rymel 14, Makovsky 7, Clews 5+1, Aarnio 3+1, Franchetti 2, Smith 2, Magosi r/r.
BERWICK BANDITS .......... 48
WORKINGTON COMETS ........ 41
THIS was a match a lot closer than the scoreline suggests, for at the half-way stage title-chasing Workington led by five points and looked as if they might go on to achieve a victory against the weakened Bandits.
But inspired by another Adrian Rymel maximum, Berwick buckled down to the task in hand and five heat advantages from the last seven races turned the meeting around.
Berwick went into the meeting without Norbert Magosi and the injured Tero Aarnio. They drafted in Sheffield's Paul Cooper as a guest, but he failed to score in four outings - falling in his first two - meaning the Bandits were effectively a five man team.
It was nip and tuck in the opening exchanges with the scores level at 9-9 after three.
Carl Stonehewer and John Branney then took a 2-4 from heat four and the Comets went in front at 11-13.
Scott Smith took a nasty tumble after clipping the safety fence coming off the second bend in heat six, but thankfully he was able to walk away. Charles Wright had also fallen before the race was stopped and Rymel beat Stoney in the re-run to cut the gap to one at 17-18.
Kauko Nieminen then ushered Joe Haines home for a 1-5 in seven, despite the close attention of Guglielmo Franchetti, and at 18-23 the Comets were looking threatening.
Michal Makovsky won in eight, but it was two Paul Clews inspired 5-1s in nine and ten, the first when he came off the last bend to pip Stonehewer and the second when he led from start to finish with Rymel, suddenly saw the Bandits in front again at 31-28.
Franchetti then beat Workington guest Ryan Fisher in 11, but the Comets kept it tight with Nieminen and Charles Wright split by Makovskly in 12 and at 37-34 it looked like going to the wire.
The impressive Rymel then made it four out of four in 13 and it was Clews and Franchetti who put them in an unassailable poisition in 14 with a 4-2.
Rymel then, somewhat predictably, then went on to complete his full-house with his fifth straight win in 15, in the fastest time of the night.
Berwick - Rymel 15, Makovsky 13, Clews 8+3, Smith 6, Franchetti 6, Cooper 0.
Workington - Nieminen 11+1, Fisher 8+1, Stonehewer 7+1, Haines 6, Wright 5, Reima 3+1, Branney 1.
WORKINGTON COMETS ... 42
BERWICK BANDITS ..... 51
BERWICK completed the double over Workington at Derwent Park on Monday, and whilst the back to back defeats for the Comets derailed the Cumbrians' title challenge, the five points gained by the Bandits boosted their own play-off hopes.
With Norbert Magosi and Tero Aarnio both missing, not many people gave Peter Waite's side much of a chance when they made the trip to the west coast for the Bank Holiday encounter.
But inspired by Michal Makovsky and reserve Guglielmo Franchetti, who were paid for 33 points between them, Berwick raced to their third victory on opposition soil this year.
Makovsky won his first five races, which must rank as one of his best ever away performances, and he finished the evening with a superb 16 points haul, whilst Franchetti, gaining additional rides after Scott Smith was withdrawn, chipped in with a match-winning 14 paid 17.
In all, the Bandits provided ten of the 16 race winners, and they thoroughly deserved the applause they received from the Comets' fans at the end of the meeting.
Workington - Havelock (guest) 13, Nieminen 11+1, Stonehewer 5+1, Branney 5+1, Reima 2+1, Haines 2, Wright 2.
Berwick - Makovsky 16, Franchetti 14+3, Cooper (guest) 8+1, Rymel 7, Clews 6+2, Smith 0, McPhail 0.