This coming weekend Warwickshire will be playing their mid season fixture, the fifth of a scheduled nine in the premier division of the Kaliber BDO Inter Counties Championships, they will travelling north to take on Yorkshire at the Glasshoughton WMC, Castleford, West Yorkshire. With only one win in four games Warwickshire desperately need to get some more points on the board and a win against such formidable opponents would be just the tonic to kick start the 2007 programme.
Teams for the Yorkshire game are, Men’s ‘A’:- J.Hughes, D.Harris, C.Hickman, T.Aldridge, R.Hawker, T.McGlone, D.Atkins, M.Carter, S.Hine, T.Ryan, M.Angell, D.Buckley, Men’s ‘B’:- T.Frost, N.Grant, L.Harris, T.Brown, B.Jones, M.Gorst, I.Scattergood, P.Jiwa, N.Heydon, A.McWilliams, P.Merrett, D.White, Reserves:- C.Laffar, P.Livingstone, P.Deslandes, M.Slater, D.Crossingham, D.Clarke, S.Timlin, Women’s ’A’:- T.Gulliver, C.Bywaters, L.Newcombe, V.Franklin, V.Byrne, D.Pinch, Women’s ’B’:- H.Rigg, T.Edgecombe, W.Adams, M.Jennings, P.Thornton, C.Dicken, Reserves:- L.Farrell. N.Harris, D.Barbier, C.Pike.
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Ian McFarlane, reigning champion of the Brook Meadow Individual League is once more setting the pace for the rest of the field. With an increase in the number of players this season the defence of his title is going to be that much more difficult, but after completing six fixtures he has won five and only lost one, 2-1 to Carl Winters. The latest round of games has seen McFarlane beat A.Ashford 3-0 and D.Elliott 2-1 to give him a total of 23 points, five more than his nearest rival Trevor Frost, but Frost has two games in hand. Frost and Keith Kelly have both only played four games and are the only players remaining with a 100% win record.
Hitting maximums this week were Mark Birch (2), Colin Farrington, Trevor Frost and Jon Miley.
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Dolphin won the division one title in the Pip Club League last season and have begun the new campaign with a view to hanging on to that title, an away game against Tamworth Snooker Centre was the curtain raiser for Dolphin and they went on to win the encounter 5-3. Mark Martin (Dolphin) recorded a thirteen darts game breaking with 89, hitting scores of 100, 100,180 and checking out on double sixteen. In their opener newly promoted Hopwas Club gained a creditable home 4-4 draw with last season’s division one runners up Red Lion ’A’.
Last season division two’s Boot Inn and Red Lion ’B’ managed just two wins each throughout the season. Both have got the new season off to a 5-3 winning start as Boot accounted for the Wigginton and Red Lion ’B’ beat Red Lion (Polesworth). Royal Oak (Kingsbury), who dropped down from division one began life in the second division with a 5-3 defeat at the Glascote Club.
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The recent knockout staged at the Tipton Sports and Social Club was a huge success attracting in excess of 100 entrants. The eventual winner, who claimed the top prize of £500 was Welsh player Andy Roberts. Roberts was taken to the wire in the final narrowly beating Wolverhampton man Wayne Jones 4-3. Jones collected £250 as runner up, over £1,000 was paid out in prize money. So successful was the event that already it is being spoken of as an annual knockout.
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