Carl Winters continues to hold on to pole position in the Brook Meadow Individual League despite this week suffering a shock 2-1 defeat at the hands of Terry Clay who was lying fifteenth in the table. Winters was quick to bounce back as in his next game he recorded a straight 3-0 victory over Wayne Legg. The damage was limited for Winters as second placed Darren Whitehouse also lost by 2-1 to Jay Murray.
Third in the league Ian McFarlane is now 15 points behind Winters, however he has three games in hand and straight wins in those games will take him level on both points and average with the leader.
Matt Gallett chalked up a 160 break in his 3-0 win over Mark Elkin.
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Tomorrow night sees the start of the new season for the Pip Club League and the curtain raiser will be the first of two weeks of fixtures for the Open Cup. The draw for the first games that will be played at the Belgrave Club is, Birchmoor Club v Tamworthh Sports Bar, Queens Head v Birch Coppice, Dolphin v Old Liberal, Tamworth Sports Bar 180 v Red Lion ’A’, Two Gates Club v Three Horse Shoes. Match play will commence at 8.30pm.
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Mark Elkin together with “This Is Darts” are presenting an evening with “The Legends Of Darts”, which will include a memorabilia auction, photographs and signings by John “Old Stone Face“, Bobby “King Of Bling” George and Eric “The Crafty Cockney” Bristow.
The evening will be staged at the Holiday Inn, Smallbrook Kingsway, Birmingham on July 17th at 7.00pm – late and will be hosted by top comedian Duncan “Chase Me” Norvell and the MC for the evening from Setanta TV Paul Wilson.
Tickets at £25 and V.I.P tickets £55 can be obtained by ringing This Is Darts Ltd on 07854-984401.
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A maximum and a 12 darts leg was not enough for Jim Norris to beat fourth in the table Andy Hutchings in the Carlsberg Olton Double Top League this week. Hutchings, who also hit a 180 ran out the 2-1 victor and is now just four points adrift of league leader Bob Nixon. Nixon marched on with two 3-0 wins against Steve Harding and Paul Higgins.
Second place is shared by Phil and Tony Randell who both have the same 15 points and are also level on average. Wayne Mathews has taken over the number five spot after a 3-0 win against Ralph Nunn and a 2-1 success over Karl Attwood to give him 13 points. However a 3-0 win in his game in hand would see him move to within one point of Bob Nixon and take over second place.
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The Small Heath League has played off their Doubles Knockout and taking the honours were Emerald Club pairing Neil Parsonage and Raymond Fisher. The winning duo fought off opposition from Paul Brown and Darren Brown (Custard House) in the final to lift the title.
Losing semi finalists were, Arthur Forde and John McCaffrey (Potcheen Still) and Glynn Thomas and Rob Cornish (Custard House).
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Matt Cooper reduced the arrears in the tile race in the Grange Sunday Night Charity 301 Double Top League when he beat leader Jim Norris 2-1 and followed that with a maximum and a 3-0 win against Warren Jones. Norris too had a 3-0 win in his next game with Jules Harris to give him 56 points and an eight points cushion between him and Matt Cooper.
Mikey Harris another player to find the three treble twenties in his 2-1 win over Dave Watkins.
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