Warwickshire will be kicking off the new premier division season in the Riley’s BDO Inter County Championship with an away game against Yorkshire this coming weekend. The fixture will be played at the Glasshoughton WMC, 152 Leeds Road, Castleford, WF10 4PD and lining up for Warwickshire in this curtain raiser will be, Men’s ‘A’:- Bob Nixon, Dave Harris, Lee Harris, Mark Carter, Mark McGeeney, Noel Grant, Prakash Jiwa, Richard Foster, Rob Hawker, Tom Aldridge, Tom McGlone, Tom Ryan, Men’s ‘B’:- Colin Laffar, Martin Brown, Steve Giddings, Adam Smith-Neale, Mark Birch, Mark Westgarth, Dave Atkins, Tony Brown, Jamie Atkins, Tony Nolan, Mark Kane, Mark Hollyoake, Reserves:- Darren Swords, Martin Tibbetts, Matt Edgar, James Young, Jaz Athwal, Ladies ‘A’:- Trina Gulliver, Sue Biddle, Terri Bellamy, Denis Burke, Lesley Newcombe, Louise Graham, Ladies ‘B’:- Caroline Pike, Tracey Edgecombe, Kim Morris, Wendy Adams, Angela Jones, Trish Roberts, Reserves:- Ann Rodgers, Kerry Fulford.
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Lee Harris claimed a vital scalp in the Carlsberg Olton Double Top League this week when he beat leader Bob Nixon 2-1 and hit two maximums in the process. The win leaves Harris in fifth place in the table six points adrift of Nixon. Nixon’s defeat however, has opened up the door for Andy Hutchings who has now played the same 27 fixtures and has exactly the same average as Nixon. Just two points behind the leading duo is Pat Sinnett and one further point behind him is Tony Randell, looks as though it will be a very close run in to the end of the season.
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Ian McFarlane added a 2-1 win against Steve Cousins and a 3-0 success over Terry Blakemore to his tally in the thisisdarts Individual League to give him 181 points and a massive 34 points lead over second in the table Adam Gallett with only a handful of games remaining. Gallett lost ground this week when he went down 2-1 to Darren Whitehouse and suffered a further 3-0 defeat at the hands of Tony Comerford to leave him just three points ahead of Robbie Earl who has two games in hand.
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Group five of the Sheldon and District Summer League provided one of this week’s shock results as leaders Shard End Social lost their home tie with Yardley Arms 6-2. Shard End remain in pole position on eleven points but they are now being chased by three teams, Yardley Arms, Shirley RBL Flights and Custard House ‘A’ who all have ten points.
In group six second placed Maggies returned from their encounter at Shirley RBL Misfits, who are fourth in the table, on the wrong side of a 6-2 result and are now three points adrift of leaders Garretts Green Social who won the game away to Dovecote 5-3.
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With just one week remaining in the Tamworth Sports Bar League the top three positions are already sorted, Three Horse Shoes are champions on 102 points, Sports Bar 180 runners up with 87 points and St Johns Club third on 73. However, in the player’s league it could not be closer with no less than three players, Clyde Hooper, Mac Tarbuck and Richie Baker locked together on 30 points and none of them play each other in the final games.
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The Gulp League have been involved in the final of their L R Wyatt Cup and semi finals of the E L Ollerenshaw Cup. In the former Tribe took the honours with a final win over Tigers at the Redhill Tavern. The Ollerenshaw Cup saw Beasts beat the Who’s at the Victoria Club, while it was the Rebels who got the better of the Lions at the E.B.A.H.A. Club.
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Sports Bar were biggest winners of the week in division one of the Pip Club League beating North Warwick Cricket Club 15-1. In the second division Two Gates Club were the highest scores a 13-3 win over bottom of the table Progressive Club, the win leaves Two Gates two points off leaders Sports Bar 180 who had a 10-6 win at Queens Head.
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