Over the Christmas break the Forest of Arden League staged their annual Forest of Arden League / Riley’s Christmas Open at the Solihull based club. The first semi final saw William Naylor beat Ian Jones and joining Naylor in the final was Tony Randell, who with scores of 3×140, 121, 134 and 180 defeated Nick Fullwell, whose top scores were, 140, 125 and a 150 game shot.
Randell hit 2×100’s in the first leg of the final, but found it was not enough as Naylor, who also hit two hundreds produced a bull finish off 86. Randell squared the game when he won the second leg, and then for the first time in the final took the lead when he recorded a tremendous twelve darts leg hitting two consecutive maximums in the process.
Despite hitting a 180 Naylor also lost the fourth leg when Randell chalked up another maximum and with a 78 checkout opened up a 3-1 advantage.
The last two legs were nip and tuck all the way but it was Tony Randell who came out of the tussle the 5-1 winner to clinch the top prize of £250, as runner up Naylor received £90 and there was £40 for each of the losing semi finalists.
The final of the Plate competition saw Ian McFarlane beat Alan Caddick to take the title.
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Congratulations to Warwickshire pair Trina Gulliver and Jamie Hughes who have both been selected to play for England in this year’s internationals due to be played in the spring. Trina is also picked to play in the three a side Six Nations Cup.
Former West Midlands player Paul Hogan, now representing Berkshire is also chosen for the England team.
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The Small Heath League will be holding their next league meeting this coming Sunday at the Emerald Club. All teams should be represented at the meeting which will get underway at 11.00am.
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