West Midlands in division two of the BDO Inter County Championships played hosts to Northamptonshire and continued their successful season with their sixth win in seven games but the fixture didn’t get off to the best of starts as the ladies ‘B’ were handed a 6-0 whitewash. The men’s ‘B’ made it five wins and two draws when they beat their opponents 8-4, Robert Smith taking the match award with a fantastic 31.31 average as he won the opening game against Curly Connelly 3-0 in 15,18 and 15 darts.
Sunday’s games saw the ladies ‘A’ maintain their unbeaten record with their best win of the season a 5-1 result with Sarah Roberts (26.84) winning the lady of the match award for a fifth time this season. The men’s ‘A’ shared the spoils with a 6-6 result Ian Jones their top man with a 4-2 win over his namesake Chris Jones. Ian won the second leg in 18 darts and took the last three all in 15 darts and amazingly all with an 81 game shot to give an overall win of 19-17 to keep West Midlands second in the promotion table one point behind leaders London and four ahead of third placed Berkshire.