It was not the result that Warwickshire would have wished for in their final game of the season in the premier division of the BDO Inter County Championships as they slipped to a 20-16 defeat to Devon, this being their third home defeat of the campaign having won just one game at home against Nottinghamshire in October and winning three of their away fixtures.
The defeat sees them drop from third and finish the season in fifth place with 168 points seven short of third placed Lincolnshire and two ahead of Devon who finished sixth.
There were mixed results for the two days fixture as on Saturday the ladies ‘B’ finished all square at 3-3 with Kerry Bambridge (19.03) taking the match award, the men’s ‘B’ losing 7-5 with Thomas Ryan in superb form winning 4-0 against Darren Collis in 15,18,15 and 15 darts for a tremendous 31.81 average the best ‘B’ team average of the weekend.
Sunday’s games saw the ladies ‘A’ go down 4-2 leaving them without a win all season. For the fourth time in the nine games played Trina Gulliver (21.47) took the lady of the match award. The men’s ‘A’ with wins in the final two games from Antony Allen and Anthony West earned a 6-6 draw, Jamie Hughes in top form with his 4-1 win over Mark Turner and 32.96 average.
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