In their latest UKDA National League Cosmo Darts Premier Division fixture at home against Humberside Warwickshire County Darts Organisation made it four consecutive wins to see them move up into the top three places of the division.
After going 2-1 up with wins from lady of the match Chloe McKivett-Saunders, who won 3-0 against Rachel Harrison with a 16.34 average and Nina Bolt, who beat Karen Helmore 3-2, the ladies ‘B’ had to wait until the final game to secure a share of the points with Angela Jones winning 3-1 against Aleisha Blakestone to give a 3-3 result.
The men’s ‘B’ were in fine form winning 9-3, they stormed into a 4-0 lead thanks to Mark Strong, Mark Martin, William Naylor and Mark Faulkner and by the midway point of the game had 5-1 lead after Samuel Price added his man of the match performance to their tally. Price beat Liam Gordon 4-1 with a 27.04 average. The second half produced wins from Noah Rose, Lee Miller, Dave Hill and Karl Reynolds to put the hosts 12-6 up on the day to take into Sunday’s ‘A’ games.
The ladies ‘A’ romped into a winning 5-0 lead with wins from Natalie Gilbert, Kirsty Hinchliffe, Donna Pinch, Hannah Meek and Marian Conway with Hannah Meek their top player with a super 23.11 average in her 3-1 win over Christine Readhead. Humberside won the final game to put the result at 5-1.
Noel Grant gave the men’s ‘A’ a winning start but then the away side won the following two games. Jack Wareing got the home side back on track with his 4-1 win over Daryn Gary in the fourth and Warwickshire’s men’s ‘A’ lead was restored in the fifth with a 4-2 win from Kevin Dowling over Karl Corcoran. A 4-1 win from Jamie Hughes against Lee Parish made it 4-2 at the break. The second half got underway in style with man of the match Jamie Atkins winning 4-0 against Mark Howard with a tremendous 33.97 average and winning legs of 14,14,14 and 17 darts. Further wins from Gareth Braham, Samuel Whittaker and Jenson Walker took the final score to 8-4 to the home team giving Warwickshire a commanding 25-11 victory for the weekend.
Prior to the latest fixtures Warwickshire were placed fourth, some twenty-one points short of second placed Yorkshire but after their big win they are now only ten points behind Yorkshire.
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