Black Country’s seventh fixture in the L-Style Division One of the UKDA National League was a home tie against Somerset. Going into the fixture Somerset were riding high in second place with 151 points from seven games while Black Country were placed eighth on 111 points from six games.
It was a poor start to the weekend when the ladies ‘B’ fell to a 5-1 defeat with Chez Allcock their sole winner, beating Zoe Liddle 3-1 with a 21.73 average. The men’s ‘B’ managed to reduce the arrears to 10-8 with their 7-5 victory, Neil Steventon topping the averages with his 26.33 and 4-3 win against Jody Matthews.
Once again it was defeat for the ladies on Sunday as the ‘A’ team finished on the wrong side of the 4-2 result, Grace Angell and Heather Wright their two winners with Wright collecting the match award for her 3-2 win over Shelley Cotterell and 16.19 average.
With the overall score now at 14-10 to Somerset, the men’s ‘A’ had a difficult task, requiring at the worst an 8-4 win to see them finish the weekend with a draw. Nevertheless, an 8-4 win is what the men’s ‘A’ got, with their man of the match Jamie Rollinson in top form recording a tremendous 32.32 average in his straight 4-0 win over Leigh Taylor.
The weekend’s draw saw Black Country remain eighth in the table with 130 points, and despite having a game in hand on leaders Worcestershire they are forty-seven points adrift of them.
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