Following their brilliant start in the Premier Division of the new UKDA National League season, when they won 25-11 away to Cornwall putting them top of the table, Warwickshire were brought back down to earth in their second fixture when the suffered a narrow 19-17 home defeat to Lancashire to see them drop to fourth place on forty-five points, but only six short of new leaders Suffolk.
The weekend got off to a good start with the ladies ‘B’ chalking up a convincing 5-1 win with Kacie O’Connor their top player with a 22.77 average in her straight 3-0 win over Jenny Nuttall. The men’s ‘B’ finished on the wrong side of the narrow 7-5 result with Mark Carter their top player beating Martin Lomas 4-3 with a 26.43 average.
With a 10-8 lead it was not the start Warwickshire would have wished for as Sunday’s games got underway, the ladies ‘A’ going down 6-0 to put Lancashire 14-10 up and although the men’s ‘A’ recorded a 7-5 win it was not enough to avoid an overall 19-17 defeat. Man of the match for the men’s ‘A’ was newcomer Dom Taylor who in his 4-3 win over Lancashire’s Steve Green he recorded a superb 32.09 average, this being Taylor’s second consecutive men’s ‘A’ award winner.
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