Shock of the week in the the Four Oaks and District League was provided by Hill Social. Playing away against second in the table Old Oscott WMC, middle of the table Hill Social won 5-4 to push their counterparts into fifth place. Leaders Midland Red took their winning tally to eight out of a possible nine with a 6-3 win over Bromford Lions to maintain their two points advantage over Good Hope Flights, who beat Boldmere Sports 6-3.
Best individual performance came from Anvil Nomads Peter Allen, who had a 111 break, scored 174 and checked out on eight for a cracking seven darts leg. His team won 7-2 at Hardy Spicer.
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Old Mill caused an upset in the Harborne and District 301 Winter League when they handed out a 6-3 defeat to a strong Raven outfit, this being Raven’s first reversal of the campaign. Hillyfields kept their 100% record intact by winning 7-2 at the Colwyn, R.Mann recording a nine darts winning leg for Hillyfields.
Smethwick Labour Club’s K.Bambrick had a 160 break in his side’s 7-2 win at Bartley Green F.C.
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In match nine of the Brook Meadow Individual League, leader Mark Birch despite hitting 3×140 and 4×100 suffered a setback when he found himself on the wrong side of a 2-1 result against Jason Evans. Evans in response hit 140, 4×100 and had a 100 checkout.
Birch was quick to bounce back as in the very next match he beat his nearest rival Simon Winters 2-1 hitting 3×140. Winters chalked up scores of a maximum and 4×100.
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Red Lion Flights gained their first win in the G.U.L.P. Charity League when they won their home fixture against Victoria Beasts 5-2 to take them joint top of the shadow league. The other three games played also finished with 5-2 results, wins for Barmy Army, Tribe and Tigers at the expense in turn of Radley Rebels, Red Devils and the Who’s.
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West Midlands have definitely turned around their indifferent start to their season in division three of the Kaliber BDO Inter Counties Championships after recording their third win in a row. After a curtain raising defeat by Suffolk they then beat Devon and Wiltshire. In their latest fixture at home to Oxfordshire they had 7-5 wins from both of their men’s teams, a draw by the ladies ’B’ and a solitary defeat for the ladies ’A’ to give them aclose but vital 19-17 victory.
For the third successive game Ian Jones was man of the match for the ‘A’ side, as in the previous game at Wiltshire he again had a 31.31 average. Ian Hartland (285.05) was the ’B’ side top player and for the ladies, Sara Jukes (2031) and Angie Perry (16.49) took the ’A’ and ’B’ respective awards.
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