2000-02-03

In their latest BDO Inter Counties Championships Division One fixture Warwickshire played hosts to Northumberland. With both teams challenging for the title and promotion a very close result was envisaged, and that was exactly how it turned out.
Saturday’s games were somewhat of a disaster as the ladies ‘B’ went down 4-2, their first defeat of the season and the men lost 8-4, their second consecutive defeat after opening the season with four straight wins. Taking the match awards were Carol Weston (20.88) and Mark Flood (30.67).
Sunday was a different story, in fact a complete reversal. The ladies won 4-2, with Trina Gulliver (25.05) taking the lady of the match accolade for the six time in as many outings. The men made it four 8-4 wins in a row with Mark Hollyoake the outstanding player with a 32.18 average.
So not a win as in the previous five games, but nevertheless it was not a defeat and the points tally for Warwickshire now stands at 155, just two short of promotion leaders and local rivals Staffordshire. Northumberland are third on 134 points.