Black Country began their weekend’s fixture at home to Bedfordshire in division two of the UKDA National League top of the table with 95 points while their visitors were fighting off relegation in a next to the bottom of the table position with 72 points.
The fixture for the ladies finished all-square as both the ‘A’ and ‘B’ games finished with a 3-3 result. Saturday’s ‘B’ game saw Black Country take a 2-0 lead through Heather Wright and Lacey Hughes but Bedfordshire fought back and reversed the advantage as with wins from Fran Bent, Lynda Drawe and Donna Hutt they moved to within an ace of victory but with a lady of the match performance from Doreen Hunt who beat Irene Maddy 3-2 with a 15.51 average, the final score was 3-3.
The ladies ‘A’ had an exact repeat of their ‘B’ teams game as Shannon Hall and Steph Konys gave them a 2-0 lead and then the away side went 3-2 up with wins from Diane Nash, Maria Perrin and Holly Meadwell and once again it took a final lady of the match showing from Chez Allcock to salvage a share of the points. Chez won 3-1 against Kerry King and averaged 18.46.
As the ladies finished with the same results, so did the men as both teams won 9-3. The men’s ‘B’ side kicked off with a man of the match game from Graham Hall as he chalked up a super 29.47 average in his straight 3-0 win over Paul Hale. The following four games were shared as Russ Albon levelled the game with a 3-0 win over Shane Sheridan then Martyn Harper restored Black Country’s lead with his 3-1 success over Aiden O’Mahoney before Josh Hook restored parity once again with a 3-1 win against Chris Hickman. By the midway point the home side were 4-2 up with a further wins from Jamie Barrowman who won 3-2 against Luke Ely and Cayden Smith who had a 3-2 win against Gary Brown.
The hosts dominated the second half winning five of the six games thanks to Gavin Smith, Dan Haden, James Hykin, Connor Whitehouse and Jamie Rollinson, Mark Kingdon put up the only resistance to Black Country’s charge.
The men’s ‘A’ side had the perfect start to their game as they stormed into a winning 7-0 lead with Rob Smith, Shane Price, Dan Nicholls, Reece Colley, Gaz Johnson, Tom Bissell and Trevor Brennon all supplying the goods. It was after the game was won that Bedfordshire got their first stripe on the board with Gareth Murray winning 4-2 against Alex Howells. Black Country then moved further ahead with wins from Paul Wells and Stephen Jones, Jones their award winner as he beat Iain Styles 4-2 with a 27.61 average.
The last two games of the day saw Bedfordshire have their best run of the game as Dara Curran and Trevor Ellacott in turn won 4-3 and 4-2 against Rich Bowen and Gavin Smith.
The overall 24-12 win sees Black Country double their lead over second in the division West of England from nine to eighteen points.
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Alan Towe writes with the support of Red Dragon Darts
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