A LOOK BACK IN TIME - 12.01.2005
Warwickshire will begin 2005 in the premier division of the Kaliber BDO Inter Counties Championships with an away game against Yorkshire, the midway fixture of the season. The match will be staged at St Patricks WMC, Southmoor Road, Hemsworth, Nr Pontefract and Warwickshire will be hoping to return to winning ways after their 21-15 demise in the last game of 2004 at home to Hampshire.
Lining up for the away side will be, Men’s ‘A’:- S.Dwyer, S.Mitton, S.Hine, T.Brown, M.Hollyoake, M.Angell, T.Aldridge, T.McGlone, D.Wykes, D.Atkins, D.Honey, D.Buckley, Men’s ‘B’:- D.Clarke, M.Smith, D.Crossingham, M.Brown, C.Laffar, C.Green, M.Gorst, W.Matthews, D.Harris, P.Brotherton, P.Jiwa, P.Koyce, Reserves:- R.Carr, M.Carter, M.Sedgwick, A.Barnwell, J.Morris jnr, G.Podmore, G.Flowers, Women’s ‘A’:- C.Bywaters, L.Newcombe, V.Franklin, V.Byrne, J.Dwyer, T.Gulliver, Women’s ‘B’:- M.Jennings, D.Burke, D.Jones, C.Pike, B.Sinnett, J.Hill, Reserves:- N.Harris, H.Rigg, D.Weston, D.Barbier, P.Thornton.
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West Midlands, in division three, will be hoping that 2005 is going to be better than 2004 and indeed it needs to be if they are to stand any chance of promotion to the second division as in four fixtures they have currently won one and lost three, not exactly promotion results. Nevertheless, with five more games to play there is still time to put together a winning run and gain promotion. They restart their fixture card with a home tie against Clwyd.
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The Forest of Arden Winter League has kicked off after the holiday break with the final for their Presidents Cup. Playing at the Mackadown Sports and Social Club the two finalists were league leaders Red Arrows and Farringdon Social.
With wins from J.Cartmell, M.Duggan, A.Price and I.Spencer for Red Arrows and N.Lumley, B.Phipps, A.Sleath plus in the doubles A.Sleath and P.Newton the scoreline was delicately poised at four each with one more doubles game to be played. The very close 5-4 result went somewhat surprisingly to Farringdon Social when N.Lumley and R.Read beat their counterparts I.Spencer and A.Price.
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The Sheldon and District Winter League will be staging round two of their Punch Bowl tomorrow evening. The draw for the nine a side one leg of 301 double start and finish competition is, Gunmakers Arms v Old Bill and Bull, Fordbridge Social v Sheldon Dukes, Sheldon Social v Three Horse Shoes, Yardley Ex Service Flights v Highwood, Iron Horse v Lea Hall Sports and Social, Toby Jug v Saltley Amateur Gardeners, Stechford Social v Shard End RBL, Banbury Club v Castle Vale Residents Association.
The preliminary round of the Sheldon Shield will also be played tomorrow evening and with seventeen teams participating there will only be one match played and that is between Millhouse and Shard End RBL Flights.
The competition will take the same format as the Punch Bowl.
All league secretaries should note that the league’s next meeting will be this coming Sunday at the headquarters, Lea Hall Sports and Social Club.
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RESULTS:
Forest of Arden Winter League:Presidents Cup :Final:- Red Arrows 4 (J.Cartmell 2x100,140b, M.Duggan 131, B.Twist 100, C.Grimes 100, I.Spencer 100) Farringdon Social 5 (N.Lumley 2x100,121, B.Phipps 100, A.Sleath 122, R.Read 2x100,120b, P.Newton 123).
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