Despite dissappointment in not being promoted this year, we got the 2nd best in the news that Fishburn, our friends who have shown great hospitality this year winning the league. The good thing about this is Blackhall failed to win the league. GET IN YOU BEAUTIES!!!!
We collected our Division 2 trophy last night - wehey!
Although we are obviously delighted and look forward to playing top quality opposition the prize money of a tenner was quite frightening!
Also at last nights meeting it was confirmed that the Barningham Jack will be taken over by North Lodge BC for this year in helping with their clubs centenary.
The draw has been made for this years EBA Competitions giving us some tricky ties:
Singles:-
C. Northam V S. Morland - A tricky away tie to a very good young player of the RA.
C. Black V B. Hopkins - A very difficult game at the RA for Barry against the RA club champion.
V. Rewcastle V B. Hopkins Jnr - A tough starter for Barry against a fellow County C Team player - no games away at Barnard Castle are easy.
J. Hills V W. Morland - This looks to be a really exciting game and a difficult one for Bill at the RA.
Pairs:-
S. Morland/D. Neil V H. Davidson - No games at this level are easy but Dave & Scott would be upset not to defeat these two Barnard Castle lads at home.
B. Hopkins/W. Morland V Winner of A. Kirtland & K. Storey - This looks like another exciting tie where Baz and Bill need to make home advantage count.
A. Dobie V B. Hopkins Jnr - Another very difficult away game at Barnard Castle but certainly winnable.
S. Brodie/A. Bell V G. Peacock/S. Clarke - This is an incredibly hard game for the 2 EBA virgins but will be a fantastic experience for them.
Triples:-
S. Morland/W. Morland/D.Neil V B. Hopkins/B. Hopkins Jnr - This will be a good tie but its a shame our lads have to meet each other in this early stage.
Fours:-
H. Davidson V B. Hopkins Jnr - this is a good draw for little Baz but its a shame that again it is at Barnard Castle.
S. Morland/D. Neil/W. Morland/B. Hopkins V Winner of above match - Another shame that our teams could meet but if Barry Jnr got through one of us would be in the County stages.
Two Wood Seasons:-
S. Morland V G. Peacock or S. Clarke - A difficult game either way but at least its at home.
B. Hopkins Jnr V W. Morland - Another of our 2 lads meet, this would be a giant killing if Baz could pull this off.
B. Hopkins V Winner of above - Certainly a challenge to play his son or Bill Morland - one to look forward to either way.
U25 Junior Singles
B. Hopkins Jnr V C. Northam - A difficult tie for Baz but if he can win this he could go all the way
R. Woodward V Winner of above - already in the district final, this could be the year we see the best of Richard so we hope Baz makes it through to have an all South Park Final.
After many heated discussions the Works League Clubs voted Mech-Tool South Park as members of the League.
We will have 2 teams running as one division of 12 teams, then after playing each team once we will play 5 other opposition depending on which half of the table we lie.
The District 8 EBA meeting will be held Wednesday 22nd at Darlington Indoor BC.
We will find out all our EBA Competition Draw, fingers crossed for a generous one!!
We will also see who Simon Brodie & Andrew Bell meet in the pairs as they make their EBA competition debuts.
The Works League meeting will be at the Darlington RA this Wednesday night. It will be confirmed that our league entries of 2 Mech-Tool teams have been successful and also the result of our proposal that the league rules change so we can rotate all our players between the 2 team entries.