Castle 67 Five Arches 82
25th April 2015

Darts champion and Five Arches captain Ben Cloake, travelled with his team to Haverfordwest for the start of the 2015 season. Looking for a good start to avoid any relegation battle later on in the season, the Five Arches duly responded with a solid 10 points to 4 win against the Castle side. Returning skip Ben Simmons with his rink of John, Johno and the irrepressible Steve, certainly made hay as the sun shone in Haverfordwest, winning by a massive 38 shots to 8. A great performance from all four. On the next rink, Ashley, greatly assisted by Dai, Bill and Kev, pulled out all the stops to win a tough battle against Castle stalwart, Mike Codd by 19 shots to 12. The Castle quartet included ex Tenby member Colin Jones. 

Captain Ben with Tenby new member David Lloyd, Mike and Peter certainly had a battle on the tricky rink three. After six ends the game was even at 6 shots all, by the 14th end the Castle squad had pulled out a slender 4 shot advantage. However, over the remaining third of the game they extended their lead to win by 25 shots to 13. Neil and his rink had a challenging day out on rink 4. Ably supported by Ken, Fred and Harold, the game was delicately poised after 8 ends with the Castle four leading by 5 shots to 4. Unfortunately a run of six ends without scoring enabled the Castle boys to extend their lead, However a fightback on the closing ends ensured the lead did not extend by too many. The Five Arches quartet eventually losing by 22 shots to 12. 

Next game is at home to newly promoted Fishguard & Goodwick on Saturday, another good performance would set us up nicely for the rest of the season. 

Five Arches rinks, Castle skips only.

John Rees, Jon Hubbard, Steve Davies, Ben Simmons 38  B Butters 8
Bill Benham, Kevin Lewis, Dai Spencer, Ashley Hooper 19  M Codd 12
David Lloyd, Mike Day, Peter Hooper, Ben Cloake 13  H Davies 25
Harold Ebdon, Fred Broomhead, Ken Lloyd, Neil Dickinson 12  G Walters 22