Ormskirk Castle went out on a high on Wednesday night, beating one of our other teams, Ormskirk Phoenix, and becoming the Aughton League 2nd Division league champions for 2021.

At the start of the match Ormskirk Castle were on 83 point with the Phoenix on 77  needing at least 3 points so they couldn’t be beaten, slowly the first four who had all lost points at the start of their games started to catch up and eventually winning. The league was in the bag, but it didn’t stop there, Marylyn Lea played Karen Jones, who played out of her skin and was giving Marylyn a tough time, but again Marylyn came through. Dave Hulse and Stu Lewis turned in a good result, with Stu coming up against a very strong  player (Frank Dixon) for the Phoenix, but he plodded on and came with another good result. The last player for Ormskirk Castle, Dave Allister, was up against  Aaron Backhouse whose striking was superb, when Dave was nearest the block, not only taking out Dave’s lead but also taking the point and going on to win.

This result pushed the Phoenix down to third, despite being on equal points to Tute A they had a slightly worse points difference. The other Ormskirk Team finished a creditable fifth after beating Saracens 6-4 on the artificial on the same evening. The final league table is set out below.

In a nice gesture all three Captains provided food and drinks for everybody at the green as it was the final matches of the season, as a thank you to all the players for their support over the season, although unfortunately the weather turned bad with very fine rain which put a dampener on things.

In terms of the averages for the Division it was great to see three players from our club in the top 5, with ‘Magic’ Marg Copeland finishing top, Dave Hulse second and Steve Denning in fifth It was also notable that one of our youngest players, Andrew Arnold, finished in 11th place in the league averages after having a great season.