Top marks for Bantaray as the Architect hits top form - Wood-Shot Wednesday

Ohhhhhhh Wood-Shot!

Unbeaten runs come to a end in the latest instalment of Wood-Shot Wednesday, this time with more magic moments, great scoring, quick legs, superb checkouts, whitewashes and shock results.

After taking a valiant point from his match with Jason 'The Architect' Coe last week, Luke 'Bantaray' Manterfield, fresh from a gruelling exam as well, defeated 'Mount' 3-1 for his first win of the season and thus ending the big-man's five match unbeaten run. Brimming with confidence Luke inflicted a 4-0 defeat to Ace 'The Calculator' Kelly to take him well away from the foot of the table with a total of 7 points. Sandwiched between these wins, Luke slugged out a 2-2 draw with Adam 'A-Train' James - who switched to marathon mode again to catch up with matches he missed at the start of the campaign.

The Architect looked in fine form throughout the day with four spectacular wins, brushing past all his opponents with consistent scoring and a string of excellent checkouts. Jason finished the day with statistics of...

Scoring = 18 x 100+

Legs Under 30 = 8 (quickest of 21)

Checkouts (above 60) = 2 (74 and 66)

Along the way, Jason made the most of a 2-0 lead against Mount go to the top of the table. A thoroughly convincing display from The Architect, with 7 scores of 100+ and 2 legs under 30, left little chance for John to make up for his earlier loss in the day.

Perhaps the best match witnessed in the league so far involved Jason and Matt 'Needles' Brindley, in which all four legs were won in under 30 darts - The Architect came out victorious 3-1 and remains undefeated in 8 games.

However, Matt 'Tank' Waters dream of a perfect bull-off record was shattered by Will 'The Hitman' Burley in a tense and difficult battle between two great (but very competitive) friends. The Hitman threw some of the best darts in his Premier League career to date, matching Jason's impressive statistics of 7 scores of 100+ in one match. Despite his rhythm on the 20, Tank held his nerve better at the double to take an unassailable 3-0 lead. Fuming, literally fuming, The Hitman fought back to take the last in 27 darts.

Tank's has been in excellent form since losing his one and only match of the league back in March. Since then he has accumulated points steadily and appears in a very good position to make it into the top four. The Hitman may well claim that he was robbed, but Tank's main concern going into next round of fixtures is preventing allegations of match-fixing that were keenly expressed by the Calculator, Ace Kelly, materialising and circulating in the media... the details of The Calculator's allegations seemed to be made in a foreign language and were immediately dropped with no interpretor present.