County Super League: Horden had a very good six point victory on their visit to Crook Town A.

The home side took three points in the first half, one with a clearance from the break by Neil Campbell and the others from Michael Burke and Doug Bowey. Horden replied with John Bourne matching Campbell's clearance, whilst their other points came from Paul Hickman, James Evans and Steve Nixon.

Little went right for the home side in the second half, where they only took one point from a win by Jim Ainsley, although Michael Burke was very unlucky when he made a complete clearance only to cannon one of his opponents balls in as he finished. The Horden second half points came from Paul Hickman, Stephen Wylie, Shaun Williams, Steve Nixon, John Bourne and Darren Jones.

The race for the Individual Player of the Year is tight.

The current top 12 are first equal Steven Hunter and Ronnie McAloon (Spennymoor) and Gerald Parkin (Crook B) played 10, won 8, lost 2; 4th Rance Richardson (Shildon A) 8, 7, 1; 5th equal David Bromley and Gavin Witton (Spennymoor) and David Stephenson (Crook B) 10, 7, 3; 8th Johnny Mason (Crook B) 8, 6, 2; 9th equal David Elliott (Spennymoor), David Waites and Ian Sanderson (Shildon B) and Les Scott (Crook B) 10, 6, 4.

Bishop Auckland League

Henknowle Manor moved into third place in the table with a three points win at Bishop Auckland Snooker Club. The home side had two singles points from Paul Armstrong and one each from Peter Coates and Craig Marley, whilst the Manor went ahead with two singles wins from Peter Mernor and Ronnie Wright, with Bill Turner and Stephen Webb adding one each. Bob Webb and Bill Turner added the doubles for the Manor before Michael Hoggart of the Snooker Club shared the captains' points with Peter Mernor.

Crook Travellers Rest continued their good start to their first season with an odd point victory at Bishop Auckland Football Club. The home side had two singles points from Lee Taylor and one each from Craig Lumley, Tony Lambert, Karl Neilson and Lee Peacock. The Travellers replied with two points each for Pip Samson and Gavin Hudspeth then went on to victory by taking the doubles through Michael Burke and Gavin Hudspeth and the two points from the captains' games when Pip Samson beat Lee Taylor.

Spennymoor Weardale B lead the table by four points from Shildon Royal George, who are one ahead of Shildon Royal George.

Results: Spennymoor Weardale A 3 Shildon Royal George 10; Bishop Auckland Cumberland 2 Tow Law New Market 11; Toft Hill Three Tuns 8 Crook Coach and Horses B 5; Bishop Auckland Snooker Club 5 Henknowle Manor 8; Bishop Auckland RAFA Club 3 Spennymoor Weardale B 10; Crook Coach and Horses A 7 Bishop Auckland Derby 6; Crook Olde Horse Shoe 6 Crook White Swan 7; Bishop Auckland Football Club 6 Crook Travellers Rest 7.

Tow Law Scottish Courage League

The qualifiers for the League Singles Championship are Colin Armstrong of Tow Law Dan's Castle A, Graeme Thompson of Newhouse Club, Christopher Reed of Tow Law Station and Gavin Tennant of Tow Law New Market B.

The qualifiers for the League Doubles Championship are John Conley and Dave Walton of Sunniside Comedian, John Robinson and Chris Ellis of Hamilton Row Black Horse, Arthur Henderson and Charlie Donaghy of Tow Law Football Club and Malcolm Boughey and Alan Ogilvie of Tow Law Station.

Auckland Area League

Malcolm Parry and David Jacomb gave Bishop Auckland King's Head a two points lead against the visiting Spennymoor Voltigeur B before Michael Craddock and Steve Jones levelled. Steven Taylor took the next for the King's before the visitors made a two frames lead after wins from Ritchie Turner, Peter Summerfield and Steve Jones. Kevin Watson gave the home side a chance but Alan Shaw won the final singles game for the Volti to give them a 6 - 4 lead. The doubles were shared with David Jacomb and David Baird taking the game for the Kings and Michael Craddock and Paul Wrightson taking the Voltigeur's point. Steven Taylor won the captains for the home side to make the final score 7-6 to the visitors.

Spennymoor Voltigeur A took all 13 points against the visiting Bishop Auckland Beehive. Two singles each for Andy Mole, Tony Biddle, Dean Mains and Darren Brigs and one each for Kelvin Anderson and David Graham wrapped up the singles whilst Kelvin Anderson with David Graham and Tony Biddle with Dean Mains added the doubles and Andy Mole completed the whitewash by winning the captains game.

Results: Bishop Auckland Derby 7 Bishop Auckland Grand A 6; Bishop Auckland Grand B 6 Spennymoor Hillingdon 7; Bishop Auckland King's Head 6 Spennymoor Voltigeur B 7; Spennymoor Voltigeur A 13 Bishop Auckland Beehive 0.

Willington League

Dave Bennett of Willington Cottles came very close to land the double of winning both the Singles Championship and the Doubles Championship when he appeared in both finals played at the Prospect Club.

In the Singles Final Bennett took the title when he beat Ian Spowart of Willington New Inn. However he failed to make the doubles when John Morrow and Paul Brownson of Byers Green Royal Oak beat Bennett and his partner, Paul Trow.

Durham County Pool

Durham County teams lost two and won one against the visiting Humberside in the region One Inter-Counties Championship.

The men's A team were beaten 20-24 despite some sterling efforts from Simon Baker, who won all his four games, and from Steve Thompson, Ian Staines and Trevor Walton, who all won three of their four games.

The men's B team won by 24-20 without any played winning all four games. However there were three wins from four for Carl Little, David Lowes, Michael Cockburn, Steve Nixon and Nick Veuger.

The ladies team went down to a disappointing 26-18 defeat, even though the visitors were well below full strength. Sue Seal, who took the Lady of the Match award, and Susan Dixon won three of their four games.

Crook Individual League

Neil Campbell moved up to share third place after he beat Stephen Heyes by the odd point. In the first frame Heyes cleared to his penultimate ball but missed and Campbell cleared and then added the second. He looked to be on his way to whitewash success but wobbled the black, whilst trying a very fine cut, allowing Heyes to clear up to take the point.

Chris Peacock, who has replaced last year's runner-up, Michael Burke, played his first match and beat Stuart Hall by the odd point. Peacock made a good clearance in the first but Hall replied. In the decider Hall took his chance but was unfortunate to pot the black and see the cue ball roll into the pocket.

Lee Scott and Doug Bowey shared the first two frames but then Bowey lost when he failed to strike a cushion when playing a slow shot. Scott took advantage to clear up with the two shots to win.

Les Scott came back from losing the first frame against David Stephenson to take the next two in a rather scrappy encounter.

David Haygarth leads the table by one point from David Craggs, who is one ahead of the joint third placed Neil Campbell, David Stephenson and Les Scott.

The outstanding matches, to be arranged as soon as possible, are Darren Tinkler v Chris Peacock; Chris Peacock v David Craggs; Lee Cullinan v Simon Bowey; Doug Bowey v Chris Peacock and Simon Bowey v Aaron Cowan.

The matches on Monday at Crook Coach and Horses are David Craggs v Gerald Parkin; Darren Tinkler v Aaron Cowan; Simon Bowey v Richard Walker; David Haygarth v Les Scott.