Bishop Auckland Green Tree hosted Bishop Auckland Derby this week hoping to turn around last week's 10-3 defeat.

However, it was the visitors who got off to the best start when David Brassell, Stuart Milne and Gary Dixon won the opening three games. Tony Booth took the next point for the home side before Steve Gwin, Gary Dixon, Andrew Delve and Steve Lowther took four-in-a-row for the Derby. Neil Brown replied with a second point for the Tree before David Brassell took the final singles game. The teams shared the doubles with Steve Lowther and Billy Longmire taking the first for the Derby and Gary Dowson and Tony Mortimer taking the second for the home side. Unfortunately things got no better for the Green Tree when they had to forfeit the captains point due to a lack of eligible players leaving the final score at 3-10.

In the return match of last week's close game Bishop Auckland King's Head visited Spennymoor Voltigeur and Andrew Tuesday and David Jacomb immediately put them two games up in the singles. Andy Mole pulled one back for the home side but Kevin Watson then returned the lead to two games. With a win for the Voltigeur Darren Briggs closed the gap again to one point before Andrew Tuesday restored the gap. At 4-2 down the home side rallied and wins from Tony Biddle, Darren Briggs, Andy Mole and Dean Mains gave them the singles 6-4. Andy Mole then combined with Kelvin Anderson to win the first doubles. The Kings took the remaining points when Kevin Watson and Andrew Searle won the second doubles and Steven West took the captains to leave a final score of 7-6, which was a reverse of the King's narrow victory last week.

Results: Bishop Auckland Green Tree 3 (2) Bishop Auckland Derby 10 (8); Spennymoor Hillingdon 4 (3) Bishop Auckland Bay Horse 9 (7); Spennymoor Voltigeur 7 (6) Bishop Auckland Kings Head 6 (4).