ESSEX darts ace Robbie Turner marked his return to Ridley League action with a maximum 170 shot out as St Anne’s Castle won a real dogfight against the Compasses.

The Great Leighs team conceded only one leg in the main darts, and mopped up the mixed point, but the visitors took the women’s game, and a 6-0 dominoes beating left the Castle under siege.

Andy Camp chalked up two 180s, a 102 start and a ton finish as Chequers B hammered Cricketers 12-3 – this, after the Fryerning side had won the first two singles.

Martin Compton, another 180 scorer, lost to Peter Wiffen (Black Bull), but had his revenge in the mixed as the Globe notched a double-figures victory to regain top spot.

Third-placed Chequers A were all-round winners at the Bird in Hand, though Tim Hook and Tony Neal gave the home side some small consolation with success in the last two singles, only the Bird’s ninth and tenth in 77 games.

Chelmsford City, surprise Dominoes Cup semi-finalists after a season’s start that brought three successive 6-0 defeats, are back in the doldrums. Little Waltham knocked spots off them, overturning City’s darts superiority with something to spare.

Results: Black Bull 4, Globe 11 (singles/pairs 2-5, mixed 0-1, women 0-1, dominoes 2-4); Bird in Hand 2, Chequers A 13 (2-5, 0-1, 0-1, 0-6); CCFC 6, Lt Waltham SC 9 (5-2, 1-0, 0-1, 0-6); Chequers B 12, Cricketers 3 (4-3, 1-0, 1-0, 6-0); St Anne’s Castle 8, Compasses 7 (7-0, 1-0, 0-1, 0-6). Late result: Globe 13, Bird in Hand 2 (7-0, 1-0, 1-0, 4-2).

Fixtures (Feb 24): CCFC v Chequers B, Chequers A v Black Bull, Compasses v Bird in Hand, Cricketers v St Anne’s Castle, Lt Waltham SC v Globe.