DARREN Thirkell got back to something like his old form last week, winning the first three legs against last year’s champion Andy Skelton, before Andy hit top form to take the last two legs in 18 and 20 darts.
Andy made amends for this defeat late
r in the evening when he got the better of Pete Fearn, winning 4-1 to go back to the top of the league though Steve Stanton and Jim Jukes both have three games in hand.
Pete completed a bad night with another 4-1 defeat, this time to Steve Stanton.
Jim Jukes did his chances of winning the league a power of good with two big wins, the first a total demolition of a well off-form Bob Clarke followed by a 4-1 win over a luckless Alex Waugh.
Jim hit a season’s best 12-dart leg with scores of 121, 180, 80 and 120 shanghai finish, to give him the highest finish of the season so far. He also hit his second maximum 180 of the night against Bob.
League Table
PW L F A Pts
Andy Skelton 12 8 4 36 24 52
Steve Stanton 9 8 1 34 11 50
Jim Jukes 9 8 1 33 12 49
Pete Fearn 12 5 7 29 31 39
Darren Thirkell 10 5 5 19 31 29
Paddy Ferry 5 41 18 7 26
Dudley Page 7 3 4 18 17 24
Alex Waugh 9 3 6 17 28 23
Graham Page 6 3 3 1416 20
Bob Clarke 10 1 9 16 34 18
Paul Key 7 0 7 6 29 6
Retford North Darts and Dominoes League
THE Andrassy Cup Final was played on Monday 22nd June when the Gate Inn from Sutton visited the Blues Club for the darts only competition.
The Blues darts players wasted no time at all and were soon 2-0 up thanks to Paddy Ferry and Andy Skelton.
Then came the onslaught from Steve Stanton, who hit four ton plus scores including a maximum 180.
He was followed by Dudley Page with four more ton plus scores to leave Graham Page the easy task of giving the Blues a winning 5-0 lead.
The Gate then managed their only win when Bob Clarke missed three chances to finish before the Blues took all three pairs games to run out 8-1 winners on the night.
The win sealed their fourth trophy with one more to play for next Monday at the Sun Inn, Everton, against the Angel from Misson.
Gainsborough and District Summer Darts League
THE Ron Swinton first round knockout will take place on Thursday 9th July.
Fixtures
Elm Cottage v Ropery Ladies; Cons Club v Blues Club; Liberal Branch v Horse and Jockey B; Ropery Inn v Horse and Jockey P; USC A v Elm Cottage A; Peacock v Liberal B; USC and Blues X both have byes.
Matches are to start at 8.30pm and the winning captains are to submit the scorecards.
The next league meeting will take place on Monday 6th July at the Horse and Jockey at 8pm.
All captains are reminded that Doubles KO entries are to be submitted at this meeting.
