Wednesday 16 April 2014

NIGHT ONE OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE

The premier league of darts kicked off this week on the 15th april with several big clashes in the first week and none bigger than former world champion John Walton taking on PDC pro tour player Darren Johnson and recently crowed Rotherham open champion and another brilliant clash was Winmau open champion Tony Darlow and PDC's Steve Rumble.

1st three matches on the night was PDO number 1 Carl Wilkinson putting Ricardo Cruz to the sword with a 4-0 win and Team mates Russ Simons and Richard Brown(21&18darts) fought out a 3-3 draw.Karl Sailsbury-Roper hit a 93 finish but was out gunned by "jackpot" Chris Keane 4-1.

CARL WILKINSON 4-0 RICARDO CRUZ
CHRIS KEANE 4-1 KARL SAILSBURY ROPER
RUSS SIMONS 3-3 RICHARD BROWN

As the 2nd section got underway John Daniels and Jason Cole fought out a tremendous battle as "danny" went 2-0 up before "coley" fought back with a 16 dart leg to go 3-2 up and the John hitting a 15 dart leg levelled the game to share the points.John Walton hit a superb 141 checkout to earn himself a point against Darren Johnson with thew match ending 3-3 and Lee Cushworth was unlucky not to get a leg on the board as he fell to Simon Birket 4-0 with simon hitting 2x19 and a 20 dart leg.

SIMON BIRKET 4-0 LEE CUSHWORTH
JOHN DANIELS 3-3 JASON COLE
JOHN WALTON 3-3 DARREN JOHNSON

Tony"the tiger"Darlow was the player of the night as he hit Steve Rumble with a 4-1 win and recording a 2x180s and a 102 checkout and legs of 15,15,17,18.Ryan Critchlow recorded a 4-1 victory over Antonio Cruz and Pete Daffin(180&16/17/18legs) had a 4-1 win over "big red" Lester Bowers.

TONY DARLOW 4-1 STEVE RUMBLE
RYAN CRITCHLOW 4-1 ANTONIO CRUZ
PETE DAFFIN 4-1 LESTER BOWERS

Steve Littlewood got off the mark with a surprise 4-1 victory over Steve Briggs and "turbo"Trevor Burkhill hit his nephew 4-0 while recording a 15/19&20 dart legs and Mark Pigot had a brilliant 4-0 victory over a top player Chris Burd

STEVE LITTLEWOOD 4-1 STEVE BRIGGS
TREVOR BURKHILL 4-0 JOEL BURKHILL
MARK PIGOT 4-0 CHRIS BURD

Andy Taylors 19 dart leg was just not enough as he went down 4-2 to Paul Beck(19&15) and his Brother Rich Beck recorded a 4-2 win over Ryan Goffin while hitting a 17 dart leg and a 180.Andy Bradbury hit a 117 checkout and a 15 dart leg but went down 4-2 to Bob"pinhead"Pinder

PAUL BECK 4-2 ANDY TAYLOR
RICH BECK 4-2 RYAN GOFFIN
BOB PINDER 4-2 ANDY BRADBURY

The last match of the night ended with Tom Briggs getting home 4-2 against the only female player in the league Joelle White

TOM BRIGGS 4-2 JOELLE WHITE

A shaky start for some but with 30 weeks of play left we will see some brilliant games

highest checkout    141 JOHN WALTON
most 180's                  2 TONY DARLOW

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