CASTLE CLUB FINAL AS THE DARK KNIGHT RISES

A quality field descended to the very popular Players bar in Rotherham as the South Yorkshire players championship too place and what a field it was.....

going into the last 16 Carl Wilkinson trying to regain his number one spot got through a hard fought match as he just outed Simon Birkett.Joel Burkhill the 18yo gave the tiger a scare as he took the first leg but the Tony rattled into overdrive and took four legs on the bounce to go through to the last 8.Andy Firth lead 3-0 before a rally from Josh Thompson got it back to 3-3 before Andy held his nerve in the last to win 4-3 and a castle club battle as the dark knight Dave Copley went into the last 8 courtesy of former world champion John"boy" Walton as the two played out one of the best matches of the day.Kev Rimmer and Danny Hackett played a high scoring game but the 4-0 didn't really reflect the match as both player hit ton after ton.Chris Gill went through after hitting the crucial double at the right time after Brian Lewis had missed a dart to level the match.Pat Meeson hit a 120 checkout and a 180 but fell to PDC star dynamite Darren Johnson who hit 2x12 dart legs and a 121 c/o himself,Jaron Esteve hit a crucial big checkout at the right time as he went through at the expense of John Daniels

CARL WILKINSON 4-2 SIMON BIRKETT
TONY DARLOW 4-1 JOEL BURKHILL
ANDY FIRTH 4-3 JOSH THOMPSON
DAVE COPLEY 4-2 JOHN WALTON
KEV RIMMER 4-0 DANNY HACKETT
CHRIS GILL 4-2 BRIAN LEWIS
DARREN JOHNSON 4-1 PAT MEESON
JARON ESTEVE 4-3 JOHN DANIELS

LAST 8

Tony Darlow just edged out a fight back from Carl Wilkinson as the pair went right to the wire with the tiger claiming victory.Dave Copley went into the semis showing the form that has seen him lift two other comps recently but Andy firth pushed him all the way.Jaron Esteve good run came to an end as he fell to Darren Johnson and Chris gill came from 2-1 down to go through beating Kev Rimmer.

TONY DARLOW 4-3 CARL WILKINSON
DAVE COPLEY 4-1 ANDY FIRTH
CHRIS GILL 4-3 KEV RIMMER
DARREN JOHNSON 4-2 JARON ESTEVE

SEMIS

Tony "the tiger" Darlow was the only non castle club player and was ruing missed doubles as he fell to Dave Copley 4-2 in the first semi with both men trading maximums and did Chris "mont" Gill and Darren "dynamite" Johnson but it was Chris going through 4-3

DAVE COPLEY 4-2 TONY DARLOW
CHRIS GILL 4-3 DARREN JOHNSON

FINAL

Dave Copley hitting a 15 dart leg took the lead from Chris gill only for him to level with a 17 dart leg but then Dave went 3-1 up with some super finishing and then back came Chris to level the game at 3-3 and both men sat and having dart to take the title but it was the dark knight Dave Copley winning the prize in what was a super final of darts by two world class players.

DAVE COPLEY 4-3 CHRIS GILL

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left (scorer)Pat meson,(r/up)Chris Gill,(winner)Dave Copley,(ref)Andy Firth