With two men still in contention and other places still to be decided it was left to the top 5 players all playing each other to see who became the very first Projectdarts Premier league champion....
It came down to one game John Walton vs Trevor Burkhill, this is Graham Bartley's report on the game...
"First leg trev had the darts, and led off with 140, 140, 91 left himself 130 after 9. Next throw saw him hit two treble twenty's and wire double 5 for a 130 checkout and a 12 dart leg. Unfortunately the double proved elusive for him and John saw his chance and replied with some heavy scoring of his own. Which included a 180 and and a 12, I believe that gave him a chance to win a leg which had looked set to go with the throw. John duly dispatched the double to take the first leg in 18 darts.That was quickly followed with a another leg of power scoring from both players taking lumps out of each other, which resulted in john firing his way to back to back 11 dart legs to take a commanding 3-0 lead. Full credit to trev he never gave up and valiantly continued power scoring pushing his opponent all the way, but ultimately couldn't prevent john finding the last double required, to take the match 4-0 and become the champion and inaugural winner of the projectdarts woodbourn red dragon singles league. Congratulations to both players for a quality match, which would not have looked out of place on TV"
Terrific game it was and a credit to the league.
Now we move to the last week and we have to start at the bottom as Karl Salisbury-roper remained the only man without a win as he went down in both games to finish bottom.Antonio "Tony Cross" Cruz was next up and he too was a little out of touch tonight with some solid darts but some that went astray.Chris Keane also never picked up a leg in his defeat to Ryan Critchlow.Ricardo "Cruz Control" got off the mark against Andy Bradbury only to fall 4-1.Tom "Shooter" Sawford moved up two places with a fine victory over Mark Pigot which caused him to fall two spot as Jason Cole and Paul Beck got good wins.Andy Taylor's 5 game unbeaten run came to an end against Ryan Goffin which moved Ryan up into the top half and was joined by Lester "Big Red" bowers who came through two tricky contest with 3 points.Rich Beck cemented his place at 12 with a fine victory and Steve Briggs 3-3 draw with Steve Rumble wasnt just enough to take tenth spot,John Daniels win and Pete Daffins last victory made sure both men sat comfortable inside the top ten.Arguably the player of the season for improvement Lee Cushworth had got himself into contention as a possible winner but a defeat to Turbo and two narrow defeat against Dynamite and the Alien gave Simon Birkett and Bob Pinder a chance at the 5th spot which eventually went to Simon.Darren Johnson's victory over Lee 4-2 was enough to send him into 2nd place on 55pts after being 3-0 up lee rallied with some super darts to match the already great darts by Dynamite and both men kept it going to the last leg which Darren shaded it.the last game was Trevor Burkhill who had dropped to third after the defeat to John and Darren's win and he would play Tony darlow who himself could still steal 2nd spot with a big win over Turbo but living up to his name Trevor raced into a 3-0 lead hitting 17,14,15 dart legs before Tony then hit a reply only for Trevor to take the next leg and a 4-1 win to win 2nd spot in the league.
Congratulations to John Walton on winning the league and £1000 top prize and a big well done to the rest on a awesome seaon full of darts.
results
(21/20) TOM SAWFORD 2-4 RICH BECK (17/19,180)
(16/19,180) RICH BROWN 4-0 JOEL BURKHILL
(14/17/17) JOHN DANIELS 4-0 KARL SALISBURY-ROPER
ANTONIO CRUZ 0-4 MARK PIGOT (15/20)
(14) STEVE RUMBLE 3-3 LESTER BOWERS (14,180,116c/o)
JOEL BURKHILL 0-4 PAUL BECK (14,16,18,20)
(19/19) JASON COLE 4-2 TOM SAWFORD
STEVE BRIGGS 4-0 KARL SALISBURY ROPER
(20) STEVE RUMBLE 1-4 JOHN DANIELS (13/15/20,180)
CHRIS KEANE 0-4 RYAN CRITCHLOW
TREVOR BURKHILL 0-4 JOHN WALTON (21/11/11/14,180)
(21,180,106c/o) JASON COLE 3-3 LESTER BOWERS (21)
(21/21) RYAN CRITCHLOW 3-3 RUSS SIMONS (17,180)
MARK PIGOT 1-4 TOM SAWFORD
ANTONIO CRUZ 0-4 RICH BECK (18/18)
RICARDO CRUZ 1-4 ANDY BRADBURY (180)
(17,/19) LEE CUSHWORTH 2-4 DARREN JOHNSON (14/16/15/19)
(16) TONY DARLOW 1-4 TREVOR BURKHILL ((14/15/17,180)
(18) STEVE RUMBLE 3-3 STEVE BRIGGS (18)
RYAN GOFFIN 4-1 ANDY TAYLOR
RICH BROWN 1-4 PAUL BECK(17)
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