Projectdarts & United Sports Promotions teamed up to bring you the Midland open
this weekend and it was a case of high quality tungsten as a HOT gathering of
PDC,BDO,County and one Brilliant lady........
Section 1
PDC star Terry Temple looked smooth as always as he worked his way through to top
section seeing off a gutsy Simon Preston and then Lee Stanley before an encounter
with Steve Meek who had beaten class act Andy Firth in the latter round.Terry "The
Terminator" Temple seeing off Steve "Meeacat" Meek 4-1.
Section 2
Well what can you say about this part of the draw as "Jabba" Jamie Caven was first
on the board with a 4-0 victory over James MCguigan and then would meet the man who
used to represent Great Britain at athletics Greg Beard after he had recorded a
bloodless 4-0 win himself and they both had a good contest before PDC Jamie Caven
won through.Dean "over the top" Winstanley would meet him in the section final
after Deano had seen off county star Andy Umney and youth star Matt Green without
dropping a leg.Both men recorded sub 15 dart legs before Jamie Caven won 4-3.
Section 3
Challenge Tour supremo Paul Redfern would take out Jordan Clayton and Trevor Holtby
without losing a leg and then would meet "flower power" Stevie Thompson who had won
through against a cluster of of county youth stars Owen Cubit,Max Roberts and Tom
"shooter" Sawford.Paul raced into a 3-0 lead over Mr Thompson before he pulled a
leg back in 13darts only for Redders to take the match 4-1.
Section 4
Kieran Evans won win 4-0 against Neil Beresford and Charlie Beaumont would win 4-0
also beating Jordan Payne and both would class with Kieran coming from from behind
to win 4-2 and would meet Yorkshire and England starlet Lorrain Winstanly who had
gone through by Steve Tingy and John Bryndly 4-2 and 4-1 respectively and she would
again win 4-2 seeing of Kieran Evans.
Section 5
Mile high Mark Hylton would win this section but had a tough first encounter
winning 4-2 after been 1-0 down to Jamie "venom" Veming and then beat Steve
Hattersly 4-1 to make the section final.Hull's Tommy Lishman would only drop one
leg in his games on route to the board final beating Lee West and David
Harrison.The section final would go to Mark Hylton who would beat Tommy 4-2 with a
decisive last leg break.
Section 6
BDO World Championship youth runner up Harry Ward would kick off this section with
a tremendous 4-0 win and that was followed by the same scoreline as Trevor Bukhill
would beat Craig Benman to progress.Current PDC star Aaron Wike and former PDC
local legend Steve Ward both had hard luck going down 4-3 to Alan Statham and Carl
Elliot and it was Alan Statham who would make the final of his section with a 4-1
win over Carl Elliot and would meet "turbo" Trevor Burkhill who would win a
terrific match of high scoring in a 4-1 win over Harry ward and then Trevor would
go through rattling off his last 3 legs against Alan Statham in under 40 darts.
Section 7
Darren "Dynamite" Johnson would make it through to the section final without
dropping a leg against two good opponents John Elliot and Mick Smith to put one
United Sports Promotions man into the final and there he would meet another as
Nathan Aspinall would get through his side of the section which included Mark
Pigott,PDC's Simon Birkett and Martin French to set up a bum clenching match for
the tournament sponsors as they had to sit on the fence and watch the game with
great interest and boy what a game it was with Nathan edging it to win his section
and go into the last 8.
Section 8
Jason Marriot would make it through to the board final as he would see off Daz
Layden and Colin Osbourne who had earlier beaten Bob Pinder of the PDC in a very
tight game Colin would come from 3-1 down to draw level only for Jason Marriot to
go through and there he would meet Mick Haynes the crafty Derbyshire veteran.on his
side of the draw Ricky Sudale would see of the very talented Ian Withers 4-3 and
Ian Speed and with Mick Haynes going through against Matt Padgett and Dave Peasgood
it was left for Mick Haynes to Beat Ricky Sudale 4-0 before seeing off Jason
Marriot also and make the last 8.
Last 8
Terry Temple representing the Sponsors had a very high quality Q/F with Jamie Caven
in a match fit for TV with Jabba coming through it 4-2 and Jamie would be Joined by
Lorraine Winstanly who continued to see off challenger after challenger from the
PDC as she went through 4-3 against Paul Redfern.Mick Haynes would continue to
impress as he went through 4-3 against the world class Nathan Aspinall and that
left a belter as Trevor Burkhill and "mile high" Mark Hylton to fight out a very
close 4-3 after mark hylton had rallied from 2-0 down.
Semi-Finals
The stage was set and Lorraine dug extra deep to see off the hot favourite Jamie
Caven with a tremendous 5-4 victory and seeing Lorraine Winstanly heading into the
final to meet Mick Haynes who survived 8 match darts has he trailed turbo all the
way through until his terrific bull finish in the last leg.
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Lorraine gave it all as she lead 1-0 and 2-1 and missed darts to go 3-2 up before
Mick would win the last two legs to take the title 5-2 against Lorrain Winstanly
showing what a tough and genuine player Mick Haynes is and proving that not only is
Lorrain Winstanly one of the best women players in the world but can also cut it
with the best men too.Mick Haynes rode his luck all day but came up with the goods
when it was needed and became a deserved winner of the Midland Open...
UNITED SPORTS PROMOTIONS
MIDLAND OPEN
LAST 16
TERRY TEMPLE 4-0 STEVE MEEK
JAMIE CAVEN 4-3 DEAN WINSTANLEY
STEVE THOMPSON 1-4 PAUL REDFERN
LORRAINE WINSTANLY 4-2 KIERAN EVANS
TOMMY LISHMAN 1-4 MARK HYLTON
TREVOR BURKHILL 4-2 ALAN STATHAM
NATHAN ASPINALL 4-1 DARREN JOHNSON
JASON MARRIOTT 2-4 MICK HAYNES
LAST 8
TERRY TEMPLE 2-4 JAMIE CAVEN
PAUL REDFERN 3-4 LORRAINE WINSTANLEY
MARK HYLTON 3-4 TREVOR BURKHILL
NATHAN ASPINALL 2-4 MICK HAYNES
SEMI-FINAL
JAMIE CAVEN 4-5 LORRAINE WINSTANLEY
TREVOR BURKHILL 4-5 MICK HAYNES
FINAL
MICK HAYNES 5-4 LORRAINE WINSTANLEY
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| Mick Haynes (2nd left) and Lorrain Winstanley (3rd left) with event staff |
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