NEW ZEALAND DARTS COUNCIL INC P. O. Box 907, Palmerston North Ph: 06 353 8180 or Fax 06 3538182 Mobile 0274 495 744 Email: nzdarts@xtra.co.nz
Oct. 2006
Monthly Newsletter
“World Class Performance”
From Reporter in the field – Ken Wilson Inside this Issue World class that's all you could describe the Men's Singles Final as, at the Allan King Memorial between South Otago's Dave Keating and Southland's Warren Parry in the “best of nine final” Dave took the win 5 legs to 1 with an average of 30.58. It was all over in 97 darts 5-1 to Dave - he had 34 trips to the board hitting 100 or more 17 of those times. What a great final - the best I think I have ever seen. The ladies final was played between Auckland’s Valona Hereora and Portsides Piki Morrison. Piki took the first two legs, and then Valona evened it up taking the next two. Piki got leg 5 while Valona took the lead winning legs 6 & 7. Piki again squared it with a win in the 8 th leg so it came down to the decider. In a nail biting finish both players scored shot for shot but it was Valona who got the glory winning 5 – 4. With this win along with her 2nd placing in the “Auckland Open” Valona moves up the ranking list to 6th place and Piki advances to 3rd place behind front runners Rachel Padget and Jannette Jonathan. There is only one more ranking tournament left to play this year – “The Levin Open” – 19th November
• Alan King Memorial
Tournament
• Under 24’s Results • Latest NZDC Rankings • Asia Pacific Cup Results • NZ Trophy Match
Results
Highlights:
Alan King Winners NZ Under 24’s NZDC Rankings AP Cup Results Tournament Results NZDC Trophy Results 1 1 2 2 3 3
Puma NZ Under 24’s Championships
There was a large turn out for this year’s Puma NZ Under 24’s Championships held at the Wellington Darts Association on the 30th Sept & 1st Oct. The weekend started off with a Mixed Pairs event which was won 3-0 by the Manawatu pair of Anita Te Amo & Richard Hubbard over Auckland’s Naere Watene &Thomas McDermott. Auckland also took both 3rd Equal places with the pairings of Tara-ariki Pitoma & Katai Tei and Jade Maddern & Memory Glassie. Next were the Men’s & Ladies Pairs Events with Jimmy Prime & Lewis Temarama beating their fellow Capital players David Herewini & David Moeahu. The ladies section saw a round robin played to find the eventual winners Mavai Mataiti & Naeru Watene – Auckland (8 wins) and Runners Up Metua Matangi (Tokoroa) & Hayley Morgan (Te Awamutu) (7 Wins). In the singles events both finals were a Capital vs Auckland affair with Lewis Temarama (Kapi Mana) coming out the winner over Tara-ariki Pitomaki 3 zip and Mary Anne Teinaki (Kapi Mana) beating Naeru Watene 3-1. A big thanks must go to Wellington Darts for hosting yet another well run tournament and also to all the competitors for turning up to make it such a great event and we know everyone is looking forward to it again next year. For full results visit our web page www.nzdarts.com
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NZDC Oct. 2006 NEWSLETTER 2004 NEWSLETTER
“Herbie Rides Again”
Geyserland’s “Herbie Nathan” threw some awesome darts to take out the inaugural “Auckland Open Men’s Singles” hosted by West City Darts on the 23rd September. This was Herbie first NZ Tournament win in 2 years, since topping the Ranking Tables in 2004. He didn’t have it all his own way though as his opponent Aucklander “John Sinclair” led off by taking the first 2 legs in the best of 7 final. Herbie got a lucky break and got his first finish in leg 3, John took the next leg “throwing a 180 to start off” to give him a 3 – 1 lead. The crowd could have been forgiven for thinking Sinclair had the match sewn up in leg 5 with him again starting with a 180 but Herbie wasn’t prepared to lie down for him and with some excellent replies took the leg with a 40 finish. He then grabbed leg 6 with an 80 peg to square up the match 3 all. Herbie won the toss for the final leg and started with a 137, John replied with 131 and Herbie followed it with a 140. Sinclair then dropped a shot enabling Herbie to secure the lead and win the match in 14 darts. The Ladies final was an all Auckland match up with Peggy Speir and Valona Hereora facing off and was just as exciting as the Men’s. At one stage it looked like being tied up at 3 all but Valona missed a crucial finish enabling Peggy to get the win 4 - 2. All in all this was an excellent first Ranking Tournament for Auckland and West City Darts Committee and all their helpers deserve a well earned pat on the back for all their efforts including arranging for guest speakers “MP” Chris Carter and Auckland City Councilor Linda Cooper to Open the tournament. For full results visit our web page www.nzdarts.com
NZDC Rankings Top Men
Warren Parry Darrell Ramage Peter Hunt Stephen Padget Ru Teinaki Craig Pullen Derrick Samson Joe Temarama Laurie Sheldon Graeme McElroy Barry Ledington John Henry Warren French Herbie Nathan 28 15 12 12 11 11 10 10 9 9 9 9 8 8
NZDC Rankings Top Ladies
Rachel Padget 27 Jannette Jonathan 22 Piki Morrison 18 Verna Leigh Brinsdon 17 Jo Hiko 15 Valona Hereora 14 Chris Hay 12 Chris Sheerin 12 Marion Morgan 12 Mihi George 12 Megan Smith 10 Peggy Speir 9 Desi Mercer 8
Asia Pacific Cup
The “Black Flights” New Zealand’s national dart team once again won the World Darts Federations “Asia Pacific Cup” for the fourth consecutive time. The event which was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 18 th to 21st September attracted teams from 10 Counties, Brunei, Hong Kong, India, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines and Singapore. In the men’s Singles all four men qualified but unfortunately were all drawn into the same side of the Knock out draw. Graeme Mc Elroy fell to L.G. IIagan of the Philippines at the last 16, Robert Grant lost to Team mate Warren Parry in the Quarter final. Parry then had to play his other team mate Bernie Smith in the Semi finals winning 3 -1 and progressing to the final against Amin Ghani (Malaysia). It was a very close fought final and despite throwing an 11 dart leg Parry narrowly lost 4 legs to 3. Jannette Jonathan and Megan Smith dominated the Ladies competition winning the Pairs event over Callie Teoh & Alice Koh (Singapore) and then Smith taking out the Singles Title 4 zip over Iran’s Sahar Zohouri. The overall combined results saw the Black Flights once again become the “Asia Pacific Cup Champions” with 242 points, followed by the Philippines (196), Japan (178), and host country Malaysia (168) The next Asia Pacific Cup will be hosted by New Zealand in Palmerston North Sept/Oct 2008
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NZDC Oct. 2006 NEWSLETTER
NZDC Trophy Results
South Island Challenges
Canterbury vs Mosgiel 30 July
Spence: Canterbury 15 bt Mosgiel 9 McNamara: Canterbury 18 bt Mosgiel 6 Scott Cup: Canterbury 14 bt Mosgiel 10
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2007 Calendar
The Chief Executive is currently putting together an Official Darting calendar for 2007 - if you would like your tournament or event dates listed please send to the Chief Executive, P.O. Box 907, Palmerston North
Canterbury vs Southland 16th Sept
Spence: Canterbury 13 bt Southland 11 Scott Cup: Canterbury 15 bt Southland 9
North Island Mens Shield
Hutt Valley 56 vs Wainuiomata 40 (4 Teams) Hutt Valley 37 vs Kapi Mana 35 (3 Teams)
New Ranking Tournaments Those
Associations seeking to have New tournaments included in the Ranking Tables should make application Now!
North Island Ladies Shield
Ladies A Hutt Valley 15 - Wainuiomata 9 Ladies B Hutt Valley – 8 Wainuiomata 16 Total: Hutt Valley 23 -Wainuiomata 25
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Ladies A Hutt Valley 13 - Wainuiomata 3
Levin Shield
(2 x Mixed teams) Hutt Valley 27 vs Taradale 21 Hutt Valley 38 vs Upper Hutt 10 Hutt Valley 27 vs Wainuiomata 21
Acknowledgements
The Directors of the New Zealand Darts Council wish to thank the Oxford Hotel Sports & Educational Trust for the donation of $3,300.00 towards the cost of the NZ Darts Council Office Lease The Directors of the New Zealand Darts Council wish to thank the Pacific Sports & Community Trust for the donation of $1,000.00 towards associated costs involved in hosting the NZ Aotearoa Maori Darts Tournament
Milestones
The New Zealand Darts Council congratulates the Manwatu Darts Assocition on achieveing 50 years as an Association and also the Wainuiomata Darts Association on their 25th Jubulee. May you both continue on in the same great manner you have to reach these milestones.
Out and About
Over the last month I have had the pleasure of meeting two of NZ Darts Old stalwarts “Bill Rose” and “Tony Franklin” I met Bill Rose at the Inaugural Auckland Open. He had dusted off his darts especially for the tournament to show his support for West City. Tony Franklin attended Manawatu’s 50th Anniversary Dinner, as a past Secretary of the Association and ofcourse he is also a life member of the NZDC. I found both of them to be great characters and enjoyed listening to their accounts of our sport in “the old days” and I look forward to hopefully meeting them again sometime soon.