DARTS
AROUND ESSEX – SEPTEMBER 2005 REPORT
CHARITY SUCCESS
The format of the evening was that the Colchester Super League side took on the pro players in a super league format. The pairings were made up with members of the audience bidding to play with their favourite player and it ended up that the parents were bidding on behalf of their children. As all the pairs were made up of young up and coming players from the local area. While the match was being played there were other challenge matches going on as members of the public paid to play games against the pro players. There was an auction of donated shirts, darts, dartboards and other memorabilia. The highest bids on the night were £140 for a day’s golf with Rod Harrington, Colin Lloyd and Russ Bray; the same amount was bid for the matchboard, which the players and callers had signed. The next highest bid of £120 was for the dartboard that Colin Lloyd won his semi-final on in the World Match Play at Blackpool. The raffle was very well supported and at the end of the night a total of £3,097 had been raised. This is not the final figure as there is other pledges still to arrive. Organiser, Dave Powell, thanks the 180 or so people that attended and made the evening a great success. I must add my congratulations to Colin Lloyd for his brilliant World Matchplay win against John Part, and wish him luck in his defence of the World Grand Prix next month.
TOURNAMENT NEWS IN THE COUNTY Darts Around Essex 4th Charity Inter-League Challenge: on Sunday 25th September, at the Little ‘n’ LARGE Club, Wickford. Sign in 11.30 am, toe the oche at 12:30 am. £24 per team of four if pre-enter (note £32 on day of competition), one team per grass root league in Essex (two if league runs a summer league), all proceeds to Heart of Darts. Southend Open: on Sunday 16th October, at the American Pool Shack. This competition is limited to 128 players and registration closes on 12th September. Doors open 10:00 am toe the oche at 11:15 am, entry £5. Little N Large Monthly Result (Wickford): Steve Maish won the July competition beating Steve Smith in the final. Dave Orton and Dave Solly were the losing semi-finalists. Look on Wickford & District website for further monthly tournament news.
SUPERLEAGUE NEWS New Season: There’ll be thirteen teams contesting the Men’s league starting this month. Saffron Walden and Witham choosing not to re-join; new teams are Great Dunmow, Shotgate and Thurrock. Other changes are that Canvey have changed their name to Wickford and moved to the Little ‘n’ Large Club. Hatfield Peverel will also be playing out of the same venue. Colchester will be playing at the Anchor Inn in Tiptree and Loughton will be playing at the Black Deer Public House. The Little ‘n’ Large Family Club is the leagues new sponsor for the 2005/6 season. Ladies: Seven teams will play this season, in a much-changed league with only champions Clacton unchanged. Southend are a new team, Kelvedon are now Colchester and have a number of players splitting off to form a new Witham side. Former Witham are now Chelmsford playing out of Chelmsford Social Club; Hatfield Peverel are now Wickford playing at the Little ‘n’ Large Club; and finally Braintree are changing venues to Bocking United Services Club. AROUND THE LEAGUE’S: Basildon Monday: The group stages of the Summer cup finished with Vange 'B' winning group One without losing a game, averaging 8-1; Little 'n' Large finished second. Group 2 winners were Bowers 'B', again winning all their group games, with Chalvedon colts as the runners up. In the semi-finals, Vange 'B' defeated Chalvedon colts by 5-1 and Bowers 'B' overcame the Little 'n' Large by 5-3. The final was a very close fought affair, with Vange 'B' holding on to the trophy they won twelve months ago, beating Bowers 'B' 5-3. At the recent A.G.M., Ian Crawford, sadly had to resign as league secretary due to work commitments. Ian has been associated with the league since the mid 70's and has been on the 'top table' for the last 15 years. We wish him well for the future. John Brown has been elected as the new League secretary. Two new teams have also joined the league, Vange 'A' and Ghyllgrove, while three teams have changed venues and also their names. Albion becomes the Little 'n' Large, Castlemayne become Woodlands and York 'E' becomes E-Riding, playing out of the Long Riding pub.
Ingatestone & District:
The annual Quadro Board Pairs knockout was well supported. It was last years beaten finalists, Steve Atkins & Mark McGrath (pictured right) taking the title beating Dean Willsher & David Bocking 2-0 in the final. The losing semi-finalists were Martin Compton & Barry Devenish and Olly Nye & David Drummond. Derek Smith (Chelmsford Social Club) tops the checkout table with 157, Mark McGrath (Rising Sun Dragons) heads the 180 table with five.
Diary Dates: 6th September – Start of Ladies Super-league Fixtures 7th September – Start of Men’s Superleague Fixtures 8th September – Beach Hut Fours KO (IDDL) at the Royal British Legion Club, Chelmsford 10th / 11th September – Inter-Counties vs Cheshire at Rudheath, Cheshire 13th September – Brentwood Borough & District League Summer Presentation Night at Bentley, Brentwood 25th September – Darts Around Essex Charity Inter-league Tournament at Little ‘n’ Large, Wickford 29th September – Ingatestone & District League Finals Night at Bentley Village Club, Brentwood This time last year - September 2004
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The
Colchester Charity night was a great success with many celebrity players
giving up their time and playing a very important part in helping to
raise funds. These players were Colin Lloyd, Rod Harrington, Deta
Hedman, Lionel Sams, Michael Barnard and Jamie Harvey. The Callers for
the evening were Russ Bray and local caller George Gill. 
The
Charity Golf Day was another successful day with 26 players taking on
the Maylands, Romford course and raising £453.50 for the Heart of Darts.
James Read (Railway Hotel, West Horndon) won the Stapleford singles;
Simon Pratt (Railway Hotel) was awarded the wooden spoon. Del Freeman,
Todd Elliott and Barry Rooney were the Stapleford team winners. The fun
Texas Scramble was won by Todd Elliott, Lee Musto, Mark Banham and Don
Vickers - pictured left. Organiser
Paul Sedge thanks all involved including his wife and Linda Bruce for
the raffle.