Bailey Marsh & Tim Pusey

The Spearwood Dalmatinac Club again played host to this year’s ‘Premier League Finals’. The night was tipped to be an absolute cracker and did not disappoint with the ‘Top 8’ Premier League players battling it out to see who would be crowned Champion for 2024.

 Q F 1.  (Best of 11)     Tim Pusey (87.56) defeated Kim Lewis (79.14)                   6 – 2

Q F 2.  (Best of 11)     Bailey Marsh (76.42) defeated Ron Kneale (68.35)              6 – 0

Q F 3.  (Best of 11)     Dave Burke (75.27) defeated Lewis Kirk (71.07)                  6 – 2

Q F 4.  (Best of 11)     Denis Parr (75.15) defeated Gary Stevens (68.71)               6 – 5

S F 1.  (Best of 11)     Tim Pusey (92.60) d Dave Burke (81.88)                            6 – 2

Tim jumped out the blocks winning the first three legs before Dave could register his account, taking out the 4^th leg in 13 darts before Tim rattled off the next two legs to make it 5 – 1 his way. Dave was playing well but could not match the power scoring of the young ace, taking out the winning leg in 12 darts (137, 134, 180 & 50 Peg)

 S F 2.  (Best of 11)     Bailey Marsh (82.25) d Denis Parr (80.56)                          6 – 5

The 2^nd Semi of the night was an absolute ripper. Both players going ‘Hammer & Tong’ and after 6 x legs were 3 x legs each. Bailey put his foot on the pedal and took out the next 3 x legs to make the score line 6 – 3 his way. The “Menace” wasn’t done yet and chimed in with a brilliant 12 darter in Leg 9 (140, 180, 96 & 85 Peg) and also took out Leg 10 to make it 5 Legs a piece before Bailey took out the 10^th leg to earn himself a spot in the Final .

 Final    (Best of 13)     Tim Pusey (91.30) d Bailey Marsh (85.57)                          7 – 6

A replay of the last three year’s final between two of the state’s most exciting and talented young dartplayers did not disappoint with both players turning on some power scoring and clinical pegging. Bailey drew first blood, taking out the first leg in 14 darts (62 Peg) before Tim bounced back taking out Leg 2 but Bailey was quick to respond with an awesome 12 dart game in Leg 3 that included a 135 check out. The boys were going hard at it and after 6 x Legs, the score line was 3 – 3 before Bailey took out Legs 7 and 8 to make it 5 – 3 his way.

The “Magnet” was having none of it and rattled off the next 3 x Legs to take him 1 x Leg from victory but “The Ghost” wasn’t done yet and chimed in with a brilliant 13 dart game to make to score line 6 x games each. Tim had ‘The Shot’ in the last leg and took full advantage, taking out 32 (Bailey wanting 40) to take out this year’s title of ‘Premier League Champion’.

Congratulations to Tim, commiserations to Bailey and a big thank you to Mike Condon, Dave Charnock and Lewis Kirk for all their help and also to everybody that came along to watch an awesome game of “Premier League” darts.

With the ‘Home & Away’ fixture now complete, it’s the business end of the season with the following 1st and 2nd Semi Finals to be played next Wednesday night the 21st August.

Note: The host venue will be responsible for providing the Ipad for scoring and the HOME team is mentioned first.

The final ‘Graded’ Singles and Doubles event for the 2024 season saw some fantastic darts thrown in both the Under 60 Singles and the Under 45 Doubles. The Fremantle Italian Club’s Darrin Sigley was solid all night and edged out  the Dalmatinac Club’s Gary Hunter in a hard fought singles final, whilst the Doubles final was an all Jandakot Jets affair with seasoned campaigners Peter Nahirney and Shane Marciano proving too strong for Club team mates Conrad Dalais and Tony Sharland.

Finally, our thanks to the Dalmatinac Club for their continued support and hospitality and also to our resident ‘Games Co-Ordinator’ Phil Cummins on another job well done.

            Darrin Sigley & Gary Hunter                              Peter Nahirny, Shane Marciano, Conrad Dalais & Tony Sharland

This year’s ‘Open Singles’ saw a strong field of some of the States finest darting talent. An event that boasts previous multiple winners including Graham Hunt (87, 95, 96 & 98), Ossie Ford (94, 04 & 07), Adam Rowe (09, 011 & 013) and of course the legendary Kim Lewis (97, 06, 08, 012 & 019)

The boards were smokin’ with some brilliant darts being thrown, including a maximum check out of ‘170’ by Bailey Marsh. The Semi Finals of Tim Pusey v Gary Stevens and Kim Lewis v Bailey Marsh were tipped to be a couple of ‘Crackers’ and the boys didn’t disappoint, with Tim Pusey and Kim Lewis winning their way into the Final. A terrific game between two brilliant players eventually saw Tim take out the honours to give him his third  FDDA ‘Open Singles’ title….congratulations Tim.

The ‘Under 50 Doubles’ event was well supported and saw some great tussles throughout the night. The in form pairing of Cockburn Bowling Club’s Dave Doody and Paul Stuart were solid all night and eventually took the honours in the final over fellow Clubmen Tim Barnes and Grant Werner.

              Tim Pusey & Kim Lewis                                        L-R:  Dave Doody, Paul Stuart, Tim Barnes & Grant Werner

Our thanks once again to the Dalmatinac Club for their continued hospitality and to our Games Co-Ordinator on the night Phil Cummins for another job well done.

24 x teams from all over the State battled it out last weekend at the Belmont Sport & Recreation Club for the Darts WA ‘Lower Grades Teams Championships’.

The Fremantle boys were solid all weekend and figured prominently, taking out the honours in Divisions 1 & 2 with Division 3 finishing ‘Runners Up’. The boys in Division 4 were gallant all weekend but were unfortunately unplaced.  Well done lads….you’ve done Fremantle proud.

Divison 1. – GOLD

L-R:  Michael Holmes, Brock Blake, Mark Warren, Darrin Sigley, Shane Wright & Ben Dancey

Divison 2. – GOLD

L-R: Matt Machin, Naoise Coughlan, Dan Christmass, Adam Linford, Nathan Brooks & Peter Daines

Divison 3. – SILVER

L-R:  Mike Condon, Daniel Larsen, Charlie Lionti, Pat Gallacher, Alex Piper & Damian Davidson

Nominations are now being received for the Darts WA Lower Grades Teams Championships
being held on Saturday 8 th & Sunday 9 th  July 2023 at the Belmont Sports & Recreation Club,
Cnr Abernethy Rd, & Keane Street, Cloverdale.

Note: Nominations will close 5 pm on Monday 26 th June 2023.

Please follow the instructions and nominate at FDDA Representative Nominations

For all FDDA members, please note the following changes of date for events:

• West Coast Challange. Due to venue booking conflicts, the first event at Kingsway has been changed 1 week to 3 June. Nomionations are now open at https://fremantledarts.com.au/tournament-nominations/. Please be aware this is a long weekend.
• The FDDA annual windup has been move a week back due to a conflict with the AFL Grand Final. It is now on Saturday 7 October 2023.