" Owls Beak-Come Tree Time Champs "
Night Owl's last match, in the NTS Darts Winter League, saw them cement their 3rd season win beating Armourada 8-3 and finishing top of the league with 140 points (85% winning average)
But, it was a last match game where feathers were ruffled and scalps were taken by Armourada.
Night Owls, Nickos's unbeaten run of 14 from 14 singles came to an end when losing 2-1 to Armourada's Gary who also beat Owl's Makis 2-0. (Makis's only 2nd singles loss this Winter).
And.....Gary's team mate, Ann, beat Owl's Dimitris 2-1, (Only his fourth defeat in 16 games)
Final Points Totals:-
Night Owl -140
Three W's - 100
Armourada - 97
Armour Plated - 94
Owlettes - 35
Wild Women - 29.
The first and second rounds of the Team Knock outs have produced a coupla shocks.
Nickos, Dimitris and Makis (Owl) flew through to the final with 4-0 wins over Owlettes and Armour Plated and a 4-2 win over Three W's. In the top half of the draw, But..... Gary,Roger and Senan took out the 3w's and Owls 2nd teams. - Twill be a good final.
The Round Robin, where the top 2 from each team played each other, was a very hard fought match.
In a three group tussle, Xrisanthos, (W's), beat Nickos 2-1, and with 2 other wins moved to the final. The second group winner , Gary, was joined by group 3 winner, Owl's Makis, who "dun the job" on Negg with a 2-0 final shoot out.
In the final, Makis and Gary found a very on form Xris who, beating both of them, took the winners trophy.
Xrisanthos maintained his form in the pairs K/O and, with Negg, moved to the semi finals beating last years winners Gary and Derek (Armourada) The pairs semi's now read:-
Makis & Nickos vs Bob & Jean
Xris & Negg vs Dimitris & Spiros
Hmmmmm! - 5 Owls , 2 Armours and a Three W's - Pick the bones from that!
The Ladies singles K/O bought together a small but well known group of "veterans" The final saw Armourada's Ann, (a league average of 67% on singles & pairs), beating Three W's Margerita, (2 x 180's and 8 singles wins during the season), by 2 games to 1.
The League singles gets under way next Wednesday and the draw could produce a few upsets. Gary (Armour) could be meeting Dimitris (Owl) in his semi final draw and Owl's Capt Bob stands a good chance of being there to meet him. The other semi could see Armours Doug playing, against........ ? - A choice of Nickos, Makis , Xris , Senan and Ann in that group.....
Who Knows!. - There are others not mentioned who could change this prediction completely!.
Cheers
Negg