NSW just to strong in Junior Darts Teams Events

New South Wales Junior Girl’s Darts Teams continue to dominate the 24th Puma Australian Junior Darts Championships at the Latrobe Youth Centre in Latrobe today. The Teams competitions was completed today with the New South Wales Girls Teams winning the title of Australian Girls Teams Champions for the fourth time, the last being back in 1988. This broke the run by the Queensland Girls who had won the title for the last three years.

A very tight Girls Teams Championship in 2005 made for some very exciting darts being thrown by the girls. OK New South Wales won the title but they really had to fight for it this year. Day two saw South Australia come out and play great darts to upset the two favourites. First up South Australia easily defeated Western Australia 7 – 2. If that was not enough they followed that match in the next round up by defeating the other undefeated Team in New South Wales (left) 5 – 4. That meant that every team had lost at least one match.

Moving in to the final round of this event just one leg was separating the two Teams with WA having that advantage. It was not going to have much bearing on this match though as the winner would be Champions.

The New South Wales v Western Australia match was very close. The WA Girls won the first two doubles legs, only to see NSW claim the next two to square up the match. NSW’s Belinda Vellanff won the first Singles against Patricia Gary 2 – 0, while on the board next to her Hannah Williams also won against Ashley Charchalis 2 –1. Only requiring won more point for the title Terri Parrott won her single against Kirsten Nunn finishing on double eight. WA’s Tarmeka Nestor won her single against Kylie Walker to bring the match score to 5 – 3. The NSW topped off a great couple of days taking the final teams leg hit 20 to finish the match against WA 6 – 3.

Captain Janelle Wilson was in charge of this team for the first time as was the Manager Teresa Hore a former junior representative herself and the players did them both proud. They were Belinda Vellanff, Tania Walker, Kyle Walker, Terri Parrott and Hannah Williams.

Wilson said after the match, “This is fantastic. I was so nervous. I knew it was so close between all of these teams.

“I could not have asked any more of the players. They gave me 100%, even when we were down they never gave up and fought back hard. I have been standing behind these girls all week so far, but that last match I just had to sit down. I’m just blown out.” Wilson said.

Unbelievably after that lose for Western Australia play had not finished for them. South Australia had snuck up on them and had tied them on wins and legs, which required a tiebreaker to separate the two Teams. All players play in the tiebreaker of one leg 1001 so it is cut throat. South Australia were first to hit the double giving them second place and Western Australia were in the hunt for the title at one stage yet half an hour later had slipped to third.

Captain for South Australia, Mavis Nicholson was a late replacement for the Team. She has many years of experience at senior level as a player and Captain, but this was her first time at Captaining the South Australian Junior Team. The Team composed of players Simone Keogh, Kylie Aay, Kerry Dunn and Kylie Coulson. Nicholson said, “I’m very happy for these Girls. They put in a big effort today and they triumphed. The win over Western Australia this morning lifted the confidence of the girls and it just improved from there.”

Western Australian Captain has been Kerry West and she said of her Team, “As a Team of four Rookies and one player who had previously competed at a Championships, I couldn’t be more proud of the performance of all the girls. Kirsten Nunn, a three time rep proved invaluable with her experience gave her all, Ashley Charchalis gave 100% at every turn, Trish Gray impressed with her coolness and attitude at the board, Tarmeka Nestor showed why was here with some brilliant pegging, and Rebekah Lupton although not put a dart to the board was an invaluable team member .

Fourth place went to Queensland, fifth to Victoria and sixth to Tasmania.

Girls Day 2 Results: (Round by Round)

New South Wales: (TAS7 - 2) (SA 4 – 5) (WA 6 - 3)

Northern Territory: (QLD 1 - 8) (TAS 4 - 5) (SA 4 - 5)

Queensland: (NT 8 - 1) (VIC 4 - 5) (Bye)

South Australia: (WA 7 - 2) (NSW 5 - 4) (NT 5 - 4)

Tasmania: (NSW 2 - 7) (NT 5 - 4) (VIC 7 - 2)

Victoria: (Bye) (QLD 5 - 4) (TAS 2 - 7)

Western Australia: (SA 2 - 7) (Bye) (NSW 3 - 6)

For all of the results for your Team, go to the Menu Bar at the top of the Junior Championship page, click on Girls and select Teams.

The Western Australian Boy’s clinched the Boy’s Teams Event, winning back-to-back-to-back titles. This is the third year in a row the Western Australian Boy’s have won this event and as in 2004 completed the 2005 competition undefeated. This is the fourth time the Western Australian Boys have won the Teams since competition started back in 1980. Western Australia defeated a gallant New South Wales in the final round today.

Entering the final round, both New South Wales and Western Australia were both undefeated. There were a number of legs separating the two teams, so this was going to be a terrific of a match as this was for the Championship.

Unfortunately the Western Australian Boy’s Team (left) showed their class in the final and it was all one-way traffic. The pairs of Anderson & Carpanoni, Heta & Wyatt were outstanding in all pairs games played. After the doubles Western Australia were up 4 – 0. The first of the singles matches saw WA’s Rookie Robert Carpanoni up first against Kyle Munro. The Rookie started a bit shaky but got his game together as the match went on making the score line 5 – 0. On the board next to him Damon Heta was playing Mitchell Clegg. A couple of experienced players here in this match up but Heta was unstoppable winning the first leg in 14 darts including a 180 and the second leg in 18 darts. The points went to WA again and they gave them a 6 – 0 lead in the match, enough points for the win and the title was theirs. In the remaining singles Kyle Anderson was too strong for David Clegg (18 & 17 darts 1x!80) and Kyle Wyatt defeated Andrew Sica to make it 8 – 0. To top off the match the Western Australian won the Teams leg as well when Heta finished on 20 for a clean sweep 9 - 0.

Betty Hislop said, ”I am so proud of all off our players. They are simply fantastic. They are so easy to manage and they all played well through out this event. The Teams Event is a top competition and even though we had two 9 – 0 wins, the games were still tough often going to three legs. Kyle Anderson has played great darts and has given the benefit of his experience to our Rookies. Damon Heta has given his usual good performance. Credit has to be given to the three Rookies. Robert Carpanoni is a real find who has played top class darts with grit and determination. Both Brendan Phillips and Kayne Wyatt have shown they are good enough to be around in juniors for a few years to come.”

The WA Team, Captain Betty Hislop and players Kyle Anderson Damon Heta, Robert Carpanoni, Brendan Phillips and Kayne Wyatt were far too strong and consistent for all the other teams. This team highlighted the strength of junior boy’s darts over the last few years in Western Australia with three of these players contesting this years Australian Darts Championships having several more chances at representing there state in future years. It was the last year for World Youth Champion Kyle Anderson and his Pairs Champion partner Damon Heta.

The New South Wales Team was Captained by Roy Christopher, Manager Norm Walker and the players consisted of Kyle Munro, Mitchell Clegg, David Clegg, Andrew Sica and Jake Saramaga placed second with only the one loss to Western Australia. Apart from Western Australia, the New South Wales boys were rarely challenged on the scoreboard.

Christopher said after the match “ I’m so proud of all of the Boy’s. They have had a great two days of close competition in the Teams event, but unfortunately Western Australia was just to strong for us today. I just cannot express how wrapped in what they have achieved”

Placing third was South Australia (6-26). Captained by Steve Letts, players competing for South Australia have been Aaron Kocjancic, Luke Warren , Daniel Lill and Daniel Thomson . They suffered defeats to Queensland on day one and lost to Western Australia and New South Wales today. They won more legs than fourth placed Queensland (6-23) and fifth placed Tasmania (4 - 28).

Boys Day 2 Results: (Round by Round)

New South Wales: (TAS 5 - 4) (SA 6 - 3) (WA 0 -9)

Northern Territory: (QLD 5 - 4) (TAS 3 - 6) (SA 3 - 6)

Queensland: (NT 4 - 5) (VIC 5 - 4) (Bye)

South Australia: (WA 2 - 7) (NSW 3 - 6) (NT 6 - 3)

Tasmania: (NSW 4 - 5) (NT 6 - 2) (VIC 9 - 0)

Victoria: (Bye) (QLD 4 - 5) (TAS 0 - 9)

Western Australia: (SA 7 - 2) (Bye) (NSW 9 - 0)

For all of the results for your Team, go to the Menu Bar at the top of the Junior Championship page, click on Boy’s and select Teams.