WA Rookies become Aussie Mixed Pairs Darts Champions

Players were competing for the Australian Junior Mixed Doubles Championship at today’s action packed 24 th Puma Australian Junior Darts Championships at the Latrobe Youth Centre resulting in new Australian Mixed Pairs Champions.

Western Australia dominated the Mixed Pairs Championships with three pair’s combinations making the semi finals. Unfortunately good teammates played each other, but this match was for the chance at a national title and both pairs were competing for their own bit of glory. Kyle Anderson & Ashley Charchalis (WA) played Damon Heta & Kirsten Nunn (WA) in the first semi final. Both boys were knocking in the big scores while the girls were also matching each other. Heta & Nunn were away first and won the first leg. The next three legs went to Anderson & Charchalis, all very close legs with the first down to the double winning the leg. The fourth leg saw the pressure on with both pairs just missing the double. Charchalis finished from 18 and they were into the final.

The second semi final saw Queensland’s Ben Gaiter & Brie Peters take on another WA pairing in Robert Carpanoni & Patricia Gary (left). This was a great contest with the WA pairing winning the first two legs. Great clean finishing by Carpanoni in those two legs. Gaiter & Peters were not going to give up with out a fight. The WA pair just went off their game a little and the Queenslander’s grabbed the next two legs to tie the match up. The deciding leg saw Gaiter & Peters away first but the WA pair regrouped and the big scores were back. Queensland had one dart at the double first but missed, giving a chance to WA. With his first dart at double 10, Carpanoni hit the double and they were into the final.

The final was played in front of a large crowd. With both finalist combinations from Western Australia it was no interstate rivalry but the excitement was still there. Chippy Miller called the players to the Finals Board and all were expecting a close match. It was a great final with all players bring their game up onto the stage. Carpanoni & Gary started proceedings and it was the boys that were throwing the average scores while the girls were making the big shots. They were neck and neck when Carpanoni stepped up with 112 left to score. He stepped and nailed the pegout to take leg one. The boys started to fire up in leg two, but again Carpanoni finished the leg, this time on 56. They Carpanoni and Gary were won leg away from the title. Anderson stepped up needing to get back into the match and hit 180. He had a great leg following the 180 with 125, 100 and a 70 finish to drag a leg back. In leg four Anderson & Charchalis continued their run and claimed the leg when Charchalis hit double 10 with her first dart at the double. Now the final was really on with one leg to play for the title. All but Anderson were Rookies at Australian Darts Championships and the pressure was starting to mount on all of them. Anderson was handling alright and kept the big scores coming. From 134 Anderson left 24, Gary scored 92 to leave 93 and Charchalis had a chance to take the final. She could not find the double leaving Carpanoni (right) a chance at finishing the leg. He stepped and hit the 93 required to win the title. It had been a great close match that could have gone either way with the final score being 3 – 2.

Both combinations were so evenly matched in the final with averages being for all players: Robert Carpanoni (20.538) & Patricia Gary (20.571), Kyle Anderson (25.819) & Ashley Charchalis (15.147) All are 17 years of age apart from Robert Carpanoni who is 15 years and has a few more years in junior darts.

Winners: Robert Carpanoni & Patricia Gary (WA)

Finalist: Kyle Anderson & Ashley Charchalis (WA)

Equal 3rd Damon Heta & Kirsten Nunn (WA)

Ben Gaiter & Brie Peters (QLD)

Equal 5th Kyle Munro & Belinda Vellanff (NSW)

Rhys Mathewson & Jenna Cullen (TAS)

Mitchell Clegg & Hannah Williams (NSW)

David Clegg & Kylie Walker (NSW)

The players were placed into four pools with a combination from each state in each pool. They played a round robin of matches with the top two placing from each pool moving into the quarterfinals.

After pool round robins matches were completed those to make it through to the quarterfinals were:

Pool A : Robert Carpanoni & Patricia Gary (WA) (5-11) topped the Pool winning all but one match and were joined in the quarterfinals by David Clegg & Kylie Walker (NSW) (5-10) who lost 2-0 to Carpanoni & Gary in their round robin match.

Pool B : Kyle Munro & Belinda Vellanff (NSW) (5-10) topping this Pool, with Rhys Mathewson & Jenna Cullen (TAS) (4 - 8) placing second. Three other pairs tied for third on 3 – 7.

Pool C : Kyle Anderson & Ashley Charchalis (WA) won this Pool undefeated from Ben Gaiter & Brie Peters (QLD) (5-11) only losing 2 – 1 to Anderson & Charchalis.

Pool D : Damon Heta & Kirsten Nunn (WA) (5-11) came through the round robin with one lose. Joining them in the quarterfinals were Mitchell Clegg & Hannah Williams (NSW) (5-10) one leg behind them,

Ben Gaiter (17.983) & Brie Peters (23.00) (QLD) defeated Kyle Munro (16.16) & Belinda Vellanff (22.203) (NSW)
3 – 1

Kyle Anderson (23.711) & Ashley Charchalis (12.666) (WA) defeated Rhys Mathewson (20.421) & Jenna Cullen (12.335) (TAS) 3 – 0.

Damon Heta (23.455) & Kirsten Nunn (14.626) (WA) defeated Mitchell Clegg (17.409) & Hannah Williams (19.267) (NSW) 3 – 2

Robert Carpanoni (26.825) & Patricia Gary (21.47) (WA) defeated David Clegg (19.095) & Kylie Walker (18.909) (NSW) 3 – 0.

Robert Carpanoni (26.690) & Patricia Gary (16.50) (WA) defeated Ben Gaiter (19.019) & Brie Peters (19.387) (QLD) 3 – 2

Kyle Anderson (25.237) & Ashley Charchalis (13.535) (WA) defeated Damon Heta (25.796) & Kirsten Nunn (16.392) (WA) 3 – 1