Well the 2007-2008 Downtown Dart League has come to an end. We had eight teams this year and as far as I can tell, everyone had a great time. I want to thank John Geer for being our league President yet another year, along with all the team captains who did an excellent job calling in the scores, along with working together to make this an outstanding year.. Hopefully, every team will be back for another season next year (September Time-Frame). Before I wrap-up this final update, I would like to take a couple of minutes to point out some highlights from this season.

Well, after picking on Pat at the banquet about not putting out any updates in regards to the downtown league, I figured I would put out a quick statement.

While Carpentiers had a great regular season, placing themselves solidly in first place, the Cabin Tavern won the playoffs to take the trophy. A hearty congratulations to both of these teams as well as a thanks to every team and player for a rather fun and enjoyable season.

By far, there was less whining and bickering than I have heard during a league (either soft or steel dart s) in a long time.

OK, so I know I’m late getting this update out, and I probably would have just not done one at all; but I didn’t want to disappoint my one and only reader…..Chuck!

The final position round of the year only produced one surprise. 4th place Buckaroo beat 3rd place Hideaway A and promptly dropped to 5th. As usual the number got them in the end. Hideaway A had 158 going into the position round versus Buckaroo’s 149. After Buckaroo beat Hideaway A 11 to 8, the Buck’s were sitting with 160 points and Hideaway A at 166. What dropped the Buck’s to 5th was Club Oasis.

This is it, the last position round of the season. I will get to who plays were shortly, but first a quick look at last week’s results.

Carpentiers easily beat Hideaway B 17-2. The only high score reported was for Al from Hideaway B. He shot a nice 105 on to start his match and as it turned out, also produced the only wins for Hideaway B when he won both his singles.

Hideaway A picked up 12 points, beating Hideaway C 12-7. Once again, the only big score reported was for the losing team. Jennette shot a 125 in her match. No mention if she won or lost.

With only one week to go and a position round, it looks like Carpentiers has first place locked-up. Especially since their match before position round is Hideaway B who is currently near last place in the league. I guess the only real hope for the rest of the league is if the entire Carpentiers Team drops of the face of the earth for the next two weeks…does anyone know who books the flights for NASA? Anyway onto this weeks results.

Carpentiers KO’d Hideaway A this week to all but lock up first place in the Downtown Dart League. Hideaway A won only one match, losing 18-1 to Carpentiers. RJ was the heavyweight for Carpentiers, starting two games with a 130 and 115 on. Ty for Hideaway answered with a 112, but even with Jason shooting a 140 it wasn’t enough to stop the bleeding. Not only was the 18-1 the worst lost of the season, but it also knock Hideaway A all the way down to fourth place, and with only two weeks left in the season I am not sure they can recover.

Hideaway A barley beat Buckaroo 10-9 this week. Ken for Buckaroo was the big gun, shooting a 140 in one of his matches along with a 111 to start another. For Hideaway, Jason had another good week also shooting a 140. Since this was Jason’s only high score, I am not sure if it was better or worse than last week – only one high score, but no three, and only 10 points.

Carpentiers notched another win this week beating Club O 13-6. Supported by strong starts from Conrad with a 106 on, KJ’s 105 on and Gill’s 102 on, this team seem unstoppable. The only bright spot for Club O was Mike who shot a 133. I also heard that Kim came close to skunking her opponent. I didn’t heard though if she won her match or not.

Buckaroo also had a strong night, easily defeating Hideaway C 16-3. Either no one shot any high darts, or the match was over so quickly they didn’t have time to write them down.

I want to start by wishing everyone a Happy New Year and I hope all of you will be here with us at the end of the year. This may be a new year, but the darts scores called in seem a repeat of last year.

The Cabin started the year with the most wins, beating Hideaway B 15-4. However neither team had any high scores to report. The night was just full of “How was Christmas, Did you do anything for New Years” and so forth. What a wonderful way to start the year.

OK, so I am late getting this week’s web updated. But Helga insisted that buying her gift came before updating a web page. So I quick ran down to AAA and bought her a new set of flights. I hope she doesn’t want anything else, because I am fresh out of ideas. Anyway, here is what happened this week.