Red Dragon International Masters
The 4th Red Dragon International Masters at the Players Bar in Rotherham was won by Terry Temple defeating a good field with wins over Steve Meek 5-4, Trevor Burkhill 5-4, Mark Gurran 6-3, Bob Pinder 6-3(s/f), Carl Wilkinson 6-3 in the final and Carl made it also by beating Tom Gurran, Rich Beck 6-1 and Ben Beardmore 6-3(s/f) in a tremendous day of darts. Semi Finalist was Bob Pinder who got through a classic encounter with Lester Bowers, Owen Cubitt and Tony Molyneaux before going out to Terry. Ben Beardmore was also a semi finalist seeing off Brian Lewis and Chris Markham on way to the final. Terry now becomes the 4th player to win the title after Kev Rimmer, Brian Dawson & John Walton. He also made the final back in 2016.
Past Winners
2014 KEV RIMMER 5-3 PAUL REDFERN (Newbold WMC)
2015 BRIAN DAWSON 5-3 TREVOR BURKHILL (Rileys)
2016 JOHN WALTON 5-2 TERRY TEMPLE (Leadmill)
2017 TERRY TEMPLE 6-3 CARL WILKINSON (Players)
[caption id="attachment_19017" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Carl, Terry and Owen[/caption]
Last 16
CARL WILKINSON 5-0 TOM GURRAN
DAVE HEMSWORTH 3-5 RICH BECK
Rich hit 3 maximums in a good close game.
CHRIS MARKHAM 5-1 PAUL HARRIS
Both players with 20 dart legs and a maximum for Chris.
BEN BEARDMORE 5-3 BRIAN LEWIS
Brian led 3-0 before Ben forged a hard fought comeback.
BOB PINDER 5-0 OWEN CUBITT
TONY MOLYNEAUX 5-1 RYAN GOFFIN
MARK GURRAN 5-2 STEVEN MARFLEET
TERRY TEMPLE 5-4 TREVOR BURKHILL
Trevor missed 5 match darts before Terry powered to a last leg win.
Last 8
CARL WILKINSON 6-1 RICH BECK
CHRIS MARKHAM 1-6 BEN BEARDMORE
3 x 19 darts for Ben, with a 20 and a maximum for Chris.
BOB PINDER 6-2 TONY MOLYNEAUX
TERRY TEMPLE 6-2 MARK GURRAN
Mark missed 2 darts to bring it back to 4-3 but terry again powered scored very well.
Semi Finals
CARL WILKINSON 6-3 BEN BEARDMORE
2 x 18 and 3 x 19 for Carl with Ben hitting a 13 and 2 x 19 with a couple of maximums in a high quality semi final.
BOB PINDER 3-6 TERRY TEMPLE
Terry hitting 2 x 14, 2 x 17 a 19 & 20 with 2 x 180s was an amazing performance and was pushed by old rival Bob Pinder who himself had 2 x1 5 and a 19 with 2 x 180s also.
Final
CARL WILKINSON 3-6 TERRY TEMPLE
Terry forged an early lead with a break in leg 3 and kept up the pressure on Carl who played very well. Carl hit 19 & 2 x 18 dart legs but Terry was terrific all day and continued to put pressure on all who played him with 13,19,17,21,18,18 and 2 x 180s also in another terrific game.
Damorf Wins Steel City Championship
Marfleet beats Ellis in thrilling final.
Steel City Championship at the Woodbourne was in full swing the weekend as Steve "Damorf" Marfleet took the tournament from Tiny Marc Ellis in a cracking match up.
Steve won through to the finals after seeing off John "Roger" Edwards 4-2 with John smashing in a maximum steve then beat the WDL champion Pat Meeson before playing the game of the night against Big Red Lester Bowers 4-3 after Lester had already beat Chris Markahm and a revenge match with Pete Bell.Marc Ellis had a tricky path through also with wins over Tracey Bell and John Lieber before an encounter with Ben Dulley in the Semis with Ben on top form seeing off Steve Ewington 4-3 in a brilliant game and also Mick hulley but it was Marc Ellis who made his 3rd steel city final.
Steel City Tournament Points:
8 STEVE MARFLEET
7 GREG BEARD
7 MARC ELLIS
5 LESTER BOWERS
4 PETE BELL
4 ADAM WARNER
4 BEN DULLEY
3 PAT MEESON
2 PAUL BRITTLE
2 RICH JOHNSON
2 MATT PRYOR
2 STEVE EWINGTON
2 JOHN LIEBER
2 CHRIS MARKHAM
2 ANTONIO CRUZ
2 PAUL HARRIS
2 OWEN CUBITT
2 RYAN GOFFIN
2 MICK HULLEY
1 ANNE LOFT HOUSE
1 GREG BATTING
1 CHRIS KEANE
1 PAT FINNEY
1 LAURA TAYLOR
1 BRAD CLOWERY
1 JOHN EDWARDS
1 TRACEY BELL
1 BEN CHIVERS
1 DAZ BLUER