Hellraiser Defeats Darting Demon
The latest Steel City qualifier at the best pub darts venue around, the Woodbourne Hotel, was held the past week and it was a corker.
Bob Pinder was the victor of the latest qualifier against a very good Darting Demon Lee Cushworth. Bob made his way to a match against the demon by firstly seeing off Greg Beard 4-3 in a very high quality game with four legs of 13, 18, 19, 17 shared between the players. Bob then recorded a win over Ben Dulley and a semi final win over Lester Bowers set up the final with Lee Cushworth. Lester 'Big Red' Bowers played brilliant all night with wins over Steve Marfleet as both men had great legs. 17, 15, 18 dart legs for Steve and Lester posted a brace of 19s and 20s to go through 4-3. He then beat Pat Meeson with legs of 15/17 with Pat hitting a 106 outshot before going out to Bob in the semi finals. Lee Cushworth beat Paul Brittle in the last 8 before a terrific Semi win over Ryan Goffin with Ryan recording legs of 15, 16 but going down 4-3 as Lee smashed in 2 x 15,16,18 dart legs and 101,105,110 finishes to record a 4-3 win. Ryan had beaten Jake Rhodes and John Lieber en route with 4 maximums for his tally on the night. Bob won the final 4-1 recording 2 x 180s over the Darting Demon to put himself firmly in a top 8 finish in the final.
Steel City Tournament Points
49 STEVE MARFLEET
46 GREG BEARD
44 LESTER BOWERS
39 RYAN GOFFIN
39 BOB PINDER
33 BEN DULLEY
31 PAUL BRITTLE
31 PAT MEESON
-------Top 8 Seeds------
27 ADAM WARNER
24 MICK HULLEY
24 ANTONIO CRUZ
22 MARC ELLIS
17 LEE CUSHWORTH
14 LAURA TAYLOR
12 MATT PRYOR
12 PETE BELL
11 CHRIS MARKHAM
11 PETE BRAMLEY
10 OWEN CUBITT
10 JOHN LIEBER
8 JAKE RHODES
7 STEPHEN BRIGGS
7 BRIAN LEWIS
7 ANNE LOFTHOUSE
7 RICH BECK
--------Finals--------
6 PAT FINNEY
6 SIE SIMMONS
6 BRAD CLOWERY
5 KIERON POTTS
5 ANGIE BRITTLE
5 STEVE THOMPSON
5 TOM BRIGGS
4 JACK HILL
4 TREVOR TYE
4 STEVE MEEK
4 AUSTIN STEBBINGS
3 RUSS SIMONS
3 TIM CLOSE
3 CARL WILKINSON
3 CHRIS LACEY
3 DAVE CLIFFE
3 SAM FORDHAM
3 PAUL BUTTERY
3 TOM BLAGG
3 RIC CRUZ
2 RICH JOHNSON
2 PAUL BECK
2 STEVE EWINGTON
2 SHAUN GREENFIELD
2 PAUL HARRIS
2 STEVE NAISBIT
2 LEE WOLFE
1 GREG BATTING
1 IAN HENDRY
1 EVAN HENDRY
1 ANTHONY ASQUITH
1 BOB LAMB
1 JON HIRST
1 HARRY HATTER
1 CHRIS KEANE
1 TOM SAWFORD
1 JOHN EDWARDS
1 JON SMETHURST
1 TRACEY BELL
1 DAZ BLUER
Beardmore & Stocks Tie For Pikado Title
It was Ben Beardmore and Micky Stocks who tied for top spot at the end of the Pikado season as we went into the end of season knockout. Players have been battling away for 20 weeks at the best of 6 legs was privy to one leg straight shootout of 501 and the higher placed up the table you were then you gave the darts away.
Always a nice twist to this one but Micky Stocks was outstanding all night and had to be with this crucial format but he saw off Tom Briggs, Charlie Stocks, Tony Hirst and Shaun Greenfield while all players were sat on a doubles. Greenfield wanted tops after a fine run himself beating Pete Bramley, Tom Sawford and John Lieber. Micky getting there was not as much of a shock as his opponent in the final as it was the man who had finished in the low 20s, Andy Friar, who performed brilliant to see off good players in Mandy & Lee Slack, Deb McCabrey and Kev Jagger, who had beaten Clair Thom, Anne Lofthouse and Paul Brittle before going down to Andy Friar. Andy put up a brave fight in the final but went out to a superb 120 outshot possibly the best you will see 25, T15, Bull to cap off a terrific night of darts before the presentation.
Ben Beardmore and Micky Stocks shared the Pikado Liga Title with Steve Hatterley in 3rd who also picked up least darts with 4th place Tom Sawford and was unlucky not to add highest finish as he hit a 167 on day one but on the final day a sublime 170 out from Bob Lamb got him highest finish and 26 maximums was Micky Stocks' tally.
Steel city sucess for Magic Marfleet & Hellraiser Pinder
Steel City Round up Qualifiers 12 & 13
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Greg Beard & Steve Marfleet Steel City 13 Final[/caption]
Bob Pinder and Steve Marfleet were the winners of the last two Steel City qualifiers and both men put firm holds on being in the 8 seeded players for the finals. Magic Marfleet continued his love of the tournament after the reigning champion won SCQ 13 in a repeat of the 11th Q with a fine win coming from 3-1 down to pip great friend Greg Beard 4-3 in a brilliant final
(link to final)
Watch the final
Steve beat on way to the final Jake Rhodes, Paul Buttery and a semi final over Lester Bowers who is always in the mix and had seen off Paul brittle and Ricardo Cruz with a flurry of low legs and maximums. Losing finalist Beard was a close winner over Rich Beck 4-3, Laura Taylor and Ryan Goffin with other semi final qualifier Rich Beck having beaten Antonio Cruz and Ben Dulley. Steve now sits 3pts clear at the top over Greg Beard full results below.
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Bob Pinder & Ryan Goffin Steel City 12 Final[/caption]
Bob Pinder the original Hellraiser was on form to record the Steel City qualifier 12 with a final win over Ryan Goffin. Bob won the final 4-2 over Ryan (link for the final)
Steelcity 12 Final
Bob won through by first of all having too much scoring power for Evan Hendry and the young lad played very well. Bob then beat Trevor Tye before having a close game with Chris Lacey. Lester Bowers after beating Matt Pryor, Steve Marfleet and Carl Wilkinson was next for Bob in the Semis but Hellraiser won through 4-2. Ryan's path was forged with an opening win over Antonio Cruz before seeing off former finalist Adam Warner and then Steel City finals runner-up Mick Hulley after Mick had won over Ian Hendry, Pete Bell and Brian Lewis so that moved Bob up into a seeded position for the grand finals for 2017 and also put Ryan in a commanding position too.
Steel City 12 Results
Pre Lims
MICK HULLEY 4-1 IAN HENDRY
180 and 2x20 dart legs for Mick
LAURA TAYLOR 0-4 STEVE MARFLEET
1817,21,180 for steve
LESTER BOWERS 4-0 MATT PRYOR
17,19,21 for Lester and a 180 for Matt
MARC ELLIS 3-4 OWEN CUBITT
180 for Cubitt
ANTHONY ASKQUITH 1-4 CARL WILKINSON
16,21 for carl and a 18 each
BEN DULLEY 1-4 TREVOR TYE
21 dart leg each and a 20 for Ben
EVANB HENDRY 0-4 BOB PINDER
100 & 106 checkout plus a maximum for Bob
PETE BRAMLEY 4-0 PAUL BRITTLE
180 for Paul
JOHN LIEBER 0-4 CHRIS LACEY
Last 16
BRIAN LEWIS 4-2 GREG BEARD
17 for Brian and a 18 for Greg
PETE BELL 1-4 MICK HULLEY
19 for Mick and a 180 for Pete
STEVE MARFLEET 1-4 LESTER BOWERS
OWEN CUBITT 1-4 CARL WILKINSON
ADAM WARNER 4-3 JAKE RHODES
18 for Adam and a 180 each
ANTONIO CRUZ 2-4 RYAN GOFFIN
16x2,18x2 for Ryan
TREV TYE 1-4 BOB PINDER
14,17,15 dart legs for bob plus a maximum each
PETE BRAMLEY 0-4 CHRIS LACEY
103 outshot for Chris plus legs of 12,19,17,21
Last 8
BRIAN LEWIS 1-4 MICK HULLEY
3x17 dart legs with two of them for Mick
LESTER BOWERS 4-3 CARL WILKINSON
2x14,2x20 & 3 180s for Lester and 16,17,20 for Carl
ADAM WARNER 3-4 RYAN GOFFIN
158 outshot for ryan
BOB PINDER 4-2 CHRIS LACEY
Semi-Finals
MICK HULLEY 3-4 RYAN GOFFIN
BOB PINDER 4-2 LESTER BOWERS
Final
RYAN GOFFIN 2-4 BOB PINDER
Steel City 13 Results
Last 16
PAUL BUTTERY 4-1 TOM BRIGGS
JAKE RHODES 0-4 STEVE MARFLEET
RIC CRUZ 4-3 PAUL BRITTLE
LESTER BOWERS 4-1 JOHN LIEBER
15,16,17 dart legs for Lester
RICH BECK 4-0 RIC CRUZ
11 dart leg for Rich Beck
BEN DULLEY 4-3 PAT MEESON
180 for Pat with a 103 out and a 104 out for Ben
LAURA TAYLOR 0-4 GREG BEARD
13,14,17 dart leg for Greg
JACK HILL 1-4 RYAN GOFFIN
13,16,21 dart leg for Ryan
Last 8
PAUL BUTTERY 0-4 STEVE MARFLEET
RIC CRUZ 1-4 LESTER BOWERS
2X180S,17,20,20 dart legs for Bowers
RICH BECK 4-1 BEN DULLEY
GREG BEARD 4-2 RYAN GOFFIN
16 for Greg with Ryan hitting a 14/15 dart legs and a maximum for Greg
Semi-Finals
STEVE MARFLEET 4-1 LESTER BOWERS
14,15,19 dart legs for Steve and a maximum each
RICH BECK 3-4 GREG BEARD
17,19,20 for rich with greg 17,17,20
Final
STEVE MARFLEET 4-3 GREG BEARD
