Alan Towe's The Line on Darts - Winmau Darts Centre

£10k World Darts Ranking Tournament for Wolverhampton Wolverhampton is to play host to one of a handful of UK darts world ranking events in 2017, with an expected prize pot of several thousand pounds. Organisers have awarded the competition to WICS (Wolverhampton Indoor Community Sports) after a series of successful events at the popular venue, culminating in this year's Wolverhampton Open and a British Disabled Darts Association tournament. Next year's Winmau BDO ranking event will attract the UK's top darts professionals, along with West Midlands amateurs hoping to win prize money. It will be staged over two days, Saturday and Sunday, July 15 and16. WICS manager Dharam Jagpal commented: "This will be our most prestigious darts event to date and we're hoping to bring forward our plans for the new Winmau Darts Centre, currently being designed as part of a major update of the whole WICS complex". The Wolverhampton Indoor Community Sports Arena is in Racecourse Road, Wolverhampton WV6 0QU. Further information on 01902 420827, www.wics.org.uk and info@wics.org.uk --------------------------------- [caption id="attachment_15720" align="alignleft" width="300"] Mick Baker Winmau Champions League winner and Dharam Jagpal Wics owner[/caption] Congratulations to Mick Baker who has retained his Winmau Centre Thursday Night Champions League title together with the £300 league prize money and another twelve months sponsorship deal from Winmau. Baker who had rearranged fixtures to play caught up and ended the season from a field of 22 players with 22 wins from 24 games and a total of 224 points to overtake Louis Burley who has topped the table for a good part of the season, Burley ending the campaign with 217 points seven short of Baker but collecting a nice pre Christmas pot of £250. Another former leader Kevin Harris finished third with 214 points and picked up £200. There was top prize money paid out from first to last as Rhys Langford, who finished at the bottom of the table picked up £40. Throughout the season there were 924 games which included 6,468 legs, With the season now completed plans are already in place for the fourth season which will get underway in January at the Winmau Darts Centre in the Wolverhampton Indoor Community Sports Stadium, Racecourse Road, WV6 0QU. With a limited entry confirm your interest now at www.wics.org.uk or for further information contact the centre on 01902-420827. Who will be the player to stop Mick Baker making it three in a row? Could it be you? Are you good enough? Why not sign up and find out.

			Final Table
	P	W	L	F	A	Pts	Prize
Mick Baker	42	40	2	224	70	224	300
Louis Burley	42	37	5	217	77	217	250
Kevin Harris	42	33	9	214	80	214	200
Jay Hough	42	34	8	203	91	203	150
Paul Boddison	42	30	12	191	103	191	100
Les Marson	42	28	14	188	106	188	100
Robert Pierce	42	31	11	185	109	185	100
Devinder Singh	42	26	16	179	115	179	80
Ken West	42	25	17	174	120	174	100
Chris Manoila	42	24	18	171	123	171	80
Mark Bayliss	42	21	21	154	140	154	80
Chris Fox	42	21	21	151	143	151	80
Mick O'Neill	42	21	21	146	148	146	80
Rob Harris	42	19	23	137	157	137	60
Martin East	42	17	25	130	164	130	60
Craig Capewell	42	13	29	124	170	124	60
Liam Baker	42	11	31	107	187	107	60
Baz Pearce	42	11	31	93	201	93	60
Paul Walters	42	9	33	87	207	87	40
Tam Singh	42	8	34	82	212	82	40
Phil Summers	42	2	40	48	246	48	40
Rhys Langford	42	1	41	29	265	29	40

--------------------------------- With the Winmau Centre Thursday Night Champions League taking a break until January the centre is laying on a couple of knockouts the first of which saw West Midlands player Sam Guest take the top prize with a final 6-2 win over Robert Pierce. In the last sixteen round Guest beat Shropshire player Rob Harris 4-0 and with a similar scoreline accounted for Jason Gayle in the quarter finals, then booking his final spot with a 5-2 win over Matt Padgett. From the other half of the draw Pierce had 4-2 wins against Chris Fox and Mark Bayliss and reached the final with a 5-1 win against Chris Williams. Results:Last Sixteen:- Adam Quinton 4 Paddy Thomas 1, Matt Padgett 4 Devinder Singh 1, Jason Gayle – bye, Rob Harris 0 Sam Guest 4, Chris Fox 2 Robert Pierce 4, Sam Aitkins 1 Mark Bayliss 4, Chris Manoila 0 Chris Williams 4, Shane Watters – bye, Quarter Finals:- Adam Quinton 0 Matt Padgett 4, Jason Gayle 0 Sam Guest 4, Robert Pierce 4 Mark Bayliss 2, Chris Williams 4 Shane Watters 0, Semi Finals:- Matt Padgett 2 Sam Guest 5, Robert Pierce 5 Chris Williams 1, Final:- Sam Guest 6 Robert Pierce 2. ---------------------------------