MEN'S TEAM
KO CUP 30TH APRIL 2008
HOME VS COLCHESTER TOWN AT THE THORPE SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB
WALTON PLAYED HOSTS TO COLCHESTER TOWN IN THE FIRST ROUND OF THE ESSEX MEN'S SUPERLEAGUE KNOCKOUT CUP. THE FORMAT BEING 8 SINGLES BEST OF 3 LEGS WITH EVRY LEG HAVING TO BE PLAYED AS THE WINNING TEAM IS DECIDED ON THE TEAM WINNING THE MOST LEGS OVERALL. THE FIRST GAME SAW DANIEL PARKER (20.44) UNLUCKY TO LOSE OUT 2-1 TO DARRON BRITTON (20.50). THEN CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (24.45) PLAYED REALLY WELL TO COME FROM 1-0 DOWN TO WIN 2-1 AGAINST MARK WOODGER (24.46), ANDREW CURRIVAN (25.78) ALSO PLAYED REALLY WELL AND WAS UNFORTUNATE NOT TO WIN 3-0 AGAINST DUTCHMAN COENRAAD WIEKAMP (23.55), IT WAS WIEKAMP WHO WON 2-1...! THEN REECE HUTCHISON (19.34) LOST OUT 3-0 TO PDC PLAYER JAMIE ROBINSON (27.83). ALAN CURRIVAN (22.34) THEN REDUCED THE DEFICIT WITH A 2-1 WIN OVER COUNTY B PLAYER ANDREW BURMBY (23.79) WHO ALSO HIT A 177 MAXIMUM.! HOWEVER WALTON'S HOPES OF VICTORY WERE THEN DENTED AGAIN AS DAVE TOTTMAN (23.05) LOST 3-0 TO 180 SCORING PAUL McDERMOTT (28.35)..! WALTON NOW NEEDED TO WIN THE LAST TWO GAMES 3-0 TO TAKE THE TIE TO A DECIDER.! THIS WASN'T TO BE THOUGH AS MARK DAVIES (23.62) COULDN'T DO MUCH ABOUT THE FIRST LEG AS PAUL COPELAND (26.12) FINSIHED WITH A 114 GAME SHOT! HOWEVER DAVIES STEPPED UP AND PLAYED VERY WELL TO WIN THE LAST TWO LEGS FOR A 2-1 VICTORY. THE LAST GAME OF THE NIGHT SAW ROBERT EMERY (27.16) PLAY WON O HIS BEST GAMES FOR WALTON. HE WAS UNFORTUNATE TO LOSE THE FIRST LEG TO MARK GREGORY (22.33) BUT MADE NO MISTAKE WWITH WINNING THE NEXT 2 LEGS INCLUDING A GREAT 130 FINISH FOR A 2-1 VICTORY..!
RESULTS
DANIEL PARKER (20.44) 1 - 2 DARRON BRITTON (20.50)
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (24.45) 2 - 1 MARK WOODGER (24.46)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (25.78) 1 - 2 COENRAAD WIEKAMP (23.55)
REECE HUTCHISON (19.34) 0 - 3 JAMIE ROBINSON (27.83)
ALAN CURRIVAN (22.34) 2 - 1 ANDREW BURMBY (177) - (23.79)
DAVE TOTTMAN (23.05) 0 - 3 PAUL McDERMOTT (180) - (28.35) MOM
MARK DAVIES (23.62) 2 - 1 PAUL COPELAND (114GS) - (26.12)
ROBERT EMERY (130GS) - (27.16) MOM 2 - 1 MARK GREGORY (22.33)
YOUTH TEAM
LEAGUE 20TH APRIL 2008
HOME VS BRAINTREE AT WITHAM TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB
WALTON 6 - 5 BRAINTREE
TRIPLES
A CURRIVAN, D QUINNEY, DAMIEN SMITH (18.44) 1 - 0 R HAYDEN, M DAVENPORT, J BONE (16.94)
T ARMSTRONG, R BALDWIN, J WALSH (13.70) 0 - 1 B HAVEN, L JENNINGS, T PARRADINE (14.30)
DOUBLES
SARAH CURRIVAN (11.66) & DAVID DAVENPORT (16.16) COMB (13.71) 0 - 1 T PARRADINE & L JENNINGS (14.30)
DAMIEN SMITH (15.83) & ANDREW CURRIVAN (34.25) COMB (25.04) 1 - 0 M DAVENPORT & R HAYDEN (14.42)
JOHN WALSH (12.83) & THOMAS ARMSTRONG (13.85) COMB (13.31) 0 - 1 J BONE & B HAVEN (12.52)
SINGLES
JOHN WALSH (4x100) - (16.87) 0 - 2 RHYS HAYDEN (17.89)
THOMAS ARMSTRONG (180) - (4x100) - (20.44) MOM 2 - 0 THOMAS PARRADINE (18.70)
DAVID QUINNEY (17.27) 2 - 0 LEIGH JENNINGS (14.84)
DAMIEN SMITH (4x100) - (18.90) 2 - 0 MARTIN DAVENPORT (16.29)
ROSIE BALDWIN (11.52) 2 - 1 BRENDON HAVEN (11.09)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (180) - (21.46) 1 - 2 SAM HAYDEN (19.08) MOM
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 16TH APRIL 2008
HOME VS THAMESIDE AT THE THORPE SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB
WALTON 2 - 10 THAMESIDE
WEEK 30 THE FINAL LEAGUE GAME OF THE 2007/08 ESSEX MEN'S SUPERLEAGUE SEASON AND THE LAST GAME OF WALTON'S FIRST EVER SEASON IN THE LEAGUE. WALTON WERE HOME TO THAMESIDE THE REIGNING LEAGUE CHAMPIONS WHO NEEDED TO WIN AND WIN BIG IN HOPE THAT THE RESULT FROM THE HOCKLEY VS COLCHESTER TOWN GAME WOULD GO THEIR WAY SO THAT THEY COULD BE CROWNED LEAGUE CHAMPIONS FOR THE 18TH TIME. HOWEVER WALTON DIDN'T ROLL OVER AND SUBMIT TO DEFEAT THEY BATTLED RIGHT TO THE END AND RECORDED THEIR HIGHEST TEAM AVERAGE OF THE SEASON WITH (23.03), SADLY FOR WALTON THAMESIDE WERE ON TOP FORM AS THEY RECORDED A TEAM AVERAGE OF (25.66) AND WALKED AWAY WITH A 10-2 VICTORY BUT NOT THE 12-0 THAT PEOPLE WERE SPECULATING ABOUT. THE FIRST GAME OF THE NIGHT SAW ROBERT EMERY (22.42) AND ALAN CURRIVAN (22.42) COMB (22.40) BATTLE AWAY BUT JUST MISSING OUT AGAINST COUNTY A MAN PHIL COX (22.75) AND ROBERT CATON (21.66) COMB (22.24). THEN ANDREW CURRIVAN (25.33) LINKED UP WITH THE RETURNING DAVE SMITH (21.38) COMB (23.36) AS CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI ARRIVED JUST AFTER THE DRAW HAD BEEN MADE! THEY PLAYED A VERY STEADY GAME BUT COUNTY A PLAYER ALAN COLLINS (29.61) HIT A 180 AND SCORE WELL AS DID HIS PARTNER STEVE JOHNSON (29.25) COMB (29.44) AS THEY WON IN 34 DARTS..! MARK (STAX) DAVIES (30.00) PLAYED HIS BEST GAME IN THE PAIRS SINCE JOINING AND WAS PARTNERED BY DANIEL PARKER (21.00) COMB (25.90), BUT THE THAMESIDE DUO OF FORMER ENGLAND INTERNATIONAL TERRY ROSE (34.38) AND PAUL DOHERTY (23.87) COMB (29.44) WERE TO STRONG AS THEY WON IN 34 DARTS. WALTON WERE NOW 3-0 DOWN AND DESPERATE TO GET A LEG UNDER THE BELT BEFORE STARTING THE SINGLES. REECE HUTCHISON (27.42) PLAYED VERY WELL WITH PARTNER DAVE TOTTMAN (20.23) COMB (23.83) AS THEY WERE GIFTED CHANCES BY DAVE SOLLY (22.52) AND COUNTY A MAN BEN ADAMS (29.11) COMB (25.56), IT WAS TOTTMAN WHO STEPPED UP TO HIT DOUBLE 16 TO SECURE THAT FIRST LEG OF THE NIGHT AS THE HOMESIDE ERUPTED WITH JOY KNOWING THAT THEY WERE THE ONLY TEAM OUT OF THE BOTTOM 4 IN THE LEAGUE THAT HAD GONE ALL SEASON WITHOUT A 12-0 DEFEAT ESPECIALLY AS MANY NEW TEAMS IN THE PAST HAVE FAILED TO ACHIEVE THAT..! FIRST IN THE SINGLES WAS DAVE SMITH (24.82) WHO WAS PLAYING BRILLIANTLY AGAINST ROBERT CATON (27.12) DESPITE GOING 2-0 DOWN WITHOUT PUTTING A FOOT WRONG! IN THE 3RD LEG SMITH WENT OFF WITH 100,100,140,97 AND WENT OUT IN 17 DARTS TO PULL A LEG BACK, IN THE 4TH LEG SMITH AGAIN PRODUCED SOME VERY STEADY SCORING AND WAS VERY UNLUCKY TO MISS DOUBLE 20 FOR A 116 FINISH! HOWEVER CATON STEPPED IN AND WENT OUT IN 19 DARTS TO TAKE THE VICTORY IN A GREAT GAME OF DARTS. NEXT UP WAS A CONTEST BETWEEN 2 OF ESSEX'S ENGLAND NATIONAL SINGLES QUALIFIERS PLAYED AT THE ENGLAND OPEN THE WEEKEND! ANDREW CURRIVAN (22.87) WAS TAKING ON TERRY ROSE (27.32). ROSE WON THE FIRST 2 LEGS IN 40 DARTS AND THEN STEPPED UP AGAIN TO SHOW WHY HE ONCE REPRESNTED ENGLAND AS HE SCORED 140,100,140,74 AND FINISHED IN 15 DARTS FOR A 3-0 WIN..! THE NEXT GAME SAW OLDER BROTHER ALAN CURRIVAN (20.25) LOOKING FOR A WIN TO KEEP HIMSELF IN POSITION FOR THE CHAMPIONS OF CHAMPIONS COMPETITION, HOWEVER PAUL DOHERTY (24.24) WON THE FIRST LEG AND CAPITALISED ON CURRIVAN MISSING DOUBLE 16 IN A 2ND LEG WHERE BETWEEN THE 2 PLAYERS 7 TON+ SCORES WERE HIT, DOHERTY THEN WENT ON TO WIN THE 3RD LEG IN 20 DARTS FOR A 3-0 WIN THAT GUARANTEED THAMESIDE A DRAW WITH 5 SINGLES REMAINING.NEXT ON WAS ONE OF WALTON'S MOST CONSITENT PLAYERS AFTER ADJUSTING BACK TO SUPERLEAGUE DARTS ROBERT EMERY (22.30) WHO HIT HIS 2ND 180 IN AS MANY GAMES AGAINST COUNTY A MAN ALAN COLLINS (22.97), HOWEVER COLLINS HIT 2 180'S OF HIS OWN TAKING HIS TOTAL ON THE NIGHT TO 3! COLLINS WON THE FIRST LEG BEFORE EMERY REPLIED WITH THE 2ND. IN THE 3RD EMERY WAS ON 48 ONLY FOR COLLINS TO WIN IN 17 DARTS! THE 4TH LEG SAW BOTH PLAYERS HIT MAXIMUMS AS IT WAS COLLINS WHO EDGED IT FOR A 3-1 WIN AND SECURED THAMESIDE THE 2 POINTS.. THEN CAME CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (23.09) WHO HAS BEEN IN VERY IMPRESSIVE FORM LATELY AND KNEW THAT A WIN WOULD GUARANTEE HIM A PLACE IN THE CHAMPIONS OF CHAMPIONS COMPETITION! HE WAS HOWEVER UP AGAINST THE VERY EXPERIENCED DAVE SOLLY (26.56)..! IT WAS SOLLY WHO WON THE FIRST LEG AND TOOK CONTROL UNTIL TOPOLEWSKI MADE GOOD USE OF HIS CHANCES TO WIN THE 2ND LEG. SOLLY THEN STARTED THE 3RD LEG WITH 177,100,140 AND WON SUPERBLY IN 16 DARTS, HOWEVER TOPOLEWSKI WAS FINISHED AS HE CAME BACK AGAIN AND WON THE 4TH LEG TAKING THE GAME TO THE DECIDER, HOWEVER WITH THE THROW SOLLY MADE IT COUNT AS HE WON IN 17 DARTS FOR 3-2 VICTORY..! NEXT UP WAS MARK (STAX) DAVIES (21.22) AGAINST COUNTY A MAN BEN ADAMS (22.35). ADAMS GOT HIMSELF COMFORTABLY IN CONTROL OF THIS MATCH UP AS HE WENT 2-0 UP AND FAVOURITE FOR THE WIN, BUT THEN STAX WOKE UP AS HE HIT 3 TON'S ON THE BOUNCE ON HIS WAY TO WINNING THE 3RD LEG. THE 4TH LEG WAS CLOSE ALL THE WAY DOWN AS ADAMS MISSED CHANCES STAX STEPPED UP AND WENT OUT ON 74! STAX WAS UP FOR THE DECIDING LEG MORE THAN ANY PLAYER THE TEAM HAD SEEN ALL SEASON, HE PROVED THIS AS HE STARTED THE 5TH LEG WITH SCORES OF 100,100,125,100. HOWEVER ADAMS HIT 3TON'S ON THE BOUNCE HIMSELF TO PUT THE PRESSURE ON, BUT IT WAS MARK (STAX) DAVIES WHO TOOK THE GLORY AS HE HIT DOUBLE 7 FOR A 3-2 WIN AND A WELL DESERVED MAN OF THE MATCH PERFORMANCE..! DAVE TOTTMAN (20.14) WAS VERY UNLUCKY AGAINST PHIL COX (21.78) WITH TOTTMAN LEFT ON 20 IN BOTH THE 1ST AND 2ND LEG! IT WAS COX WHO CAME THROUGH A 3-0 WINNER. THE LAST GAME OF THE NIGHT WAS GOING TO BE A TOUGH CONTEST AS REECE HUTCHISON (26.23) KNEW A WIN WOULD NOT ONLY GIVE HIM THE FINAL CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS SPOT FOR DEFINATE BUT WOULD ALSO GIVE WALTON THE LAST WORD IN THIS TOUGH MATCH, HE WAS UP AGAINST STEVE JOHNSON (28.90) WHO HAD THE HIGHEST WEEKLY AVERAGE THE PREVIOUS WEEK IN THE LEAGUE WITH A (34.16) AND WAS CLEARLY IN GREAT FORM! JOHNSON WON THE FIRST LEG IN 15 DARTS AS HUTCHISON WAS LEFT ON 41. IN THE 2ND LEG HUTCHISON MISSED CHANCES FOR DOUBLE 20 AND 10 AS JOHNSON CAPITALISED. IN THE 3RD LEG JOHNSON SCORED BRILLIANLTY AS HE WON IN 14 DARTS FOR A 3-0 WIN AS HUTCHISON PLAYED OUTSTANDING SCORING 7 TON+ SCORES IN 3 LEGS! A BATTLING DISPLAY FROM A TRANSFORMED WALTON SIDE WITH A FUTURE THAT BODES WELL. CAPTAIN GAVE WORDS OF PRAISE TO HIS SIDE SAYING THAT THEY BATTLED RIGHT TO THE END AND NEVER GAVE UP AGAINST A TEAM THAT EVERY ONE OF THEIR PLAYERS PLAY'S OR HAVE PLAYED COUNTY DARTS. IT'S BEEN A GREAT SEASON WITH PLAYERS WHO HAVE COME AND GONE BUT NOW THE TEAM HAS BECOME A TEAM.
WALTON TEAM AVERAGE: 23.03 / WALTON TEAM TON'S: 62 / THAMESIDE TEAM AVERAGE: 25.66 THAMESIDE TEAM TON'S: 77
DOUBLES
ROBERT EMERY (22.42) & ALAN CURRIVAN (22.42) >(22.40) 0 - 1 PHIL COX & ROBERT CATON COMB (22.24)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (25.33) & DAVE SMITH (21.38) > (23.36) 0 - 1 ALAN COLLINS (180) & STEVE JOHNSON COMB (29.44)
MARK (STAX) DAVIES (30.00) & DANIEL PARKER (21.00) > (25.90) 0 - 1 TERRY ROSE (34.38) & PAUL DOHERTY COMB (29.44)
REECE HUTCHISON (27.42) & DAVE TOTTMAN (20.23) > (23.83) 1 - 0 DAVE SOLLY & BEN ADAMS COMB (25.56)
SINGLES
DAVE SMITH (8x100) - (24.82) 1 - 3 ROBERT CATON (180) - (9x100) - (27.12)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (22.87) 0 - 3 TERRY ROSE (27.32)
ALAN CURRIVAN (20.25) 0 - 3 PAUL DOHERTY (8x100) - (24.24)
ROBERT EMERY (180) - (22.30) 1 - 3 ALAN COLLINS (2x180) - (22.97)
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (23.09) 2 - 3 DAVE SOLLY (177) - (10x100) - (26.56)
MARK (STAX) DAVIES (10x100) - (21.22) MOM 3 - 2 BEN ADAMS (8x100) - (22.35)
DAVE TOTTMAN (20.14) 0 - 3 PHIL COX (21.78)
REECE HUTCHISON (26.23) 0 - 3 STEVE JOHNSON (28.90) MOM
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 9TH APRIL 2008
AWAY VS BURNTWOOD AT THE RISING SUN
WALTON 4 - 8 BURNTWOOD
THIS WEEK WALTON MADE THE TRIP DOWN THE A12 TO FACE BURNTWOOD, WITH BOTH TEAMS HAVING GOOD RESULTS THE PREVIOUS WEEK IT WAS GOING TO BE AN INTERESTING BATTLE. WALTON WERE DISSAPOINTED TO BE WITHOUT DAVE SMITH FOR THE MATCH ,BUT WERE STILL AT STRENGTH OTHERWISE. THE FIRST GAME SAW ANDREW CURRIVAN (26.23) THROW WELL WHILST HIS PARTNER CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI STRUGGLED TO GET GOING AS THEY LOST TO HIGH SCORING PAUL HARRISON (26.00) AND PARTNER PAUL SEDGE COMB (25.02). THEN MARK DAVIES AND MATT BALDWIN PLAYED STEADY BUT HIT A FEW LOW SCORES IN BETWEEN AS PHIL DALDRY AND JOHN WASTENAGE (25.02) CAPITALISED. DAVE TOTTMAN AND REECE HUTCHISON COMB (23.83) PULLED IT BACK WITH HUTCHISON FINISHING ON 96 AGAINST DAVE PHILLIPS AND K PARODI. ALAN CURRIVAN STRUGGLED WITH PARTNER ROBERT EMERY AS THEY COULDN'T GET NEAR MANNY BARRAGAN AND THE VERY HIGH SCORING DARREN BLACKWOOD (33.94) WHO WON IN 35 DARTS FOR A COMBINED AVERAGE OF (28.60).! WALTON WERE NOW 3-1 DOWN AS BURNTWOOD PLAYED SUPERBLY IN THE PAIRS! FIRST UP IN THE SINGLES WAS WALTON'S DAVE TOTTMAN (22.31) WHO DECIDED TO PUT HIS BAD RUN OF LATE BEHIND HIM AS HE CAME FROM 1-0 DOWN TO BEAT MANNY BARRAGAN (20.82) 3-2, HITTING A 180 ALONG THE WAY AND WINNING THE GAME WITH A 17 DART LEG WHILST TAKING HIS 3RD MAN OF THE MATCH OF THE SEASON..!!! THE NEXT GAME SAW BURNTWOOD RESTORE THEIR 3 LEG ADVANTAGE AS ANDREW CURRIVAN (23.68) SCORED WELL BUT STRUGGLED TO FINISH AS GRANT HAMMOND (24.24) PUNISHED HIM WITH A 3-0 DEFEAT! WALTON 2-4 BURNTWOOD.... MARK (STAX) DAVIES (20.69) THEN FOLLOWED HIS TEAM MATE WITH THE HEAVY SCORING BUT FAILED TO HIT A DOUBLE AS PAUL HARRISON (22.10) DID SO AND COLLECTED A 3-0 WIN!! WALTON WERE NOW 5-2 DOWN AND NEEDED A COMEBACK AS THEY HAVE DONE SUCCESSFULLY OF LATE! IT STARTED WITH ROBERT EMERY (21.07). EMERY'S FIRST THROW WAS (180), HIS FIRST FOR WALTON! HE THEN WENT 2-0 UP AGAINST PAUL SEDGE (19.78) AND WAS LOOKING VERY COMFORTABLE FOR A 3-0 WIN BEFORE ALSO STRUGGLING WITH THE FINISHING AS SEDGE PULLED A LEG BACK. EMERY DID HOWEVER DIG IN TO WIN THE 4TH LEG AND TAKE THE HONOURS 3-1!.. THEN DANIEL PARKER (20.16) WAS LOOKING FOR HIS 4TH WIN OF THE SEASON AGAINST JOHN WASTENAGE (22.22)! IT WAS A VERY CLOSE GAME WITH EVERY LEG GOING WITH THE THROW WHICH SAW THE END RESULT A 3-2 WIN TO PARKER, WHO WENT OUT IN 21 DARTS IN THE DECIDING LEG! WALTON 4-5 BURNTWOOD...! WALTON WERE THEN BELIEVING THAT A RESULT WILL COME WITH 3 OF THEIR TOP 4 RANKED PLAYERS LEFT TO PLAY. THE NEXT GAME SAW ALAN CURRIVAN (19.78) WHO HAS SHOWN CONSISTENCY OF LATE COME UNSTUCK AGAINST PHIL DALDRY (21.77). CURRIVAN WAS UNLUCKY IN THE 2ND LEG MISSING DOUBLE 19 FOR A 155 FINISH AND GO 2-0 UP, HOWEVER DALDRY PUNISHED AS CURRIVAN STRUGGLED WITH FINISHING AND IN THE DECIDING LEG RAN OUT OF STEAM AND LOST THE SCORING ASWELL AS HE LOST OUT 3-2 TO DALDRY.! REECE HUTCHISON (20.85) NEEDED TO WIN TO KEEP THE TEAMS HOPES ALIVE FOR A DRAW! HOWEVER HE CAME UP AGAINST A BRICKWALL AS DARREN BLACKWOOD (27.33) FOLLOWED UP HIS SUPERB SCORING IN THE PAIRS AS HE WON 3-0 WITH A 180, 118 FINISH AND A 13 DART LEG TO GIVE HIS TEAM THE WIN AND A SUPERB MAN OF THE MATCH PERFORMANCE!. THE GAME WAS NOW LOST AND IT WAS A CASE OF PLAYING THE LAST GAME TO MAKE THE SCORELINE SHOW THE TRUE STORY OF HOW CLOSE THE GAME WAS. CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (23.06) WAS THE MAN ON LAST, HE CAME UP AGAINST MARK BANHAM (22.15). TOPOLEWSKI CRUISED THE FIRST LEG IN 16 DARTS WHILST HITTING HIS 7TH 180 OF THE SEASON! HE THEN WENT 2-0 UP AND HAD AN AVERAGE OF (27.83)! BUT THEN IN THE 3RD LEG HE TOOK HIS FOOT OFF THE GAS AND BANHAM PULLED A LEG BACK. THEN IN THE 4TH LEG BANHAM WON IN 19 DARTS, TAKING THE GAME TO A DECIDER, WHERE BOTH PLAYERS WERE NECK AND NECK AS TOPOLEWSKI HAD 3 DARTS AT 48 BUT MISSED HIS CHANCE TO MOVE UP TO 2ND PLACE IN THE TEAM AVERAGES AS BANHAM PUNISHED AND TOOK A 3-2 WIN!! WALTON TEAM AVERAGE: 22.02 BURTNWOOD TEAM AVERAGE: 23.36 / WALTON TON'S: 51 BURNTWOOD TON'S: 68
DOUBLES
ANDREW CURRIVAN (26.23) & CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (20.95) COMB (23.59) 0 - 1 PAUL HARRISON (26.00) & PAUL SEDGE (23.94) COMB (25.02)
MARK DAVIES (24.61) & MATT BALDWIN (20.77) COMB (22.84) 0 - 1 PHIL DALDRY (24.61) & JOHN WASTENAGE (25.63) COMB (25.02)
DAVE TOTTMAN (23.09) & REECE HUTCHISON (24.57) COMB (23.83) 1 - 0 DAVE PHILLIPS (22.66) & K PARODI (19.72) COMB (21.30)
ALAN CURRIVAN (20.72) & ROBERT EMERY (24.40) COMB (22.39) 0 - 1 MANNY BARRAGAN (23.55) & DARREN BLACKWOOD (33.94) COMB (28.60)
SINGLES
DAVE TOTTMAN (180) - (22.31) MOM 3 - 1 MANNY BARRAGAN (20.82)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (23.68) 0 - 3 GRANT HAMMOND (24.24)
MARK (STAX) DAVIES (20.69) 0 - 3 PAUL HARRISON (22.10)
ROBERT EMERY (180) - (21.07) 3 - 1 PAUL SEDGE (19.78)
DANIEL PARKER (20.16) 3 - 2 JOHN WASTENAGE (8x100) - (22.22)
ALAN CURRIVAN (19.78) 2 - 3 PHIL DALDRY (8x100) - (21.77)
REECE HUTCHISON (20.85) 0 - 3 DARREN BLACKWOOD (180) - (118GS) - (13 DART LEG) - (27.33) MOM
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (180) - (16 DART LEG) - (23.06) 2 - 3 MARK BANHAM (22.15)
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 2ND APRIL 2008
HOME VS SOUTHEND AT THE THORPE SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB
WALTON 7 - 5 SOUTHEND
WALTON PUT LAST WEEKS POOR RESULT AGAINST LOCAL RIVALS COLCHESTER BEHIND THEM WITH AN EXCELLENT HARD THOUGHT 7-5 WIN OVER SOUTHEND AT THE THORPE SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB. THE FIRST GAME OF THE NIGHT SAW WALTON'S ANDREW CURRIVAN (26.76) AND DAVE TOTTMAN COMBINED (23.83) BATTLE BACK AFTER BEING OVER 200 BEHIND TO WIN AGAINST MICHAEL PEEL AND GRAHAM MILLS (23.69). THE SECOND GAME SAW ALAN CURRIVAN AND ROBERT EMERY COMBINED (23.83) RETURN TO WINNING WAYS AS THEY JUST EDGED PAST SAM AYRES AND PETER KNOWLSON (24.84). < WALTON 2-0 SOUTHEND >! THEN DANIEL PARKER (26.25) SCORED HEAVILY AGAIN WITH PARTNER MATT BALDWIN SCORING WELL TOWARDS THE END COMBINED (21.53) BUT THEY WERE UNABLE TO PREVENT DEFEAT VERSUS STEVE KIAMIL AND RICHARD WATERING (21.29). THE FINAL PAIRS GAME SAW LAST WEEKS ONLY WINNERS DAVE SMITH (29.22) AND CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (23.77) COMBINED (26.50) PLAY SUPERBLY AGAIN, WITH SMITH HITTING 4 TON+ SCORES, BUT WERE UNABLE TO GET PAST MEL DAVIES AND JOHN HAYTER (28.60) IN A WHAT WAS A GREAT GAME.! THE SCORELINE WAS THEN LEVEL AFTER THE PAIRS AT 2-2.!! THE FIRST SINGLES GAME WAS A RETURN FOR DAVE TOTTMAN (18.53) AND HE TOOK ON JOHN HAYTER (19.72). TOTTMAN WON THE FIRST LEG AND WAS LOOKING COMFORTABLE TO TAKE THE 2ND AND PUSH ON FOR A WIN, HOWEVER WITH 51 LEFT TOTTMAN HIT A TREBLE 19 TO BUST AND HAYTER TOOK HIS CHANCE. THE 3RD WAS ANOTHER CLOSE LEG BUT IT WAS HAYTER WHO TOOK THE HONOURS AND WAS THEN 2-1 UP! HAYTER THEN HAD THE MOMENTUM AND PUSHED ON WINNING THE 4TH LEG FOR A 3-1 VICTORY AND GIVING THE AWAY SIDE THE LEAD FOR THE FIRST TIME!. THEN CAME WALTON'S ANDREW CURRIVAN (22.39) WHO WAS UP AGAINST MEL DAVIES (22.50). DAVIES WON THE 1ST LEG AND WITH BOTH PLAYERS MISSING DOUBLES IN THE 2ND IT WAS DAVIES WHO TOOK FULL ADVANTAGE GOING 2-0 UP! ANDREW THEN PRODUCED A GREAT 17 DART LEG TO KEEP HIMSELF IN THE GAME ONLY FOR MEL DAVIES TO WIN THE 4TH LEG WITH A 78 FINISH AND A 3-1 VICTORY OVER WALTON'S TOP RANKED PLAYER. WALTON WERE NOW 2-0 DOWN AND NEEDED TO PRODUCE THE DARTS THAT HAVEN'T SEEN THEM BEATEN AT HOME SINCE THE 23RD OF JANUARY. UP NEXT WAS REECE HUTCHISON (20.58) WHO IS STILL IN THE RACE FOR WALTON'S 2ND CHAMPIONS OF CHAMPIONS PLACE AND KNEW HE NEEDED A WIN TO KEEP THOSE HOPES ALIVE, AND HE DID SO DEPSITE A TOUGH BATTLE FROM PETER KNOWLSON (19.50)! KNOWLSON WON THE FIRST LEG ONLY FOR HUTCHISON TO REPLY WITH THE 2ND! KNOWLSON THEN WENT 2-1 UP BEFORE AGAIN HUTCHISON DREW LEVEL AT 2-2 TAKING THE GAME TO THE DECIDING LEG. IT WAS ANOTHER CLOSE LEG BUT IT WAS HUTCHISON WHO CAME OUT A 3-2 WINNER SCORINGìTON+ SCORES IN THE PROCESS. ROBERT EMERY (23.54) THEN PRODUCED SOME HEAVY SCORING AS HE CAME UP AGAINST GRAHAM MILLS (24.32). EMERY WON THE 1ST LEG ONLY FOR MILLS TO DRAW LEVEL, BUT THEN EMERY WAS DETERMINED TO WIN AS HE WON THE NEXT 2 LEGS WITH A TOTAL OF 8TON+ SCORES AND FINISHED ON 96 AND 86 FOR A SUPERB 3-1 VICTORY WHICH ALSO MADE THE SCORLEINE WALTON 4 - 4 SOUTHEND!! WITH THE SCORE LEVEL AND FOUR GAMES TO GO IT WAS ALL TO PLAY FOR! NEXT UP WAS LAST WEEKS MAN OF THE MATCH CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI, HE WAS UP AGAINST SOUTHEND'S SAM AYRES (20.96). TOPOLEWSKI WON THE 1ST LEG IN STYLE WITH A SUPERB 14 DARTER WITH SCORES 0F 97,125,134,130 AND 15 GAME SHOT IN 2 DARTS! IN THE 2ND LEG TOPOLEWSKI WAS SCORING SUPERBLY AGAIN ONLY TO STRUGGLE WITH FINISHING BEFORE CHECKING OUT ON 18.. TOPOLEWSKI THEN HAD HIS SIGHTS SET ON THE 3-0 WIN AND DID SO AS HE WON THE 3RD LEG IN 17 DARTS WHICH GAVE HIM AN AVERAGE OF (26.83) AND HIS 2ND MAN OF THE MATCH IN AS MANY WEEKS! THIS ALSO MOVED CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI UP TO 3RD AND IN WITH A STRONG CHANCE OF 2ND PLACE IN WALTON'S SINGLES AVERAGES!!! WALTON NOW NEEDED 1 MORE GAME TO SECURE A DRAW AND 2 FOR A WIN FROM THE REMAINING 3 PLAYERS LEFT.! NEXT UP AND LOOKING TO SECURE THE POINT WAS ONE OF WALTON'S IN FORM PLAYERS ALAN CURRIVAN (23.93), HE WAS UP AGAINST TOUGH OPPOSITION IN RICHARD WATERING (22.89). CURRIVAN WON THE FIRST LEG IN 20 DARTS! WATERING HIT BACK WITH THE SECOND LEG IN 21 DARTS. BEFORE CURRIVAN WENT 2-1 UP WITH A 21 DART LEG HIMSELF, THE FOURTH LEG WAS CLOSE BUT WATERING HIT A MAXIMUM 180 AND FINISHED ON DOUBLE 1 TO TAKE THE GAME TO A DECIDING LEG!! THE DECIDER STARTED WITH CURRIVAN SCORING 60 AND WATERING 140, BUT THEN WATERING HIT A FEW LOW SCORES AS CURRIVAN CAPITALISED AND WON IN 18 DARTS FOR A 3-2 WIN INCLUDING 8TON+ SCORES. A MUCH NEEDED WIN TO KEEP ALAN IN 2ND PLACE IN THE TEAM AVERAGES!! WALTON NOW HAD A POINT IN THE BAG AND WERE DESPERATE TO MAKE IT 2! THE CHANCE COULDN'T HAVE FALLEN TO A MORE DETERMINED TEAM PLAYER THAN MARK (STAX) DAVIES (22.77), WHO WAS UP AGAINST MICHAEL PEEL (22.82)!. STAX WON THE 1ST LEG AND PUSHED ON IN A CLOSE 2ND LEGTO GO 2-0 UP. THE WINNING POST WAS NOW INSIGHT FOR DAVIES AND HE WASN'T GOING TO LET IT SLIP THIS TIME AS HE HAS SHOWN GOOD FORM OF LATE BUT STRUGGLED WITH FINISHING! THIS WASN'T THE CASE IN THE 3RD LEG AS STAX SCORED WELL AND FINISHED ON 109 FOR AN EXCELLENT 3-0 WIN WHICH HIMSELF AND THE TEAM WERE DELIGHTED WITH!! WALTON HAD NOW WON THE MATCH AT 7-4 AND WERE LOOKING FOR THEIR JOINT BEST WIN OF THE SEASON! THE FINAL GAME OF THE NIGHT SAW DAVE SMITH (21.28) PLAY HIS SECOND GAME FOR THE TEAM AND YET AGAIN HE WAS LAST ON! HE WAS UP AGAINST SOUTHEND'S COUNTY B PLAYER STEPHEN KIAMIL. THE FIRST LEG WAS EVENLY MATCHED AS SMITH WAS LOOKING LIKELY TO WIN LEAVING HIMSELF 26 ONLY FOR KIAMIL TO CHECK OUT ON 97 IN 2 DARTS!! THE SECOND LEG WAS CLOSE AGAIN AS SMITH BUSTED ON 48 ONLY FOR KIAMIL TO GO OUT ON 16! THE 3RD LEG AGAIN WAS THE SAME AS THE OTHERS, VERY EVENLY MATCHED WITH DAVE SMITH MISING 3 DARTS AT DOUBLE 12 BEFORE KIAMIL TOOK ADVANTAGE AND MADE IT A 3-0 WIN, GIVING HIMSELF AN AVERAGE OF (23.12) AND SOUTHEND'S MAN OF THE MATCH!! GREAT MATCH WITH SOME SUPERB PERFORMANCES!! WALTON TONS: 65 - SOUTHEND TONS: 53
DOUBLES
ANDREW CURRIVAN (26.76) & DAVE TOTTMAN (20.90) COMB (23.83) 1 - 0 MICHAEL PEEL & GRAHAM MILLS COMB (23.69)
ALAN CURRIVAN (24.28) & ROBERT EMERY (23.38) COMB (23.83) 1 - 0 SAM AYRES & PETER KNOWLSON COMB (24.84)
DANIEL PARKER (26.25) & MATT BALDWIN (16.14) COMB (21.53) 0 - 1 STEVE KIAMIL & RICHARD WATERING COMB (21.29)
DAVE SMITH (29.22) & CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (23.77) COMB (26.50) 0 - 1 MEL DAVIES & JOHN HAYTER COMB (28.60)
SINGLES
DAVE TOTTMAN (18.53) 1 - 3 JOHN HAYTER (19.72)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (22.39) 1 - 3 MEL DAVIES (22.50)
REECE HUTCHISON (9x100) - (20.58) 3 - 2 PETER KNOWLSON (8x100) - (19.50)
ROBERT EMERY (8x100) - (23.54) 3 - 1 GRAHAM MILLS (180) - (24.32)
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (14 DART LEG) - (26.83) MOM 3 - 0 SAM AYRES (20.96)
ALAN CURRIVAN (8x100) - (23.93) 3 - 2 RICHARD WATERING (180) - (22.89)
MARK (STAX) DAVIES (109GS) - (22.77) 3 - 0 MICHAEL PEEL (22.82)
DAVE SMITH (21.28) 0 - 3 STEVE KIAMIL (23.12) MOM
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 26TH MARCH 2008
AWAY VS COLCHESTER AT THE ANCHOR INN
WALTON 2 - 10 COLCHESTER
WALTON MADE THE SHORT TRIP TO LOCAL RIVALS COLCHESTER WHO CURRENTLY SIT COMFORTABLY AT 5TH PLACE IN THE LEAGUE AS OPPOSED TO WALTON'S 15TH, HOWEVER CONFIDENCE WAS HIGH IN THE WALTON CAMP AS THEY FIELDED POSSIBLY THEIR STRONGEST SQUAD OF THE SEASON! WITH CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI RETURNING THE WEEK BEFORE AND NOW DAVE SMITH MAKING HIS LONG AWAITED DEBUT THE TEAM WERE MORE THEN CAPABLE OF AN UPSET. THE FIRST GAME ON SAW ALAN CURRIVAN AND ROBERT EMERY (19.59) TAKE ON CLACTON BASED PLAYERS JAMES NOONE AND DAVE WARNER (19.63), IT WAS A VERY SCRAPPY GAME AS NEITHER PAIRING REALLY GOT GOING, HOWEVER CURRIVAN AND EMERY BOTH HAD DARTS AT DOUBLES TO SECURE THE WIN BUT WERE UNABLE TO CAPITALISE AND NOONE MADE SURE OF IT FOR THE HOMESIDE. THEN DANIEL PARKER (26.00) AND RECCE HUTCHISON COMBINED (22.36) FOUND IT HARD WORK AGAINST DAVE ORTON AND THE IMPRESSIVE DAVID GWILLIAIMS (33.00) COMBINED (25.67) AND THEY LOST OUT DEPSITE PARKER HITTING HIS 4TH 180 OF THE CAMPAIGN.WALTON NOW KNEW THAT THEY NEEDED TO WIN THE LASTTWO PAIRS SO THAT THEY CAN GO INTO THE SINGLES ALL SQUARE! THIS WAS NOT TO BE THE CASE AS ANDREW CURRIVAN AND DAVE TOTTMAN (23.00) MISSED OUT TO ANDY COLE AND BRYAN WILLIS (25.03) WITH TOTTMAN UNLUCKY WITH TOPS TO TAKE OUT 118! WALTON 0 - 3 COLCHESTER.....! THE FINAL PAIRS WAS NOW A MUST WIN GAME, AND IT WAS WON IN STYLE AS DEBUTANT DAVE SMITH (26.82) SHOWED WHAT THE TEAM HAD BEEN MISSING ALONG WITH SOME BRILLIANT DARTS FROM CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI WHO AVERAGED (30.28) AS THE WALTON PAIR WON WITH A COMBINED AVERAGE OF (28.60) AND LEAVING THEIR OPPONENTS LEIGH BEETON AND DAVE BOKENHAM (17.17) WITH (383) REMAINING! THE FIRST GAME IN THE SINGLES WAS BETWEEN WALTON'S INFORM MARK (STAX) DAVIES (20.11) AND COLCHESTER'S LEIGH BEETON (23.86), BEETON WON THE FIRST LEG IN 21 DARTS, THEN FOLLOWED IT UP WITH THE 2ND LEG SUPERBLY IN 14 DARTS WITH HIS FIRST TWO THROWS BEING 180 THEN 140. THE 3RD LEG HAD DAVIES NAME WRITTEN ALL OVER IT UNTIL HE CAME INTO THE BRICKWALL OF DOUBLE 4 AND BEETON CAME DOWN TO STEEL THE LEG FROM UNDERNEATH STAX'S NOSE AND TAKE A 3-0 WIN. THE NEXT GAME WAS LIKELY TO BE A VERY INTERESTING ENCOUNTER AS ROBERT EMERY (22.26) WAS TAKING ON A FORMER WALTON LEAGUE PLAYER AND CURRENT COUNTY B MAN IN DAVE WARNER (22.90). WARNER TOOK THE FIRST LEG IN AN EVEN CONTEST BEFORE EMERY REPLIED WITH THE SECOND IN 21 DARTS, THE 3RD LEG WAS TIGHT AS EMERY SCORED 93 TO LEAVE HIMSELF 36 ONLY FOR WARNER TO TAKE OUT DOUBLE 7. THE 4TH LEG WAS ANOTHER CLOSE GAME AS EMERY THIS TIME LEFT 24 ONLY FOR WARNER TO GO OUT ON 42 AND A 3-1 VICTORY OVER THE WALTON MAN. THEN WALTON'S UNDER 18'S COUNTY PLAYER DANIEL PARKER (18.92) WAS UP AGAINST ROB EMERY'S COUSIN AND COUNTY B PLAYER BRYAN WILLIS (23.12) WHO PLAYS FOR COLCHESTER, DANIEL NEVER REALLY FOUND HIS FEET AS WILLIS WON 3-0 WITH LEGS OF 24 ,21 & 20. WALTON WERE NOW 6-1 DOWN AND NEEDED EVERY GAME FOR A DRAW! THIS WASN'T GOING TO BE AS COCLHESTER'S ANDY COLE PRODUCED SOME BREATH TAKING DARTS AS HE DISPOSED OF WALTON'S UNDER 18'S COUNTY MAN REECE HUTCHISON (20.91) 3-0 WITH LEGS OF 16, 18 AND 15 ,INCLUDING A MAXIMUM (174), A 127 FINISH WHICH GAVE HIMSELF AN AVERAGE OF (30.67), ASWELL AS HIS TEAM THE 2 POINTS AND THE MAN OF THE MATCH HONOURS FOR HIMSELF. WALTON HAD NOW LOST THE MATCH 7-1! CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (22.60) WAS NOW LOOKING TO AVENGE HIS DEFEAT TO COUNTY A MAN JAMES NOONE (23.39) WHO DEFEATED TOPOLEWSKI IN THE PREVIOUS LEAGUE MEETING. CRAIG WAS DETERMINED TO DO SO AS HE ALSO PLAYS WITH NOONE IN LOCAL LEAGUE DARTS AND HAD NEVER BEATEN HIM BEFORE. TOPOLEWSKI SOON CHANGED THAT AS HE STORMED OFF IN THE FIRST LEG WITH, 125,121 THEN 120 WITH A BOUNCE OUT FROM THE TREBLE 20 FOR A 180!! TOPOLEWSKI DID WIN THE FIRST LEG AND THEN WON THE SECOND THIS TIME SCORING HIS 6TH MAXIMUM 180 OF THE SEASON! HOWEVER NOONE DID RESPOND BY WINNING THE 3RD LEG IN 17 DARTS, THE 4TH LEG WAS AN EVEN MATCH BUT IT WAS TOPOLEWSKI WHO TOOK THE HONOURS WITH A 3-1 VICTORY AND ALSO HIS 3RD MAN OF THE MTCH OF THE CAMPAIGN. NEXT UP WAS THE INFORM ALAN CURRIVAN (23.34) WHO WAS LOOKING TO MAKE IT 4 WINS FROM 4 AND GO THROUGH MARCH UNBEATEN, IT WAS ESSEX UNDER 21'S VS ESSEX B AS HE CAME UP AGAINST DAVID GWILLIAMS (23.04), CURRIVAN WON THE 1ST LEG AGAINST THE THROW, ONLY FOR GWILLIAMS TO BREAK BACK WITH THE 2ND! IN THE 3RD CURRIVAN WAS SET UP FOR A 17 DART LEG ONLY FOR GWILLIAMS TO WIN IN 17 DARTS HIMSELF, ALAN THEN RESPONDED BY WINNING THE 4TH LEG IN 20 DARTS AND TAKING THE GAME TO THE DECIDING LEG! GWILLIAMS HAD THE THORW BUT DIDN'T START WELL AS ALAN SCORED HEAVILY AND LEFT HIMSELF 42 WITH GWILLIAMS BACK ON 131, BUT CURRIVAN THEN BUSTED TWICE ON 42 AS GWILLIAMS CAME DOWN TO SNEAK VICTORY AND GIVE HIM A 3-2 WIN. NOT FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS SEASON YOUNGER BROTHER ANDREW CURRIVAN (23.89) ANOTHER OF WALTON'S YOUTH COUNTY PLAYER'S FOLLWED AND PRODUCED A SIMILAR GAME. HE WAS UP AGAINST ESSEX B MAN DAVE ORTON (25.44), ORTON WON THE 1ST LEG IN 15 DARTS WITH A 101 FINISH, THEN SHORTLY FOLLOWED IT UP WITH THE 2ND LEG IN 21 DARTS, THIS TIME WITH AN 86 FINISH. ANDREW THEN REPLIED WITH THE 3RD LEG AND WAS ON FOR A 17 DART LEG IN THE 4TH AS ORTON WON IN 18 DARTS WITH THIS TIME A FINISH 0F 80 AND 3-1 VICTORY...! THE LAST GAME OF THE NIGHT WAS EAGERLY ANTICIPATED AS DEBUTANT DAVE SMITH (20.98) TOOK ON ANOTHER OF COLCHESTER'S COUNTY B PLAYERS, THIS TIME IT WAS DAVE BOKENHAM (22.88). SMITH WON THE 1ST LEG COMFORTABLY, BUT THEN MISSED CHANCES AT DOUBLE TO GO 2-0 UP AS BOKENHAM PUNISHED AND THEN WENT 2-1 INFRONT AND WENT O TO WIN THE 4TH LEG IN 18 DARTS WITH A 110 FINISH TO ROUND COLCHESTER'S NIGHT OFF.
WALTON TEAM AVERAGE: 22.21 WALTON TEAM TON'S: 53
DOUBLES
ALAN CURRIVAN (20.59) & ROBERT EMERY (18.46) COMB (19.59) 0 - 1 DAVE WARNER & JAMES NOONE
DANIEL PARKER (180) - (26.00) & REECE HUTCHISON (18.72) COMB (22.36) 0 - 1 DAVE ORTON & DAVID GWILLIAMS
ANDREW CURRIVAN (20.48) & DAVE TOTTMAN (25.52) COMB (23.00) 0 - 1 ANDY COLE & BRYAN WILLIS
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (30.28) & DAVE SMITH (26.82) COMB (28.60) 1 - 0 DAVE BOKENHAM & LEIGH BEETON
SINGLES
MARK (STAX) DAVIES (20.11) 0 - 3 LEIGH BEETON (180) - (14 DART LEG) - (23.86)
ROBERT EMERY (22.26) 1 - 3 DAVE WARNER (22.90)
DANIEL PARKER (18.92) 0 - 3 BRYAN WILLIS (23.12)
REECE HUTCHISON (20.91) 0 - 3 ANDY COLE (127GS) - (174) - (15 & 16 DART LEGS) - (30.67) MOM
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (180) - (9x100) - (22.60) MOM 3 - 1 JAMES NOONE (23.39)
ALAN CURRIVAN (23.34) 2 - 3 DAVID GWILLIAMS (11x100) - (23.04)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (8x100) - (23.89) 1 - 3 DAVE ORTON (101GS) - (15 DART LEG) - (25.44)
DAVE SMITH (20.98) 1 - 3 DAVE BOKENHAM (110GS) - (22.88)
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 19TH MARCH 2008
HOME VS SPRINGFIELD AT THE THORPE SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB
WALTON 6 - 6 SPRINGFIELD
WALTON WERE HOME TO SPRINGFIELD IN WHAT WAS LIKELY TO BE A BATTLE WITH THE HOMESIDE DETERMINED TO CLIMB OUT OF THE BOTTOM 2. WITH WALTON NOW ONLY BEATEN ONCE IN THEIR LAST 5 GAMES CONFIDENCE IS HIGH AND THE TEAM WERE BOOSTED BY THE RETURN OF CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI. THE FIRST GAME OF NIGHT WAS A GREAT OPENER AS ANDREW CURRIVAN (29.33) AND DAVE TOTTMAN (25.73) WERE PLAYING REALLY WELL AS THEY HAD A COMBINED AVERAGE OF (27.53) BUT THEY COULDN'T DO ANYTHING TO STOP THE SPRINGFIELD DUO OF DARREN PEETOOM AND PHIL BREWSTER WHO WON IN 31 DARTS FOR AN AVERAGE OF (32.29). THE SECOND GAME WAS LESS THEN MPRESSIVE AS REECE HUTCHISON AND MARK DAVIES (16.68) EDGED PAST JAMES WRIGHT AND KEITH WELLER (16.05) TO BRING THE SCORELINE LEVEL. THE 3RD GAME OF THE EVENING SAW CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI AND MATT BALDWIN (21.29) START SLOWLY AGAINST ASHLEY EVANS AND CRAIG VICKERS(180) - (20.77), BUT WITH SOME PRESSURE SCORES TOWARDS THE END OF 140 FROM BALDWIN THEN A 119 FROM TOPOLEWSKI TO LEAVE 24, VICKERS MISSED HIS CHANCE AND BALDWIN MADE NO MISTAKE GOING OUT WITH HIS 2ND DART TO GIVE THE HOMESIDE A 2-1 LEAD!!!... THE LAST PAIRS GAME OF NIGHT CAME AND WALTON WERE LOOKINGTO ROBERT EMERY & ALAN CURRIVAN (20.43) TO GIVE THE TEAM A BIG BOOST GOING INTO THE SINGLES. THEY WERE SCORING HEAVILY ALL THE WAY DOWN AND WERE ON TO WIN IN 31 DARTS UNTIL THE DOUBLE TROUBLE KICKED IN, AS GEORGE AND MICHAEL HARRIS (20.64) PUT THE PRESSURE ON AND HAD DARTS AT DOUBLES UNTIL EVENTUALLY EMERY HIT DOUBLE 1 TO GIVE WALTON A 3-1 ADVANTAGE... THE FIRST SINGLES SAW CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (21.71) RETURN WITH A WIN, HE WAS MAD TO WORK FOR IT THOUGH AS HE WENT 2-0 UP AND HIT A 180 BEOFRE UNDER 18'S YOUTH COUNTY PLAYER ALEX TINSLEY (22.78) HIT A 180 OF HIS OWN AND WON THE 3RD LEG IN 14 DARTS, THEN TINSLEY DREW LEVEL WINNING THE 4TH LEG, HOWEVER TOPOLEWSKI DUG DEEP IN THE LAST LEG AND EXTENDED WALTON'S LEAD TO 4-1..! THE NEXT GAME SAW REECE HUTCHISON (22.03) MISS CHANCES IN THE FIRST LEG AS COUNTY A PLAYER AND CAPTAIN DARREN PEETOOM (24.63) PUNISHED HIM WITH A 100 FINISH AND THEN WENT 2-0 UP AND HIT A 180 IN THE 3RD LEG AS HE WON IN 20 DARTS FOR A 3-0 WIN. ANDREW CURRIVAN (22.96) WENT 2-0 UP AGAINST MICHAEL HARRIS, HARRIS THEN PULLED A LEG BACK BUT ANDREW DIDN'T LET HIM HAVE ANY CHANCES IN THE 4TH LEG AND MADE SURE OF A 3-1 VICTORY DESPITE HARRIS HITTING A MAXIMUM 180..! WALTON 5 - 2 SPRINGFIELD ). THE HOMISED WERE NOW IN A GREAT POSITION AS DAVE TOTTMAN (19.18) TOOK ON ALAN GREEN (20.04) KNOWING A WIN WOULD PUT A POINT IN THE BAG WITH 4 MORE GAMES LEFT TO PLAY! HOWEVER SURPRISINGLY THIS WASN'T TO BE AS TOTTMAN DIDN'T PLAY NEAR TO HIS TRUE POTENTIAL AND MISSED DOUBLES IN THE 1ST AND 3RD LEG WHICH COST HIM DEAR AS HE WENT DOWN 3-0 TO GREEN. THE NEXT GAME WAS A TOUGH BATTLE FOR ROBERT EMERY (22.83) WHO CAME UP AGAINST A VERY IMPRESSIVE PHIL BREWSTER (26.97) WHO HIT 12 TON+ SCORES, BREWSTER WON THE FIRST LEG BEFORE EMERY TOOK HIS CHANCES AND MADE IT 1-1, THEN BREWSTER HITA SUPERB 16 DART LEG AND THEN BOTH PLAYERS PRODUCED SOME GREAT DARTS IN THE 4TH WITH EMERY CLOSE FOR A 131 FINISH AND A 15 DART LEG, BUT BREWSTER STEPPED IN AND WENT OUT SENSATIONALLY IN 13 DARTS FOR A 3-1 WIN. FOLLOWING THE LAST GAME WAS GOING TO BE HARD BUT THE NEXT GAME WAS ANOTHER CRACKER AS MARK (STAX) DAVIES (24.54) WAS IN SUPERB FORM SETTING HIMSELF UP FOR A 16 DART LEG ONLY FOR ASHLEY EVANS (27.92) TO CHECKOUT ON 120 FOR A 15 DARTER! THEN STAX REPLIED WITH THE 2ND LEG IN 20 DARTS AND FOLLOWED IT UP BY TAKING A 2-1 LEAD WITH AN 18 DART LEG. IN THE 4TH DAVIES NEVER GOT GOING AS EVANS HIT A MAXIMUM 180 AND LEVELLED PROCEEDINGS WITH A SECOND 15 DART LEG TO TAKE THE GAME TO A DECIDING LEG, BOTH PLAYERS PUT UP A STRONG BATTLE BEFORE EVANS CAME THROUGH FOR A 3-2 VICTORY AND CONTINUED THEIR COMEBACK SURGE. WALTON WERE NOW DESPERATE TO GET THE 6TH LEG THEY NEED TO GUARANTEE A POINT, IT WAS NOW ALAN CURRIVAN (23.71) VS COUNTY B PLAYER CRAIG VICKERS (20.39), BOTH PLAYERS HAD CHANCES IN THE FIRST LEG BUT IT WAS VICKERS WHO WON WITH THE THROW ON A 100 FINISH, THEN ALAN CAME BACK WINNING THE 2ND LEG WITH THE THROW, IN THE 3RD CURRIVAN STARTED OFF SLOW BUT PRESSURISED WELL TOWARDS THE END AND CAME DOWN TAKING HIS CHANCE AND WENT 2-1 UP, WITH THE WINNING POST IN SIGHT AND THE ADVANTAGE OF THROWING FIRST ALAN PRODUCED AN GREAT 18 DART LEG LEAVING VICKERS WAY BACK ON 331 AS HE TOOK THE HONOURS 3-1 WHICH GAVE WALTON AT LEAST A DRAW AND HIMSELF THE MAN OF THE MATCH. THE LAST GAME OF THE NIGHT WAS ONCE AGAIN DANIEL PARKER (21.28) TO WIN THE MATCH, HOWEVER HE WAS UP AGAINST TOUGH OPPOSITION IN COUNTY B MAN GEORGE HARRIS, HARRIS WON THE FIRST LEG IN 18 DARTS AND SOON WON THE 2ND THIS TIME IN 22 DARTS! IN THEßRD LEG PARKE DIDN'T SCORE AS HE CAN AS HARRIS HIT SPRINGFIELD'S 6TH 180 OF THE NIGHT IN A SUPERB 13 DART LEG WHICH EARNT HIM SPRINGFIELD'S MAN OF THE MATCH WITH A GREAT AVERAGE OF (28.35) AND GAVE THE AWAYSIDE A SHARE OF THE POINTS. THE MATCH WAS A GREAT GAME ALL THE WAY THROUGH WITH WALTON SCORING: 51 TONS AND SPRINGFIELD: 67
DOUBLES
ANDREW CURRIVAN (29.33) & DAVE TOTTMAN (25.73) COMB (27.53) 0 - 1 DARREN PEETOOM & PHIL BREWSTER (32.29)
REECE HUTCHISON & MARK (STAX) DAVIES (16.68) 1 - 0 JAMES WRIGHT & KEITH WELLER (16.05)
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI & MATT BALDWIN (21.30) 1 - 0 ASHLEY EVANS & CRAIG VICKERS (180) - (20.77)
ROBERT EMERY & ALAN CURRIVAN (20.43) 1 - 0 GEORGE HARRIS & MICHAEL HARRIS (20.64)
SINGLES
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (180) - (21.71) 3 - 2 ALEX TINSLEY (180) - (14 DART LEG) - (22.78)
REECE HUTCHISON (22.03) 0 - 3 DARREN PEETOOM (100GS) - (180) - (24.63)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (22.96) 3 - 1 MICHAEL HARRIS (180) - (22.98)
DAVE TOTTMAN (19.18) 0 - 3 ALAN GREEN (20.04)
ROBERT EMERY (22.83) 1 - 3 PHIL BREWSTER (12x100) - (13 DART LEG) - (26.97)
MARK (STAX) DAVIES (9x100) - (24.54) 2 - 3 ASHLEY EVANS (120GS) - (180) - (2x 15 DART LEGS) - (9x100) - (27.92)
ALAN CURRIVAN (23.71) MOM 3 - 1 CRAIG VICKERS (100GS) - (20.39)
DANIEL PARKER (21.28) 0 - 3 GEORGE HARRIS (180) - (13 DART LEG) - (28.35) MOM
YOUTH TEAM
LEAGUE 16TH MARCH 2008
AWAY VS CLACTON AT WITHAM TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB
WALTON 6 - 5 CLACTON
WALTON YOUTH OVERCAME LOCAL RIVALS CLACTON WITH ANDREW CURRIVAN (23.03) MAN OF THE MATCH AFTER DEFEATING WALTON MEN'S PLAYER REECE HUTCHISON (25.36) 2-1! ALSO WINS CAME FROM JOHN WALSH AND DAVID QUINNEY BOTH RETURNING AFTER ABSENCE!! HOWEVER KEY PLAYER THMAS ARMSTRONG WAS UNAVAILABLE.
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 12TH MARCH 2008
AWAY VS WOODFORD-BRIDGE AT THE ROYAL OAK
WALTON 6 - 6 WOODFORD-BRIDGE
THIS WEEK WALTON MADE THE TRIP SOUTH OF ESSEX AND TO THE LONDON BORDERS OF WOODFORD BRIDGE. WITH THE HOME TEAM 2 PLACES ABOVE WALTON AND ONLY A POINT IN FRONT WITH EQUAL SETS DIFFERENCE, A WIN FOR WALTON WOULD SEE THEM CLIMB ABOVE WOODFORD BRIDGE AND EVEN ESCAPE THE BOTTOM 2 DEPENDING ON BASILDON'S RESULT WITH HARLOW.....!! THE FIRST GAME OF NIGHT WASN'T THE BEST OF STARTS AS DANIEL PARKER AND MATT BALDWIN STRUGGLED TO GET GOING AND WENT DOWN TO KIERAN LEAL AND MATT CLARK (20.85), THEN ANDREW CURRIVAN AND DAVE TOTTMAN (20.02) KEPT UP THEIR WINNING RUN DEFEATING SCOTT CLIFFORD AND TREVOR TOWNSEND (19.23). UP NEXT WAS THE USUALLY RELIABLE PARING OF ALAN AND ROBERT EMERY (24.58), EMERY SCORED HEAVILY WHICH SAW HI INDIVIDUAL AVERAGE ROCKET TO (28.72), BUT UNFORTUNATELY THEY CAME UP AGAINST WOODFORD'S TOP PAIRING LEE WHITE AND ALAN NATEGHI (28.60) AND THEY PUT THE HOMESIDE 2-1 IN FRONT! THE LAST PAIRS GAME WA NOW GOING TO BE CRUCIAL FOR WALTON TO DRAW LEVEL, AND IT WAS DOWN TO REECE HUTCHISON (27.09) AND MARK (STAX) DAVIES COMBINED (23.27) TO DO SO! THEY STARTED OFF SLOW AGAINST JAMES THOMPSON AND JOE DYER (21.71) BUT PICKED UP WITH HUTCHISON ESPECIALLY SCORING WELL AND FINISHING ON DOUBLE 16 TO BRING THE SCORELINE LEVEL GOING INTO THE SINGLES..... THE FIRST SINGLES OF THE NIGHT SAW DAVE TOTTMAN (21.07) COME UP AGAINST PDC PLAYER DANIEL SARE (23.07), TOTTMAN HAAD CHANCES IN THE 1ST LEG BUT FAILED TO CAPITALISE AND SOON FOUND HIMSELF 2-0 DOWN, HOWEVER DAVE THEN KICKED IN TAKING THE 3RD LEG IN 18 DARTS WITH A 114 FINISH, T20, S14, D40... THE 4TH LEG WAS A CLOSE GAME BUT AS SARE HIT A MAXIMUM 180 IT PROVED ENOUGH TO GAIN HIM A 3-1 VICTORY AND WOODFORD BRIDGE MAN OF THE MATCH.. THEN NEXT GAME WALTON WERE LOOKING TO ANDREW CURRIVAN (20.59) WHO WAS FRESH COMING BACK FROM REACHING THE YOUTH FINAL AT THE ISLE OF MAN DARTS FESTIVAL. ANDREW GOT OFF TO A GREAT START AS HE WENT 2-0 UP WITH LEGS OF 23 AND 19, THEN THE 3RD LEG WAS A CLOSE GAME DESPITE HIS OPPONENT HITTING A MAXIMUM 177,BUT CURRIVAN THEN MISSED A HATFULL OF CHANCES AND LEE WHITE (21.27) TOOK FULL ADVANTAGE AS HE PUSHED ON WINNING THE 4TH LEG WITH A 116 FINISH AND THEN COMPLETED HIS COMEBACK WINNING THE 5TH AND DECIDING LEG..! WALTON 2 - 4 WOODFORD BRIDGE!!!! THE SCORELINE WAS NOT LOKING GOOD FOR THE AWAY SIDE ESPECIALLY WITH 4 OF WOODFORD'S TOP PLAYERS DRAWN OUT TO PLAY IN THE FIRST 4 SINGLES!! WALTON HAD TO START WINNING NOW TO TURN THE GAME AROUND. NEXT UP ALAN CURRIVAN, ALAN GOT OFF TO A STEADY START AS HE WON THE FIRST LEG IN 23 DARTS, THEN HE PRODUCED SOME EXCELLENT SCORINGAS HE WENT 2-0 UP FINISHING STRIAGHT AWAY FOR A 16 DART LEG AND DISPOSED OF HIS OPPONENT MATT CLARK (19.89) WITH THE LAST LEG IN 21 DARTS AND A GREAT 3-0 WIN FOR AN AVERAGE OF (25.05)!!! THEN REECE HUTCHISON (21.07) LOOKED UP AGAINST IT AS HIS OPPONENT ALAN NATEGHI (21.72) WON THE FIRST LEG IN 20 DARTS. BUT THEN HUTCHISON STARTED TO FIND THE RED BIT OF THE TREBLE 20 AND WON THE NEXT 3 LEGS FOR A SUPERB 3-1 VICTORY OVER NATEGHI AND BROUGHT THE SCORLEINE BACK LEVEL AGAIN AT 4 A PIECE...... THE NEXT GAME SAW ROBERT EMERY (22.52) SHOW HIS CLASS AS HE HIT 8 TON+ SCORES ON HIS WAY TO DEFEATING TERVOR TOWNSEND (22.44) 3-1 DESPITE TOWNSEND HITTING A GREAT 127 FINISH IN THE 2ND LEG! HAD EMERY FINISHED STRAIGHT AWAY HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ON FOR A GREAT AVERAGE.. WALTON 5 - 4 WOODFORD-BRIDGE!! WALTON WERE NOW IN FRONT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS MATCH AND NOW ONLY NEEDED 1 OUT OF THE 3 REMAINING GAMES TO EARN A POINT.. IT WAS DELIVERD STRAIGHT AWAY IN THE SHAPE OF MARK (STAX) DAVIES, DAVIES WAS UP AGAINST A STRONG CHALLENGE FROM SCOTT CLIFFORD (23.77) AS BOTH PLAYERS HIT 8 TON+'S!! HOWEVER IT WAS DAVIES WHO HIT ENOUGH DOUBLES TO WIN 3-1 WITH WINNING LEGS OF 20, 17 AND 20 FOR A SUPER (25.28) AVERAGE AND HIS SECOND MAN OF THE MATCH SINCE JOINING..... WALTON WERE NOW 6-4 UP AS THEY WERE LAST WEEK!!! IT WAS NOW ALL EYES ON 16 YEAR OLD DANIEL PARKER (20.75) TO TRY AND GET THE WIN TO RELIEVE THE PRESSURE ON THE LAST GAME, HE WOULD NEED TO GET PAST KIERAN LEAL (21.46) TO DO SO, PARKER PLAYED GREAT IN THE FIRST LEG AS HE FINISHED WITH A 104 FINISH T20, S20, D12 IN A LEG OF 18 DARTS! THEN LEAL HIT BACK TAKING THE NEXT 2 LEGS TO GO 2-1 UP!!! WITH THE PRESSURE NOW ON PARKER HE PRODUCED SOME BREATH TAKING DARTS IN THE FOURTH LEG!!! DANIEL HIT 180 THEN FOLLOWED IT UP WITH A SECOND 180 AND WAS NOW ON FOR THE MAGICAL PERFECT 9 DART LEG!! EVERYONE WAS WATCHING WITH GREAT SUSPENSE AS PARKER HIT THE OUTISDE WIRE OF THE TREBLE 20 GOING FOR THE 141 FINISH!! HE DID HOWEVER GET A STANDING OVATION FROM BOTH SIDES AND HE WENT ON TO WIN THE LEG IN 15 DARTS.. THE 5TH LEG WAS A BIT DEFLATED AFTER NEARLY ACHIEVING THE GREATEST FEAT IN DARTS BUT DANIEL WAS STILL IN WITH A SHOUT BUT SADLY NARROWLY MISSED OUT 3-2!!! THE LAST GAME OF THE NIGHT WAS BETWEEN MATT BALDWIN (16.46) WHO HAS ONLY WON 1 GAME ALL SEASON AND JAMES THOMPSON (16.31) WHO HASN'T WON A GAME ALL SEASON!! IT WAS BALDWIN HIT WENT 1-0 UP BEFORE THOMPSON DREW LEVEL THEN BALDWIN WAS 21- UP AND MISSED DOUBLES TO WIN 3-1 AS THOMPSON CAME BACK TO WIN 3-2 IN A VERY SCRAPPY GAME THAT SAW 295 DARTS THROWN BETWEEN THE 2 PLAYERS!!! WALTON 6 - 6 WOODFORD-BRIDGE!!! TEAM TON'S: 66
DOUBLES
DANIEL PARKER & MATT BALDWIN (17.62) 0 - 1 KIERAN LEAL & MATT CLARK (20.85)
ANDREW CURRIVAN & DAVE TOTTMAN (20.02) 1 - 0 SCOTT CLIFFORD & TREVOR TOWNSEND (19.23)
ALAN CURRIVAN & ROBERT EMERY (28.72) COMBINED (24.58) 0 - 1 LEE WHITE & ALAN NATEGHI (28.60)
REECE HUTCHISON (27.09) & MARK (STAX) DAVIES COMBINED (23.27) 1 - 0 JAMES THOMPSON & JOSEPH DYER (21.71)
SINGLES
DAVE TOTTMAN (114GS) - (8x100) - (21.07) 1 - 3 DANIEL SARE (180) - (23.07) MOM
ANDREW CURRIVAN (100GS) - (11x100) - (20.59) 2 - 3 LEE WHITE (171) - (21.27)
ALAN CURRIVAN (16 DART LEG) - (25.05) 3 - 0 MATT CLARK (19.89)
REECE HUTCHISON (9x100) - (21.07) 3 - 1 ALAN NATEGHI (21.72)
ROBERT EMERY (11x100) - (22.52) 3 - 1 TREVOR TOWNSEND (127GS) - (22.44)
MARK (STAX) DAVIES (9x100) - (25.28) MOM 3 - 1 SCOTT CLIFFORD (23.77)
DANIEL PARKER (104GS) - (15 DART LEG) - (2x180) - (20.75) 2 - 3 KIERAN LEAL (21.46)
MATT BALDWIN (16.46) 2 - 3 JAMES THOMPSON (16.31)
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 5TH MARCH 2008
HOME VS THURROCK AT THE THORPE SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB
WALTON 6 - 6 THURROCK
WALTON WELCOMED THURROCK TO THE THORPE SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB, WITH BOTH SIDES STRUGGLING AT THE WRONG END OF THE TABLE AND NEED OF SOME POINTS. WALTON HAVE BEEN ON A GREAT RUN SINCE THE NEW YEAR BUT SLIPPED UP LAST WEEK TO HARLOW LOSING HEAVILY 9-3. THE SAME SCORELINE AS IN THE FIRST MEETING BETWEEN WLATON AND THURROCK, IN THE OPPOSITION'S FAVOUR... THE FIRST GAME OF THE NIGHT SAW REECE HUTCHISON WITH A BAD ARM AND PARTNER MATT BALDWIN (18.22) LOSE TO MICHAEL McCOMBE AND GEORGE WEBB (21.30). THEN WALTON'S TOP PAIRS DUO AT PRESENT ALAN CURRIVAN (26.52) AND ROBERT EMERY COMBINED (24.41) DEFEAT STEPHEN COX AND KEITH PETRIE (31.17) COMBINED (24.18), AND THEY WERE ON TO WIN THE 1001 LEG IN 34 DARTS!!. THEN MARK (STAX) DAVIES AND DANIEL PARKER (18.76) STRUGGLED AGAINST THE IMPRESSIVE LIAM PENDER (29.17) AND STEPHEN GIRLING (26.44) COMBINED (27.81), AS WALTON WENT 2-1 DOWN.!! THEN ANOTHER STRONG PAIRING FOR WALTON OF ANDREW CURRIVAN (25.86) AND DAVE TOTTMAN COMB (24.41) DEFEATED MICHAEL SQUELCH AND PETER TOMPKINS (25.17) COMB (22.90) TO BRING THE SCORLINE LEVEL AT 2-2 GOING INTO THE SINGLES.>!!! THE FIRST GAME IN THE SINGLES WAS A GREAT GAME TO WATCH WITH ROBERT EMERY (24.16) VERSUS MICHAEL McCOMBE (25.05), McCOMBE WON THE FIRST LEG THEN EMERY GOT INTO GEAR AND WENT 2-1 UP WINNING BOTH LEGS IN 16 DARTS AVERAGING (93.93) PER THROW, HOWEVER IN THE 4TH LEG ROB EMERY HAD DARTS AT DOUBLE 40 FOR THE MATCH BUT MISSED HIS CHANCE AND McCOMBE DIDN'T AND WON 3-2 AND TOOK THE THURROCK MAN OF THE MATCH HONOURS. THEN ALAN CURRIVAN (22.18) MET PETER TOMPKINS (20.63), TOMPKINS WON THE FIRST LEG AS BOTH PLAYERS MISSED DOUBLES, IN THE SECOND LEG TOMPKINS EDGED IN FRONT AND WAS LOOKING LIKELY TO GO 2-0 UP, HOWEVER HE MISSED CHANCES AND CURRIVAN WENT OUT ON 75, THE 3RD LEG WAS HIGH SCORING AS ALAN WENT 2-1 UP WINNING IN 19 DARTS AND THEN PUSHED ON TO WIN 3-1 WITH THE 4TH LEG IN 20 DARTS! WALTON 3 - 3 THURROCK..!! THEN YOUNG DANIEL PARKER (20.38) PICKED UP HIS 3RD WIN FROM THE LAST 4 GAMES! PARKER WENT 1-0 UP BEFORE STEPHEN COX (17.24) WON THE NEXT 2 LEGS, DANIEL STRUGGLED TO GET HIS RYTHM GOING AS HIS OPPONENT THREW A MUCH SLOWER PACE, BUT DANIEL DUG DEEP AND WON THE LAST 2 LEGS FOR A 3-2 VICTORY AND GAVE WALTON THE ADVANTAGE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE MATCH. THEN MATT BALDWIN (15.81) DIDN'T FIND ANY KIND OF FORM AS HE WENT DOWN 3-0 TO KEITH PETRIE (18.56). THE NEXT GAME WAS ANOTHER GREAT ENCOUNTER BETWEEN DAVE TOTTMAN (23.11) AND SIMON BARRY (25.18), TOTTMAN WON THE FIRST LEG IN 19 DARTS AND THEN FOLLWED IN UP BY WINNING THE 2ND, BARRY THEN WON THE 3RD IN 20 DARTS BEFORE HE MADE THE SCORLINE 2-2 WITH A SUPERB 12 DART LEG WHICH INCLUDED A MAXIMUM 180. THE FINAL LEG WAS CLOSE ALL THE WAY DOWN, BARRY MISSED DOUBLES AND THEN DAVE TOTTMAN WON THE GAME WITH AN 86 FINISH AND TOOK HIS SECOND MAN OF THE MATCH AWARD OF THE SEASON . NEXT UP MARK (STAX) DAVIES (21.65) AGAINST LIAM PENDER (24.15), STAX WENT 1-0 UP BEFORE PENDER REPLIED WITH A 17 DART LEG AND A MAXIMUM, STAX CAME BACK WITH A 19 DART LEG! THEN THE 4TH LEG WAS CLOSE AS STAX MISSED DOUBLE 6 AND 3 FOR A 3-1 VICTORY ONLY FOR PENDER TO TAKE IT TO THE DECIDING LEG WHER HE WON IN 18 DARTS. WALTON 5-5 THURROCK!!!! WITH THE SCORLINE LEVEL AND 2 GAMES REMAINING IT WAS EITHER BOTH FOR THE WIN, 1 FOR A DRAW OR LOSE BOTH AND GET NOTHING. WALTON WERE CONFIDENT THAT YOUNG ANDREW CURRIVAN (22.10) COULD GET BACK TO WINNING WAYS AGAINST GEORGE WEBB (20.11), AND HE DID SO DESPITE LOSING THE 1ST LEG ANDREW THEN WENT 2-1 UP AND WON THE 4TH LEG IN 17 DARTS FOR A 3-1 WIN INCLUDING A 180 AND GUARANTEED WALTON A POINT. THE LAST GAME OF THE NIGHT WAS DOWN TO REECE HUTCHISON (17.89) WHO HAD HURT HIS THROWING ARM AND HAD TO CHANGE DARTS FOR THE NIGHT! AGAINST THURROCK'S MICHAEL SQUELCH (22.49), THINGS DIDN'T GO TO PLAN FOR THE HOMESIDE AS THE THURROCK MAN WNET 2-0 UP, HUTCHISON DID MANAGE TO PULL A LEG BACK BUT SQUELCH WON THE 4TH LEG IN 17 DARTS AND MADE THE MATCH RESULT A DRAW ATä-6!!!! TEAM AVERAGE (21.05) TEAM TONS: 51
DOUBLES
REECE HUTCHISON & MATT BALDWIN (18.22) 0 - 1 MICHAEL McCOMBE & GEROGE WEBB (21.30)
ALAN CURRIVAN (26.52) & ROBERT EMERY COMB (24.41) 1 - 0 STEPHEN COX & KEITH PETRIE (31.17) COMB (24.18)
MARK (STAX) DAVIES & DANIEL PARKER COMB (18.76) 0 - 1 LIAM PENDER (29.17) & STEPHEN GIRLING (26.44) COMB (27.81)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (25.86) & DAVE TOTTMAN COMB (24.41) 1 - 0 MICHAEL SQUELCH & PETER TOMPKINS (25.17) COMB (22.90)
SINGLES
ROBERT EMERY (2x16 DART LEGS) - (24.16) 2 - 3 MICHAEL McCOMBE (25.05) MOM
ALAN CURRIVAN (22.18) 3 - 1 PETER TOMPKINS (20.63)
DANIEL PARKER (20.38) 3 - 2 STEPHEN COX (100GS) - (17.24)
MATT BALDWIN (15.81) 0 - 3 KEITH PETRIE (18.56)
DAVE TOTTMAN (23.11) MOM 3 - 2 SIMON BARRY (12 DART LEG) - (180) - (25.18)
MARK (STAX) DAVIES (21.65) 2 - 3 LIAM PENDER (180) - (24.15)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (180) - (22.10) 3 - 1 GEORGE WEBB (20.11)
REECE HUTCHISON (17.89) 1 - 3 MICHAEL SQUELCH (22.49)
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 28TH FEBRUARY 2008
AWAY VS HARLOW AT THE GOLDEN SWIFT
WALTON 3 - 9 HARLOW
WALTON MADE THE TRIP SOUTH OF ESSEX TO HARLOW, WITH MANY OF THE PLAYERS NOT ARRIVING AT THE VENUE UNTIL THE MATCH STARTING TIME, WITH MAINLY THE CAPTAIN AMONGST OTHERS RUNNING INTO TRAFFIC WHICH MADE THE TRAVELLING TIME TO THE VENUE 2 AND HALF HOURS!! THE FIRST GAME OF THE NIGHT SAW DANIEL PARKER AND MARK DAVIES (18.89) WIN AGAINST THE YOUNG PAIRING OF JAMES MAYS AND PATRICK YATES (19.25) AS DANIEL MISSED DOUBLE 14 FOR A 148 FINISH. THEN ANDREW CURRIVAN (28.88) PLAYED EXTREMELY WELL BUT WITH DAVE TOTTMAN COMB (23.85) COULDN'T DO ENOUGH TO STOP THE IMPRESSIVE ENGLAND YOUTH INTERNATIONAL JAMES JENNINGS (32.38) AND BILL WOODS, JENNINGS ALSO HIT A MAXIMUM 180! THEN REECE HUTCHISON AND MATT BALDWIN (17.49) WERE WAY BEHIND BEFORE BALDWIN MISSED TOPS FOR A 114 FINISH, THEN SUDDENLY MISSING PLENTY OF SHOTS AT DOUBLES AS THEY LOST OUT TO PAUL WILSHER AND DICKIE FOSTER (17.88). WITH WALTON NOW 2-1 DOWN THEY WERE LOOKING TO THE IN FORM PARTNERSHIP OF ROBERT EMERY AND ALAN CURRIVAN (21.76) TO DRAW LEVEL, ONCE AGAIN THEY DID SO WITH EMERY SCORING HEAVILY THEY EDGED IN FRONT BEFORE CURRIVAN MISSED THE BULL FOR A 126 FINISH, BUT ONE THE GAME IN HIS NEXT VISIT AS THEY DISPOSED OF ALEX GRANT AND BOB PIX (20.69)!!! 2-2 AFTER THE PAIRS! THE FIRST GAME IN THE SINGLES WAS A GREAT WATCH AS DANIEL PARKER (22.02) PLAYED SOME VERY GOOD DARTS BUT WAS ECLIPSED BY YOUNG STARLET JAMES JENNINGS WHO CURRENTLY SITS TOP OF THE UNDER 18 SOUTHERN COUNTIES AVERAGES TABLES. JENNINGS WON THE FIRST LEG IN 17 DARTS INCLUDING HIS 2ND 180 OF THE NIGHT, THEN HE WON THE SECOND LEG IN 16 DARTS BEFORE BOTH PLAYERS PRODUCED A GREAT 3RD LEG WHICH JENNINGS WON THE MATCH WITH ANOTHER 17 DARTER WHICH GAVE HIM A VERY IMPRESSIVE SINGLE DART AVERAGE OF (30.06) AND THE HARLOW MAN OF THE MATCH HONOURS!!! THE NEXT GAME WAS VERY HIGHLY ANTICIPATED AS WALTON'S TOP YOUNG GUN ANDREW CURRIVAN (19.97) WAS UP TO, HOWEVER ANDREW FAILED TO PRODUCE THE DARTS THAT HE HAS DONE SO MANY TIMES THIS YEAR FOR BOTH WALTON MEN'S AND YOUTH TEAMS A, AND IT COST HIM A 3-0 DEFEAT TO ALEX GRANT (23.48)!!! THE NEXT GAME WAS ANOTHER GREAT ENCOUNTER AS REECE HUTCHISON (21.18) WAS VERY UNLUCKY AS HE LOST OUT 3-0 TO THE IMPRESSIVE PAUL WILSHER WHO WON WITH LEGS OF 18,17 AND 18 FOR ANOTHER GREAT AVERAGE OF (28.36)!! WALTON 2 - 5 HARLOW. THEN CAME LAST WEEKS MAN OF THE MATCH MARK (STAX) DAVIES (17.13), MARK WAS NEVER REALLY IN THE FIRST LEG AS BOB PIX HIT A MAXIMUM 180 AS HE WON IN 17 DARTS, THEN STAX MISSED CRUCIAL DOUBLES IN THE SECOND LEG AS PIX TOOK HIS CHANCES, STAX THEN REPLIED BY WINNING THE 3RD LEG BUT WENT ON AGAIN TO MISS SOME VITAL DOUBLES IN THE 4TH LEG TO TAKE IT TO A DECIDER AND BOB PIX (20.04) WALKED AWAY WITH A 3-1 WIN AND GUARANTEED HARLOW A DRAW. WALTON NOW NEEDED ALL 4 REMAINING SINGLES TO WALK AWAY WITH A POINT ! NEXT UP WAS ROBERT EMERY WHO WAS DUE A GOOD SINGLES WIN, AND WELL HE WAS IN NO MOOD TO LOSE AS HE WENT 2-0 UP WINNING WITH LEGS OF 24 AND 19! THEN WITH THE FINISHING POST INSIGHT EMERY PRODUCED A SUPERB 19 DART LEG WITH A GREAT 124 FINISH ON THE BULLSEYE, AS HE BEAT PATRICK YATES (18.35) 3-0 AND EARNT HIS FIRST MAN OF THE MATCH AWARD FOR WALTON.!! THEN ALAN CURRIVAN (20.07) STRUGGLED TO GET GOING AS BILL WOODS SCORED HEAVILY AND WON 3-0 WITH LEGS OF 19,18 AND 19 FOR YET AGAIN ANOTHER GREAT AVERGAE FOR HARLOW OF (26.84)!! THIS ALSO GAVE THE HOME SIDE ALL THE POINTS. MATT BALDWIN (20.04) THEN PRODUCED ONE OF HIS BEST PERFORMANCES OF THE SEASON AS HE WENT 1-0 UP, THEN 2-1 BEFORE HE MISSED DOUBLE 12 FOR ANOTHER HUGE FINISH OF 144 WHICH WOULD HAVE GIVE HIM HIS SECOND WIN OF THE SEASON! UNFORTUNATELY HIS OPPONENT JAMES MAYS (19.47) THEN FINISHED 89 IN 2 DARTS AND WENT ON TO WIN 3-2. THE LAST GAME OF THE NIGHT SAW DAVE TOTTMAN (20.32) STRUGGLE TO PRODUCE THE DARTS HE MAY HAVE IF THE GAME WAS STILL DEPENDING ON IT! BUT HIS OPPONENT DICKIE FOSTER (22.43) PLAYED SOME GREAT DARTS TO COMPLETE HARLOW'S ROUT IN THE SINGLES!!
DOUBLES
MARK (STAX) DAVIES & DANIEL PARKER (18.88) 1 - 0 PATRICK YATES & JAMES MAYS (19.25)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (28.88) & DAVE TOTTMAN (23.84) 0 - 1 JAMES JENNINGS (180) - (32.38) & BILL WOODS COMB (28.60)
REECE HUTCHISON & MATT BALDWIN (17.49) 0 - 1 PAUL WILSHER & DICKIE FOSTER (17.87)
ROBERT EMERY & ALAN CURRIVAN (21.76) 1 - 0 A GRANT & BOB PIX (20.68)
SINGLES
DANIEL PARKER (22.01) 0 - 3 JAMES JENNINGS (180) - (30.06) MOM
ANDREW CURRIVAN (19.96) 0 - 3 A GRANT (23.48)
REECE HUTCHISON (21.17) 0 - 3 PAUL WILSHER (28.35)
MARK (STAX) DAVIES (17.13) 1 - 3 BOB PIX (180) - (20.04)
ROBERT EMERY (124GS) - (23.48) MOM 3 - 0 PATRICK YATES (18.35)
ALAN CURRIVAN (20.07) 0 - 3 BILL WOODS (26.83)
MATT BALDWIN (20.28) 2 - 3 JAMES MAYS (19.46)
DAVE TOTTMAN (18.73) 0 - 3 DICKIE FOSTER (22.43)
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 6TH FEBRUARY 2008
AWAY VS BASILDON AT THE BOWERS CLUB
WALTON 7 - 5 BASILDON
WALTON MADE THE TRIP TO BASILDON KNOWING THAT NOTHING LESS THEN A WIN WILL BE GOOD ENOUGH TO GIVE THEM A REALISTIC CHANCE OF CLIMBING OFF THE BOTTOM OF THE TABLE COME THE END OF THE SEASON. THE FIRST GAME OF THE NIGHT SAW MARK DAVIES AND MATT BALDWIN (19.14) MISS OUT TO DAVE O'MEARA AND TOMMY BUTLER (20.43). THEN ANDREW CURRIVAN AND DAVE TOTTMAN (19.63) CONTINUED THEIR WINNING STREAK DEFEATING KEITH RIDGWAY AND LES ATKINS (18.82). CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI AND REECE HUTCHISON (21.36) LOST OUT IN ANOTHER CLOSE ENCOUNTER AGAINST MARK FRANKLIN AND MIKE GIESON (22.75). WITH WALTON NOW 2-1 DOWN IT WAS VITAL THAT ROBERT EMERY AND ALAN CURRIVAN (28.05) PUT IN A GOOD PERFORMANCE TO MAKE THE SCORELINE ALL SQUARE AT 2-2 GOING INTO THE SINGLES! THEY DID JUST THAT AS THEY SCORED HEAVILY AND EMERY WNET OUT WITH AN 89 FINISH ON THE BULL FOR A COMBINED AVERAGE OF (25.67) AND A WIN OVER CARL SMITH AND ANDY REYNOLDS (23.26).!! FIRST UP IN THE SINGLES WAS MARK (STAX) DAVIES (19.34) AGAINST CARL SMITH (21.15), SMITH ONE THE FIRST LEG BEFORE STAX HIT A MAXIMUM 180 ON HIS WAY TO CLAIMING THE SECOND LEG, HOWEVER SOME HIGH SCORING FROM CARL SAW HIM GO ON TO WIN 3-1 AND GIVE BASILDON THE ADVANTAGE. THE NEXT GAME SAW ROBERT EMERY (17.08) MISS OUT TO BASILDON'S TOMMY BUTLER (18.32), BUTLER WON THE FIRST LEG BEFORE EMERY REPLIED WITH THE NEXT 2, IN THE FOURTH BOTH PLAYERS MISSED DOUBLES AS EMERY SHOULD HAVE WON 3-1 BEFORE BUTLER MADE IT LEVEL AT 2-2 AND WENT ON TO WIN THE DECIDING LEG IN 18 DARTS. BASILDON 4 - 2 WALTON! THE WORDS FROM CAPTAIN (PETER CURRIVAN) WERE TO ALL THE WALTON PLAYERS NOW TO STAND UP AND BE COUNTED! ANDREW CURRIVAN (23.52) WHO HAS JUST BEEN AWARDED THE UNDER 18'S TENDRING SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR AWARD, THEN DID SO AND STARTED THE BALL ROLLING AS HE HIT WALTON'S SECOND MAXIMUM OF THE NIGHT ON HIS WAY TO DEFEATING LES ATKINS (23.82) 3-2! THE NEXT GAME THEN SAW WALTON'S UNDER 21 COUNTY PLAYER ALAN CURRIVAN PRODUCE HIS BEST GAME OF THE SEASON AND POSSIBLY WALTON'S BEST INDIVIDUAL PERFOMANCE SO FAR THIS SEASON AS HE WAS IN BLISTERING FORM ON HIS WAY TO DEFEATING MARK FRANKLIN (23.55) 3-0 WITH LEGS OF 18, 16 AND 18 FOR AN AVERAGE OF (28.90), WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN MORE AS HE PINGED THE WIRE OF THE DOUBLE 18 IN THE SECOND LEG FOR A 156 FINISH, A GREAT MAN OF THE MATCH PERFORMANCE TO BRING THE SCORE LEVEL AT 4-4!! WITH THE SCORELINE LEVEL WALTON WERE THEN LOOKING TO THE IN FORM PLAYER AND ANOTHER ONE OF THEIR YOUTH COUNTY PLAYERS REECE HUTCHISON (19.78) TO GIVE THEM THE LEAD FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE MATCH. REECE PRODUCED AS USUAL ANOTHER STEADY PERFORMANCE AND PICKED UP HIS FOURTH WIN IN AS MANY WEEKS, DEFEATING ANDY REYNOLDS (19.67) 3-2! WITH WALTON NOW ONLY 1 GAME AWAY FROM A DRAW THEY WERE LOOKING TO DAVE TOTTMAN (18.60) TO GUARANTEE A POINT AGAINST DAVE O'MEARA (18.21). IT WAS ANOTHER CLOSE GAME BEFORE TOTTMAN HIT DOUBLE 10 TO WIN 3-2 AND GIVE THE WALTON FAITHFUL SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT! WITH A DRAW GUARANTEED WALTON NEEDED ONLY 1 OF THE 2 REMAINING GAMES FOR THE WIN. NEXT IT WAS 15 YEAR OLD COUNTY YOUTH PLAYER DANIEL PARKER, WHO WAS STILL LOOKING FOR A MUCH DESERVED FIRST WIN OF THE SEASON. HIS OPPONENT WAS KEITH RIDGWAY (20.12). PARKER WON THE FIRST LEG IN 24 DARTS, AND THEN WON THE SECOND IN 19 DARTS, DANIEL WAS NOW IN THE POSITION HE HAS BEEN IN SO MANY TIMES THIS SEASON WHERE HE LOST OUT AFTER LEADING, BUT NOT THIS WON! DANIEL PRODUCED AN OUTSTANDING 3RD LEG WINNING IN 16 DARTS FOR A 3-0 WIN, THE MATCH FOR WALTON AND HIS FIRST EVER SINGLES WIN IN THE MEN'S SUPERLEAGUE WITH AN AVERAGE OF (25.47)!!! A PERFORMANCE WHICH DELIGHTED THE WHOLE TEAM AND SUPPORTERS AS WELL AS HIMSELF. WITH THE GAME WON WALTON WERE LOOKING TO THE HIGHLY SPIRITED CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (21.04) TO STRENGTHEN THE RESULT, UNFORTUNATELY TOPOLEWSKI MISSED OUT 3-1 TO 180 SCORING MIKE GIESON (24.49) WHO WAS BASILDON'S MAN OF THE MATCH! BUT IN SUMMARY A GREAT PERFOMANCE FROM WALTON AND A SUPERB RESULT! WALTON CAPTAIN ESPECIALLY PLEASED WITH THE PERFOMANCES FROM THE YOUTH PLAYERS: ALAN CURRIVAN, ANDREW CURRIVAN, REECE HUTCHISON AND DANIEL PARKER, WHO WON 4 OF THE WINNING SINGLES WITH A COMBINED AGE OF JUST 68!!!!!! WHAT A FUTURE WALTON HAVE!
DOUBLES
MARK DAVIES & MATT BALDWIN (19.14) 0 - 1 DAVE O'MEARA & TOMMY BUTLER (20.43)
ANDREW CURRIVAN & DAVE TOTTMAN (19.63) 1 - 0 KIETH RIDGWAY & LES ATKINS (18.82)
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI & REECE HUTCHISON (21.36) 0 - 1 MARK FRANKLIN & MIKE GIESON (22.75)
ROBERT EMERY & ALAN CURRIVAN (28.05) COMB (25.67) 1 - 0 CARL SMITH & ANDY REYNOLDS (23.26)
SINGLES
MARK DAVIES (180) - (19.34) 1 - 3 CARL SMITH (21.15)
ROBERT EMERY (17.08) 2 - 3 TOMMY BUTLER (18.32)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (9x100)-(180) - (23.52) 3 - 2 LES ATKINS (23.82)
ALAN CURRIVAN (28.90) MOM 3 - 0 MARK FRANKLIN (23.55)
REECE HUTCHISON (19.78) 3 - 2 ANDY REYNOLDS (19.67)
DAVE TOTTMAN (18.60) 3 - 2 DAVE O'MEARA (18.21)
DANIEL PARKER (25.47) 3 - 0 KEITH RIDGWAY (20.12)
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (21.04) 1 - 3 MIKE GIESON (180) - (24.49) MOM
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 30TH JANUARY 2008
AWAY VS COLCHESTER TOWN AT THE HIGHWAYS SOCIAL CLUB
WALTON 4 - 8 COLCHESTER TOWN
THIS WEEK WALTON MADE THE SHORT TRIP TO COLCHESTER TOWN IN SEARCH OF SOME MUCH NEEDED POINTS. THE FIRST GAME OF THE NIGHT SAW THE PAIRING OF BROTHER'S ALAN AND ANDREW CURRIVAN (22.74) MISS OUT TO AN UNSTOPPABLE COEN WIEKAMP AND PAUL COPELAND (25.67). THEN CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI AND DEBUTANT MARK (STAX) DAVIES MISSED OUT TO JAMIE ROBINSON AND ANDY BURMBY. WALTON PULLED ONE BACK AS ROBERT EMERY KEPT HIS IMPRESSIVE PAIRS RECORD IN TACT ALONG WITH DAVE TOTTMAN (22.24) AS THEY DEFEATED LEE WOODS AND MARK WOODGER (22.02), THE LAST PAIRS WAS A CLOSE ENCOUNTER AS DANIEL PARKER AND REECE HUTCHISON (23.40) LOST OUT TO PAUL McDERMOTT AND DARRON BRITTON (22.24) AS PARKER HAD 2 DARTS AT DOUBLES FOR A 96 FINSIH. 3-1 DOWN AFTER THE PAIRS. THE FIRST GAME IN THE SINGLES WAS THEN MADE CRUCIAL FOR WALTON TO KEEP THEIR HOPES ALIVE OF GAINING A RESULT FROM THE MATCH, IT WAS A NAIL BITING GAME AS CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (19.86) EDGED PAST MARK GREGORY (20.37) 3-2, THEN REECE HUTCHISON (22.00) THE MAN IN FORM MADE THE SCORELINE LEVEL AS HE PRODUCED HIS THIRD MAN OF THE MATCH PERFORMANCE IN AS MANY WEEKS ON HIS WAY TO DEFEATING PAUL COPELAND (22.17) 3-2. WITH THE SCORELINE LEVEL IT WAS WALTON'S FIRST CHANCE TO GAIN THE ADVANTAGE IN THE MATCH AS ALAN CURRIVAN (20.39) MET PDC PLAYER JAMIE ROBINSON (22.04) - (180), THE FIRST LEG SAW BOTH PLAYERS MISSED DOUBLES BEFORE ROBINSON HIT DOUBLE 1, AND WITH THAT MOVED ON TO A 2-0 LEAD, THEN ALAN PULLED ONE BACK BEFORE ROBINSON WON THE GAME WITH AN 18 DART LEG. THEN CHIP CLEMENTS (17.39) DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HAD HIT HIM AS HE WALKED INTO A TON MACHINE AND 2006 UK OPEN QUALIFIER COENRAAD WIEKAMP (26.84), WIEKAMP STROLLED THROUGH TO A 3-0 WIN AND GIVE COLCHESTER TOWN A 5-3 LEAD! HOWEVER ANDREW CURRIVAN (19.10) THEN RESTORED SOME HOPE INTO WALTON ONCE BEATING PAUL McDERMOTT (20.69) 3-1 WHO ALSO HAD A 160 FINISH. THEN CAME MARK DAVIES (22.43) WHO ON HIS DEBUT MADE AN IMPRESSIVE START BUT WAS UN FORTUNATE TO MEET AN INFORM ANDY BURMBY (27.32) WHO TOOK THE HONOURS 3-0 INCLUDING A 103 FINISH. 6-4 DOWN WITH 2 GAMES REMAINING AND 2 STRONG PLAYERS LEFT FOR WALTON IN DAVE TOTTMAN AND ROB EMERY AND THE TEAM WERE FULL OF OPTIMISM. FIRST UP WAS DAVE TOTTMAN (21.21) AGAINST DARRON BRITTON (20.92), TOTTMAN WENT 2-1 UP BEFORE BRITTON TOOK THE 4TH LEG, THE FINAL LEG WAS A CLOSE ENCOUNTER WITH DAVE ON 59 HOPING FOR A SHOT AT A DOUBLE IT WOULD HAVE TO BE A MISS FROM BRITTON ON DOUBLE 8 TO LET HIM IN, HIS FIRST 2 DARTS BLOCKED THE DOUBLE 8 OFF AS BRITTON MOVED WAY ACROSS THE OCHE HE SOME HOW MANAGED TO WIN THE MATCH WITH HIS THIRD DART. THE FINAL GAME WAS DEFLATED FOR WALTON AS THE MATCH WAS LOST, ROB EMERY (18.59) DIDN'T MANAGE TO FIND THE DARTS THAT THE TEAM KNEW HE WOULD HAVE HAD THE GAME BEEN FOR THE RESULT, BUT NEVER THE LESS LEE WOODS (28.36) - (180) PUT IN AN IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCE WHICH EARNT HIMSELF A 3-0 WIN. FINAL SCORE WALTON 4 - 8 COLCHESTER TOWN. CAPTAIN PETER CURRIVAN DID TAKE SOME POSITIVES FROM THE PERFORMANCE AS HE WAS VERY PLEASED WITH THE TEAMS BATTLING DISPLAY.
DOUBLES
ANDREW CURRIVAN & ALAN CURRIVAN (22.74) 0 - 1 COEN WIEKAMP & PAUL COPELAND (25.67)
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI & MARK DAVIES (19.73) 0 - 1 JAMIE ROBINSON & ANDY BURMBY (21.76)
ROBERT EMERY & DAVE TOTTMAN (22.24) 1 - 0 LEE WOODS & MARK WOODGER (180) - (22.02)
REECE HUTCHISON & DANIEL PARKER (23.40) 0 - 1 PAUL McDERMOTT & DARRON BRITTON (22.24)
SINGLES
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (19.86) 3 - 2 MARK GREGORY (20.37)
REECE HTUCHISON (22.00) MOM 3 - 2 PAUL COPELAND (22.17)
ALAN CURRIVAN (20.39) 1 - 3 JAMIE ROBINSON (180) - (22.04)
JOHN CLEMENTS (17.39) 0 - 3 COEN WIEKAMP (8x100) - (180) - (26.84)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (19.10) 3 - 1 PAUL McDERMOTT (160GS) - (20.69)
MARK DAVIES (22.43) 0 - 3 ANDY BURMBY (180) - (103GS) - (27.33)
DAVE TOTTMAN (21.21) 2 - 3 DARRON BRITTON (20.92)
ROBERT EMERY (18.59) 0 - 3 LEE WOODS (180) - (28.36) MOM
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 23RD JANUARY 2008
HOME VS CRESSING AT THORPE SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB
WALTON 2 - 10 CRESSING
THE TEAM NEVER REALLY GOT GOING, WAS 4-0 DOWN AFTER THE PAIRS THEN LOST THE MATCH AT 7-0, BUT CRESSING WERE IN FINE FORM ESPECIALLY AL HEDMAN (31.98) WHO BEAT DAVE TOTTMAN 3-0!
DOUBLES
JOHN CLEMENTS & MATT BALDWIN (21.21) 0 - 1 MICK CAIN & JOHN MORTIMER (102GS) - (27.81)
ANDREW CURRIVAN & CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (22.97) 0 - 1 AL HEDMAN & STEVE PROW (30.33)
ROBERT EMERY & ALAN CURRIVAN (20.26) 0 - 1 TIM FRANKLIN & BOB LANG (22.24)
REECE HUTCHISON & DANIEL PARKER (21.51) 0 - 1 DAVID SAUNDERS & BARRY GILBEY (25.67)
SINGLES
MATT BALDWIN (19.07) 0 - 3 BOB LANG (20.59)
ROBERT EMERY (23.77) 0 - 3 TIM FRANKLIN (23.86)
DAVE TOTTMAN (21.47) 0 - 3 AL HEDMAN (180) - (121GS) - (31.98) MOM
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (19.98) 3 - 1 MICK CAIN (8x100) - (21.03)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (21.89) 1 - 3 STUART MORTIMER (100GS) - (22.300
REECE HUTCHISON (20.83) MOM 3 - 2 VINNIE CLARKE (20.59)
JOHN CLEMENTS (18.94) 0 - 3 STEVE PROW (8x100) - (23.12)
DANIEL PARKER (16.21) 0 - 3 JOHN MORTIMER (20.59)
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 16TH JANUARY 2008
AWAY VS CHELMSFORD AT CHELMSFORD SOCIAL CLUB
WALTON 7 - 5 CHELMSFORD
THIS WEEK WALTON TRAVELLED TO CHELMSFORD WITH A STRONG SIDE LOOKING TO PUT LAST WEEKS NIGHTMARE AGAINST HARWICH BEHIND THEM. THIS WEEK SAW THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN PETER CURRIVAN, ALAN CURRIVAN, ANDREW CURRIVAN AND CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI! ALSO NEW SIGNING ROBERT EMERY ALSO MADE THE TRIP AND MADE HIS SECOND APPEARANCE FOR WALTON. THE FIRST PAIRS GAME OF THE NIGHT SAW DAVE TOTTMAN (24.12) & REECE HUTCHISON NARROWLY MISS OUT TO MATT GARRETT & HARRY SMITH. THEN THE STRONG PAIRING OF ANDREW CURRIVAN (27.08) & CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI CAME THROUGH TO LEVEL THINGS, THEN ROB EMERY (22.39) AND ALAN CURRIVAN (24.09) COMB (22.75) PRODUCED A STRONG PERFORMANCE IN OVERCOMING THE TOUGH DUO OF COUNTY B MAN MARTIN COMPTON (26.00) & FORMER COUNTY PLAYER CHARLIE PRESTON, WITH ROB HITTING DOUBLE 20 TO GIVE WALTON A 2-1 ADVANTAGE! UP NEXT WERE DANIEL PARKER (23.88) AND MATT BALDWIN WHO HAD A STEADY GAME BUT FOUND THEMSELVES ON THE ROPES AGAINST MEL SYLVESTER & COUNTY PLAYER ANDREW KATELEY, BUT WITH SOME MISSED DOUBLES FROM THE CHELMSFORD DUO AND SOME HEAVY SCORES AT THE RIGHT MOMENTS DANIEL PARKER THEN HIT THE WINNING DOUBLE TO PUT WALTON 3-1 UP GOING INTO THE SINGLES. THE MOOD BETWEEN THE WALTON PLAYERS AND SUPPORTERS WAS VERY SPIRITED AND CONFIDENT KNOWING THAT 3 SINGLES WOULD GIVE THE SIDE A DRAW AND 4 FOR THE WIN! FIRST UP WAS NEW SIGNING ROB EMERY (20.70) AGAINST VERNON WALSH (19.02), ROB NEVER REALLY GOT GOING IN THE FIRST 2 LEGS AND MISSED CHANCES FOR DOUBLE 9 AND 8, AND SUDDENLY FOUND HIMSELF 2-0 DOWN, HOWEVER ROB THEN STARTED TO SHOW HIS CLASS WINNING THE 3RD LEG IN 19 DARTS FOLLOWED BY THE FOURTH IN 21 DARTS AND FINALLY COMPLETED A GREAT COMEBACK WINNING THE 5TH LEG AND GIVING WALTON A 4-1 ADVANTAGE!!. THE NEXT GAME SAW DANIEL PARKER (17.20) FAILED TO PRODUCE SOME OF THE DARTS HE THREW IN THE PAIRS AND MARTIN COMPTON TOOK ADVANTAGE WINNING IN STYLE WITH LEGS OF 20,16 & 20 FOR AN AVERAGE OF (26.83) AND TAKING CHELMSFORD'S MAN OF THE MATCH HONOURS. UP NEXT WAS MATT BALDWIN (20.17) AGAINST ANDY KATELEY (26.16) WHO REACHED THE SEMI-FINALS OF THE 2007 WALTON OPEN! MATT GOT OFF TO A GREAT START WINNING THE FIRST LEG IN 20 DARTS, BUT THEN LOST HIS WAY AS KATELEY HIT 10 TON + SCORES ON HIS WAY TO WINNING 3-1 WITH LEGS OF 17, 20 & 19. WITH THE SCORE NOW AT 4-3 TO WALTON, CHELMSFORD WERE FIGHTING BACK WITH THE NEXT GAME BEING CRUCIAL BETWEEN REECE HUTCHISON (22.91) AND HARRY SMITH (21.50), REECE STARTED WELL WINNING THE FIRST IN 20 DARTS BEFORE SMITH REPLIED WITH THE SECOND LEG IN 21! REECE KICKED IN SCORING 9x100 AND WON THE NEXT 2 LEGS FOR A 3-1 VICTORY AND WALTON'S MAN OF THE MATCH. UP NEXT SAW A RETURN FROM HOLIDAY FOR ALAN CURIVAN (20.92) AGAINST MEL SYLVESTER (22.25). IF ALAN WON IT WOULD GUARANTEE THE DRAW FOR WALTON AND IF MEL WON IT WOULD STILL GIVE CHELMSFORD A CHANCE FOR THE WIN! ALAN STARTED WELL IN THE FIRST LEG BUT COULDN'T FINISH AND SYLVESTER TOOK ADVANTAGE GOING 1-0 UP, IN THE SECOND ALAN DIDN'T PERFORM AND MEL SCORED WELL TO GO 2-0 IN FRONT, IN THE THIRD BOTH PLAYERS SCORED WELL WITH 6 TON + SCORES, SYLVESTER LEFT DOUBLE TOPPS FOR A 16 DARTER ONLY FOR ALAN TO DENY HIM A SHOT WITH A 2 DART 95 FINISH TO START THE COMEBACK! IN THE 4TH LEG BOTH PLAYERS WERE SCORING WELL AGAIN BUT WITH MEL SYLVESTER MISSING DOUBLES CURRIVAN PUT SOME HIGH SCORES IN TO WIN IN 21 DARTS AND TAKE THE GAME TO THE FINAL LEG WHERE HE COMPLETED ANOTHER GREAT COMEBACK WITH A 21 DART LEG AND LIFTED THE SPIRITS OF THE WALTON TEAM. WITH A DRAW GUARANTEED AND ONLY NEEDING 1 WIN FROM CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI, DAVE TOTTMAN & ANDREW CURRIVAN FOR WALTON'S FIRST WIN, THE TEAM REALLY STARTED TO SHOW SPIRIT, NEXT UP WAS CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (23.31) AGAINST A VERY STEADY PLAYER IN CHARLIE PRESTON (24.24). PRESTON WON THE FIRST LEG IN 20 DARTS, THEN HE WON THE SECOND ALSO IN 20 DARTS WITH TOPOLEWSKI ON 32 BUT NOT GETTING A SHOT! IN THE THIRD BOTH PLAYERS WERE SCORING WELL WITH CRAIG ON FOR A 20 DARTER OF HIS OWN BUT MISSED DOUBLE 12 AND PRESTON WENT OUT IN 22 GIVING HIM A 3-0 WIN WITH CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI RECORDING WALTON'S HIGHEST AVERAGE OF THE NIGHT AND NOT DOING MUCH WRONG AT ALL. THEN DAVE TOTTMAN (20.47) DIDN'T MANAGE TO FIND SOME OF HIS SUPERB FORM THAT HE HAS BEEN SHOWING OF LATE AS MATT GARRETT (25.91) PUT IN A SUPERB PERFORMANCE WINNINGß-0 WITH LEGS OF 15, 23 & 20. THIS NOW MEANT THAT EVERYTHING WAS GOING TO DEPEND ON THE LAST GAME OF THE NIGHT, WITH A WALTON WIN OR A SALVAGED DRAW FOR CHELMSFORD WAS GOING TO BE THE OUTCOME. ANDREW CURRIVAN (18.71) TOOK ON JASON WALSH (17.77) LOOKING TO BECOME A HERO IN THE WALTON TEAM! ANDREW SETTLED IN WELL WINNING THE FIRST LEG IN 9 DARTS AND THEN FOLLOWED IT UP WITH THE SECOND LEG IN 20, GIVING HIM A 2-0 ADVANTAGE AND WALTON SOMETHING TO SHOUT ABOUT, HOWEVER HE WAS IN CONTROL OF THE 3RD BEFORE WALSH HIT THE FIRST MAXIMUM 180 OF THE NIGHT AND WENT ON TO WIN THE LEG, 2-1 ANDREW. IN THE FOURTH LEG WALSH HIT ANOTHER 180 BEFORE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF SOME MISSED DOUBLES FROM ANDREW AND TAKING THE GAME AND THE MATCH TO THE FINAL LEG OF THE NIGHT! BY THIS TIME BOTH PLAYERS WERE FEELING THE PRESSURE, EVEN WALTON MAN ADRIAN CRANMER HAD HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS AS HE CHEERED ON WALTON, NEITHER PLAYER SCORED WELL IN THIS LEG AS THEY KNEW THEY WERE CARRYING THEIR TEAMS HOPES AND EXPECTATIONS, THE GAME WAS HANGING IN THE BALANCE AS BOTH PLAYERS MISSED NUMEROUS AMOUNTS OF SHOTS AT DOUBLES BEFORE ANDREW CURRIVAN HIT DOUBLE 1 TO ERRUPT THE NOISE LEVEL AMONGST THE WALTON SIDE. A GREAT GAME FROM BOTH TEAMS WITH WALTON FINALLY GETTING THE WIN THEY DESERVE!! WALTON SCORED 53 TON+ AND CHELMSFORD SCORED 70 TON+ SCORES
DOUBLES
DAVE TOTTMAN & REECE HUTCHISON (21.40) 0 - 1 MATT GARRETT & HARRY SMITH (22.75)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (27.08) & CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI COMB (22.75) 1 - 0 M.DOE & VERNON WALSH (21.82)
ROBERT EMERY & ALAN CURRIVAN (22.75) 1 - 0 MARTIN COMPTON & CHARLIE PRESTON (22.88)
DANIEL PARKER & MATT BALDWIN (20.02) 1 - 0 ANDREW KATELEY & MEL SYLVESTER (19.58)
SINGLES
ROBERT EMERY (20.70) 3 - 2 VERNON WALSH (19.02)
DANIEL PARKER (17.20) 0 - 3 MARTIN COMPTON (26.83) MOM
MATT BALDWIN (20.17) 1 - 3 ANDREW KATELEY (10x100) - (26.16)
REECE HUTCHISON (9x100) - (22.91) MOM 3 - 1 HARRY SMITH (21.50)
ALAN CURRIVAN (8x100) - (20.92) 3 - 2 MEL SYLVESTER (10x100) - (22.25)
CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI (23.31) 0 - 3 CHARLIE PRESTON (24.24)
DAVE TOTTMAN (20.47) 0 - 3 MATT GARRETT (15 DART LEG) - (25.91)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (18.71) 3 - 2 JASON WALSH (2x180) - (17.77)
YOUTH TEAM
LEAGUE 13TH JANUARY 2008
HOME VS COLCHESTER AT WITHAM TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB
WALTON 6 - 5 COLCHESTER
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 9TH JANUARY 2008
HOME VS HARWICH AT THE THORPE SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB
WALTON 1 - 11 HARWICH
WITH CAPTAIN PETER CURRIVAN AWAY ON HOLIDAY ALONG WITH HIS 2 SON'S AND WALTON PLAYERS ALAN AND ANDREW. ADRIAN HOXA ALSO ON HOLIDAY, WALTON WERE LEFT STRANDED WHEN CRAIG TOPOLEWSKI AND CHIP CLEMENTS DIDN'T SHOW FOR THE HARWICH GAME WITHOUT GIVING ANY NOTICE! RESERVE ADRIAN CRANMER WAS AT A DARTS LEAGUE MEETING! THANKS TO ADAM LAMB WHO STEPPED IN TO MAKE HIS SECOND APPEARANCE OF THE SEASON, JOHN PALMER WHO HAD NOT GOT HOME FROM WORK SHORTLY BEFORE THE GAME WAS STARTING AND THE NEW SIGNING OF ROB EMERY ALONG WITH A SUPERLEAGUE DEBUT FOR DARTITIS RIDDLED SECRETARY MEANT WE JUST HAD ENOUGH PLAYERS TO COMPETE! WELL DONE TO ALL OF THOSE PLAYERS IVE MENTIONED ALONG WITH THE FIRST TEAM REGULARS: DAVE TOTTMAN WHO WAS 2-0 UP HAD A 115 FINISH BUT LOST 3-2! DANIEL PARKER (20.04) WHO MISSED OUT 3-2 TO HARWICH CAPTAIN GEORGE LORD AND REECE HUTCHISON (23.19) WHO LOST 3-1 TO HARWICH MAN OF THE MATCH KEVIN EDWARDS (27.34)! AND FINALLY WELL DONE TO MATT BALDWIN WHO ORGANISED THE PLAYERS WHO WERE THEIR AND DONE HIS UPMOST TO ENSURE WE HAD A SIDE! WELL DONE TO JOHN PALMER AND ROB EMERY (24.41) WHO WON WALTON'S ONLY LEG OF THE NIGHT DEFEATING COUNTY A MAN SCOTT LAWRIE AND MARCUS SMITH!
DOUBLES
MATT BALDWIN & ADAM LAMB (20.67) 0 - 1 ADRIAN GENERY & MICK CHAMBERS (22.24)
REECE HUTCHISON & JOHN CAREY (19.79) 0 - 1 KEVIN EDWARDS & PETER BARTON (23.83)
DAVE TOTTMAN & DANIEL PARKER (21.33) 0 - 1 SIMON COOK & GEORGE LORD (28.60)
JOHN PALMER & ROB EMERY (24.41) 1 - 0 SCOTT LAWRIE & MARCUS SMITH (20.33)
SINGLES
DAVE TOTTMAN (115GS) - (19.47) 2 - 3 PETER BARTON (22.03)
JOHN CAREY (14.80) 0 - 3 SCOTT LAWRIE (22.77)
ROB EMERY (21.00) 1 - 3 MICK CHAMBERS (23.20)
ADAM LAMB (18.41) 0 - 3 MARCUS SMITH (21.78)
DANIEL PARKER (20.04) 2 - 3 GEORGE LORD (23.84)
MATT BALDWIN (16.33) 0 - 3 ADRIAN GENERY (100GS) - (26.84)
JOHN PALMER (23.63) MOM 0 - 3 SIMON COOK (24.24)
REECE HUTCHISON (23.19) 1 - 3 KEVIN EDWARDS (27.34) MOM
YOUTH TEAM
LEAGUE 6TH JANUARY 2008
VS CLACTON AT WITHAM TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB
WALTON 3 - 8 CLACTON
ONLY HAD 5 PLAYERS SO WE WERE 3-0 DOWN BEFORE WE STARTED AND WITH MISSED DOUBLES IT COST US THE GAME!
MEN'S TEAM
LEAGUE 19TH DECEMBER 2007
AWAY VS HOCKLEY AT CJ'S POOL AND SNOOKER CLUB
WALTON 1 - 11 HOCKLEY
NOT MUCH TO REPORT ON APART FROM GOOD PERFORMANCES FROM DANIEL PARKER (22.05) BUT LOST OUT TO GARY PHIPPS (26.37) AND HOCKLEYS MAN OF THE MATCH! DAVE TOTTMAN (22.43) WAS UNLUCKY IN EVERY LEG AS HE LOST OUT 3-0 TO MICHAEL WILES (22.77) . WELL DONE TO ANDREW CURRIVAN (22.30) WHO WON WALTON'S ONLY GAME OF THE NIGHT AN TOOK THE MAN OF THE MATCH HONOURS BEATING WALTON OPEN CHAMPION DARRELL CLAYDON (22.29) 3-1!!!!
DOUBLES
MATT BALDWIN & ADRIAN CRANMER (16.23) 0 - 1 SHAUN WALSH & DARRELL CLAYDON (26.34)
ALAN CURRIVAN & ADRIAN HOXA (16.62) 0 - 1 MARK LANDERS & PAUL MARSH (24.41)
ANDREW CURRIVAN & DAVE TOTTMAN (24.43) 0 - 1 JOHN McFALL & GARY PHIPPS (34.52)
REECE HUTCHISON & DANIEL PARKER (19.70) 0 - 1 JAMES ALLISON & MICHAEL WILES (30.33)
SINGLES
ADRIAN HOXA (18.06) 0 - 3 SHAUN WALSH (21.47)
REECE HUTCHISON (17.11) 0 - 3 JOHN McFALL (25.47)
DANIEL PARKER (22.05) 0 - 3 GARY PHIPPS (26.37) MOM
DAVE TOTTMAN (22.43) 0 - 3 MICHAEL WILES (22.77)
ADRIAN CRANMER (18.68) 0 - 3 PAUL MARSH (21.78)
ANDREW CURRIVAN (22.30) MOM 3 - 1 DARRELL CLAYDON (22.29)
ALAN CURRIVAN (16.61) 0 - 3 JAMES ALLISON (19.52)
MATT BALDWIN (18.48) 0 - 3 MARK LANDERS (23.12)
