Tuesday night darts – Game 12 of 14 – The Tavern vs An Udder Team

The match this week was the potential title decider with us at the top of the league playing the only team that can catch us, An Udder Team, in second place. With three games left we had a 5 point cushion. If we win our lead will be 8 points making us uncatchable, a draw would pretty much put us there with us maintaining our 5 point lead with only 6 points available, a defeat would cut our lead to 2 points making for a very nervy last few games. However we wanted to get the job done tonight at our home ground - The Tavern.

Glorious scenes as The Tavern are crowned Division 3 champions

 It all started very well with us winning both triples, I checked out in my game. In the singles we won another game meaning we had a 3-2 lead going into the singles. I was last up in the singles which meant there was a good chance I would win us the championship. We won the first two singles then lost the next two putting the score at 5-4. Fortunately our next player won which made the score 6-4, this meant we could not loose this match AND I'd have a chance to win us the title!!

It all started really well, I hit three hundreds in a leg of darts which Id never done before. The other guy was still on 300 when I was trying to check out. Sadly the curse of checking out returned and he caught me up and won... very embarrassing. I stormed back to take the second leg to make it 1-1. The third leg he took a big lead but I managed to catch him putting us both on doubles for the finish. I was very nervous as was everyone else. I've never shook so much when throwing darts. Sadly I lost the game meaning I didn't win us the match. No fairy tale ending for me.

Fortunately we had the final 6 vs 6 game to win the match. I'm happy to say we won this, meaning we won the match and the championship!!!! I stayed a bit longer and had several beers which is always risky on a school night.

League table. The Tavern are now can not be caught

I was pretty pleased with how I played. I hit 6 hundred plus scores which nearly beat our team record of 7. I just need to work on the checking out.

So with two games left we are the champions so we can relax now and enjoy the remaining games.