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EASTBOURNE FEBRUARY 2006 PHOTO ALBUM HERE A special year for this Eastbourne event – 2006 saw it celebrate its 20th Anniversary and, as usual, the venue was packed out. It was also a packed house for the finals on Sunday evening. The 128 finals had been completed on the Saturday evening and this resulted in people (who had to work the following day) having more time to stay for the Sunday Finals. The quality of the games made it well worth the effort - some terrific games were witnessed: Ronnie Hangs on to 128 Title
Colin had picked up the first leg in 14 darts but a relentless Ronnie seemingly upped his game to bring off wins in the next two legs with 13 and 17 darts and followed this with a magical 12 darter with a 122 out-shot!
Baxter had previously defeated Dennis Priestley in the semi-finals with the same scoreline of 5-2 and with an even better average of 33.79!! The other semi-final had seen Colin Lloyd take a 5-4 win over 'in-form- Colin Osborne. *************************************
Barrie's previous game in the semi-final had been won 4-1 and averaged out at 29.45 against Wayne Mardle (28.61) The other semi final between Gary Welding (24.21) and Kevin Painter (25.00) was Shayne Burgess, Michael Barnard, Peter Allen and Geoff Harkup made the quarter-finals. High scorer, Dave Honey Jnr – following in the footsteps of his father, took a 3-0 win from Rob Cross in the Youth final. Both played well with averagesof 23.86 and 23.66 respectively. Losing the first leg in the Ladies Singles seemed only to spur Apylee Jones (Surrey) on as she flipped off the next three legs in 19, 18 and 16 darts to win 3-1 in her game against Jane Monahan (Hants). The Mens Singles final saw Danny Ballard (Hants) take a decisive 3-1 from Surrey’s Graham Hollis, including a 101 outshot in the third leg. The Open Pairs winners were locals Ricki Blay and Keith Price winning their game 3-1 against Dennis Smith and Paul Cook. Mens Pairs Winners: Vic Hubbard and Darren Webster – Runners Up: Daniel Martin and Dave Butcher. Ladies Pairs Winners: Chrissie Manley/Tricia Wright – Runners UP: Sarah Rose and Louise Carroll.
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RONNIE BAXTER
defended the title he won in 2005 (when beating Wayne Jones 5-1).
This year it was with a 5-2 win over Colin Lloyd.
Colin collected just one more leg before 'The Rocket' won the 6th
and 7th legs in 14 and 13 darts respectively for the match and with
a 33.34 av.
Barrie Bates (Glamorgan) won the John Smith's Open Singles
with a 31.31 average when beating Gary Welding 5-0 in the final.
He took his five leg win in 16, 14, 16, 18 and 16 darts. A below
par Welding averaged 22.11.