Drama as the Dundalk and District Darts League heats up at last eight

Thursday last saw the quarter-finals of the Andrew McAlester Open Shield in the Heineken-sponsored Dundalk and District Dart League take place in the Big House and the Northend Bar.

In the Northend Bar, The Bodhran played Corbetts Craicheads. Conor Stevenson got the Craicheads off to a great start by winning the first game.

Unfortunately for his team that would be the only match that his team would win as wins for Mickey McMahon, Alan Dullaghan, Darren Ludlow, and 'Nipper' Boyce all won to secure the win for the Bodhran and further wins for Kevin Thompson (Player of the Match for the Bodhran) and Brendan Galvin made the scoreline 6-1.

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Also in the Northend, The Big House Eagles played The Phoenix. Marty Dixon (Player of the Match for The Big House Eagles) and Conor Dunn won the first two matches before an impressive win by Vinny Rogers (player of the match for the Phoenix) reduced the deficit to 2-1.

Further wins for Paul Monahan and Conor Mc Ardle sealed a 4-1 win for The Eagles. Meanwhile, In The Big House, Uncle Toms Cabin played Uncle Kevin's.

This was a cracking game with Denis Smith putting Uncle Toms Cabin one up before Conall Stafford restored parity. Isaac Smith put Uncle Toms Cabin 2-1 up before Jack Hanlon won to leave the scores level again.

Aaron Duffy put Uncle Toms Cabin 3-2 up before Wayne Fry once again levelled things up. The ever-reliable Hughie Smith sealed the win for Uncle Toms Cabin. Also in the Big House, Uncle Toms played Damh O'Thuaidh.

This was always going to be a close game and Paddy Hoey put Uncle Toms one up before Hughie Shiels won to level things up.

Alan Clarke won the next to put Uncle Toms 2-1 up. Paul Callan (Man of the Match for Damh O Thuaidh) won the next to level things up yet again.

Simon Wykes was next up for Damh O'Thuaidh and he won 2-1 against Eddie Duffy (Player of the Match for Uncle Toms) before Alan Rogan had an impressive 2-0 win to secure the win for Damh O'Thuaidh and after playing out the final game, Paddy Gibney won to make the final scoreline 5-2.

Next up is the preliminary round of the Divisional Cup with home advantage for the teams drawn out first.