Francis Meehan (Northend Bar), Conor McArdle, Marty Dixon, and James Callan (Organising committee).
It was a brilliant night of darts last night for the Mickey Martin Cup. Mickey was one of the quiet men working in the background for Dundalk Darts, County Louth Darts and also with the Irish Dart Team for many years.
It was fitting that, on the eve of the anniversary of Mickey's passing, the quality of darts thrown would be fitting in Mickey's memory.
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39 throwers entered the competition, and the draw, yet again, threw up some mouth-watering clashes in the early rounds.
Board one saw Padraic O'Rourke go one up against Daniel Dunn, but unfortunately for Padraic, Lady Luck would desert him, as Daffy would go on to win the next two games to secure the victory.
On the same board, Alan Dullaghan was going well from an early stage with a lot of big scores being hit, but after beating Mickey Wehrly and then last year's winner, Ray Harte, Alan would get eliminated by Daniel Dunn in the board final.
Board two saw one of the regular travellers from Cavan, Conor Carroll, beat Marty Dixon in the prelims before going on to beat Raymond "Wellies" O'Brien and then Ciaran Treanor to reach the board final.
However, unfortunately for Conor, the other Conor on Board two, Conor Mc Ardle, had reached the board final and beaten Conor Carroll to advance to the overall semifinals of the competition.
Board three saw Simon Wykes hungry going nicely through the draw, and after beating Graham Unwin and Colin Taaffe, he would grind out a result against Kevin Thompson to reach the board Final.
Conor Dunn beat John Kelly in the First round before beating James Callan in the next Round to reach the board final.
In the board final, despite Simon hitting a monster 167 checkout, Conor would go on to win 2-1.
Board four was a tough board to call with a few top throwers on either end of the draw.
And this was the case as Marty Dixon and Mickey McMahon both got to the board final, with Marty eventually getting the better of Mickey to reach the overall semifinals.
In the semi-finals, it was four teammates from the Big House Eagles who were all involved. Conor McArdle would get the better of Daniel and Marty Dixon would hit Tops to secure a narrow 3-2 win over Conor Dunn.
The final was a real epic, both players hitting multiple 100+ scores. Marty would go one-up and then Conor would draw level again, it would go the same way up to the decoder with Conor eventually winning 4-3.
Big thanks to all our sponsors who continue to make this Summer Series of Darts a great success.
Also, a big thanks to Wesley and Sandra Martin for turning up last night and to the Martin Family for allowing us to run the competition in memory of Mickey. Next up is The Tommy Dunn Cup next Saturday in the Bodhran and Northend.
All 64 places are currently taken, the draw for times and venue will be posted up on the Northend Bar Summer Series Of Darts Facebook page on Sunday evening, 10th August.
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