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Team Saskatchewan enters the arena at
the 2010 NDFC National Championships in Gander, Newfoundland June 15, The Nationals were a tough go for Team Saskatchewan, who finished in tenth place overall. In men's singles, several of the boys made a splash and Jimmy Dennis ended up advancing to the first round. In the ladies', former Canadian champ Bonnie Lapierre made it through the round robin, only to be knocked out early. Carol Shepherd lost out in a tiebreaker. In men's doubles, ladies' doubles and mixed doubles events, our players gave it a good shot. On the brighter side, rookie player Karsten Larsen tried his luck at the Americas Cup qualifier and ended up fourth, one win from a trip to the Bahamas in fact. An excellent first try at some real tough competition. And in the Canadian Open tournament, Sharon Acker made joint ninth. Nice job! The full results from Gander can be found at the new NDFC website. They're updating more frequently nowadays and you'll get started here. Here's a closer look at the team, pictured in their mixed doubles pairings
Team Sask were accompanied by SDA executive board members Laurie Kitzul and Wayne Hudson, and spouses Frank (Dorothy), Walter (Joan) and John (Wendy) showed great support for the team all the way. Laurie and Wayne are now nationally-certified level II officials for darts and have taken NCCP-based courses in coaching the sport, so let's hope that maybe that will bear fruit in the coming year. Comment is free The Saskatchewan Darts Team has to go back to the drawing board as far as success at the Nationals is concerned. As usual, the players put up a good battle here and there but there's no escaping the fact that we finished tenth in the overall standings known as the Canada Cup, one spot down on last year, and behind Northwest Territories. We'd like to hear what you have to say. Now the season is over and we look ahead to 2010-11, what do you think we can do to get better results from our provincial darts team? Send us your thoughts on this or any other subject and we'll publish them, with or without your name attached.
Youth team returns Our team of eight youth players is back in Saskatchewan with some booty, a lot of pride and memories for a lifetime.
Team Saskatchewan 2010. Back row, L-R: Miranda Cleaveley, Aspen Cleaveley, Tyson Newell, Mitch Kavanagh, Austin Morrison, Megan Lyons. Front row, L-R: Laurie Lyons, Ken Cleaveley, Saul Arndt, Brittany Lyons, Trish Gray, Hunch Gray. Unnamed RCMP officer, centre Mixed doubles gold for Seniors May 23, Gander, Newfoundland: Tyson Newell and Megan Lyons took first place in the Senior Mixed Doubles at Youth Nationals! A superb result for Saskatchewan up against some stiff competition - congratulations to them both. Team Sask made a splash at the Nodor Cup team event as well with a third-place finish. Overall, Saskatchewan finished 5th in the Canada Cup, an improvement on last year. Two bronzes for Girls' teams May 21: Team Sask made a good start at the Youth Nationals as our girls' doubles teams both placed joint third on opening day. Two sets of sisters trod the podium: Megan Lyons and Aspen Cleaveley in Seniors and Brittany Lyons and Miranda Cleaveley in Juniors. The Lyons girls are from Nipawin and the Cleaveleys hail from Hudson Bay. Later that evening, Austin Morrison came second in the bursary shoot. May 22: Megan and Brittany Lyons both reached the last eight in girls' singles. Great job! Also representing us this year were Senior Boy Mitch Kavanagh and Junior Boy Saul Arndt. Youth director Trish Gray says she has been super impressed by the whole team's attitude. "I cannot say enough about how proud I was to be associated with all these terrific youth players," says Trish. "I was especially pleased with the senior members of the team who stepped up, without being asked, to mentor and be leaders for the young players." Trish gives the shout out to Hunch, Ken and Laurie, the coaching staff, and Dan and Becky, the parents. "All your hard work did not go unnoticed. Thanks!" You can see more results from Youth Nationals on the NDFC Facebook page. Read more about Team Sask in our youth section. NDFC finds Facebook The National Darts Federation of Canada has started a Facebook group page and darts lovers from all over can join by following the instructions in this news release. Here's the link for the NDFC Facebook page.
Battleford resident Jason Skinner, pictured left after his win on April 11, repeated his victory of last year and will captain the men's team at Nationals at Gander, NL in June. Women's champ Joan Hodgen from Midale, pictured right with her trophy, will make her 16th appearance as a representative of Saskatchewan, this time as number one. It's an experienced team with fourteen players who have been to Nationals before, while hopes are high for rookie team members Karsten Larsen and Becky Arndt, who make it to the next level. A crowd-pleasing winner is Pat Copeman (Team Sask '90, '92, '97, '99, '04), who returns to Nationals as a player for the first time since 2004. Women's runner-up Carol Shepherd makes an astonishing 24th appearance as an SDA rep. Thursday's storm dashed the hopes of six players from the West Central zone who couldn't make it in to Saskatoon to play because of closed roads. They were missed.
See the full results for individual men and women.
The Zone Cup goes to Stanley Mission with a total of 63.1%. Team Stanley is pictured left with SDA Secretary Frank Zimmer. The rest of the zones stack up like this: Regina 51.5%; South East 50.5%; Moose Jaw 48.4%; North Battleford 46.1%; Saskatoon 43.8%; North East 42.3%; Nipawin 39.6%. West Central and Prince Albert don't get a percentage because they had one player each and you know that one man doesn't make a team! New look to board Elections for the SDA executive were held at Provincials April 10. Taking over on July 1 as 1st Vice-president is Jason Skinner, elected by a majority of members present, and Shauna Grassing, who was elected as incoming Member-at-large. Returning to their posts are Financial Director Bonnie Lapierre and Youth Director Trish Gray, both by acclamation. Let's wish all four of them good luck for their two-year terms. Feedback chat Here's what a player and an exec had to say about Provincials: “Just a note of appreciation for a very well-run tournament this past weekend. I thought it went very smoothly - an excellent venue, and the division monitors did a terrific job. Once again many thanks to the executive and volunteers. - Brian Humphreys, SDA member “Congratulations to all the players that competed in the 2010 Provincials. Our "good darts" cheer to the players that are representing Saskatchewan at Nationals in Gander, Nfld in June. I would like to thank Carol Shepherd and Bonnie Bond for their dedication and commitment to the SDA executive over the past years. It was a pleasure to be able to work together with the both of you. Congratulations to the new members of the executive! - Trish Gray, SDA Executive Football pool pays off for lucky winners The 2009 Saskatchewan Darts Association football pool paid out $4,500 in prizes, shared between 40 winners across the province. We sold 690 tickets for a net profit of $8,966.83. Thanks to everyone for taking part!
Link to the results and prize
winners here. Tournament notes Did you know? The 2011 Nationals will be held in Edmonton. The 2012 Nationals are in Thunder Bay, hosted by Northern Ontario This is the table of maximums scored at SDA tournaments in the calendar year 2010. The year isn't even half over and it looks like a race for second in the men's. More women are hitting 180s this year too.
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