So the final darts have been launched in our league matches, and we are nearly ready to reward our winners.

Division 1 saw Wicor Mill ‘A’ Just stay in front of Trinity Tavern ‘B’, holding on to an 8 leg lead, with both teams on 18 points.

Wicor Mill was a strong favourite from the outset with a win streak of 5 games at the start of the season. Joe Paxton ended that streak with a 6-3 win. Wicor never regained a strong streak after that, but instead finished their matches with a good lead instead, giving them 69 legs out of 108.

Trinity Tavern ‘B’ also started on a high with 4 wins, then Wicor Mill ‘A’ broke the run. Rallying with 3 then 2 consecutive wins kept them level on points, but even with an 8-1 win over Funtley they could not muster enough legs to close the divide enough and took 2nd place.

DOC Limes finished third only 2 points behind, while Q-Battery broke even with a 50% win ratio, favouring the home games as did the Duke of Connaught who had all their wins at home; Funtley SC had the opposite and had an all-away win stat, with Joe Paxton in 5th place mixing it up a bit.

Division 2 played out as a Hill Park final, but from the outset of the final match Hill Park ‘A’ were certain winners with the leg difference enough to keep them out of danger. Even with the 10 leg lead, Hill Park B still kept up on points with both teams finishing on 18

It was quite a mix of wins and losses across all teams in the division; the highest win streaks of 5 by both Hill Park teams. Stats wise, Portchester SCW was actually stronger on legs than Hill Park ”B’, with Al’s Bar matching them. Trinity Tavern ‘A’ almost there with 1 leg less, but alas the wins are also needed and one more loss makes all the difference.

White Horse and Jolly Miller ended up matching each other on stats, although Jolly miller had a better home win ratio with White horse doing equally well away. HMS Collingwood finished our line-up matching the Jolly Miller win percentage.

As we saw in Division 3, it was a 3-way tie for top place up to the last minute. But in the head to head, The Bugle took a 6-3 win over Portsbridge and took the top spot, pushing Portsbridge into third place on 16 points.

The Bugle also had our strongest win streak of 6 this season, with Portchester SC just behind on 5.

DOC Lions held on with 14 points to take 4th position. Cross Keys and Golden Lion ‘B’ shared 8 points, with Cross Keys holding a 9 leg lead. Commiserations to Golden Lion ‘A’ who didn’t find their form this season, but we hope will be sufficiently practiced for the forthcoming Winter Season in less than a week.

All that is left is to finish our Individuals Competition that was so in intense we had to split it up this year, then we’ll dish out those trophies and let you get into the groove for the entertainment on Saturday.