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1993 - March 5-7 - Annual Sibley 's Cove tournament was held. Sibley's Cove is just between
Brownsdale and Lead Cove, on the south-east shore of Trinity Bay. The St. John's team finished
first beating a team from Winterton who apparently had come second four times in a row. One
good thing about the Sibley's Cove tournament is the fabulous moose burgers and moose soup.

1993 - March 12-14 - Albert Anstey won his sixth consecutive Provincial Darts Championship
here in Newfoundland. The competition was tough, but he won by 14 points. The top eight
qualified for the Canadian Open that was held here in June of that year. There were four or five
players tied for the ninth position, by one point. One player of those four had two 180's in a leg,
but lost it on the double. Although the play ended Sunday night about 9 o'clock, it took them
until 7:30 Monday morning to tally the scores. Format used for these tournaments is a full round-
robin, two legs each round, 501 open break.

1993 - June 8th - Bobby Anderson exhibition at the CEI Club. He won all but one game. In the
last game he hit three consecutive tuns on bulls, as in semi, bull, semi. He missed 170 and set
up 50. He took someone else's darts, missed a foot wide east of the board, a foot wide west of
the board, and bang, - he missed the bull. Next turn he missed again, leaving 12. So instead of
poking
the double six, he said "I'm going to try this..." and he fired three double twos, bang, bang,
bang.

1993 - June 9th - Bobby Anderson exhibition at the Stellar Club. From there travelled to Central
Newfoundland.

1993 - June 14-21 - The Molson Canadian darts championship, the Canadian Open, and the
Americas Cup championships were held in St. John's

The Canadian championships, featuring teams from the 10 provinces and 2 territories, were
played at the Holiday Inn and Prince of Wales Arena. Canadian and United States teams
competed for the Americas Cup, while Newfoundland and Labrador players Albert Anstey,
Johnny Norman, Bill Garland, Al Barbour competed with world-class players such as Eric
Bristow, Jocky Wilson, John Lowe, Bob Anderson Mike Gregory, and Denis Priestly in the Open
competition.

Canadian Open - Newfoundland won the Team prize as top team, with so many points based
on unknown factors.
Amy Earle, winner of the Mixed Doubles and Ladies Doubles, also won the Mixed singles, so
three titles was a great feat. She fell early in the open, but Patricia Farrell hung on round after
round, beating all the best including Mandy Solomons and Sharon Colclough, and all the rest,
to become the first Canadian to win the Canadian Open.
They said that NFLD did well because we were at home, so our best team could all attend.
Well, that's not entirely true - two of the top eight qualifiers couldn't make it, and another of the
top players didn't compete at all.
Eric Bristow lost early and often, getting severely pissed off. He lost to Al Barbour,
a local A player, in the singles. There was a deafening roar when Al took him out.

1993 - June 25-27 - The Canadian Pepsi Cola Youth Championship held in Newfoundland

1993 - Dec. 7 - Peter Evison performs exhibition in Carbonear - 204 people line up with tickets
to play him. He never lost a game.

1993 - Dec. 8-9 - Perter Evision performs exhibitions in St. John's

1994 - January 22nd -23rd - The Nationals singles play downs are to be held at the CEI Club

1994- Rule Change - The dividing lines between C and B are 16.99 average, and from B to A
at 18.99. There was a 1.50 grace allowed in case one had a particularly good season or
tournament that put them over the average. Hence the real dividing line to get kicked up to A
was 20.49. They abolished this grace period.

1995 - Team Canada the best of "Darts" at the World Cup, Switzerland in October, and Team
Canada at the World Masters, in England in December

World Cup - Team Canada
Patricia Farrell - British Columbia
Amy Earle - Newfoundland
John Part - Ontario
John Ooms - British Columbia
Yves Chamberland - Quebec
Carl Mercer - Saskatchewan

World Masters - Team Canada
Patricia Farrell - British Columbia
Andrea Sorensen-Gilroy - Alberta
John Part - Ontario
Paul Cullen - Ontario
Chris Leslie - Ontario
Carl Mercer - Saskatchewan

1998 - March 15 - Bill Bouzane of Grand Falls-Windsor had a 9 dart game. He threw 180, 180,
141 (T20, T19, D12) into the record books. It was done at the Newfoundland Provincial
Championships

2005 - Bill Garland had a 170 finish the Eastern zone playoffs held at the CEI Club against Jim
Croke Jr.

2006 - Roy Gough of St. John's had a 170 finish at the Newfoundland Provincial Tournament

2008 - February 23rd - The Youth Dart Players played the Provincial Youth Darts
Championships. From this competition came the team of youth players who will represent our
Province at the National Youth Dart Championship being held at Winnipeg, Manitoba on May
16 -18.

Youth Team Newfoundland and Labrador 2008
Jeremy Miller - Marystown - Senior
Jonah Hulan - Robinsons - Senior
Stephanie Barry - McKays - Senior
Tiffanny Drake - Marystown - Senior
Nathan Barry - Heatherton - Junior
Brandon Gillam - Heatherton - Junior
Cheryl Legge - Heatherton - Junior
Robin Barnes - Heatherton - Junior

2008 - CEI Club -Paddy's Day Tournament Winners:
Team: Frank the Tank's
◘ Troy Hanlon
◘ Frank Owens
◘ Gary Smith
◘ Leo Miller
◘ Cory Slaney

Newfoundland and Labrador Darts Association