Portland Open Results
The weekend is over, the matches have been played and the results are on their way to the ADO headquarters! A big thank you to everyone who came out and played, and especially to those who came out and helped!
I apologize in advance for any misspelled names. Please contact me at isaac@portlandareadarts.com to let me know if I spell your name wrong, and I will correct it here and try to get it right in the future.
Before I get into the details of winners and everything, I want to thank everyone who helped. This effort could not have been pulled off without the work that everyone put in! This is no doubt an incomplete list, and others will be added to it as I remember and people remind me.
Volunteers
Clay Carney
Tony Kim
Troy Painter
Patty Hern
Tom Anderson
Shawn Hallbrook
Chris Pfenninger
Nick Beam
Jason Pitzer
Blind Draw – Friday Night
We had a fantastic turnout for the blind draw on Friday, with 42 total people showing up to play! We had 21 teams and 4 round robin flights – not to mention some good darts and a WHOLE LOT of fun!
Coming out of the flight, Bud Elzea and Kathy Collins beat Kevin Johnsgard and Craig Boughton. Tony Howe and Ken Glenn lost to Clay Carney and Tom Harrison. Mike Due and Ian Griffiths made it past Greg Haggan and Melissa Johnsgard. Patrick Kithi and Bill Schultz were a tough team to beat, and they beat Sam Tucciarone and Adam George.
In the semi-finals, Mike and Ian fell to Patrick and Bill while Clay and Tom got by Bud and Kathy. Bill Schultz and Patrick Kithi were the winning team, when all was said and done in the finals. Some great darts thrown by all!
Women’s 501
Due to a low turnout for the women’s events, we went straight from a round robin flight to a semifinal bracket. Carole Herriott beat Shawn Hallbrook, while Laraine Hinsen lost to Tracy McCann in the semis. The finals saw Tracey McCann getting past Carole Herriott to win the event.
Winner – Tracey McCann
Runner up – Carole Herriott
Top 4 – Shawn Hallbrook
Top 4 – Laraine Hinsen
Women’s Cricket
A similar looking group and bracket as the women’s 501. In this event Carole beat out Tracey in the final to win the event.
Winner – Carole Herriott
Runner up – Tracey McCann
Top 4 – Shawn Hallbrook
Top 4 – Laraine Hinsen
Men’s 501
We had a good turnout for men’s 501 with 21 entries. After making it out of the flight, Tony Howe beat Steve Arionous. While that was being played, Alan Poole beat Clay Carney and Jerry Duran got past Nils Nelson. In the last quarterfinal matchup, Bob Ross just edged out Roger Christal.
In the semifinals Jerry beat Bob while Alan beat Tony. The final match up was Alan Poole and Jerry Duran, with Alan winning the event.
Winner – Alan Poole
Runner up – Jerry Duran
Top 4 – Tony Howe
Top 4 – Bob Ross
Men’s Cricket
In the Men’s Cricket event we had 22 total entries. beginning the elimination round we had Bud Elzea beating Nils Nelson while Isaac Rochester lost to Andy Campbell. Greg Haggan lost to Steve Arionous as Jerry Duran beat Ed Long. Jerry then went on to lose to Steve as Andy beat Bud in the semifinals. Steve Arionous faced Andy Campbell in the final with Andy coming out the winner of the event.
Winner – Andy Campbell
Runner up – Steve Arionous
Top 4 – Bud Elzea
Top 4 – Jerry Duran
Mixed Doubles
We had a good turnout for Mixed Doubles on Saturday evening as well with 30 total players and 15 teams. Here were the winners, runners up and semi finalists:
Winners – Steve Arionous and Carol Lungberg
Runners up – Andy Campbell and Tammie Campbell
Semifinalists – Roger Christal and Kathy Collins
Semifinalists – Bob Ross and Carole Herriott
ADO Regional Tournament
A big congratulations to all the players earning a spot in this qualifier: Carole Herriott, Bud Elzea, Jeff Hartman, Nils Nelson, Patrick Kithi, Greg Haggan. Patrick Kithi beat out the competition and will be sent to the ADO Cricket Nationals in Las Vegas January 2012! Congrats and good luck, Patrick!
Highlights
There were a number of highlights over the weekend. Some were figurative highlights and just amazingly fun moments and others were literal dart highlights that people threw during competition. Here is an incomplete list of the latter, as I know there are some that did not get recorded:
180s
Alan Poole
Tony Howe
Jerry Duran
Mike Due
Greg Haggan
Isaac Rochester
Tracey McCann
High Finishes
Chris Pfenninger – 149 out
Roger Christal – 135 out
Clay Carney – 116 out
Others
Craig Boughton – 171 x3, white horse
Bud Elzea – White horse
Greg Haggan – 9 count
Once again, thanks to all involved with this weekend in any part. Thank you is also deserved to our hosts, the A&L Sports Pub for their service and hospitality as we turned half their enormous bar into darting mania for 3 straight days! I can’t wait to bring this back and make it bigger and better next year, as well as try to take this momentum into our our largest monthly shoots of the year, the PADA Turkey Shoot and the December Holiday shoot. Stay tuned for more local dart events and news, Portland darters!!!
-Isaac
