Semi-Finalists (Carlos Muñoz, David Francis, Dylan Duo, Roy Asquez)

First Ranking Tournament win of the season for David Francis!

In what was another great evening of darts, David Francis survived an early scare to take this year’s Joe Goldwin darts trophy.

The turnout of 31 players at the College Cosmos Club, featured the best that Gibraltar has to offer. In the first round David narrowly overcame one of our best youth players, Justin Hewitt 4-3, this was then followed up with a 4-1 win against Daryl Vassalo. In the quarter finals it was another close game against top youth player Craig Galliano, 5-4.

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Semi-Finalists First Division (Christian Tosso, Antony Lopez, Justin Hewitt, Tony Dawkins)

There was a spectacular evening of darts recently with Justin and Daryl winning the 1^st& 2^ndDivision singles titles respectively.

In the 1^stDivision competition, Just Hewitt continues to improve, showing that the hours of practice he puts in are truly paying off.

After Beating Dylan Duo 3-0 in the first round, he then had a spectacular game against Francis Remorino, winning 3-0 with legs of 15, 14 & 11 darts – that’s an average throw of 112.73, a PDC world youth record, and an average that any top professional would be proud of.

Justin then went on to beat Ethan Smith 3-0, Tony Dawkins 3-1, and in the final, despite relaxing a little on his doubles, he still managed to beat the current Gibraltar number two, Antony Lopez 3-2

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Dyson had a hard struggle to win the David Obee Classic darts tournament on Friday 5^thApril.  After straightforward early rounds beating Karl Mena and Carlos Munoz 4-0, he had harder games, beating Dylan Duo 5-3 and then just winning 5-4 against Justin Hewitt, to make it to the final.

In the other half of the draw, Antony Lopez played consistently well to win through to the final, beating Keith Medhurst 4-1, Jeremy Cruz 4-2, Tony Dawkins 5-2 and Craig Galliano 5-3.

The final was a tense affair with both players trading high scores. It went right to the line with a well timed 180 by Dyson in the deciding leg who then finished it off in style, winning the match 6-5.
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Semi-Finalists (Jerome Chipol, Sean Negrette, Justin Hewitt, Craig Galliano)

The third Youth Ranking event of the 2018/19 season took place on Wednesday 20th February. Once again it was a brilliant night of darts as these youngsters continue to produce darts of the highest quality.

The race for Qualification for the 2019 European Youth Cup started in November and now we are half way through the season.

At the end of the season the top 4 players in the rankings will be the ones who earn a spot to represent Gibraltar at this prestigious event.

The next event (Ranking No.4) is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 20th March.

Here is a round-up from the Quarter-Final stage onwards..

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Roy Asquez presented with the Winners Trophy by Steve March (Committee member)

Maiden ranking win for Roy Asquez in the College Cosmos Singles!

Roy Asquez claims his 1^stranking title with a hard fought 6-2 victory over Carlos Munoz to win the 4^thranking event of the 2018/19, the College Cosmos Singles.

Neither players had easy routes to the final with Roy beating Denis Sheehan 4-0 in the 1^stRound before taking on Justin Broton in round 2. The 2018 Gibraltar Darts Trophy qualifier overcame the 4^thseed Broton 4-1 which set up a board final versus 5^thseed David Francis, coming through that with a close 5-3 victory.

After defeating Francis Remorino 4-0 in round 1, Munoz came through a tough 2^ndround battle against 7^thseed Craig Galliano narrowly winning 4-3, this set up a board final with Justin Stagno again winning out 5-3. The semi-finals saw Roy overcoming top seed Dyson Parody & Carlos defeating 3^rdseed Anthony Lopez, both matches also finishing 5-3.

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The “True Glacis” team wins the 2019 GDA League Trebles 

The “True Glacis“ team of Jarvis Bautista, Nicky Cumbo and Carlos Muñoz fought hard to take this year’s league trebles title, held recently at the College Cosmos Club.

Nine teams turned up to play a cheerful and good natured event, which produced some exciting, high level games and close results.

In the quarter finals “True Glacis” beat “Team Mates” (Harry Parody, Shane Smith & Adam Orfila) 3-1, then went on to narrowly beat “The Impossibles” (George Ramos, Francis Taylor & Karl Mena) 3-2.

The final turned out to be a classic match, with “True Glacis” facing the youth team “Three Bro’s” (Craig Galliano, Sean Negrette & Justin Hewitt). It was anybody’s game, with high scores coming from both teams, but the youngsters missed a couple of opportunities, and “True Glacis” won the match and the title 3.2

There were three 180’s on the night, two by Graig Galliano, and one by Dylan Duo.

Semi-Finalists (Jerome Chipol, Sean Negrette, Justin Hewitt, Craig Galliano)

The second Youth Ranking event of the 2018/19 season took place on Wednesday 23rd January. Once again it was a brilliant night of darts as these youngsters continue to produce darts of the highest quality.

The race for Qualification for the 2019 European Youth Cup started in November and now we are two events into the season.

At the end of the season the top 4 players in the rankings will be the ones who earn a spot to represent Gibraltar at this prestigious event.

The next event (Ranking No.3) is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 13th February.

Here is a round-up from the Quarter-Final stage onwards..

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Semi-Finalists (Christian Tosso, Craig Galliano, Justin Hewitt, Dyson Parody)

In what was a truly amazing evening of darts, Christian Tosso put on a display worthy of a professional, showing the skill that he had previously demonstrated in last year’s World Masters.

The turnout of 35 players at the College Cosmos Club, featured the very best of Gibraltar’s elite, and it was those top players that the unseeded Christian had to beat on his way to winning the title. In the first round he overcame the old master, Francis Taylor 4-2, then 4^th seed David Francis 4-3. This was followed up with a very high scoring game against 5^th seed Justin Broton, resulting in a tight 5-4 win.

The semi-final against Dyson Parody, Gibraltar’s undisputed no.1 player, looked like going Dyson’s way when Christian missed a couple of early doubles, but he held on strongly, taking out the deciding leg on 76. This then put Christian in the final up against rising star Justin Hewitt.

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The GDA once again wishes to thank each participant especially the ladies who turned up for this year’s edition of the Mixed Pairs & Trebles event. It’s the support of these individuals which is ensuring that the event is not lost forever, as the GDA continues its commitment to encourage ladies to take part.

A excellent turnout of 10 pairs and 7 trebles turned up for this friendly night of darts.

The night started off with the pairs event first. In the Preliminary Round we saw comfortable 2-0 victories for Dylan/Kayra Duo against Ibon Pachecho/Cristina Ruiz and Chris Dalli/Sonia Hermida against Keith Medhurst\Kyra Barea.

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Semi-Finalists (Justin Hewitt, Jerome Chipol, Sean Negrette, Craig Galliano)

The first Youth Ranking event of the 2018/19 season took place on Wednesday 21st November, and all players were fighting to claim the first title of the season.

It has not yet been officially announced where the 2019 Youth European Cup will be taking place but the race for qualification started off with this event.

At the end of the season the top 4 players in the rankings will be the ones who earn a spot to represent Gibraltar at this prestigious event.

Here is a round-up from the Quarter-Final stage onwards..

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