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GARY ANDERSON, Simon Whitlock & Phil Taylor turned on the style to thrill a sell-out crowd for Thursday’s 888.com Premier League Darts at the AECC in Aberdeen.

Anderson delighted his Scottish supporters by hitting seven 180s in an 8-3 win over Terry Jenkins which kept him four points behind league leader Phil Taylor, who averaged 107.07 in an 8-1 defeat of Mark Webster.

Those displays, though, were surpassed by an exceptional performance from Simon Whitlock, who equalled the record for 180s in a Premier League game with eight and averaged 107.93 in defeating Raymond van Barneveld 8-5.

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SIMON WHITLOCK is aiming to take revenge on Raymond van Barneveld when the pair meet in the 888.com Premier League Darts in Aberdeen on Thursday.

Van Barneveld produced one of the Premier League’s finest displays when the pair met in Nottingham in the second week of this year’s tournament, hitting four ton-plus finishes in an 8-3 defeat of Whitlock.

The Australian, though, could move level with van Barneveld on ten points in the Premier League table with a victory at the AECC in their clash.

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BARHAM EDGES AUBREY FOR YOUTH TITLE

PAUL BARHAM defeated Chris Aubrey 4-2 to win the fourth PDC Unicorn Youth Tour event, held at the K2 Centre in Crawley on Saturday.

The 21-year-old from Basildon became Essex’s second successive winner on the Youth Tour, following Ryan Harrington’s win in Wigan a fortnight ago, as he took the £600 first prize from a field of 111 players. Read more

WES NEWTON hit back from 3-0 down to defeat Paul Nicholson 6-4 in Sunday’s Players Championship final, denying the Geordie a PDC ProTour double in Crawley.

Nicholson had claimed his first victory in almost 14 months by winning Saturday’s £35,000 tournament at the K2 Centre, and battled through to a second final 24 hours later. Read more

Riley’s Press Release:

Amateur pairs sign up for shot at £10k

More than 1,000 pairs have entered the Harrows Darts UK Doubles Tournament for the chance to take home a share of £10,000, and the title of best amateur doubles team in the UK.

The prize fund is the biggest for any amateur darts tournament.

Regional playoffs will be held at 48 Rileys Darts Zones around the country in April, with one pair per club advancing to the National Final on June 18.

Harrows Darts Sales and Marketing Director Robert Pringle said: “We’re delighted that so many amateur players have entered the Doubles Tournament.

“It shows that darts is thriving at a grass roots level in the UK.

“We wish the best of luck to all participants in Rileys clubs.”

Singles, Over-40s and Team darts tournaments, each with a £10k prize pot, will also be held at Rileys this year.

Rileys Darts Zones have six to eight throwing lanes, championship-quality boards and electronic scoring systems.

Rileys currently have 48 Darts Zones throughout the UK and plan to increase this to 100 by the end of 2011.

For more information, visit www.rileys.co.uk/tournaments

David Axbey with MCM Expo Group just sent this in:

We’ve just heard that the Craft Cockney himself, Eric Bristow, will be playing lucky members of the public at darts at Memorabilia this Saturday. Visitors to the Spring Memorabilia Show at Birmingham’s NEC will be able to enter a competition on the day to take the great man on. Eric is just one of the many sporting heroes and TV stars confirmed as special guests for the show, which takes place on 26-27 March – for a full list, see www.memorabilia.co.uk. It’d be great if you could let your readers know!

You just let them know David, and thank you for sending in the info!

If you have any darts news that you’d like published here on the website, just use the contact form or email it to webmaster@theoche.com and we would be happy to post it for you.

Well…no excuses, just the facts. There has been a LOT going on in my life, job, and family lately, and I just haven’t been able to find the time, nor to be honest, the motivation, to keep up with all of the darts events happening in the sport.

Even though I’ve always tried to make this website a useful and informative one to the sport of darts, it has in the grand scheme of things been more of a hobby than anything else, and unfortunately I haven’t had a lot of time lately for any hobbies or other fun or distracting things.

I’m going to try to get things back up and running though, and thanks to everyone that has been patiently waiting!

Ricky, TheOche.com

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ADRIAN LEWIS hit an amazing nine-dart finish in winning the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship with a 7-5 defeat of Gary Anderson at Alexandra Palace on Monday night.

The 25-year-old from Stoke produced the best performance of his career to defeat the Scot and claim the £200,000 first prize – his first major title since turning professional in 2004.

Lewis made an incredible start to the match with a nine-dart finish in the third leg – the first time in history a player has landed a perfect leg in a World Championship final – and averaged 123 in winning the first set.

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GARY ANDERSON and Adrian Lewis will contest the final of the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship on Monday night, having royally entertained Prince Harry amongst a sell-out semi-final crowd at Alexandra Palace with wins over Terry Jenkins and Mark Webster.

Anderson continued his brilliant form during the £1 million tournament with a 6-2 win over Jenkins, averaging over 100 for the fifth successive game and posting 12 180s.

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THE Professional Darts Corporation are delighted to announce a PDC Unicorn Youth Tour to be launched in 2011, while both the Ladbrokes.com World Darts Championship and 2011 Premier League Darts have passed £1 million each in ticket sales.

The PDC have successfully staged the inaugural PDC Unicorn Under-21 World Championship this year, with Michael van Gerwen and Arron Monk to compete on Monday night in the final at Alexandra Palace.

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