MASA DART CLUB

BENKERIN TROPHY WINNER 2026
🏆 THOMAS " THE TANK " ELLIOTT 🏆

We held our club individuals yesterday and it was great to see all three Masa teams represented. Thanks to all the lads who came out to play on what was a beautiful day and the last day of the Premiership season.

It was the 11th year of the BENKERIN and Thomas becomes only the 7th player to get his name on the trophy, following his 4:3 victory over WARREN MULLAN in the final.

Previous winners
Michael Bell 🏆🏆🏆
Jim Potts🏆
Jonny blair 🏆🏆🏆
John Bishorek jnr 🏆
Neil Withers 🏆
Nathan Doak 🏆

Well done Tank, commiserations to the other Tank 😀
It was a great way to end the season and start off 2026/27.....
Next up, the Stevie Neill Memorial Summer league of darts, Sponsored by JP CORRY.
Week 1 begins on Fri the 12th June ☢️😎

What a few days for our dart club.
On Thursday night, we won the RICE CUP at our 8th attempt. In the semi's we faced the holders and 18 times champions, The Welders.
It was a great game which we were delighted to win 6 : 2.
Huge respect to the Welders, they don't lose too many at home and were very complimentary in defeat❤️

The other semi was a cracker with THE HACK coming back from 5 :4 down to win 6 : 5. Again the taughy lads showed a lot of class in defeat... 👏👏👏
The final was a repeat of an early preseason game, when we welcomed the HACK to the MASA. I knew it was going to tough to get over the line, even at 4 nil up. So it proved, 4 nil went 4 : 1, 4 : 2 and them 4 :3. Suddenly, the Ballyhackamore lads found their voices and it ramped up the atmosphere.⬆️⬆️⬆️

Fortunately for us, we had a tank on hand, Warren Mullan. to steady the ship. At 5 : 3, we were one match away from winning the most prestigious cup in the Belfast and district for the first time. It was left to Mark Elliott to bring home the Dub and he duly obliged 🏆

Yes at times during the evening it was raucous and noisy, but thats the way darts can be. If anything I appreciated the loud support we generated as traditionally we are a team that likes to sit on its hands...not this time.!!!
Winning the Rice Cup was a great way to end the season. Fair play to the HACK lads, they gave it a go and what a great cup team they are 👏👏👏👏👏
Many thanks to the welders bar staff, chris astbury for calling the final and the b&d committee lads present.
Billy, bo and Neill... much appreciated 👌

This one is for our heavenly friends, Stevie, Eddie and Mark ❤️
Mon da Masa ☢️

5 Masa lads in action on the night.
Tickets available from GLISTRR.
☢️ Neil Duff
☢️ lee shields
☢️ Thomas Elliott
☢️ Nathan Doak
☢️ Jayden Nolan
Good luck lads...

Something else 💥💥💥💥💥
Well done Christian 💪💪💪

Our friday night team has lads from the poet and dundela facing off tonight for the 2nd div championship, last match of the Season.

From everyone else, best wishes lads, may the best team win. The masa b&d team will look forward to welcoming whoever gets promoted ☢️

Congratulations Christian, nobody better for the job 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Happy birthday to the " REAL DEAL " himself james Dickson. Have a belter day matey 🎂

B&D 1st Div Result
MASA 4 : 6 Sydenham Bl.

Another cracking game between two good sides, with sydenham getting the win. So thats 3 games this season and fair play, they beat us in straight sets

6:4 6:4 6:4.

I genuinely dont think any B&D team has played that well against us at the Masa. Its was always going to be a difficult match for us to get a result, and we had a real go. But its very hard to overcome a solid tight team, especially when they hit 7 x 180's against you in a match.

For us, we have our final league game away to the times bar next wed and then a Rice Cup semi final against the Welders to look forward to. We wish the sydenham lads all the best in their final fixture, needing just one point to win the league 🏆

Earlier in the evening, we presented Nigel G Cahoon with his POTM award for April, Alex Aicken picking up reserve.

Thanks to everyone on both teams who bought a football team also. We are running a card, for Lee. Christian and Thomas who have qualified to represent NI in the JDC Home Nations in Scotland. As soon as the cards completed, one of the lads will do the scratch.

Cheers all ☢️

We Couldnt be any prouder of these lads...
Well done Lee, Christian and Thomas and everyone else who qualified for Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

B&D fixture
Masa vs Empire.
The lads travel to the donegal road hoping to get back to winning ways, after last weeks draw to the welders.
Good luck to those selected☢️