The Stingers Darts Group

We are back for a new darts season and starting with the club tournament. This Saturday 21 Feb @ 1.30pm. Come along and have some fun for all club members! Followed by 2025 presentations and Phenix Vs Auckland FC

Standings so far

Results so far

We are halfway through the season

What a season it has been so far this year, here are some of the highlights.

Prems team is in 8th place currently with 3 wins so far this season and all three wins were against teams above them in the table. They are averaging almost 8 points a game. Individually, Captain Paul has played the most games so far this year and getting over 50% wins, Randal is smashing high starts with 4 x 120 starts over just 2 Saturdays. Jarred leading a few records but highlighting the 5 x 180s scored and the 23 x 100+ scores in one day higher than any other Stinger. Jewy is leading the most wins so far this season with 62.5% win rate. Alex has had a fantastic first half of the season with 20 x 100+ starts and 6 x 100+ finishes, the highest of anyone. Jamahl is amongst 5 players all with a 180 this year and also has a fantastic high finish of 164 score. Norm played his second game of the season last weekend, winning 2 of the 4 games and getting 7 x 100+ scores in the process.

The A-League team have also been pretty impressive so far this season too, sitting forth in the league with 7 wins so far, with their best win been a 16-4 victory last weekend over Respect De Bulls. Averaging 10.6 points per weekend we should be in for plenty more wins. Moving onto the individuals, Captain David has the only 100+ finish for Stingers 2 so far with a great 137 score. He also leads by example winning almost 68% of his games. Steve does however lead the wins with 69.5% average he also leads the most 180s so far this year from Stingers 2 which is 4. Brian is showing off the double starts with 13 over 100 scored, also is one of 3 people with a 171 score (T19x3), Brian is also one of 2 players to have an undefeated Saturday in his singles, winning all 4 games 2-0, this is along with Steve. William boasts most games played this season only missing one game and he also holds a 171 score too. Chris has stepped his game up hugely this season, playing 7 games, getting 2 x 180s and 3 100+ starts, great playing. Terry is always showing a very solid form each week consistently scoring well and winning games with almost a 50% win rate and also getting 3 x 100+ starts. James while starting strong this season, he has not been available too much lately, but when he has played his scoring is great holding the third highest start with 128. Tony managed to put down his bowls and pick up his arrows for the first time last month, starting himself off in the book with a 101 start, great way to start your season. We hope our 2 other players will get to the oche soon and show us the skills they have.

We would like to thank everyone for their support to the darts section this season so far, as always it is greatly appreciated, as is your donations for the double sized meat pack each week.

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Well not to be disheartened last weekends season opener, the Stingers are back this Saturday!!! A grade flys off to Swanson RSA to take on Mission Possible. At the hive the Prems take on the newly promoted Cosmos 3. Should bee a goodn #upthesting

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Hey everyone this years PJ Memorial will be held at the Birkenhead Bowling Club, Open to all past & present City of Sails Dart League members.

THE STINGERS ARE GETTING BACK IN ACTION
The Stingers Darts Section is holding a mini friendly inhouse tournament tomorrow, Saturday 18 January at 2pm in the Hive. This is in preparation for the season ahead and we will be hosting the New Lynn RSA darts team for some friendly games. This is open to all members to play not just the Stingers teams so please feel free to let Steve know to add your name to the players list. We shall also be doing a return fixture at New Lynn RSA on Saturday 8 February 2025 and again, everyone is welcome to play.

Amazing achievement Millie!

We had Stingers singles tournament followed by our awards this weekend, here are the results:
Tournament consolation- runner-up Alex and winner Steve
Main round- runner-up Jewy and winner Paul.
From Cuty of Sails:
Best winning average – Jewy and Steve
High start – Jamahl, Jewy, Jarred, Steve and David all with a 160 start
Hi finish – Jewy with a 160 and Steve with a 113
Most 100+ and 140+ scores – Jewy and Steve
Most 171 scores – Paul and Alex with 2 each and Willie with 4
Most 180s scored – Jarred and Alex with 7 each and Steve with 6
180 badges – Alex, Jewy, Jarred, Randall, Paul, Steve and Terry
Best new comer – Terry
Most improved – Jewy and Terry
Game of the season – Alex and Chris
Stinger of the Season – Jewy and Steve

Only one game this weekend.
Stingers 2 had a rescheduled game and played on Friday night which was a great change and great to see the supporters stay later than usual to show your support for the darts section, thank you all. So to the darts, we played Respect De Bulls at the Hive and started out strong with Adam and Steve taking 2 pair wins and David and William taking one win from the pairs. William was very unfortunate with only one win with his singles and 3 x 100+ scores, Adam got his highest 100+ scores with 10 of them and a 140, winning 3 of his games and taking the forth to a (nal leg, very unlucky not to get a full house! Capt. David also got 3 wins, throwing 7 x 100+ a 140 and a 152, Nice. Finally Steve pulled out a 112 start and a further 8 x 100+ scores, with that he managed to pull out 4 wins getting a full house of singles and pairs. Final score was 14-6 win to the Stingers team and a well deserved win!
With only 3 weekends of games left in the league we push to gather all the scores we can, following this we have the City of Sails Championship Singles on 23 November, The Stingers then hold their in house Singles Tournament the following week on 30 November along with our presentation evening. Then we wrap up the year with the COS Prize giving on 14 December.

Rescheduled game- On Friday night we have our Stinger 2 team playing downstairs at the Bowling club from 7pm! Supporters are very welcome!

Keeping the Prems team busy this week!

This week Stingers 1 played on Friday and Saturday while Stingers 2 game was cancelled last minute, so they went along to support the prems team.
Firstly on Friday they played the Tigers at Birkenhead RSA With Capt. Paul stepping aside to let the four J’s play, Jamahl, Jarred, Jack and Jewy. With 3 wins out of the opening pairs games, Jarred won a game, Jack got 2 with Jamahl and Jewy winning all 4 games making the final score 12-8. The scoring was pretty impressive too with Jamahl getting 12 x 100+ scores including 2 x 140s. Jarred got a 103 start, 2 x 140s and another 6 x 100+ scores. Jack had 8 x 100+ scores including a 140 and Jewy pulled it out the bag with a 120 and 115 start, a 160 finish and a further 14 x 100+ scores. Great day at the office!
Then day 2 with Capt. Paul returning to duties along with Jamahl, Alex and Jewy. Again a strong start with 3 wins out of 4 in pairs, then Paul with 1 win, Jamahl and Alex with 2 and Jewy getting 3 wins making the final score 11-9, 2 wins in 2 days! As for the scoring, Paul hitting 12 x 100+, Jamahl with 10 x 100+, Alex with 14 including a 100 and 2 x 120 starts, while Jewy threw a fantastic 2 maximum 180s along with a 120 start and another 10 x 100+ scores!
All players getting great scores and plenty of wins lets hop this continues over the weeks to come. This Saturday Stingers 2 are at home to Cosmos 4 team while Stingers 1 are away to Cosmos 1.