HIGHLIGHTS OF THE YEAR

LIVE FROM THE EAST CALDER HOMING SOCIETY.

BRAVEDART EXHIBITION.

A TRULY SCOTTISH EXPERIENCE.

JAMIE THE ENTERTAINER WAS CERTAINLY

JUST THAT ON SAT 4^TH MARCH.

WITH 80 ENTHUSIASTIC DARTS SUPPORTERS IN ATTENDANCE TO GIVE MORAL AND VERBAL SUPPORT TO THEIR FAVOURITES IT SAW A GREAT NIGHT OF DARTS.

PERHAPS NOT FOR THE PURISTS BUT IF YOU WANTED ENTERTAINMENT YOU GOT IT!.

ON THE NIGHT JAMIE HIT 5 X 180’S.

AND WHEN YOU CONSIDER THROWING YOUR DARTS BACKWARDS FLIGHT FIRST YOU CAN START TO UNDERSTAND THE DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY IN THIS FEAT.

THREE PLAYERS MANAGED TO GET THE BETTER OF JAMIE ON THE NIGHT.

JJ WALKER OF WEST CALDER DID JUST THAT JAMIE ON A DOUBLE AFTER 19 DARTS FROM 701 TRIED FOR DOUBLE DOUBLE FOR THE KILL BUT TO NO AVAIL. THE VERY SOLID PLAY OF JJ SAW HIM ONLY PUT THREE DARTS OUTSIDE THE TWENTIES SEGMENT IN THE GAME AND STEPPING UP TO THE OCKEY QUICKLY FINISHED HIS DOUBLE OUT TO CLAIM THE FIRST VICTORY OF THE NIGHT.

THE SILVER FOX FROM LIVINGSTON VILLAGE ALSO HIT HIS FINISH TO CLAIM AN OTHER GOOD WIN FOR THE HOME CROWD TO CELEBRATE WITH LOTS OF CHEERING FOR BOB AND WELL DESERVED INDEED.

BUT THE STORY OF THE NIGHT HAD TO BE A YOUNG MAN CELEBRATING HIS TWELFTH BIRTHDAY SEAN HANLON HE MANAGED TO GIVE FORMER SCOTTISH MASTER AND SCOTTISH SINGLES CHAMPION JAMIE HARVEY A REAL FRIGHT WHEN REQUIRING DOUBLE 14 FOR THE MATCH PUT HIS FIRST DART RIGHT IN THE HEART OF THE DOUBLE TO CLAIM A FABULOUS SCALP FOR THE YOUNG MAN FROM MID CALDER. A DOUBLE 14 TO REMEMBER THIS NAME IN YEARS TO COME SEAN HANLON FROM MID-CALDER COULD BE THE START OF SOME-THING SPECIAL.!

ALSO NICE TO SEE TAM RITCHIE CELEBRATING HIS 71 ST BIRTHDAY IN STYLE WITH A GAME AGAINST THE ENTERTAINER ON THE NIGHT AND WHAT SUPPORT HE RECEIVED WITH THE STIRRUP STANE TEAM GIVING AS MUCH VERBAL SUPPORT AS THEY COULD MUSTER.

PLAYERS WHO PLAYED ON THE NIGHT WERE.

1/ BOB STUART. CRAIGSHILL.

2/ FRANK CROOK. NIGHTSRIDGE

3/ JJ WALKER. WEST CALDER.

4/ JOE DEVLIN. CRAIGSHILL.

5/ DAISY HEEPS. EAST CALDER.

6/ CRAIG AGNEW. HOWDEN.

7/ TAM RITCHIE. CRAIGSHILL.

8/ BOB HALL. LIVINGSTON VILLAGE.

9/ SEAN HANLON. MID CALDER.

10/ CHRISTOPHER MITCHELL. DEDRIDGE.

11/ JOHN HANLON. MID CALDER.

12/JOHN KIRK. ADDIEWELL.

13/ PAUL WEIR. EAST CALDER.

14/ DAVID AITKEN. POLBETH.

I HOPE I SPEAK FOR ALL WHEN I SAY A SMASHING NIGHTS ENTERTAINMENT WAS HAD BY ALL.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE EAST CALDER HOMING SOCIETY CLUB FOR ONCE AGAIN LETTING THE DART LEAGUE HOST THIS EXHIBITION NIGHT AND ALSO A BIG THANK YOU TO FIN DRUMMOND FOR THE TICKET SALES AND POSTERS.

JOHN KIRK FOR SETTING UP AND DISMANTLING OF THE EQUIPMENT AND THE SCORING ON THE NIGHT.

AND OF COURSE THE MASTER OF CEREMONIES CHRIS FORSYTH WHO FOR INFORMATION.

USED TO DO THE CALLING AT THE SCOTTISH FINALS. ALSO BOB HALL WHO MARKED AND ALSO ROUNDED OF THE EVENING WITH A VOTE OF THANKS.

AND OF COURSE TO ALL WHO ATTENDED. WELL DONE EVERY ONE-WHO CAME ALONG AND ENTERED INTO THE SPIRIT OF THINGS.

THANK YOU.

J.M.

LEAGUE CHAIRMAN.

W.C.D.D.L.

PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS WERE.

JAMIE HARVEY 2006 + 2005.

ALEX LISTER+ GARY ROBSON 2004.

PETER MANLEY + CHRISSIE HOWITT 2003

WEST LOTHIANS ONLY SCOTTISH INTERNATIONAL PLAYER TO-DATE

IAN MCGILVARY OF DEANS.PLAYED 4 TIMES FOR SCOTLAND.

HE PLAYED. KEITH DELLAR/ALAN GLAZIER OF ENGLAND. DIE FURNISH/,ALAN EVANS OF WALES,