Lizzards vs. Wonders

Last year's #1 team (Danny Scott) has extensive personnel changes. The Wonders beat the Lizzards for 2nd place last season by 1 (one) game. This should have been a great match. It wasn't.

DaleC and JimD were in Telluride for a blues festival. You'd think that would give the advantage to the Wonders. It didn't.

The Lizzards brought in EricC as a sub. Eric had played exactly one game in WDA play. DennisM, subbing as Captain for JimD, graciously allowed EricC to play as a 12.

In a doubles 501, EricC took a 104 out. That was pretty much the writing on the wall. In less than a weekI had outs against me of 93, 110 and 104.

Congrats to the Lizzards for a 10-4 win against a Wonders team that was throwing pretty well and probably raised their ppd averages. There was no denying the Lizzards last Thursday. They were so hot I'm surprised the Laid Back didn't catch on fire.

Joke of the Week

If they really want to make a doggie treat with lots of appeal to your dog, they need to name it, "I Can't Believe It's Not Butt".

Great end-games at the Legion 9-8-06

KennyC threw a 2-dart 93 out against me. (T19 - D18). That's the way to end an '01 game!

Later in the evening that was topped by SylvanS throwing a 2-dart 110-out (T20 - DBull). That was against me too. I think you can tell I didn't win the blind draw.

It gets better. JimmyF drew the numbers for the mystery out. First number he drew was 92. Jimmy turned to Sylvan and said, "I was 1 low on Kenny's - now I'm going to be 1 high on yours". And he did it. Pulled out the 111. We nearly awarded the mystery out pot to Jimmy.

National Youth Playoffs

ShawnaP was an excellent representative of the WDA in Connecticut. The 15 players were randomly divided into 2 pools for preliminary play. Shawna's pool had the better players, so she got to compete against the best players in the nation.

Shawna beat last year's national champion 2-1. Then had matches against this year's winner followed by this year's runner-up. That's a TOUGH lineup to start the competition. After that Shawna won some and lost some.

Not many of us can say we were ever in matches at that level.

Congratulations, Shawna. Top 15 in the Nation. Played basically heads-up against all in her division other than the winner and runner-up. That's like an NFL team losing to the 2 teams in the Super Bowl.

Thank you, Shawna for being the outstanding representative from the WDA we know you were. Thank you for showing that players from Wichita belong in this event and can compete with and win their share of games against the best the nation has to play against.

Youth Leagues forming

A new Youth League is ready to start up September 10. Contact Leanna for more information. If you aren't familiar with Wichita darters and are interested in information contact me at msuderman@gmail.com I will be happy to assist in getting any information you need or want.