Annual General Meeting of the Black Isle Darts League

2nd September 2008 @ 7.30pm in the Union Tavern, Fortrose

Bring your league fees with you as those are to be collected on the day.

The singles games were held at Oscars on 12th April, bringing the Black Isle Darts season to an end.

The womens singles were won by Roslyn of the Ord Arms following a close final against Linda (deliberately hiding below) of the Conon Hotel team.  Therefore Roslyn retained her title from last year.

In the mens competition there was a Tavern final between Ali Ross and Murdo Mackay, with Ali beating Murdo in another tight game.  That makes Ali's 5th champion title over the years.

Also at the event further trophies were presented.  Roslyn also received the 180 trophy for the most 180s in the season, plus Oscars and the Tavern received their league winners and runners up trophies respectively.

At yesterday's league game the Royal team were pleased to receive their runners up trophies for the Harris Mackenzie cup held at the Tavern recently.

Thanks to the Tavern for producing those for the team.

As no-one will be able to reach them on points, the league winners for the 2007-2008 season will be Oscars, with Tavern now in second place.

Oscars beat the Tavern to win their own cup competition.

In a close final Oscars won the day in the end 5 - 4 against the Tavern, with Kenny Gillanders and Craig Mackenzie winning the final doubles game to take the match.

The winning team are pictured above: (L-R) Kenny Gillanders, Mark Dryburgh, Kenny Mitchell, Craig Mackenzie, Robert Stewart and Martin Keyes.

The Doubles competition, held in the Ord Arms was won by a Tavern pairing this year.  The winners being Ali Ross and Donnie Patterson.  They defeated the runners up team from the Cromarty Arms, Kenny MacFarlane and Brian Cameron (Snr).

A 180 was scored by Robert Stewart of Oscars during procedings.

Oscars played the Ord Arms in a postponed game earlier in the season.  Oscars won the game 7-3.

The Cromarty Arms also played Conon Hotel on the same night, with the same result - the Arms winning 7-3.

It was celebrations all round for the Plough Inn team as they won their first game since joining the Black Isle Darts league this season.

In their home league game tie against the Ord Arms, the team won 6 games to 4.

The semi finals and finals of the Harris Mackenzie Memorial Cup were held at the Union Tavern in Fortrose on Saturday 1st March.

The first semi final was played between The Tavern and Oscars of Dingwall, with the Tavern proceeding to the Final after winning 5-1.

The second semi final was effectively a derby match between the Cromarty Arms and the Royal Hotel of Cromarty, with the Royal winning the very tense game 5-3.

The final meeting was therefore the Tavern against the Royal.  Again, another very close game with the Tavern scooping the cup after winning 5-3.  The winning team were:  Ali Ross, Ali Urquart, Donnie Patterson, Murdo Mackay, Mike Mackay and Graeme Matheson.

A very good day of darts, the only factor marring the day was the lack of runners up trophies.  The only competition this season not to have had runners up awards, despite their insistance of keeping two cups for the pub.  The apparent reason was that the runners up trophies were not taken from the pub at the Tommy Anderson cup earlier in the season.... this is unfortunate as it was their own Tavern team who won those trophies! 

The Union Tavern of Fortrose won the Cromarty Arms Cup beating
Culbokie 5 - 1 in the final.

The losing semi finalists were the Royal Hotel, Cromarty and The Conon Hotel.

180 scored by Ali 'Arms' Urquhart and Mike MacKay, Mike hitting the top score twice.  Both players are from the Tavern team.

The best finish of the day was 151 by Brian Denoon from the Culbokie team.

Winning team were Graeme Matheson, Ali Ross, Ali Urquhart, Donnie Patterson, Mike Mackay and Murdo Mackay.

Present at the meeting - a representative from all teams apart from Conon.  A call was made to confirm the results of the meeting.

The result of tonights meeting was that no player signed for the Inverness league, regardless of whether a team may be disbanded/suspended, may be allowed to play in the Black Isle league.

Therefore the players reported playing for Conon and Oscars must not continue playing for the remainder of the season.

The majority vote was carried to that fact along with the agreement that a line would be drawn at this point, rather than backdating games/points/cup results.

A meeting will be held tonight at 7pm in the Tavern.

A complaint has been made about a team within the league and therefore a representative from each team should attend.

3 Oscars players scored 180 in their league game against Conon.

Players scoring the 180 were:

Hec Fraser, Robert Stewart and Craig Mackenzie

Now that I've got the information for the last few league games, the table is now updated, just in time for the next league day!

Semi final 1 was the Royal Hotel vs the Tavern.  The Tavern won that first game 5 games to 1.

Semi final 2 was the Conon Hotel vs Oscars.  Oscars won that game 5 to 1.

The final was then played between the Tavern and Oscars, with Oscars again winning 5 games to 1 to lift the trophy.

Winning team above (although a bit blurry!) were R-L: Robert Stewart, Kenny Mitchell, Alan 'Pepe', Andy Logie, Hec Fraser, Craig Mackenzie.

In Cromarty, the Royal played the Ord Arms.

Both Moray Mackay of the Royal and Roslyn of the Ord Arms scored a 180 in their games.

In Rosemarkie, where the Plough faced Oscars, Andy Logie from the Oscars team also scored 180.

I'll add in any further 180 reports as I get them... lets hope we see some more at the semis and final on Saturday!