Wyatt Transport Classic 2011

The WADC would like to thank South Suburban Darts Association the Lesmurdie Club for hosting our event and Wyatt Transport for sponsoring the prize money.

Let us not forget the players and also those that help out behind the scenes – without these people we don’t have an event.

A big THANK-YOU to all - for a marvellous day of Darts.

The day started off with 36 nominations and the players were distributed to 6 groups of 6 players for a Round Robin qualifier to the Main Event.

The play commenced and the requirement was to win 3 games out of the group stages to qualify, the B grade players that did not qualify were randomly drawn to a straight KO draw.

The B grade final was played out between Colin Davis and Greg Sawyer who had won the Mandurah B Grade event under his belt. The match locked up at 2 all and going to the decider Colin dug deep and scrapped out the win – Congratulations to both players and to all the players who participated and helped out.

The 16 qualifiers and the top 4 seeds (Kyle Anderson 1, Beau Anderson 2, Kim Lewis 3, Kerry Whear 4 ) - were randomly placed into their respective groups, so the KO rules of logic would be matched ( so the potential of 1-4 for first semi and 2-3 for second semi so long as they win through).

First upset of the day with a very hard fought match between Beau Anderson and Barry Gardiner saw the number 2 seed fall.

A resurgent Steve Sutcliffe who was not missing a thing putting out Kerry Whear and Adam Rowe to find himself in the Semi Final against Kyle Anderson.

Kim Lewis and Dave Platt had a very tight match up going to the last leg Kim missing a number of doubles only to watch Dave Platt steal the match.

Damon Heta threw a very clinical game of darts against Dave Platt in the Quarter final - not budging an inch and averaging 117.88 (33.97) to Dave Platt’s 90.79 (30.26) for a 4 nil victory.

Damon’s Semi was much the same as his quarter final against Barry Gardiner. Damon winning 4 – 0 averaging 100.2 to Barry’s 74.71.

The 2011 Final contested between Kyle Anderson and Damon Heta, was a matchup that most were anticipating – many stayed behind to watch.

Kyle winning the walk in the first leg commences with a 140 followed with a 180 and a 100 misses 3 darts at 32 for a 15 dart game – Damon throwing a 140 to leave 44 and Kyle taking the 32 in 1 dart for a 16 dart game.

Both Damon and Kyle wary of each other’s ability found it hard getting going in the next couple of legs saw Damon scrap it out and breaking Kyle’s throw in leg 3 to lead the match 2 -1. Kyle bounces back and scraps out the next 2 legs breaking back to lead 3-2.

Damon holds his throw with a 16 dart leg to be 3-3.
Kyle holds his throw as well with an 18 darter 4-3.

Damon holds again 4-4.

Kyle wins the bull to throw first in the deciding leg and commences with a 140, 60, 45, 58 followed by Damon with a 134, 60, 100, 100 leaving 107 to pressure Kyle sitting back on 198 with Kyle throwing 80 to leave 118 Damon throwing for the match and leaving 40, Kyle now throwing for the match missing the treble and setting up 60 which didn’t come due to Damon’s clinical finishing of double top.

Damon having a fantastic tournament became the 2011 Wyatt Transport Classic Champion