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Co Stompe continued his run of good form when he lifted the British Classic Singles crown with a straight sets win over England World Cup player Steve Farmer. Karin Krappen narrowly failed to make it "double Dutch", she was beaten 3-2 by England's Clare Bywaters in a closely contested women's final.

The new British Teenage Champion is Matthew Hannaford. He won the title with a narrow 3-2 win over Shaun Griffiths. The complete tournament results sheets are available.....here.

1. Ian Brown

2. Russell Stewart

3. Tony David

3. Steve Duke Snr

5. Brad Austen

5. Damon Heta

5. Kyle Anderson

5. Eddy Sims

Ian Brown from Mackay in Queensland became the 2007 Pacific Masters Champion with a 6 – 2 victory over Russell Stewart from Canberra. Brown (on the left) is a great darting story. This is his second year representing Queensland at this level and to come and win the 2006 Australian Singles at his first attempt last year was tremendous, but to back up in 2007 to win the Pacific is fantastic. He has always had great ability even as a junior. He represented Queensland Juniors on three occasions at Australian Junior Championships and won the Australian Junior Singles title in 1988 when competing in those Championships. He represented Australia at the World Youth Masters in England back in 1989 finishing fifth. He gave the sport away for a while to play rugby but he is now back playing this great sport and what an impression he has made. His performance today was outstanding. He accounted for Stewart fairly comfortably winning the first four legs in 24, 12, 21 and 17 darts. It looked like a white wash was on the cards, but Russell Stewart is a real fighter. He dug deep to win the next two legs to bring the score back to 4 – 2 Brown. Brown again picked up his scoring power again in leg seven and won leg eight in 15 darts with a 76 finish to win his first Pacific Master title.

Western Australian Natalie Carter (left) won her first Pacific Masters title, a title that has eluded her for a number of years. Carter has won every other big title in Australia over the years and today she defeated a great friend and two times Pacific Masters Champion in Louise Ball. Carter started the final opening with a first throw of 140. She continued to find the big scores and won the first leg in 19 darts. Leg two saw Carter throwing straight but could not find the triple twenty. Six scores of 60 in a row. Mean while Ball had found her range and won leg two. Leg three and Ball kept the big scores coming to make the first break. Carter had to dig deep here or her chances were going to slip away quickly. She found her range again and the big scores were back. She produced the second break of throw in the final to tie the scores at 2 – 2. The fifth leg and Carter’s confidence had lifted. She was pounding in the big scores and won the fifth leg with a two dart 96 finish to take the leg in 17 darts. Leg six and again Carter produced beautiful accurate darts. She was on fire with another 17 darter and a two dart 56 finish the title was hers.

1. Natalie Carter

2. Louise Ball

3. Dot McLeod

3. Jodie Hislop

5. Kerry Crowther

5. Lavinia Hogg

5. Sue Tuhi

5. Janine Cassar

The latest edition of the New Zealand Darts Council Newsletter is now available. Click...here... to read it. This file is quite large, those of you with slow internet connections may have to wait a few seconds for the file to open.

BDO BRITISH CLASSIC: MAIN ARENA, KETTERING LEISURE VILLAGE 28 - 29 July 2007

The BDO British Classic Darts Championships, sponsored by Red Dragondarts.com, return to Kettering for the tenth successive year as the major attraction of a weekend of top-class darts in the Main Arena, Kettering Leisure Village on Saturday, July 28th and Sunday, July 29th.

Many of the top names in darts – Men and Women – will be competing in the BDO British Classic on Sunday, July 29th, and the Men’s Champion will receive a cheque for £2,000 plus the BDO British Classic Trophy.

However, the weekend opens with the BDO/Elkadart/Darts World British Teenage Great Britain Finals and the BDO British Inter-County Youth KO Cup, in which the talented youth players of tomorrow (boys and girls) will compete for prizes to the value of £2,000 and the Barbara Wood Trophy

The British Darts Organisation has been staging world-class darts in Kettering for the last ten years, and the Main Arena at Kettering Leisure Village is now firmly established as the home of the BDO British Classic.

“We originally chose Kettering because of its accessibility to players from all over the country”, says Olly Croft of the BDO, “and the choice has proved to be a good one. We have been made so welcome by local people that it is now regarded as a real home from home for one of our major ranked events.”

Play in the Men’s and Women’s BDO British Classic Singles Championships starts at 10.30AM on Sunday, July 29th, and non-playing spectators can enjoy several hours of world class darts for admission of just £6 payable on the door. There is also a unique opportunity to see the darts stars of tomorrow in action on Saturday, July 28th when non-playing spectators are welcome on the day for admission of £5 payable on the door.

The Europe Cup Youth was concluded today with the Boys from the Netherlands outclassing their rivals. The Dutch Boys scored a total of 181 points to win the Cup. England finished second on 75 points with Belgium third just 3 points behind.

The Girls Cup went to the Girls from Germany who scored 61 points for a comfortable win. England came second with 46 points and Sweden third with 34 points.

All the results from the tournament can be found in the EUROPE CUP YOUTH section of the main menu.

The event will be staged in De Vechtsebanen in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from Friday 31^st of August until Sunday 9^th of September.The draw for the World Darts Trophy will take place in early August.

All results from the WDF Europe Cup Youth are now fully updated and can be found under the EUROPE CUP YOUTH section on the main menu.

The final stages start tomorrow morning with the Semi-Finals and Finals of all events.

The 2007 WDF Europe Cup Youth starts at 13.00 BST today in Folkestone, England. Teams from 13 member countries will be competing for the trophies in this most prestigious Youth Event.

The Europe Cup Youth is divided into two separate events, one for Boys and one for Girls. The Boys event consists of a 4 person Team Event plus Pairs and Singles events. The Team Event is played in Round Robin groups with the best two teams in each group going forward to the "knockout" final stages. The Singles and Pairs are played using the "knockout" format. The Girls Pairs and Singles are both played using the round robin group system followed by "knockout" final stages.

Aussie veteran Russell Stewart continues to throw high quality darts as he proved when winning the Central Coasts Classic at Gosford last weekend. Corrine Hammond won the Women's event. The top 16 placings can be seen below.

Details of the 2007 Singapore Open are now available and can be found in the WDF Tournament Calendar.

Francis Hoenselaar and Mark Webster took the Singles titles at the 2007 Welsh Classic which was played at the weekend. You can view the complete Men's results....here, and the Women's results...here.

The June issue of the New Zealand Darts Council monthly newsletter has arrived. You can read or download the document...here.

The DDV announced their teams for the forthcoming World Cup yesterday, they are:

Men:

Michael Rosenauer
Andreas Kröckel
Marko Puls
Karsten Koch

Manager Dietmar Ernst

Women:

Bianka Strauch
Michelle Sossong

Manager Volker Hatlauf

Youth boy:

Daniel Zygla

Youth girl:
Jenny Lieverkus

Manager Astrid Kamm

The 2007 Australian Gran Masters was played in Canberra on Sunday. Simon Whitlock continued his run of recent successes when he defeated Tony David to take the title. Lavinia Hogg took the Womens event with a win over Louise Ball. The top 8 positions in each event are shown below.