Ramirez-Merlano, Hyles top seeds at Darts tournament

Ramirez-Merlano came out unbeaten at Sunday’s Dart tournament which was held at the Safari Inn Hotel.The tournament was co-sponsored by Ramirez-Merlano and Ruth Avilar and saw Shondell Hyles being was crowned women’s champion from a round robin knock out while in second was Mary Correia.

Some of the winners from Sunday’s tournament

Hyles also managed to take away the most 100’s for the female category while Victorine Chandro secured the highest checkout of 116 points for the entire tournament.
In the Men’s Singles Ramirez-Merlano started off in the first round with a bye where he met up with A. Damon and defeated him 3/0. Next was Anil Lachman in the semi-final where also won 3/0. He then went on to play National Champion Sudesh Fitzgerald and won 4/0.
Fitzgerald managed to take home the most 180’s and shortest game incentives; scoring one 180 and a 17 darts finished.
And finally in the Luck of the Draw Doubles category Ramirez-Merlano and S Fenty teamed up and defeated J Holligan and N De Caries (newest member) in the finals 2/0.
Ramirez-Merlano mentioned that it was a great night of darts. However, he was disappointed that the youth tournament was not played due to poor participation.
Nevertheless, this is a category he will continue to place high emphasis on to encourage participation of youths. He further would like to congratulate all the winners and thank everyone who made a special effort to come out and make the tournament successful.