Amber Bock Beer
hosts ADA Regionals

The Valley of the Sun welcomes the American Dart Association’s Southwest Championships

August 20th and 21st, the temperature was not the only hot element (over 100 degrees); the darts action was even hotter! Phoenix has some of the best darters in the country and we look forward to seeing their names added to the top 50 lists soon!
Sponsored by Anheuser-Busch’s (AB) Michelob AmberBock beer, this Regional event was like no other, as we split up the soft and steel tip events between two great Phoenix locations.
The soft tip events were held on Saturday at Metro Sportz, a huge sports bar located on Metro Parkway on the West side. On Sunday, Sixshooters, another large West side sports bar on Peoria, hosted the steel tip event. (The sports bars in Phoenix are huge!)
The format was the Express League, which is a race to six, followed by a Cricket Draw Doubles. The event was limited only to the Express League format.
All of our new southwest ADA members received flights, shirts and AmberBock pint glasses, compliments of Hensley Company, AB’s local wholesaler. Random draws for AmberBock darts and annual subscriptions to Bull’s-Eye News were held throughout the day.
The Valley of the Sun is a great area for darts. It has three dart shops, three newspapers dedicated to darts, hundreds of locations with darts and tons of both steel and soft tip darters. In spite of the fact that the ADA does not operate in this market, we were welcomed and supported.
With the support of our new League Manager and avid dart player, Jimmy Damore, we look forward to expanding the American Dart League to this new market beginning this fall.

Following is a list of the winners and individual achievements:

Soft Tip Express League
1st; Marty Scarborough, Rick Schoen, Rik Scherbing
2nd; JR Castillo, Travis Wells, Paul Parosky
3rd; Amador Torres, Randall Herbison, Dana Herbison
3rd; Michael Rogers, Mike Adams, Stephan Doncevic

Soft Tip Draw Doubles
1st; Jimmy Damore, Paul Parosky
2nd; Travis Wells, Karl Remick
3rd; JR Castillo, Katie Damore
3rd; Stephan Doncevic, John Doherty

Top PPDA’s
1st; Rik Scherbing; 31.7
2nd; Mike Adams; 31.3
3rd; Paul Parosky; 29.5
4th; Rick Schoen; 28.4
5th; Jeff Moor; 27.4

Steel Tip Express League
1st; Marty Scarborough, Eric Barron, Bob Castillo
2nd; Jay Moredock, Rick Kerska, Tom Hicks
3rd; Derek Simmons, Jimmy Damore, Steve Hogan
3rd; Katie Damore, Lisa Yee, Kevin Rowe

Top PPDA’s
1st; Eric Barron 24.3
2nd; Rick Kerska 23.6
3rd; Derek Simmons 22.2
4th; Bob Castillo 21.6
5th; Jay Moredock 21.2