The Na­tion­al Mick­ey Mouse League of Darts pro­duced an­oth­er night of dra­ma on Match-day six at at the Kos­mos Club in Port-of-Spain on Sep­tem­ber 29, with the A Di­vi­sion race tight­en­ing at the top while Scor­pi­ons and Bul­lz I con­tin­ued their com­mand­ing runs in the B and C Di­vi­sions.

Just For Fun (JFF) Vikings re­main at the top of the A Di­vi­sion, but their ad­van­tage has been re­duced to just one point af­ter they were held to a 5-5 draw by fourth-place Drifters. The Vikings en­dured a dif­fi­cult start, falling 2-0 be­hind be­fore fight­ing their way back to lev­el the con­test at 2-2. Drifters then re­gained the ad­van­tage through sin­gles vic­to­ries from Scott Man­nette and cap­tain Kevin Ja­cob. The Vikings re­spond­ed strong­ly, win­ning the re­main­ing three sin­gles to move ahead 5-4, but Drifters held their nerve in the de­ci­sive team event to force a share of the spoils. The re­sult leaves the Vikings cling­ing to top spot, with the A Di­vi­sion ti­tle race now fine­ly poised.

E-Z Lines missed an op­por­tu­ni­ty to move to the top of the stand­ings af­ter sur­ren­der­ing a 4-2 lead against fierce ri­vals De Orig­i­nal Game Shot (DOGS) in the com­pe­ti­tion host­ed by the T&T Darts As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­DA). DOGS cap­tain Ged­des Fon­cette and Raoul Ed­wards stead­ied the ship for their team as they fought back to se­cure a 5-5 draw. The re­sult leaves E-Z Lines in sec­ond place, with DOGS hold­ing third. New­ly pro­mot­ed Game Shot fi­nal­ly reg­is­tered their first vic­to­ry of the cam­paign, pro­duc­ing an im­pres­sive 7-3 win over Flight­ed Friends.

The re­sult could prove cru­cial in the bat­tle to avoid the bot­tom of the stand­ings, lift­ing Game Shot in­to fifth place while drop­ping Flight­ed Friends to the bot­tom.

In the B Di­vi­sion, Scor­pi­ons con­tin­ued their tri­umphant march at the top with a con­vinc­ing 8-2 vic­to­ry over Just For Fun Snipers. The Scor­pi­ons es­tab­lished con­trol ear­ly, lead­ing 3-1 be­fore ex­tend­ing their ad­van­tage to 5-1 and even­tu­al­ly cruis­ing to an­oth­er com­fort­able vic­to­ry. The re­sult moves Scor­pi­ons to 42 points at the top of the B Di­vi­sion, while the Snipers re­main third on 32 points. West­er­ly Pi­rates hold sec­ond place on 36 points af­ter de­feat­ing fourth-place Triple Vi­sion 6-4. There was al­so a wel­come re­turn to win­ning ways for Shang­hai Bulls, who end­ed a dif­fi­cult los­ing streak with an em­phat­ic 8-2 vic­to­ry over Reck­less.

There ap­pears to be lit­tle stop­ping Bul­lz I in the C Di­vi­sion, as the league lead­ers pro­duced an­oth­er clin­i­cal per­for­mance, dis­man­tling QPCC Howz-Dart 9-1. The near-per­fect vic­to­ry fur­ther strength­ens Bul­lz I’s po­si­tion at the top and leaves them look­ing in­creas­ing­ly like the team to beat in the di­vi­sion.

Sea Wolves moved back in­to sec­ond place de­spite be­ing held to a 5-5 draw by fifth-place Top Shot. Sea Wolves ap­peared to have the match un­der con­trol af­ter es­tab­lish­ing a 5-3 lead, need­ing just one more vic­to­ry to se­cure the match. How­ev­er, Top Shot re­fused to sur­ren­der. Ash­ley Richard­son came through with an im­por­tant sin­gles vic­to­ry be­fore Top Shot com­plet­ed the come­back by win­ning the team event, forc­ing both teams to set­tle for a share of the spoils.

With the B and C Di­vi­sions ap­pear­ing in­creas­ing­ly set­tled, the A Di­vi­sion re­mains wide open, with the ti­tle race po­ten­tial­ly go­ing down to the fi­nal match-day. The next round could pro­vide a ma­jor turn­ing point.

Match-day sev­en, sched­uled for Tues­day (Oc­to­ber 6) at the Kos­mos Club, will fea­ture a high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed top-of-the-ta­ble clash as Jus For Fun Vikings take on E-Z Lines.

With first meet­ing sec­ond, the re­sult could have ma­jor im­pli­ca­tions for the bat­tle for A Di­vi­sion su­prema­cy as the league heads to­ward its fi­nal stages.

Tues­day's re­sults

A Di­vi­sion

DOGS 5 vs E-Z Lines 5

Game Shot 7 vs Flight­ed Friends 3

JFF Vikings 5 vs Drifters 5

B Di­vi­sion

Scor­pi­ons 8 vs JFF Snipers 2

Shang­hai Bulls 8 vs Reck­less 2

West­er­ly Pi­rates 6 vs Triple Vi­sion 4

C Di­vi­sion

Bul­lz I 9 vs QPCC Howz-Dart 1

Shoot­ers 7 vs Ran­dom Squad 3

Sea Wolves 5 vs Top Shot 5

Tues­day's match­es (Start time 8 pm)

A Di­vi­sion

Drifters vs Flight­ed Friends

E-Z Lines vs JFF Vikings

Game Shot vs DOGS

B Di­vi­sion

Triple Vi­sion vs Reck­less

JFF Snipers vs West­er­ly Pi­rates

Shang­hai Bulls vs Scor­pi­ons

C Di­vi­sion

Top Shot vs Shoot­ers

QPCC Howz-Dart vs Bull­dogs

Ran­dom Squad vs Sea Wolves

Bul­lz I - bye

Stand­ings

A Di­vi­sion

Pl*Team*P*W*D*L*Pts

1*JFF Vikings*6*3*2*1*36

2*E-Z Lines*6*4*1*1*35

3*DOGS*6*2*2*2*30

4*Drifters*6*1*3*2*28

5*Game Shot*6*1*2*3*26

6*Flight­ed Friends*6*2*0*4*25

B Di­vi­sion

1*Scor­pi­ons*6*5*1*0*42

2*West­er­ly Pi­rates*6*4*1*1*36

3*JFF Snipers*6*4*0*2*32

4*Triple Vi­sion*6*1*1*4*26

5*Shang­hai Bulls*6*2*0*4*26

6*Reck­less*6*0*1*5*17

C Di­vi­sion

1*Bul­lz I*6*5*1*0*47

2*Sea Wolves*5*3*1*0*30

3*Shoot­ers*5*2*1*2*25

4*Ran­dom Squad*5*1*1*3*22

5*Top Shot*5*1*1*3*22

6*QPCC Howz-Dart*5*1*2*2*20

7*Bull­dogs*5*1*0*4*12