Dorko’s Cafe

Saturday while Penn State was beating up on the Wisconson Badgers (sorry Scrollie), 5 different teams were competing in a round robin dart tournament.

while all the teams were evenly matched, the hot hands of the afternoon belonged to the team of D. Zigler and M Sinkovich.  they went through the tournament beating everyone they faced until the gained a lead that could not be overcome by any of the others. 

so, a round of congratulations goes out to the winners of the season’s first dart tournament, Zig and Sinko.

things are growing around here.  we whittled a list of 30 names down to 28 to make a set of four 7-man dart teams.  we haven’t shot 7 man teams since the Shamokin League, and a lot of the young guys don’t remember those days. 

here are the lineups:

Team Hepler

Corey Hepler

Jow Swatski

John Polites

Tim Wargo

George Leshock

Jon Jon

Cookie

Team Trout

Doug Troutman

Chrissy Schu

Gary Kozak

Nate Dobeck

Josh Mall

Mikey Z.

Brownie

Team Dormer

Ed Dormer

Joe Remash

Lukie

Joe Zaharik

Randy K.

Aaron

Deke

Team Muff

Danny Lawler

Zigler

Fatty

Al Maschal

Eric Trocki (T. Rock)

John Gilbert

John Remash

action starts at 7:30, with NO grace period for late showings.  i’ll try to work up averages for everyone because if you show late, they’ll be using your average for the first game. and yes, we will be having opening night Burgers in Sauce.

Football season will be kicking off in earnest shortly, and right on the heels of that will be darts.

Dart sign-ups for the fall season will open tomorrow.  The season itself begins with draft night on Tuesday during fair week (no darts are shot on draft night, we just pick the teams).

The first games of the season are Tuesday following the Bloomsburg Fair.

That announcement being made, I’d like to reiterate that we play American Darts, not pub darts. The following video is an example of pub darts at it’s finest, well, kindof . . .

the spring dart league came to a close recently.  corey’s crew won both the first and second halves of the season, avoiding a playoff and taking the championship at season’s end.

team members include:

Corey Helper

Dave W.

Deacon

Bower

Randy

Gary

of course the season won’t officially be over until the hi-lo game is played.  that is scheduled for the afternoon of May5th.

Danny Dowkus, Chrissy Schu, and Doug Troutman (pictured) finished in the TOP 22 in the State during the 2007 tournament.  Congrats guys!!

yesterday there was quite the showing at the firehall in Treskow.  and three of the teams from Dorko’s finished in the Top tier of the State Dart Tournament. 

Finishing in the Top 10 for the first time was Dorko’s Two - Corey Hepler (seated), Dave Hobowski (middle) Danny Lawler (right). 

Finishing in the Top 22 was Dorko’s Three - Doug Troutman, Chrissy Schu and Dan Dowkus (no picture available at this time).

and finishing in the Top 28 was Dorko’s One - Ed Dormer, Joe Swatski, Kirk Wimble

Congratulations to everyone!! 

we will be sending three teams to the finals of the State Dart Tournament tomorrow. 

reliable sources say that the initial flight will be leaving from the bar in the early morning, meet-up is scheduled for 7:30am.  there will of course be a second shift leaving later in the morning, mostly because i’m going, but i’m not getting out of bed that early.  stop by the bar for more detailed information if you’d like to join the masses who will be making the trip to Tresckow.

as it turns out, we are not taking a rented coach bus.  although i like the idea, the logistics prevent that from being a feasible solution.  Ed reminded me that the year we took 3rd there were darts flying well past midnight.  an 8am to 2am shift is a long shift.  even Hector has problems with that one.

this should be a fantastic time, and i’m really looking forward to it.  hope to see a lot of you there.

we’re four weeks into the spring dart season of 2007, and here’s a look at the overall averages:

Corey/Bucket 41.0
Dan L./Muff 40.9
Doug 39.8
Lukie 37.8
Dave/Wolfgang 37.0
Zig 35.4
Gary/Kozy 35.2
Sam 31.8
Scott 31.4
Corey’s Randy 30.9
Tim 29.6
Josh 29.1
Bump 29.0
Joe Z 28.3
Jason/Bauer 28.3
Mike/Sinko 27.8
Nate 27.1
Trocki 26.6
Z 26.4
Lukie’s Randy 23.9
Dave M 22.5
Rad 22.2
Jon-Jon 20.2
Deacon 18.8
Steve 13.0

the final weekend of qualifiers for the State Dart Tournament took place over the past weekend.  two teams from Dorko’s went up to compete, with one of the team advancing to next week’s Championship tournament.

Dorko’s II

Dave “Hobo” Hobowski

Corey Helpler

Danny “Muff” Lawler

will be joining Dorko’s I

Ed Dormer

Joe Swatski

Kirk Wimble

and Dorko’s III

Chris Schu

Danny Dowkus

Doug Troutman

at Treskow this Saturday. 

after two weeks of play, the standings are:

Team 2 ::  5-1

Team 3 :: 4-2

Team 4 :: 2-4

Team 1 :: 1-5