State Darts

Next week there is a possibility for me to get the holy grail of the dart world, at least in South Dakota. Starting Wednesday My team mates and I are going to try and win our events at the state dart tournament. Last year, we did not finish the way we started. We drove to Rapid City on Wednesday last year, we didn't have to play until 4 PM for our first doubles match. We eneded up wasting time when we should have gotten to the tournament atleast an hour early to get in some practice. We walked in about 15 minutes prior to shooting and signed in and pretty much shot cold. That was the start of the week, I was slightly depressed. But I still had 2 more events. Thursday we started our singles play. My doubles partner played early in the morning and he was out early. I started at 11 AM and was smart enough to shoot a few warmup games before I had my first match. I started very stong and won my first three matches. The last two were very close and came down to me missing my outs, although I had slowed down my pace alot. I ended up 5th place in singles. I was thinking that was a good omen. Thursday night the rest of my team arrived in Rapid and we were ready to start the team event Friday morning. We started slow our first match, but after that we tore every other team up. We had 7 games over the next team in our pod. First in the pod gives you a good seed. Saturday we started our day by neating the first team, but it went down hill from there. It seemed like we just couldn't get into the flow of things and we lost the next two. The first being close, the second we were blown out. I am hoping that this year we will be able to capture the holy grail. At least for me. My whole goal in this game is to bring home hardware. We couldn't manage to repeat for the city championship, so we will have to bring home the hardware from the state championship. Hopefully.