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The 2025 Cobar Darts Open, which offered over $5,000 in prizemoney, was held at the Cobar Bowling & Golf Club over the weekend.
The event attracted 44 players from around the state (including nine members of the NSW State team) to compete for the prizemoney along with Darts NSW and Darts Australia points.
In Friday night’s Y-Not-sponsored Blind Drawn Doubles event, Anthony Mabbott (from Tamworth) drew Tim Ibbotson (Orange) as his partner and the pair came out on top over Shaun Doherty (Cobar) and Bernie O’Donnell (Broken Hill).
The Ladies and Men’s Doubles Tournaments were contested on Saturday.
Monica Riberio and Sara Howie, both State players from Sydney, took the Ladies Doubles title after they defeated mother/daughter team Julie Ridgewell and Gemma Spence (another State team member) from Tamworth.
The Men’s Doubles champions were NSW State player Craig Scarfe (from Orange) and David Whitmore (Orange) with Broken Hill duo Shane Kemp and Dane Schutter finishing as the runners-up.
The Ladies and Men’s Singles were decided on Sunday with Gemma Spence finishing as the Ladies’ winner (with Monica Riberio the runner-up) and Craig Scarfe beat David Whitmore in the Men’s Singles final.
Natasha Flood, with 139, had the Ladies Highest Peg Out of the tournament while 136 was the Men’s Highest Peg Out and was thrown by both Raymond O’Donnell and Tim Ibbotson.
Sara Howie (for the Ladies) and David Whitmore (for the Men) recorded the most 180 throws over the weekend.
Cobar’s State representative player, Tony Brown, finished 16th in Men’s Singles and made it to the Doubles semi final with partner Shaun Doherty.
