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SIERRA VISTA — The best dart-throwing on the local calendar will happen this weekend at the Sierra Vista Elks Lodge on Wilcox Drive and Fab Avenue, in the Sierra Vista Dart Association Thunder Mountain Open.
About 50 darters are expected for Friday night and 45 for Saturday, competing for a chunk of a $5,000 prize pot. The biggest pot and the toughest competition will come in the men’s singles cricket Saturday and 501 on Sunday.
Sierra Vista’s top darters, such as Mack McCarron, Sammy Traylor, Derek Simmons and John Johnson will take aim at darters from around the nation lured by the prize pot.
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Tournament organizer Bill Little said he won’t be sure just who will be showing up until Friday night, but he expects darters from as far away as Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Diego and Albuquerque to enter.
“We’re going to have some pretty good shooters from Tucson including Steve Hogan, who’s nationally ranked,” Little said. “In Sierra Vista we have a lot of good darters and I happen to be one of them.”
Little said Hogan is currently ranked eighth in the American Dart Association’s Southwest Region which includes Arizona, New Mexico and southern Nevada.
The proceeds from the tournament will be donated to the Cochise County Children’s Center in Huachuca City.
Registration begins Friday morning at 8 a.m. with blind draw singles and doubles. Action really picks up Saturday morning at 10 a.m. with men’s doubles 501, women’s doubles 501 at 11:30, and at 2 p.m., men’s singles cricket, a single-elimination tournament with a $150 payout to the first place winner.
On Sunday morning there will be men’s doubles cricket at 11:30 a.m., ladies’ singles 501 at 1:30 p.m., men’s singles 501 and at 4 p.m., the tournament will conclude with mixed trips.
Entry fees are $17 for singles events and $24 for doubles teams.
For information, call Little at 249-5178 or Dave Strottman at 249-3952
