Dart Player Damon Heta Claimed PDC Home Tour Group 17

Dart player Damon Heta has claimed PDC Home Tour Group 17 after claiming two victories and the requisite legs he needed in his final game to win through to the second round.

Heta began his night with a whitewash win over Gary Blades which saw him hit three 180’s and a 96.3 average en route. He followed that up with a 5-3 win over John Henderson which saw him hit a high checkout of 160 which proved to be close to enough to secure the group and this was with ‘The Heat’ playing early morning in Perth.

This was enough due to in his next game despite losing to Krzysztof Kciuk, he secured the three legs he needed to claim the group. He went onto lose 5-3 with 14 missed darts at doubles and despite John Henderson going onto see off Gary Blades 5-1, he only secured second spot.

Every evening, the four players will each face off; with each match being the best of nine legs. This group stage lasts 32 days with that amount of players set to reach the next round to play it out from there to crown a winner.

In the mean time, Jeff Smith has claimed victory in PDC Home Tour Group 16 after a brilliant deciding leg victory over Ricky Evans sealed it for ‘The Silencer’.

Smith and Evans went all the way to a decider after a pretty even contest and with Evans down to 121, Smith was on a less make able finish of 147, it seemed.

The Canadian though smashed in the 147 (T20, T17, Double 18) which as a result claimed him the group win.

Going into the match, the equation was very much simple for Smith. If he won, he claimed the group. Ricky Evans needed to see him off 5-2 or better or Martin Atkins had to hope for 5-3 or 5-4 to claim it himself.

It is Smith that moves on though with two wins and a defeat from the latest PDC Home Tour action which continues on Sunday night.

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