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21 Sport DARTS maltatoday, WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017 Kalkara St Joseph retain national title National League – Round Up 4 A Side Cup Final DIVISION One – Kalkara St Jo- seph edged out Floriana Ajax A in a thrilling match to retain the title and deny the greens a clean sweep of all the national team honours. Before the start of play Kalkara held a two-point lead over Flo- riana, therefore a draw would be sufficient to lift the title for the second consecutive year and they started on the right foot with Martin Azzopardi winning the opening game. An immedi- ate reaction from Floriana as they reversed the score in their favour with wins coming from Norbert Attard and John Ciantar. Andy Keen & Gordon Stanmore levelled the score again in the fourth with David Attard giving Floriana the lead again in the fifth. The next two game followed suit with Gor- don Stanmore making the score 3-3 and Vincent Busuttil giving the greens a one game lead. The winner of the 8th and final game would determine the destination of the title with Vincent Busutill & John Ciantar lined up for Flo- riana and Chris Cohen & Martin Azzopardi for Kalkara. With the game score tied at 2-2, Martin Azzopardi checked out double 5 which sent Kalkara players, delegates and fans into raptures of joy as they retained a hard-fought title. At the other end of the table, Gudja POs Bar A came out on top in a must win direct relegation match against Bormla Bocci Club which con- demned the blues into playing in Division two next season. Division Two – Hamrun Educa- tion Bar A`s 6-2 away win over already promoted Bugibba Mun- chies Pub saw them lifting the division two title for the second time in three years. Mosta Boc- ci Club joins Birzebbugia Cox Sports Club B in division three next season as they only man- aged a draw in their final match which left them two points adrift of Gudja POs Bar B just one rung above the drop zone. Division Three – Double cel- ebrations for Hamrun Educa- tion as their B team ensured promotion on the final game of the season in a 6-2 win over Mqabba St Mary BC. A men- tion in this division must go to Mosta Horseshoe Bar B which went through the entire season unbeaten with a 16 win; 2 draw record. Results Game-week 20/21 (05/05/2017) Division 1 CHAMPIONSHIP DIV: Flori- ana Ajax A v Kalkara St Joseph 4-4; Mosta Horseshoe Bar A v BBugia Cox Sports Club A 8-0. RELEGATION DIV: Bormla Bocci Club v Gudja POs Bar A 2-6; Zejtun Beland Bullseye v Zejtun Juventutis Domus 8-0. Division 2 CHAMPIONSHIP DIV: Senglea M. Conquest v Floriana Ajax B 4-4; Bugibba Munchies Pub v Hamrun Education Bar A 3-5. RELEGATION DIV: Gudja POs Bar B v Cospicua Rangers 4-4; BBugia Cox Sports Club B v Mo- sta Bocci Club 4-4. Division 3 Mgarr The Hatch Sports Bar v St. Venera Red Square 3-5; Mosta Horseshoe Bar B v Bugibba Interc. Sun City 6-2; Hamrun Education Bar B v Mqabba St Mary BC 6-2. Standings Game-week 20/21 (05/05/2017) Division 1 – Final Standings CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION: 1st Kalkara St Joseph (champions) – 51 points; 2nd Floriana Ajax A – 49 points; 3rd Mosta Horseshoe Bar A – 38 points; 4th BBugia Cox Sports Club A – 14 points. RELEGATION DIVISION: 5th Zejtun Beland Bullseye – 27 points; 6th Gudja POs Bar A – 24 points; 7th Bormla Bocci Club (relegated) – 22 points; 8th Zejtun Juventutis Domus (relegated) – 2 points. Division 2 – Final Standings CHAMPIONSHIP DIVISION: 1st Hamrun Education Bar A (champions) – 44 points; 2nd Bu- gibba Munchies Pub (promoted) – 38 points; 3rd Senglea M. Con- quest – 33 points; 4th Floriana Ajax B – 27 points. RELEGATION DIVISION: 5th Cospicua Rangers – 35 points; 6th Gudja POs Bar B – 21 points; 7th Mosta Bocci Club (relegated) - 19 points; 8th BBugia Cox Sports Club B (relegated) – 4 points. Division 3 – Final Standings 1st Mosta Horseshoe Bar B (champions) – 50 points; 2nd Hamrun Education Bar B (pro- moted) – 39 points; 3rd Bugibba Intercontinental Sun City – 35 points; 4th St. Venera Red Square – 27 points; 5th Mqabba St. Mary BC – 16 points; 6th St Pauls Dia- monds – 11 points; 7th Mgarr The Hatch Sports Bar – 4 points. Andy Keen - Kalkara Floriana Ajax - 4 a-side Cup Hamrun Education Bar - Div 2 Title Mosta Horseshoe Bar B - Div 3 Title Floriana Ajax A complete cup double FLORIANA Ajax A completed a cup double as they defeated Mo- sta Horseshoe Bar A 9-7 in the 4 a-side cup final. The greens started strongly and took an early 4-0 lead but a mini win- ning streak by Mosta saw them reducing the deficit to one. Floriana won the next two legs with Mosta reducing the gap back to one as the score af- ter 11 legs read 6-5 in favour of Floriana. Wins by John Ciantar and Norbert Attard moved the greens within one leg from vic- tory. Mosta kept their hopes alive winning the 14th and 15th leg through Albert Scerri and Tony Borg. The final leg was contested by Godfrey Abela for Mosta and John Ciantar for Floriana with the latter player coming out on top as he checked out 84 on the bull to give Floriana the second title in the space of a week. Individual player scores: FLORIANA – N.Attard (3-1); J.Ciantar (3-1); D.Attard (2- 2); V.Busutill (1-3) – MOSTA: A.Scerri (3-1); N.Grech (2-2); G.Abela (1-3); T.Borg (1-3).