Locals win in doubles at annual tournament

Published 1:06 am Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Wetumpka’s Alton Mitchell and local Dallas Henderson won the doubles championship.

Wetumpka’s Alton Mitchell and local Dallas Henderson won the doubles championship.

Dallas Henderson said his luck had to change this past weekend.

Henderson, who plays dominoes almost every day, said he hadn’t won in almost two weeks. By after drawing Alton Mitchell of Wetumpka as a doubles partner in the Andalusia Rotary Club’s World Championship Domino Tournament Saturday, Henderson made it to the finals, where the pair bested second place winners Macky Barnes of Booneville, Miss., and R.L. Orsak of Hallettsville, Texas, for the championship.

Henderson, who has an Andalusia address but said, “be sure and print that I’m from Cedar Grove,” has only missed the tournament once in its 41-year history. He won the single championship in 1978, and the doubles in 1982.

Mitchell previously won the doubles championship in 1979 and 2003. They won $1,500 each.

Third place in the doubles competition went to Michael Haire of Booneville, Miss., and Pleasant Parker of Hartford Ala.; fourth place went to Robert Hadley of Uriah, Ala., and Tracy Dixon of Chicago, Ill.

Other winners follow:

Adult singles

• First place – Jerry Baker of Ozark, $3,000.

• Second place – Jim Foster of Yoakum, Texas.

• Third place – Travis Newsome of Naperville, Ill.

• Fourth place – Wayne Johnson of Dothan.

 

Adult singles consolation

• First place – Ro Flowers, Kansas City, Mo.

• Second place – Jerome Wooten, Kansas City, Mo.

Adult doubles consolation

• First place – Thomas Carroll of Opelika and Devin Rambo of Kansas City, Mo.

• Second place – Chris Authement of Baton Rouge, La., and Lee Earls of Silver Creek, Miss.

Teen singles

• First place – Tyler Hanners of Lineville, Ala.

• Second place – Darnell Benton of Kansas City, Mo.

• Third place – Wallace Henry of Deatsville, Ala.

 

Teen doubles

• First place – Lexy Happney of Baker, Fla., and Tyler Hanners of Lineville, Ala.

• Second place – Charleston Coker and Ginny Coker, both of Georgiana.

• Third place – McCain Weaver of Prattville and Wallace Henry of Deatsville, Ala.

• Fourth place – Hampton Glenn and R.J. Keahey, both of Andalusia.

 

Teen doubles consolation

• First place – Rosemary Bass and Colby Lee, both of Andalusia Newspapers, Inc.

• Second place – Parker Kelley and Austin Kyser, both of Andalusia.

Child Singles

• First place – Jonathan Clenney of DeFuniak Springs, Fla.

• Second place – Abigail Gantt of Dothan

• Third place – Abigail Lee of Andalusia.

• Fourth place – Kip Knight of Headland.

 

Jonathan Clenney and Connor Dalton won the children’s domino doubles championship. Dalton is from Andalusia.  Clenney also won the children’s singles division.

Jonathan Clenney and Connor Dalton won the children’s domino doubles championship. Dalton is from Andalusia. Clenney also won the children’s singles division.

Child Singles Consolation

• First place – Adeline Fischer of Andalusia

• Second place – Gray Dalton of Andalusia

Child Doubles

• First Jonathan Clenney of DeFuniak Springs, Fla., and Connor Dalton of Andalusia.

• Second place – Will Dalton of Andalusia and Weston Brown of Zwolle, La.

• Third place – Adeline Fischer and Abigail Lee, both of Andalusia.