Murschell moving home

By Medicine Hat News on November 27, 2019.

Dawson Murschell is coming home and moving on from his professional darts career overseas.

The Medicine Hat athlete who turned 24 over the weekend posted on Facebook Monday that he’s leaving England following two seasons living there and playing on the Professional Darts Corporation tour, where he was among the only Canadians in the elite ranks.

“Life away from home has been hell but I’m super proud to say I’ve been here and I’ve done it,” wrote Murschell as part of his post. “It’s a mixed bag of emotions right now.”

He told the News last month he intended to go to the University of Lethbridge in January, and expanded on that in Monday’s social media post, noting law school is his goal.

The multiple-time junior Canadian champion isn’t done with the sport, planning to compete in the North America-based Championship Darts Circuit.

His last PDC event ended painfully, a 6-4 loss to Richard North in the round of 48 at a World Darts Championship qualifier Monday. There were only three spots to be earned and Murschell wrote that he had six darts “literally touching the wire or on the floor” which doomed him in the opening-round matchup against North.

“Wasn’t meant to be,” he wrote. “Can’t believe this is it.”

Among Murschell’s career highlights so far are two appearances at the PDC World Cup of Darts, where he and Jim Long got to the quarter-finals this past year.

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