Gatehouse win Stewartry Seniors League.
Aug 17th, 2009 by admin
The play off for the Senior League title between Section ‘A’ winners Auchencairn and Section’B’ winners Gatehouse was held today at New Abbey. In a tight finish Gatehouse held on to win by 2 shots. In a seesaw game Laurie Little, Brian Jones & Jock Smith beat David Kiltie, Tom Kirkpatrick & George Brown 18 - 15. After 5 ends Auchencairn were 8-0 up, after 10 ends Gatehouse were 14-8 up, Auchencairn then scored 10 shots in the next 4 ends, with Gatehouse getting a single in the last.
Tom Rogers, Jock Wallace & William Carruthers of Gatehouse got of to a flyer in the other game with 5 shots in the first end. Jock McGarrie, William Malcolmson & Robert Edgar never managed to recover from this and were down 7-3 after 5 ends, 10-6 after 10 ends and the game finished 15 - 10 to Gatehouse.
