Hamilton Trophy – 22/05/2013

Stewartry 88 v 95 Dumfriesshire

Rinks scores

S.Richardson 13  v 15 M. Rice, S. McCubbin 16 v 20 C. Peacock,

S. Davies 11 v 20 S. Lowther, A. Davies 15 v 19 R. Graham,

K. Shuttleworth 18 v 7 B. Steele, G. Maxwell 15 v 14 A. Coltart.

 Re-arranged game on a cold and what ended up damp night at Kirkcudbright on Wednesday 22^nd May.

Dumfriesshire got off to a really good start and led from the first few ends at one point building up a lead of 32 shots on the big board. Stewartry had to dig deep and from the 12 end mark started to cut into the Dumfriesshire lead. Keith Shuttleworth had a very good win with his rink of Kirkcudbright lads and Wig of course and kept a winning margin all game – thanks for helping out Keith. Graeme Maxwell recorded his second victory in a very tight and the award for noisiest game on the green – well done Natch. Scott Davies came up against a very in form Steven Lowther and despite his rink building some positive heads the Dumfries rink kept a strong grip of game – keep it going Sharkey it will come. Scott McCubbin has been working with a very inexperience squad and all credit to them for working hard to keep in the game and at the end there was only 4 shots in it – hard luck Cubby. Alan Davies rink got off to the worst possible start and Rae Graham is not one to miss chances and went well ahead by 11 shots, Alan’s rink then rallied well and Barney played a big bowl on the last end to cut a 4 down to 2 and win by 4 shots – you’ll get your deserved win Matteo. Finally another close contest on rink 1 saw Steven Richardson go down narrowly to Martyn Rice by 2 shots, with a young lead and first time sub skip this was a great effort – well done Reech.

Overall a narrow defeat like the first game, this time we didn’t start well but finished really well let’s put both parts of our good game together for Saturday.

Hughie