Top Five Semi Finals

Castle Douglas beat Gatehouse 3 - 1 at Kirkcudbright, whilst Kirkcudbright narrowly overcame Auchencairn 3-2 at Dalbeattie.  The final will be played
on Tuesday 9th August at Creetown (not 26th July as previously advised).

Stewartry Top Ten Final Friday 17/6/11 - played at Spalding Bowling Club.

 Castle Douglas 6 - 2 Dalbeattie

 Singles

G Maxwell 21 - 19 S Richardson

 Pairs

A Davies (skip), W Brydson 10 - 17 J McCall (skip), D McKnight

 Triples

S Davies (skip), A Green, G Davies 17 - 9 B Richardson (skip), S Tait, D Halliday

 Fours

J Crawford (skip), W Green, D Green, S Gilmour 29 - 4 R Penny (skip) N Burnie, R Gibson, J Wilson

 Prizes were presented by Arthur McFegan, Stewartry President, who thanks the sponsor The Trophy Shop, English Street, Dumfries for their support and congratulated Castle Douglas on their win.

Creetown fail to progress to the Quarter Finals of the Scottish Top Ten. After a very close game last week Creetown had hope that they would manage to get an other result in the Ceramic Tile Warehouse sponsored tournament but a disaster of a last bowl by Alan McClymont the fours skip allowed Ayr to win the match.

The singles was a hard fought affair, with Creetown’s Marin McClymont  having the better start and lead 8-2 after 5 ends. Ayr’s Nail Davey then had a good run and after 10 ends lead 10-9 and after 15 ends 18-10. Martin then had a good spell and after 20 eds had got the score level at 19-19. Two singles then saw Martin win at 21-19.

The Creetown pair of Rab Monteith and Alisair Herries had a far harder task on their hands today, the Ayr pair of A. Fulton and S. Reid played very well. The ends won was close 8 Creetown - 9 Ayr but 4 of the ends won by Ayr were 4’s. After 5 ends it was 4-5, after 10 it was 6-16 and after 15 it was 14-20 and finnished Creetown 14 Ayr 23.

The triples was a close game from start to finish The Creetown triple of Jim Maginnes, Charlie Wilson & Ian Carter lead 7-6 after 5 ends, were one done at 10-11 after 10 ends but lead 15-13 going in to the last end. With only Ian’s last bowl to come Ayr were lying game and some exciting things going on on the next rink where the fours were playing.

The Creetown four of Eddie McCulloch, Eck Houston, Stuart McClymont and Alan McClymont found it hard going against Ayr and after 6 ends were 2-8 down but a six in the next end got them back into the game at 8 -8. After 10 ends Ayr lead 12 -10 and after 16 ends  were 20-16 up. With the results across the green the Creetown fours needed to get a four in the last end to tie their game and hope the triples would hold on and win. Creetown were lying the four they required for a draw but on the next rink the triple were lying game against them, so Alan tried to draw an other shot with his last bowl to win his game and hope that the triples could salvage a draw. Unfortunately he was a wee bit tight and turned in a Ayr bowl for second shot!!!!and lost 17-20.

Ian Carter then hit the head in the triples and shifted thing and only lost one shot and the triples won by one shot 15-14. Hindsight is a wonderful thing IF Alan had not played his last bowl and IF Ian had still got the same connection the result would have been Creetown 5 Ayr 3.

CREETOWN played Menstrie today at Creetown in the preliminary round of the Scottish Inter County Top Ten sponsored by the Ceramic Tile Warehouse. The result was very close with both teams winning two games but Creetown won by one shot.

In the Singles Martin McClymont was beaten by Steven Allan . This game was close at times but Martin was always  trying to catch up on Steven, after 10 it was 5-9, after 20 it was 14-16, after 25 it was 16-19 then Steven got a 2 to win the game.

The Creetown triple of Jim Maginess, Charlie Wilson and Ian Carter had a good start and lead 7-4 after 6 ends but they failed to score in the next 5 ends and after 11 ends were 7-11 down. The shots were shared in the last 4 ends with Menstrie winning 9-14.

The Creetown rink of Eddie McCulloch, Eric Houston, Stuart McClymont and Alan McClymont got of to a great start in this game and lead 7-0 after 5 ends, 11-2 after 10 and 19-5 after 15 ends. Menstrie scored 5 shots in the last 2 ends for the game to finish 19-10. this made the match across the green very close with the over all result depending on the pairs.

The pairs was a very good game to watch with some Big Bowls being played. The Creetown pair of Bobby Montieth and Alistair Herries had to work hard to beat the Menstrie pair of Calum MacLeod and Colin Drummond. after 5 ends it was 4-4, after 10 ends it was 8-8, after 15 ends Creetown had managed to get in front at 13-11. A single in the 16th end meant that Menstrie had to score 2 shots to win the over all match. With 11 bowls played in the final end and Creetown lying shot Colin burnt the end. On the replay and Creetown lying shot, he burnt the end again. At the third attempt the end was completed with Menstrie getting 1 shot.

Final score Creetown 4/58  -  Menstrie 4/57

Next week Creetown are at home again against Ayrshire who are represented by Ayr Bowling Club.

Singles - Creetown 21  Kirkcudbright 15

Pairs -    Creetown 21  Kirkcudbright 11

Triples - Creetown 11  Kirkcudbright 12

Fiurs -    Creetown 13  Kirkcudbright 13

CREETOWN win 5  -  3

Creetown  (BLUE)

Singles          Martin McClymont

Pairs               Alastair Herries & Robert Montieth.

Triples            Ian Carter, Robert AC Ross & Tam McMurdo.

Fours              Alan McClymont, Stuart McClymont, Jim Maginnes & Eddie McCulloch.

Kirkcudbright  (RED)

Singles           John Crawford.

Pairs               William True & Steven Johnstone.

Triples            Brian McClune, John McFarland & Colin Campbell.

Fours              George Brown, Derek Rogerson, David Gourlay & Robert McClune.

Top Ten holders Kirkcudbright won against Castle Douglas stopping C D ’s chances of winning the treble.

In the other semi final Creetown beat Dalbeattie. The scores will appear hear when people get round to sending them to Stevie!!

We can look forward to a interesting final next Friday at Castle Douglas, difficult to predict the winner but my moneys on Creetown.

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Castle Douglas 5 Gatehouse 3

Kirkcudbright 8 Spalding 0

Dalbeattie 6 New Abbey 2

Creetown 4 [71] Auchencairn 4 [53]

The Final of the Stewartry Top Ten was played at New Abbey tonight. The Final is sponsored by the Trophy Shop, English Street, Dumfries, thanks to them for their support.

In a tight game Kirkcudbright get the better of New Abbey and won 6 - 2. At the halfway point in this match New Abbey looked to be in control and were leading in the Singles, Pairs & Fours but Kirkcudbright fought back well and managed to win the Pairs, Triples and Rinks.

In the singles John McFarlane was always going to find it difficult against an inform Keith Shuttleworth. After 5 ends Keith was 8 - 2 in front and 18 - 5 after 10 ends. John then had a wee rally and got to 19 - 9 defore Keith won the next two ends to finish 21 - 9.

The pairs was a great game to watch with four inform players producing some great bowling. In the early stages of this game New Abbey had the upper-hand and lead 7 - 2 after 5 ends and 15 - 5 after 9 ends. Les and Neil Shuttleworth were going great but the game changed and the Kirkcudbright pair of Steven Johnstone and John Crawford  went on a run that saw them score 17 shots in the next 7 ends. NewAbbey got a 2 in the final end for a result of New Abbey 17 - Kirkcudbright 22.

The Kirkcudbright triple of Colin Campbell, Wig True and Brian McClune were always in charge of this game. after 5 ends they were 8 - 3 in front and after 10 ends were 18 - 5 up. The New Abbey triple of Oliver Clingan, Robert Bryden and William Mair found it hard going and the game finished Kirkcudbright 21 - 10.

The fours was a close game from start to finish. The Kirkcudbright four of Robert McClune, David Gourlay, Derek Rogerson & George Brown had the better start and lead 7 - 3 after 5 ends but the New Abbey four of William Kirk, Ralph Richardson, John Bigham & Alex Gibson had managed to level the game at 11 - 11 after 10 ends. After 15 ends Kirkcudbright had managed to edge in front at 16 - 14. Hard as New Abbey tried Kirkcudbright held on and finished 18 - 14 winners.

Stewartry President William Neville presented the Top Ten Trophy to Kirkcudbright President Helen Johnstone. There was then a finger buffet provided by the Ladies of New Abbey Bowling Club which was great - Thanks Ladies.

Thanks also to Robert Daz Dalziel for umpiring.