The Scottish Intercounty Top Ten Association held their end of season tournament on Saturday 6th September at Gorgie Mills Bowling Club in Edinburgh. County Association teams from all over Scotland compete for the Kenny Milne Memorial Trophy and also make the draw for the following years Inter County Top Ten. The trophy was won this year by the Stewartry rink of Bob Hope, Bill Neville, Hugh Robertson & John McGarrie. In the first round next year Castle Douglas have a local derby - away to Stranraer.

The final of the Seniors Triples League between Gatehouse winners of section ‘A’ and Auchencairn section ‘B’ winners was played today at Dalbeattie. The result was Gatehouse 2/21  -  Auchencairn 4/29.

Ian Connel, Billy Glendinning & Michael Kirkpatrick lost to William Carruthers, James Cruickshanks & David Kiltie  12  -  7

Bob Hope, Eric Allison & Jack Crocket beat Tom Kirkpatrick, Jack Wallace & Robert Watson  22  -  9

Sadly Frank Johnstone who was County President last year has passed away. We send our sympathy to Helen & Steven. His funeral is on Tuesday 13th August at 1pm at Kirkcudbright Parish Church.

Results for 21/07/2008

Section ‘A’

Dalbeattie 4  v  Gatehouse 2

New Abbey 6/30  v  Auchencairn 0/15

Section ‘B’

Castle Douglas 0/21  v  Dalbeattie 6/37

Spalding 0/6  v  Auchencairn  6/52

Results for 14/07/2008

Section ‘A’

Auchencairn 0/21 Gatehouse 6/38

Kirkcudbright 4/28 New Abbey 2/26

Section ‘B’

Castle Douglas 4/36 Spalding 2/28

Dalbeattie 6/31 Kirkcudbright 0/21

Sorry but no league table yet for this league.

Section ‘A’

Auchencairn 6/34 Dalbeattie 0/14

Gatehouse 6/40 Kirkcudbright 0/21

Section ‘B’

Kirkcudbright 0/24 Auchencairn 6/40

Dalbeattie 4/33 Spalding 2/24

In the annual Inter County Cup Match Stewartry beat Dumfriesshire. The games were badly disrupted by rain with only the games at Dumfries green being played to the end. The winning club from the Stewartry was Auchencairn with rinks Joe Caldow, Bert Little, Billy Malcolmson & Jock Smith at Dumfries green and Jock McGarrie, Laurie Little, Eric Allison & Bob Hope at Marchmount. The highest up on the Dumfriesshire side was Crichton Bowling Club.

Well done to the Stewartry players who won on Monday night at Sanquhar and now go forward to play in the National Championships at Ayr Northfield on 31st July.

Alan Davies (Castle Douglas)  - Junior Singles

Arthur McFegan  &  Hamish Sinclair (Spalding)  -  Pairs

Scott McCubbin, Bruce Richardson, Ronald Penny & Robert Mason (Dalbeattie)  -  Fours

Wigtownshire win the Galloway Cup  178  -  146. The winning rink is Wigtown. All the results are on Galloway Cup page.

Stewartry with a team weakened by the number of players at the Cup Final did not fair very well.

The 2007 season is archived here

The 2006 season is archived here