Wigtownshire win the Galloway Cup. The Cup was presented to the Wigtown (highest up) rink of Malcolm Heron, David Bark, Douglas Bark Jr. & John Milligan by Stewartry President Murray Cairnie.

Lanarkshire v Stewartry 08/06/2013

QUARTER BOWLING CLUB

RESERVES, J. McGARRIE, J. CRUIKSHANK, R. GIBSON (travelling),

UNAVAILABLE: G.DAVIES 22/06 T. DOCHERTY 15/06,R. MONTEITH 15/06, S. CONCHAR 08/06, A. DAVIES 08/06.

Will all players please let either Secretary Graeme Maxwell( 07507816230) or Manager Hugh Robertson (07425622104) know by Thursday 6^th June the travel arrangements they have made, and if there will be any supporters travelling with them.

Hamilton Trophy – 01/06/2013

Stewartry 123 v 96 Wigtownshire

Rinks scores

S.Richardson 19  v25  A. Cairney, S. McCubbin 22 v 13 A. Higgins,

S. Davies 17 v 19 D. Kiltie(Jnr) , A. Davies 16 v 18 A. Hainey,

B. McClune 24 v 11 A. McClurg, G. Maxwell 25 v10  K. Cairney.

On a really warm and sunny afternoon, to start with at least, the annual  local match between the 2 South West counties took place at Dalbeattie. The visitors arrived on the back of a victory against current holders Lanarkshire and started warm favourites against a Stewartry team who had lost 3 previous games.

However this game reminds how bowls is a great sport in which everything is on the day. Stewartry started really well and they raced into a 30 shot lead after only 7 ends. Stewartry held that lead, which fluctuated between 20 and 30 up until 12 end mark, when rain came on for around 20 minutes. After the rain cleared and sun came back out Wigtownshire came back into the game a bit and indeed for a 5 minute spell it looked as though deficit had been cut to to single figures. However this was just big Hamish counting the Dalry way and in fact 10 shots were missing from Stewartry total.

This just gave Stewartry the final push they needed and in a very quiet game apart from someone on Rink 1(Natch YES SIR Maxwell) the game ended with a well deserved and comfortable Stewartry win. The 27 shot winning margin also wiped out their deficit from first 3 games and it shows how tight margins have cost us so dearly this season.

Anyway now to next week and champions Lanarkshire at Quarter, they responded well to their defeat with a good win against Dumfriesshire so we will need to raise our game again – Well Done Stewartry. 

Hughie 

On Saturday at Dalbeattie the Stewartry gained their first win of the year with a convincing victory over Wigtownshire.

On rink 1 Graeme Maxwell recorded Stewartry’s biggest win, defeating Kenny Cairnie 25 - 10.  Next door on rink 2 Alan Davies went down 16 - 18 to Alan Hainey.  On rink 3 Scott Davies also lost by 2 shots to David Kiltie Jnr 17 - 19.  Rink 4 saw Steven Richardson lose out 19 - 25 to Alan Cairnie. Scott McCubbin recorded Stewartry’s second win when he defeated Alex Higgins on rink 5 22 - 13.  On 6 Brian McClune rounded off the victory 24 - 11 against Andrew McClurg. 

The final tally was Stewartry 123 Wigtownshire 96.

This week Stewartry travel to Quarter Bowling Club in Hamilton to take on Lanarkshire South who currently lead the South Section.

The KBA Cup Final was played on Friday night at Kirkcudbright between Castle Douglas and Dalbeattie.

The 2-bowl pairs was a close affair with the Castle Douglas pair of Ronnie Duncan and Bill Brydson coming out on top 16 - 15 against Stewart Tait and Billy McMinn.

In the 4-bowl pairs Terry McElroy and Graeme Maxwell finished strongly to defeat James Harper and Stevie McMinn 16 - 12.

The triples went Castle Douglas’s way with Derek Harper, Tom Maxwell and Allan Green beating James Curzen, Dennis McKnight and Joe McCall 21 - 10.

Colin McCleary, Callum McCleary, Gaving Green and Hugh Robertson took the fours 27 - 14 against Dalbeattie’s Tommy Feenan, Rab mason, David Gibson and Ronnie Gibson to give Castle Douglas an overall win 80 - 51. 

President Murray Cairnie presented the KBA Cup to President Norman Davies of Castle Douglas.

KBA CUP FINAL.

THE FINAL IS THIS FRIDAY NIGHT @ KIRKCUDBRIGHT BC home club of Stewartry President Murray Carnie.

CASTLE DOUGLAS ‘A’    V    DALBEATTIE

Galloway Cup 2013

 Stewartry V Wigtownshire

on

Wednesday  5th June 2013 @ Gatehouse & Kirkcudbright Greens

GATEHOUSE  GREEN

NEW ABBEY 1  11  V  22  STRANRAER

DALBEATTIE   18  V  11  GARLIESTON

KIRKCUDBRIGHT 2 19  V 8  GLENLUCE

AUCHENCAIRN   14  V  14  KIRKCOLM

CASTLE DOUGLAS 2  13  V  12  SANDHEAD

KIRKCUDBRIGHT 1  18  V  13   WEST END

KIRKCUDBRIGHT GREEN

GATEHOUSE 2  8  V  16  KIRKCOWAN

NEW ABBEY 2   8  V  24  WIGTOWN

CREETOWN  9  V  17  ISLE of WHITHORN

CASTLE DOUGLAS 1 19  V 9  CASTLE KENNEDY

GATEHOUSE 1   11  V  20  PORT WILLIAM

SPALDING   17  V  9  NEWTON STEWART

STEWARTRY 162   -  WIGTOWNSHIRE 175

ALL GAMES @ 6.30pm. 15 ENDS + 1 TRIAL.

MEAL @ KIRKCUDBRIGHT CLUBHOUSE AT 9.15pm APPROX, COST £5 PER HEAD.

Hamilton Trophy – 22/05/2013

Ayrshire 127 v 113 Stewartry

Rinks scores

S.Richardson 16  v 23 C. Smith, S. McCubbin 29 v 22 J. Hopkins,

S. Davies 16 v 16 G. Johnstone, A. Davies 20 v 24 W. McKenzie,

B. McClune 14 v 20 G. Campbell, G. Maxwell 18 v 22 C. Lindsay.

On the first really nice day for a Hamilton Trophy game up at Darvel, the sun shone and the green was a lovely pace, with to be expected difficult rinks. Stewartry were still looking for their first points of the season and against an as usual tough Ayrshire team it was going to be a big ask.

Game started really well for the hosts and they raced into a 20 shot lead after only 5 ends. This increased over the next 5 ends to 32 shots as Stewartry really struggled to get the weight of the green. The game then went through a period where Stewartry were beginning to get to grips and they clawed back to peels on the big board around 13 ends away. Ayrshire then pressed ahead again and git back up by 26 shots only for Stewartry to come back in the last few ends to reduce the deficit to 14.

Again another good game played in a really excellent manner with both teams encouraging and supporting each other through to the end. Stewartry boys again gave everything they had and have lost 3 games and are only – 27 in shots. Big local derby against Wigtownshire on Saturday who arrive on the back of a great win against Lanarkshire. So lets have as many supporters down at Dalbeattie on Saturday to cheer the boys on.

Hughie 

Stewartry v Wigtownshire 01/06/2013

DALBEATTIE BOWLING CLUB

Castle Douglas played host to Slateford on Sunday in the quarter final of the Scottish Inter County Top Ten competition.  In the singles Wull Green lost to Robert Marshall 21 - 16.  The pair of Alan Davies and Billy Brydson lost 20 - 11 to Gordon Ramsay and Rab Stewart. Scott Davies, Allan Green and Gary Davies won narrowly in the triples 17-16 againt Andrew Ramsay, Graham McCaskie and Ronald Ramsay.  The Castle Douglas four of Graeme Maxwell, John Crawford, Hugh Robertson and Gavin Green won against Scott Brunton, Jamie Gracie, Lou Beaton and Alan Brash 21 - 12.  The game was tied 4 points each, but Slateford went through by 4 shots 69 - 65.