The Stewartry won the Galloway Cup tonight by a 5 shot margin.

At Kirkcudbright it was Stewartry 90 - Wigtownshire 82 and at Gatehouse it was Stewartry 86 - Wigtownshire 89, giving an overall score of Stewartry 176 - Wigtownshire 171. The highest up rink on the Stewartry side was for the second year Castle Douglas.

Russel Cook, Derek Harper, Stewart Gilmour, Graeme Maxwell

” A management committee meeting will be held on Wednesday 8th June at 7.30pm in Castle Douglas clubhouse to make the draws for the county competitions.  All club reps are requested to attend with their club’s entries and capitation fees - £1 per male member.  A letter will be sent out this week by the Secretary with further details. “

Stewartry scores from Saturday - Stewartry skips first

G Brown 17 v 19 J Wilson

A Davies 25 v 16 G Stalker

S Richardson 22 v 21 W Somerville

G Maxwell 16 v 23 G McCartney

S Davies 13 v 30 T McCartney

K Shuttlewroth 20 v 19 G Tait

Dunbartonshire East 128 v 113 Stewartry

 ROBERTSON

The final of the KBA Cup was played at Spalding on Friday 20th May between Castle Douglas and Creetown.  Result (Castle Douglas skip first)

G Maxwell 15 - 14 R Monteith

J Crawford 22 - 15 I Carter

S Davies 20 - 15 A McClymont

W Green 28 - 10 A Herries

Castle Douglas 85 - 54 Creetown.

Stewartry President Arthur McFegan congratulated Castle Douglas and presented the cup to their President Hugh Robertson.  Castle Douglas have now won the cup for five consecutive years.

Castle Douglas hosted the Stewartry v Glasgow East county match on Saturday. After a good win in week 1 the Stewartry team were looking to follow this up with another strong performance.  Conditions were dry but windy at the commencement of play, however the rain started at around three o’clock and persisted for the remainder of the afternoon.

Stewartry got off to a strong start and were 17 up at 5 ends.  The lead stretched to 27 at 10 ends and fluctuated between the mid twenties and thirties through the remainder at the game.  At 15 ends Stewartry were 33 up; at the end of the game they had sealed a comprehensive 26 shot victory. Stewartry top the section on shot difference from Wigtownshire and Lanarkshire.

R1. K Shuttleworth 17 T McIntosh 27
R2. A Davies 18 W Morton 15
R3. G Maxwell 28 M Moore13
R4. S Richardson 21 W Charters 28
R5. S Davies 23 J Strachan 14
R6. G Brown 28 D Greig 12

Stewartry 135 Glasgow East 109

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.

Galloway Cup

Stewartry v Wigtownshire

on

Wednesday 1st June 2011

at

Kirkcudbright and Gatehouse greens

Kirkcudbright green

Castle Douglas 1 24 v 12 Isle of Whithorn

Gatehouse 1 11 v 16 Castle Kennedy

Auchencairn 20 v 9 Port William

Gatehouse 2 18 v 14 Wigtown

New Abbey 2 5 v 25 Kirkcowan

Dalbeattie 12 v 6 Newton Stewart

90 v 82

Gatehouse green

Kirkcudbright 2 15 v 10 Kirkcolm

Spalding 17 v 20 Glenluce

Castle Douglas 2 9 v 14 West End

Kirkcudbright 1 14 v 17 Sandhead

New Abbey 1 18 v 16 Garlieston

Creetown 13 v12  Stranraer

82 v 89

Stewartry 176 v 171 Wigtownshire

All games at 6.30pm.  15 ends, 1 trial. Meal and results at Kirkcudbright clubhouse

at approx 9.15. Cost is £5 per head.

The KBA cup semi finals were played on Friday 12th May.  Castle Douglas defeated Dalbeattie at Kirkcudbright by 91 shots to 39.  At Gatehouse Creetown overcame Auchencairn by a much narrower margin, 69 to 61.

The final is on Friday 19th May at Spalding.