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.

The Stewartry got off to a winning start to the Hamilton Trophy season on Saturday when they enjoyed a convincing win over Renfrewshire East.  The game was played at Paisley Victoria.  Stewartry are top of the South section on shots difference and play Glasgow South at Castle Douglas on Saturday 21st May.

Scores (Stewartry skips first) -

A Davies 33 v 12 I Broadfoot

S Richardson 16 v 17 M Deighan

S Davies 18 v 15 G Irvine

G Brown 28 v 18 J Glen

G Maxwell 26 v 10 J McNeil

K Shuttleworth 19 v 24 J O’Sullivan

Renfrewshire East 96 v 140 Stewartry.

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.

Stewartry Team v Glasgow – 21/05/11

Castle Douglas 67  -  New Abbey 60

Dalbeattie  -  Kirkcudbright 58

The semi finals will be played on Friday 13th May and are:

Castle Douglas v Dalbeattie at Kirkcudbright

Auchencairn v Creetown at Gatehouse

The final will be held on Friday 20th May at Spalding, the President’s club.