Adrian retain County Top Ten title

Adrian bowlers retained their Stirling County Top Ten title last Sunday with a highly convincing victory over Spittalmyre.

Playing on the Burnhead green Adrian came tops in all departments winning in singles, pairs, triples and fours.

In the singles Martin McCalley survived a stiff test from David Stewart before winning 21-14. Adrian pairs David Orr and C Ross carded a 20-13 victory over Rab Kiakowski and Fraser Gray.

Barry Godfrey, Tom Cadbury and Simon Thomson put another two points on the board for Adrian with a 19-8 win over Craig Millar, Craig Robertson and Charlie Gibson.

Wrapping things up for Adrian were fours Gareth Crosbie, Mark Kennedy, Vic Malk and Stewart Getty with a resounding 25-10 win over Frank Swift, John Phimister, Alan MacIntosh and George Young. Totals: Adrian eight points plus 85, Spittalmyre no points plus 45. Stirling Scores from last Saturday’s triples match at Borestone were (Borestone skips first): D Kerr 5-16 J Miller; J Hunter 13-17 R Letford; S Hogg 11-11 M Graham; N Boyle 27-10 D Ross. Totals: Borestone 56-54 Stirling. Dunblane Winners of last Friday’s ladies Carewatch Triples competition were Auchinairn’s Margaret McMillan, Irene Boyd and Lynn Bruce while runners up were Dumbarton’s Helen Allison, Evelyn Reenan and Michell

Sloan. Losing semi-finalists were Templeton BC and Overton and Waterloo BC.

Bannockburn players Helen Meldrum, Heather Dick and Margaret Jenkins won a special price for scoring a maximum nine shots.