BLOWN AWAY

County West slip up in their Hamilton Trophy tie against Renfrewshire

Stirling County West bowlers were blown away by Renfrewshire on Saturday on a wet and blustery Borestone green.

In this latest Hamilton Trophy encounter County West failed to get to grips both with the incessant wind and some tricky rinks and lost by 26 shots.

The result, with just two qualifying matches remaining, leaves Stirling County tied in second place with three other teams all on six points.

With Glasgow West undefeated and likely to qualify, the race is still on to secure second qualifying spot beginning this Saturday when County West take on local rivals Clackmannan and Kinross at Alloa East End BC.

After the opening five ends at Borestone there was just one shot in it as both teams struggled to master the difficult conditions.

By the halfway mark scores were still evenly balanced but five ends later Renfrewshire West had eased away and led by 15 shots.

Over the final few ends the gap gradually widened with the visitors crossing the finishing line with five winning rinks.

County’s only success came from Daniel McCann, David McEwan Sen, Dougie Kerr and Gary Malcolmson.

Charlie Gibson, Duncan Angus, Aaron Hazel and David Stewart lost 19-16 to S McLellan, while Ian Forsyth, Craig Watson, Pat Martin and Danny McCormick were pipped 17-15.

Garry Brown, Billy Guy, David McEwan Jun and Jason Williams lost 28-19 to Johnathon Ross with Manny Cruz, David McKean, Willie Black and Bryan Stillie adrift of Derrek Moffat 28-18.

Completing the line up were Lee McCormack, George Young, Kenny Murdoch and Sandy Deans who lost 26-16 to Sandy Wotherspoon. Totals: Stirling County West 104, Renfrewshire West 130.

For Saturday’s penultimate match against Clackmannan and Kinross at Alloa East End BC, three rinks remain unchanged - those skipped by D Stewart, G Malcolmson and J Williams.

The other three rinks are: M Cruz, G Young, K Murdoch, S Deans (skip); B Stillie, C Watson, D McCormick, P Martin (skip); I Forsyth, D McKean, D Ferguson, W Black (skip).

DISTRICT LEAGUE

Cambusbarron are the first club to book their place in the semi- finals of Stirling District League following two wins in last Friday’s series of matches.

Results: Bruce section – Dunblane 33, Balfron 5; Balfron 14, Dunblane 17; Livilands 2,

Bridge of Allan 25; Bridge of Allan 20, Livilands 11; Doune Castle 15, Spittalmyre 15; Spittalmyre 13, Doune Castle 19.

Wallace section – Cambusbarron 18, Airthrey Spa 16; Airthrey Spa 11, Cambusbarron 22; Bannockburn 15, Polmaise 14; Polmaise 20, Bannockburn 13; Causewayhead 15, Borestone 22; Borestone 19, Causewayhead 20.

DISTRICT WOMEN

Women bowlers booked their tickets for the national finals at Ayr next month following last Sunday’s District Nine finals at Alloa East End green.

Singles: Jean Fisher (Bridge of Allan) 21, Pauline Thomson ( Alloa East End) 20; Senior singles: Jean Fisher (Bridge of Allan) 21, Maureen Wallace (Tulliallan) 15.

Pairs: Cambus ( Liz McKay, Veronica Hislop) 14, Tulliallan ( Emma Simpson, Maureen Wallace) 12.

Triples: Dunblane ( Joan Russell, Nanette Clarke, Sue Bolton) 18, Menstrie (Catherine Coffield, Sharon Camley, Ann Harrison) 13.

Fours: Dunblane (Margaret Penman, Jan Brown, Sandra Hardie, Sandra McNeill) 13, Alloa East End (Morag Walsh, Tracey Black, Mary Miller, Rebecca Craig) 11.

Senior fours: Cambus (Anna White, Margeret Gemmell, Liz McKay, Veronica Hislop) 11, Kippen (Elspeth McNaughton, Sandra Anderson, Glenis Hughes sub, Jay McDonald) 10.

CENTRAL

Stirling’s Lee McCormack won the Central junior singles title with a 21-12 win over Cambusbarron’s Calum Musik. The match was played at Borestone following the cancellation, due to rain, of the scheduled finals the previous Monday at Alva South. The other finals now go ahead at Alva on Monday, June 15, at 6.45pm.

DUNBLANE

Bowlers from the Law club were visitors to Dunblane last Saturday when the annual match resulted in victory for Dunblane by 53-44. Highest up for Dunblane were Adam McQue, Keith Brown and David Cuthell while for the visitors it was C Lockhart, I Hollywood, A Allan and M Chalmers.

SPITTALMYRE

Winners of Sunday’s Harry Gerrard Memorial Mixed Triples were Ann Love, Kenny Baillie and Robert Kiakowski, while runners up were Harry Lewis, June Dowell and John Monaghan. This was the 12th year of the event sponsored by Elizabeth Clarkson (Harry’s daughter).