Sport digest
BOWLS STIRLING
Prizewinners at Stirling BC for the 2021 season were as follows: Gents championship – Lee Neilson, runner-up - David Ross; President’s singles – Michael Caven, runner up – Lee McCormack; Senior singles – Jim Gilmour, runner up – Falconer Mitchell; Central singles – Lee McCormack, runner up – Manny Cruz; Novices – Malcolm Armour, runner up – Ian Rose; Combined singles – Manny Cruz, runner up – Michael Caven; Ladies championship – Aileen Hall, runner up – Hilary Thomson; Points – Margaret Cook and Ian Donald.
Gents challenge pairs – Sandy Kerr and David Ross, runners up – Lee McCormack and Falconer Mitchell; Club pairs – David McKean and Tony van Heusden, runners up – Pat Neilson and Sandy Kerr; Two bowl pairs - Lee McCormack and David McKean, runners up - Sandy Kerr ands
David Ross; Ladies club pairs – Eve Hatton and Val Smith, runners up – Margaret Cook and Sheena Campbell; Ladies two bowl pairs - Jessie Scott and Val Smith, runners up – Deborah Laird and Janet McAuley; Mixed club pairs – Sandy Kerr and Aileen Hall, runners up – David Ross and Summer McFarlane.
Gents challenge triples – Michael Caven, Drew Laird and Falconer Mitchell, runners up – David McKean, Pat Neilson and Lee McCormack; Mixed challenge triples – Val Smith, Jim Robertson and Falconer Mitchell, runners up – David Ross, Arlene Ross and Summer McFarlane.
Gents challenge fours – Manny Cruz, Robin Weatherston, Graham Farquhar and Ian Donald, runners up – Sandy Kerr, David Ross, Drew Laird and Jim Gilmour; Gents senior fours – Sandy Kerr, Sandy Hope, Jim McLachlan and Jim Gilmour, runners up – Brian Weir, Tony van Heusden, Robin Weatherston and David Campbell.
GOLF BRIDGE OF ALLAN
It was a family affair last weekend when father and son Raymond and Raymond T Aimer won all competitions played.
On Friday, dad Raymond won the Senior Gents Nine Hole Stableford with his 20 point total, just beating Bob Buchanan on a countback. Third place went to Alastair Redpath with 18 points. Yet again there were no twos so this week’s pot is now a seven week rollover.
With one week to go in the summer season, Jimmy McKenzie is two points ahead of Keith Pyper in the Seniors Order of Merit and Bob Buchanan leads the Senior Eclectic with 31 points, just one ahead of Jim Gore and Alan Hadden.
On Saturday, Raymond T Aimer took over the winner’s circle from dad the previous day with a Stableford score of 44 points. Taylor Park was second with 40 points and Liam Grimmer third with 39 points.
Three Saturday twos were returned with Raymond Aimer, Roberto Zanelli and Robert Birrell sharing the spoils.
WHEELCHAIR CURLING
Two local wheelchair curlers are in China at the Kuntai World Wheelchair Curling Championships at The Ice Cube in Beijing this week.
Tullibody’s Meggan Dawson-Farrell made her debut in the opening match against Norway while Bridge of Allan’s Charlotte McKenna is alternate - a role the Wee County curler performed at last year’s Worlds.
The championships will double as a test event since it will feature 12 teams competing in a format that mirrors the one that has been put in place for next year’s Paralympics at the same venue.
ParalympicsGB is guaranteed representation thanks to the points already accrued by Scotland teams at the last two World Championships.
The PEAK-based team of skip Hugh Nibloe, Gregor Ewan, David Melrose, Dawson-Farrell and McKenna are representing Scotland with DawsonFarrell looking to add to an impressive sporting CV that saw her represent the nation as a wheelchair athlete at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, before she decided to switch sports.
“I could not be prouder and it could not be more exciting than to have this opportunity and I hope to make the very most of this experience in the hope I will be back here in a few months’ time,” said Meggan.
The Scots have won four of their opening six matches with wins against Norway (6-4), Italy (11-7), Canada (7-4) and Switzerland (11-7) and losses against Korea (8-6) and Sweden (9-2)