Borough SinglesTHE Borough Singles Finals at Berwick Bowling Club last Friday completed the Borough competitions for the 2008 season.
The ladies singles, sponsored by Wait's Coaches of Chirnside, saw Joan Blackett (Spittal BC)
meet the 2007 title holder Margaret Robertson (Berwick BC).
The final was close with the lead changing a number of times over the first 12 ends. Although Blackett had won seven of them, Robertson with an 11-10 lead at that stage went on to win and retain the title for another year.
In the men's singles, Jimmy Barnett met John Lee (both Spittal BC). Barnett, having won the men's Borough Pairs the previous week, was chasing the double. Lee took an early lead and built it to 19-5 by the 12th end. Despite a valiant come back with Barnett taking the next three ends, Lee pushed home his advantage to win 21-10.
The Borough Singles Trophies were presented by Margaret Jackson, president of Berwick Bowling Club.
Berwickshire Ladies FinalsCOLDSTREAM'S Betty Allan won the Berwickshire Ladies singles title at Eyemouth Bowling Club on Sunday.
She defeated Loretta Dickson of the host club with a 21-10 win in the final.
This year's competition was played at Eyemouth as it is this year's president Liz Dickson's home club. And the Scotland internationalist secured a 17-15 pairs victory with Jessie Wilson over Coldstream's Margaret Riley and Mary Mitchell.
Results: Junior singles - Nicola Wood (Gordon) 21 Sarah Kerr (Ayton) 6.
Singles - Betty Allan (Coldstream) 21 Loretta Dickson 10 (Eyemouth), Pairs - Eyemouth (Jessie Wilson and Liz Dickson) 17 Coldstream (Margaret Riley and Mary Mitchell) 15.
Triples - Chirnside 17 (Kay Purves, Helen Kenny, Sheila Douglas) Coldstream 10 (Margaret Hope, Ann Croall, Elizabeth Erskine).
Fours - Berwick 15 (Dilys Todrick, Norma Renton, Mary McCann, Margaret Robertson) Chirnside 14 (Jessie Carruthers, Nan Grieve, Rosemary Gargan, Betty Johnstone).
Senior Fours - Coldstream 12 (Cath Guthrie, Nancy Mathison, Gwen Bell, Kate Lowe) Earlston 11 (A Falconer, M Miller, A Thomson, E Cockburn).
Ayr Ladies FinalsCHIRNSIDE Ladies Four were unable to make it three-in-a row when they were knocked out of the Scottish Women's National Bowls Championships on Saturday.
The team, made up of Sheila Douglas, Louie Hutchison, Barbara Forsyth and Kay Purves, were knocked out by Blacklands in the second round at Ayr, having won the prestigious tournament for the previous two years.
They are the only club to defend the title successfully, and it looked like they may would take the trophy back to Berwickshire once again when they defeated Duffus Park from Fife 20-9 in round one.
But they were defeated by four shots in the second round by Blacklands of Ayrshire. With the Northfield greens being heavy and Blacklands more accustomed to the playing conditions, Chirnside were defeated in a closely fought match.
Competing in the triples, Berwick were also beaten by a local team, Ardrossan, in the first round.
Meanwhile, it is the turn of the men this week as the Scottish Bowling Association Championships takes place, again at Ayr.
The Ayton Four of Paul Wilson, Ian Patterson, Mark Robertson and Robert Kerr take on Rutherglen in the first round, while Coldstream's Norrie Erskine, Max Lowe, Robert Hamilton and Alan Mitchell will face Annan in round one of the senior fours.
Finally, Stuart Bebbington of Tweedmouth will line up in the junior singles. All first round matches take place on Thursday, with the finals due for Saturday.
Ayr Mens FinalsSTUART Bebbington's Scottish Bowls Championship challenge ended at the semi-final stage after defeat to the eventual winner Iain McMillan.
The Tweedmouth Bowling Club member lost 21-6 to Campbelltown's McMillan in the Junior singles section, who triumphed by the same emphatic scoreline in the final against Alex Higgins of Stranraer.
Bebbington, fresh from his triumph at Aberdeen, had looked in good form leading up to the semi-final. He defeated Guy Malcolmson of Polmaise 21-11 in the first round but had been trailing 9-7 in the early stages.
However, in the space of a few ends Bebbington took the score to 15 shots to 9 in his favour. Bebbington, a previous winner of the Scottish Bowls junior single title, then took a full house of four shots to win the match.
The second round saw Bebbington defeat Alan Davies of Castle Douglas in a closely fought 21-17 win. This turned out to be a very good match and although Bebbington led early on at 6-1, Davies pulled this back to 7 shots each. Davies then went ahead and Bebbington seemed to be in trouble. However, he recovered to go 18-17 ahead and sealed the win with a double.
The 24-year-old then battled to victory against the well fancied Paul O'Donnell of Bainfield 21-15.
O'Donnell started well and was soon 7 shots to nil ahead and although Bebbington gained 2 shots, he was always behind. But Bebbington recovered to lead by 17 shots to 13 and won with a double to make it to the semi's.
But McMillan proved too strong for Bebbington in the last four game. He raced to a 7-0 lead and never looked back. The closest Bebbington got was at 10-5 down but he was then unlucky when holding a shot and promoted an opposing bowl to give the shot away. After this mishap the game slipped away from him with McMillan playing particularly well.
Coldstream's senior four of Norrie Erskine, Max Lowe, Robert Hamilton and Alan Mitchell were also beaten by the eventual championship winners, going down 21-6 to Stranraer West End in the quarter finals.
They had previously beaten Annan 21-11 in round one and Victoria Torrance of Glasgow 19-8 at the last 16 stage.
Ayton and District four of Paul Wilson, Ian Patterson, Mark Robertson and Robert Kerr also made it through round one, defeating Rutherglen 16-13. The Ayton four could not have had a better start building up a lead of 9-0. This did not last, however, and Ayton's lead was reduced to two shots at 11-9.
On the 12th end the lead was threatened with Rutherglen holding 3 shots. With his last bowl Kerr carried the jack through and picked up a vital single. This gave Ayton the confidence to claim victory.
However, Ayton exited the competition at round two when they were soundly beaten 26-4 by Danderhall. After two ends both teams had scored one shot, however, Ayton were soon in trouble at 8-1 down after five ends. On the sixth end they scored a single but their opponents then scored two counts of 3. Danderhall continued to pull further ahead and soon ended Ayton's brave challenge.
A Dunbar triple reached the quarter finals but lost 12-8 to Parkhead in the Scottish Championships, held at Ayr's Northfield Green.
Open Triples at TweedmouthTWEEDMOUTH recently held their ever-popular open triples competition playing for the Robert Cleghorn Memorial Shield.
A large entry played in perfect conditions and the standard of bowling was of the highest quality.
The Coldstream triple of M Riley, G Walker and skip D Purvis overcame the strong challenge of Spittal's M Douglas, R Allen and skip J Lee to win the event.
Tweedmouth would like to thank Border Tyres and A Wait and Son (Chirnside) for their generous sponsorship.
West End Residents' TrophyON Sunday, August 3, Tweedmouth played host to local greens Spittal and Berwick to play for the West End Residents' Trophy.
The competition attracted top bowlers from the three local greens and ever-changing conditions and a friendly rivalry made for a great day of bowling.
Tweedmouth retained the beautiful glass trophy presented to the club by the West End Residents' Association with Berwick and Spittal tying for second place.
Best triple on the day was Tweedmouth's D Murray, J Yule and skip E Skelly.
Chirnside win Top 12THE Ivy Murray Ladies Top 12 competition run by Berwick Bowling Club was held on Sunday.
For the first time a team from Hexham House joined teams from Spittal, Tweedmouth, Chirnside, Eyemouth and Berwick to compete for the title. Play-offs were on both Tweedmouth and Berwick greens with the semi-finals and finals played at Berwick.
The final saw Tweedmouth play Chirnside, with Chirnside the eventual winners. The winning team for Chirnside was: D Simpson, K Wallace, B Forsyth, K Purves (Fours), L Johnston, I McBean, B Johnstone (Triples), N Grieve, L Hutchison (Senior Pairs), A Martin, S Douglas (Pairs) and H Kenny (Singles).
Tweedmouth's team was: M Forester, S Thompson, H Rea, E Bain (Fours), I Meakin, B Bell, S Hope (Triples), J Buchanan, A Butler (Senior Pairs), M Yule, I Mavin (Pairs) and P Cleghorn (Singles).
Coldstream ladies PairsCOLDSTREAM Ladies Open Pairs were held on Saturday, sponsored by Mr Allan Wilson Tweedside Financial Services.
With the weather being its normal totally unpredictable self, the Berwick ladies Mary McCann and Margaret Robertson defeated those spice girls from Chirnside, Kay Purvis and Shiela Douglas.
Losing semi-finalists were: M Thompson and D Bradshaw (Spittal) D Todrig and N Renton (Berwick). Prizes were awarded by the accident prone Jim Croal's better half Ann.
Famous Grouse TriplesTHE Famous Grouse Open Triples held at Berwick Bowling Club missed the worst of the heavy showers on Saturday. Slower at first, the green became faster through the afternoon. A hard fought final saw the team of N Erskine, M Baillie and D Purvis of Coldstream beat P Cowe, G Wood and J Hush of Berwick in an 8-6 victory.
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