Highland - News

2009

Due to lack of numbers and interest shown by Clubs this year Highland District will not be competing in the 2009 National Finals nor in the Andy Houston (Inter Counties) Competition.

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2008 DISTRICT SINGLES WINNER 

Congratulations to NEIL WEBSTER (Huntly BC) in winning the District Singles for 2008 and good luck in representing the Area at the National Finals at Grangemouth in August.

Neil beat SEAN PATERSON (Keith BC) in a thrilling final over 12 ends by a single shot, coming from six shots down with 2 ends to play.

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:: Inter-Counties Team selected (posted 24th June 2006)

The Highland team for the Inter Counties Round Robin for the North section was selected on Sunday 18th June 2006, after a trial match at Aberchirder Bowling Club.

The 18 players (and 4 standby reserves) selected for the team were as follows: 

Skips
Scott Fielding (Portgordon) -Team Captain
Daniel McKendrick (Lossiemouth)
George Stewart (Cullen)
Scott Stephen (Macduff)

Thirds
Steven Simpson (Portsoy)
Mark Webster (Huntly)
Craig Webster (Keith)
Shaun Paterson (Keith)

Seconds
Ross Stevenson (Aberchirder)
Lynette Gray (Aberchirder)
Gavin Thom (Aberchirder)
Martin Rough (Huntly)

Leads
Kirsty Rae (Huntly)
Eain Thomson (Keith)
Kieran Findlay (Portsoy)
Graham Thom (Aberchirder)

Travelling Reserves
Josh Barron (Keith)
Willie McIntosh (Keith)

Standby Reserves
Gavin McWilliam (Keith)
Doug Hay (Huntly)
Steven Webster (Huntly)
Neil Webster (Huntly)

The Team will be selected into the final 4 rinks following a game to be played on Monday 14th August 2006, against  members of Aberchirder Bowling Club, which is celebrating its Centenary this year.

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National Singles Qualifier (posted 4th June 2006)

Congratulations goes to Daniel McKendrick who qualified for the 2006 National Finals in Grangemouth after winning the district playdowns on Portsoy Bowling Club's green on Sunday 4th June.

Daniel qualified as the runner up of his section (on shots) in the round robin stage and easily overcame Scott Stephen of Macduff BC, who had reached the semi finals unbeaten, in their semi final match.

Scott Fielding who qualified as section winner over Daniel out of section 1, beat George Stewart of Cullen BC to give himself the opportunity of revenge against Daniel, who had beaten him by 1 shot in the round robin qualifiers.

However Daniel dominated the final and ran out a comfortable winner in the 11 end final.

Good Luck Daniel as you represent the Highland area at Grangemouth.

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:: National Pairs Results (posted 27th June 2005)
16 Pairs fought out the District Pairs in 4 sections of 4 in a round robin competition at Keith BC on a beautiful day for bowling on Sunday 26th June.
Each of the 4 qualifiers for the semi finals won their respective leagues by winning all of their games, therefore were worthy of their places in the semis.

The Qualifiers were:

SECTION 1 - S Gray and L Gray (Aberchirder BC)
SECTION 2 - G Stewart and B Stewart (Cullen BC)
SECTION 3 - G McKay and C Blackhall (Macduff BC)
SECTION 4 - I Thomson and D McKendrick (Lossiemouth BC)

The Semi Finals pitted the Aberchirder pair against Cullen, whilst the Macduff duo took on Lossiemouth.

After two close semi finals Aberchirder (8-4) and Lossiemouth (9-8) qualified for the final.

The Final was also an exciting game to watch with it going down to the last end.

The brother and sister team of Shaun and Lynette Gray from "Foggieloan" just pipped the Lossie pairing of Innes Thomson and Daniel McKendrick by 1 shot.

The final score being 8-7.

Congratulations to Shaun and little sister Lynette, who will carry the Highland hopes in the Pairs at the Nationals in Paisley in August.

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:: National Pairs (posted 19th June 2005)
Due to the Keith bowling green being flooded by rain following the thunderstorms during the night of Saturday 18th and the early hours of Sunday 19th June, HYBA will now be playing off the "Pairs" qualifying competition for the National Finals at Keith BC on Sunday 26th June (10.30am for 11.00am start)

Member Clubs can put forward as many pairs as they wish for this competition.

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:: National Triples (posted 19th June 2005)
HYBA will be playing off the "Triples" qualifying competition for the National Finals on Sunday 3rd July at a venue still to be confirmed (Possibly Cullen BC).

Member Clubs can put forward as many triples as they wish for this competition.

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:: National Singles Playdown Result (5th June 2005)
Congratulations to Stuart Paterson of Keith BC who won the final of the Singles against last year's singles representative Innes Thomson (Lossiemouth BC) by 10 shots to 9 at Elgin BC, after a round robin competition involving a player from 11 out of the 12 clubs currently in the HYBA.

The round robin phase was held in two sections of 5 and 6 with the winner of each section going through to the final.

The final was decided on the last bowls with Stuart going into the last end 2 shots down.

When the buzzer went there were 3 bowls to play with Stuart lying 2 shots.

With his last bowl he drew a 3rd shot leaving Innes with the decision to fire or draw to save (or win) the game.

Innes decided on a heavy bowl which missed the head narrowly leaving Stuart a winning three shot lie.

All the best to Stuart when he goes to represent Highland at the National Finals in August.

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:: Buchan Area Clubs
Any Clubs in the Buchan area are invited to join HYBA for 2005 prior to Buchan applying to join SYBA in their own right at the AGM in November 2005

Please contact Alan Mitchell on 01261 832186 for more details.

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:: Welcome to Portgordon BC
I am pleased to welcome Portgordon BC as a new member of HYBA for the 2005 season.

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:: Welcome to Rosehearty BC
I am pleased to welcome Rosehearty BC from the "Buchan" area as a member of HYBA for 2005.

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